2024屆湖北省黃岡市高考英語閱讀理解及信息匹配選練（4）

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　　湖北省黃岡市2024高考英語閱讀理解及信息匹配選練（4）

　　根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，從短文后的選項中選出能填入空白處的最佳選項。選項中有兩項為多余選項。

　　Although problems are a part of our lives, it certainly doesn’t mean that we let them rule our lives forever. One day or the other, you’ll have to stand up and say – problem, I don’t want you in my life.

　　Problems with friends, parents, girlfriends, husbands, and children – the list goes on. Apart from these, the inner conflicts within ourselves work, too. These keep adding to our problems. Problems come in different shapes and colors and feelings.

　　But good news is that all problems can be dealt with. Now read on to know how to solve your problems.

　　Talk, it really helps. What most of us think is that our problem can be understood only by us and that no talking is going to help.

　　Talking helps you move on and let go.

　　Write your problems.

　　When you write down your problems, you are setting free all the tension from your system. You can try throwing away the paper on which you wrote your problems. By doing this, imagine yourself throwing away the problems from your life.

　　Don’t lose faith and hope. No matter what you lose in life, don’t lose faith and hope. Even if you lose all your money, family… you should still have faith.

　　Your problems aren’t the worst. No matter what problem you get in life, there’re another one million people whose problems are huger than yours.

　　Your problems might just seem big and worse, but in reality they can be removed.

　　Go about and solve your problems because every problem, however big or small, always has a way out.

　　A. But the truth is that when you talk about it, you’re setting free the negative energies that have been gathering within you.

　　B. When we have a problem, a pressing, critical, urgent, life-threatening problem, how do we try and solve it?

　　C. Tell yourself: when they can deal with them, why can’t I?

　　D. Of course, we’ve been fighting troubles ever since we were born.

　　E. We can often overcome the problem and achieve the goal by making a direct attack.

　　F. Having a personal diary can also be of huge help if you don’t want a real person to talk with.

　　G. With faith and hope, you can rebuild everything that you lose.

　　【參考答案】七選五36—40 DAFGC

　　【浙江省2024高考英語模擬沖刺卷】

　　下面文章中有5處（第61—65題）需要添加小標題。請從以下選項（A、B、C、D、E和F）中選出符合各段意思的小標題，并在答題紙上將相應選項的標號涂黑。選項中有一項是多余選項。

　　A. Raise children with multiple (多種的) languages

　　B. Adults prefer basic grammar points

　　C. Children learn languages faster

　　D. Learn two languages at the same time

　　E. Learn a language as an adult

　　F. Learn your native language

　　Language learning for young children

　　If you’ve ever tried to learn a second language as an adult, you probably know that it isn’t easy. You have to study hard. Cards, papers, hours of listening and speaking practice are a minimum (最低限度) for adult language learners. For children, however, learning a language, is much easier.

　　61. ______

　　Do you remember the process of learning your native language? As a baby, you began to learn your native language before you began to form long-term memories. You first began to understand the spoken language. After that, you started repeating what you heard and making sounds that still had no meaning. Soon you learned to pronounce words in your native language. As time went by, you learned more words and began to speak with correct grammar. All this happened to you without thinking.

　　62. ______

　　If you have ever taken language classes as an adult, you are probably well aware that language learning becomes much more difficult as you age. Adults rarely pick up a language without thinking. You have to study hard to learn grammar rules and practice your pronunciation and listening skills as much as you possibly can. Many adults desire to be able to learn a language as easily as children can, but, unfortunately, the days of easy language learning are over for most of them.

　　63. ______

　　Why is language learning so much easier for children than it is for adults? It turns out that this question still doesn’t have a clear scientific answer. When it comes to human behavior, language is one of the most strange aspects of our lives. It’s clear that there is a period during childhood that is good for learning languages, and that it becomes more difficult afterwards. The areas of the brain that rule language learning become much less active as we age. What is understood is that children learn not only their native language but also foreign languages much faster than adults.

　　64. ______

　　Children who grow up in an environment where multiple languages are spoken can easily pick up different languages, sometimes even without realizing that they are different languages. For example, children whose parents speak two different languages will learn to speak to Mom in one way and to Dad in a different way, but they do not understand these are two different languages. According to a study, these children will learn both languages easily and won’t even have a preference for one or the other.

