夸克学习打开夸克扫码有夸克就有解查看试卷解析2017-2018学年云南省玉溪一中高三（上)期中英语试卷阅读理解1.(6分）Book1:Diary of a Fly--By Doreen Cronin40 pages,US 15.99This is the diary of a fly.The fly,when she"s not landing on your head or swimming in your soup,istrying to escape her 327 siblings who are driving her crazy.Even though she"s little--just like her bestfriends,Worm and Spider-.she wants to be a superhero.This is the story of a little fly who"s uafraid todream big.Book 2:Iggy Peck,Architect--By Andrea Beaty32page8,US315.95buildings out of anything at hand,including table cloths,fruit and chalk)until it saves her life.WithAndrea Beaty"s rhyming tert and David Roberts"s interesting illustrations(),it will charm creative kidseverywhereBook 3:The ChickenChasing Queen of Lamar County--By Janice N.Harrington40 pages.US 16.00Our character here loves to run after chickens,particularly Miss Hen,who"s very fat.But,as allfarming folks know,this is not a good way to produce happy.productive chickens.What will make herillustrations.Book 4:Cherry and Olive--By Benjamin Lacombe32 pages,US 16.95Children"s books can quickly take little readers into new worlds,such as the big city,1930s Georgia,orouter space.This book takes us on a little trip to some European capitals.Cherry is fat and likes books,and she has few friends until she meets a Shar Pei puppy(沙皮狗），She names it Olive.Through it she finds2.(8)I went to the Tsavo National Park in northern Kenya for a film.We set off early for a distantwater hole.A huge elephant covered with dry mud,drank calmly and deeply.He might have traveled 50kmto reach the water.He wasn"t going to hurry now.We thought that he"d drink a while and rest in theshade,and then drink again.What actually happened was that he drank deeply and stepped away.Thenhe suddenly fell down.Within minutes he was dead.We called animal doctor Jeremiah Poghon immediately.He removed the head of a poisoned arrow from the第1页1共11页夸克学习有夸克就有解elephant"s body.and let out over 100liters of pus()-the result of the elephant"s meeting with a poachermonths ago.Today"s poacher shoots from a distance.An arrow,covered with poison,is fired into the body of anelephant.If the poacher is lucky,the elephant might die in an hour or two;if not,he might have tofollow the elephant for days before it dies.Often the arrow head fails to kill the elephant at once--it doesn"tmean the poison won"t finally kill the elephant,but it will be a slow death.Living in Tsavo through these times,I could see the results of poaching from time to time.When I thinkabout the death of that elephant,what stays with me is the ertraordinary silence after the shocking sound ofhis body hitting the ground.I took some comfort from the knowledge that as the dead body returned to thesoil,some animals would benefit--but I couldn"t escape the feeling that with the death of such a largeanimal,the world seemed to be a poorer and emptier place.3.(8)Grown-ups are often surprised by how well they remember something they learned as children but havenever practiced ever since.A man who has not had a chance to go swimming for years can still swim aswell as ever when he gets back in the water.He can get on a bicycle after many years and still ride away.He can play catch and hit a ball as well as his son.A mother who has not thought about the words foryears can teach her daughter the poem that begins with "Twinkle,twinkle,little star"or remember the storyof Cinderella or Goldilocks and the Three Bears.One erplanation is the law of overlearning,which can be stated as follows:Once we have learnedsomething,additional learning efforts increase the length of time when we will remember it.In childhood we usually continue to practice such skills as swimming,bicycle riding,and playing baseballlong after we have learned them.We continue to listen to and remind ourselves of words such as "Twinkle,twinkle,little star"and childhood tales such as Cinderella and Goldilocks.We not only learn but overlearn.The multiplication tablest乘法口诀表)are an exception to the general rule that we forget rather quickly thethings that we learn in school,because they are one of the things we overlearn in childhood.The law of overlearning erplains why cramming(突击学习)for an eramination,though it may result in apassing grade,is not a satisfactory way to learn a collage course.By cramming,a student may learn thesubject well enough to get by on the examination,but he is likely soon to forget almost everything he learned.A little overlearning,on the other hand,is really necessary for one"s future development.4.(8)Older people with hearing loss may suffer faster rates of mental decline.People who have hearingtrouble suffered meaningful impairments()in memory,attention and learning about three years earlier thanpeople with normal hearing,a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine reveals.The finding supports the idea that hearing loss can have serious consequences for the brain,says Patricia Tunof Brandeis University,who studies aging."Im hoping it will be a real wake-up call in terms of realizingthe importance of hearing."第2页/共11页夸克学习有夸克就有解Compared with other senses,hearing is often overlooked.Tun says."We are made to interact with languageand to listen to each other,and it can have damaging effects if we don"t."Frank Lin of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and colleagues tested the hearing of 1,984 older adults.Most of the participants,who averaged 77 years old,showed some hearing loss--1,162 volunteers hadtrouble hearing noises of less than 25 decibels(),comparable to a whisper or rustling leaves.Thevolunteers"results reflect the hearing loss in the general population:Over half of people older than 70 havetrouble hearing.Over the nert six years,these participants went through mental evaluations that measured factors such asshort-term memory,attention and the ability to quickly match numbers to symbols.Everybody got