　　65. ______

　　So what’s the suggestion for parenting? If you want your children to speak more than one language, no advice is more important than this start early! The earlier children start learning a second or foreign language, the easier it will be for them to learn that language. Sending small children to bilingual (雙語) schools is one way to put them on the path towards being successful people who speak multiple languages. But remember, no matter how early children start learning a language, they can lose their language ability if they don’t continue to use and practice the language as they grow. Language is like anything else if you don’t use it, you lose it!

　　【參考答案】：61. F

　　62. E

　　63. C

　　64. D

　　65. A

　　閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A,B,C或D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

　　Plants can’t communicate by moving or making sounds, as most animals do. Instead, plants produce volatile compounds, chemicals that easily change from a liquid to a gas. A flower’s sweet smell, for example, comes from volatile compounds that the plant produces to attract insects such as bugs and bees.

　　Plants can also detect volatile compounds produced by other plants. A tree under attack by hungry insects, for instance, may give off volatile compounds that let other trees know about the attack. In response, the other trees may send off chemicals to keep the bugs away—or even chemicals that attract the bugs’ natural enemies.

　　Now scientists have created a quick way to understand what plants are saying:　a chemical sensor(傳感器) called an electronic nose. The“e-nose” can tell compounds that crop plants make when they’re attacked. Scientists say the e-nose could help quickly detect whether plants are being eaten by insects. But today the only way to detect such insects is to visually inspect individual plants. This is a challenging task for managers of greenhouses, enclosed gardens that can house thousands of plants.

　　The research team worked with an e-nose that recognizes volatile compounds. Inside the device, 13 sensors chemically react with volatile compounds. Based on these interactions, the e-nose gives off electronic signals that the scientists analyze using computer software.

　　To test the nose, the team presented it with healthy leaves from cucumber, pepper and tomato plants, all common greenhouse crops. Then the scientists collected samples of air around damaged leaves from each type of crop. These plants had been damaged by insects, or by scientists who made holes in the leaves with a hole punch(打孔器).

　　The e-nose, it turns out, could identify healthy cucumber, peper and tomato plants based on the volatile compounds they produce. It could also identify tomato leaves that had been damaged. But even more impressive, the device could tell which type of damage—by insects or with a hole punch—had been done to the tomato leaves.

　　With some fine-tuning, a device like the e-nose could one day be used in greenhouses to quickly spot harmful bugs, the researchers say. A device like this could also be used to identify fruits that are perfectly ripe and ready to pick and eat, says Natalia Dudareva, a biochemist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. who studies smells of flowers and plants. Hopefully, scientists believe, the device could bring large benefits to greenhouse managers in the near future.

　　1. We learn from the text that plants communicate with each other by　.　

　　A. making some soundsB. waving their leaves

　　C. producing some chemicals　 D. sending out electronic signals

　　2. What did the scientists do to find out if the e-nose worked?

　　A. They presented it with all common crops.

　　B. They fixed 13 sensors inside the device.

　　C. They collected different damaged leaves.

　　D. They made tests on damaged and healthy leaves.

　　3. According to the writer, the most amazing thing about the e-nose is that it can　.　

　　A. pick out ripe fruits

　　B. spot the insects quickly

　　C. distinguish different damages to the leaves

　　D. recognize unhealthy tomato leaves

　　4. We can infer from the last paragraph that the e-nose　.　

　　A. is unable to tell the smell of flowers

　　B. is not yet used in greenhouses

　　C. is designed by scientists at Purdue

　　D. is helpful in killing harmful insects

　　【參考答案】1—4、CDCB

　　閱讀下列四篇短文，從每小題后所給的A,B,C或D四個選項中，選出最佳選項。

　　As the railroads and the highways shaped the American West in the past centuries, a new electrical generating (發(fā)電) and transmission (輸送) system for the 21st century will leave a lasting mark on the West, for better or worse. Much of the real significance of railroads and highways is not in their direct physical effect on the scenery, but in the ways that they affect the surrounding community. The same is true of big solar plants and the power lines that will be laid down to move electricity around.

　　The 19th century saw land grants (政府撥地) offered to railroad companies to build the transcontinental railroads, leaving public land in between privately owned land. In much of the west, some of the railroad sections were developed while others remained undeveloped, and in both cases the landownership has presented unique challenges to land management. With the completion of the interstate highway system, many of the small towns which sprang up as railway stops and developed well, have lost their lifeblood and died.

　　Big solar plants and their power lines will also have effects far beyond their direct footprint in the West. This is not an argument against building them. We need alternative energy badly, and to really take advantage of it we need to be able to move electricity around far more readily than we can now.

　　So trade-offs will have to be made. Some scenic sports will be sacrificed. Some species (物種) will be forced to move, or will be carefully moved to special accommodations. Deals will be struck to reduce the immediate effects.

　　The lasting effects of these trade-offs are another matter. The 21st century development of the American West as an ideal place for alternative energy is going to throw off a lot of power and money in the region. There are chances for that power and money to do a lot of good. But it is just as likely that they will be spent wastefully and will leave new problems behind, just like the railroads and the highways.

　　The money set aside in negotiated

　　trade-offs and the institution that control it will shape the West far beyond the immediate footprint of power plants and transmission lines. So let's remember the effects of the railroads and the highways as we construct these new power plants in the West.

　　本文是一篇說明文。19世紀，美國政府撥款修建鐵路和公路，這既帶來了好處，也帶來了一些不利。現(xiàn)在21世紀，一種新型的電力系統(tǒng)會給美國帶來好處還是壞處，這是值得考慮的一個問題。在建這種新型的電力系統(tǒng)時，我們要記住鐵路和公路的影響。

　　1．What was the problem caused by the construction of the railways?

　　A. Small towns along the railways became abandoned.

　　B. Some railroad stops remained underused.

　　C. Land in the West was hard to manage.

　　D. Land grants went into private hands.

　　答案：C。細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段的“...and in both cases the landownership has presented unique challenges to land management.”可知，建鐵路導致的問題是“土地所有權(quán)給土地管理帶來了挑戰(zhàn)”。A項是修建公路的影響；B項說一些鐵路站一直未被充分利用，是錯誤的；D項原文未說。

　　．What is the major concern in the development of alternative energy according to the last two paragraphs?

　　A. The transmission of power.

　　B. The use of money and power.

　　C. The conservation of solar energy.

　　D. The selection of an ideal place.

　　答案：B。推理判斷題。細讀最后兩段可知，對于可替代能源的發(fā)展主要的擔憂是錢和力，錢和力可能帶來一些好處，有可能被浪費掉，并且?guī)硪恍┢渌膯栴}。

　　．What is the author's attitude towards building solar plants?

　　A. Cautious.

　　B. Approving.

　　C. Doubtful.

　　D. Disapproving.

　　答案：A。推理判斷題。根據(jù)全文以及文章的最后一句話“So let's remember the effects of the railroads and the highroads as we construct these new power plants in the West.”可知，對正在建立新的電力系統(tǒng)是比較謹慎的。

　?。甒hich is the best title for the passage?

　　A. How the Railways Have Affected the West

　　B. How Solar Energy Could Reshape the West

　　C. How the Effects of Power Plants Can Be Reduced

　　D. How the Problems of the Highways Have Been Settled

　　答案：B。主旨大意題。文章借助于鐵路和公路對美國的影響，要說明的是太陽能這種新的電力系統(tǒng)對美國西部地區(qū)會有什么的影響。As a solo artist, Brightman has sold 26 million albums and two million DVDs in 34 countries. Her musical styles put opera, pop and jazz together. She is popular in the States but not here(Britain) – the image of her and her second husband, Andrew Lloyd Webber (he much older, she his muse) seems for ever frozen.

　　The 47-year-old singer talks about the new album Symphony that came out of a “very dark time”, including her decision to give up trying to have children. “People have suggested I could adopt,” Brightman says. “But work is central to my life now. And so I am going to put it to one side. After a while not having children becomes the norm and perhaps that might sound alarming, to parents especially, but I have never known anything different. I’m not hurt by not having children. My life and career are incredibly rich.”

　　Talking about growing up in a large family in Berkhamsted (father a property developer who later committed suicide), she says: “I was gifted as a child, and very musical. I seemed to be good at anything to do with the arts. At 5 I understood the music I was dancing to and had an eye for costume.” She first appeared in a West End musical at 11 and hated boarding school.

　　Brightman led the saucy dance troupe（辣妹三人舞） Hot Gossip and had her first hit with I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper in 1978. At 18 she married a music manager called Andrew Graham Stewart. “I was probably in love but I can’t remember. Girls change such a lot between 18 and 22. It didn’t really work out.” In 1981 she was spotted by Lloyd Webber. She became his leading lady in Song and Dance, Requiem and Phantom of the Opera. They married in 1984.

　　Brightman says she felt hostility(敵意) “from the beginning. I haven’t tried to understand it. I’ve done very well everywhere else, especially the US, where I now live, I just accept it for what it is. The more you are away from Britain, the more you appreciate it. But I don’t miss it, although I miss my family. Our profession can be uncomfortable but I enjoy what I do. I get on with it.”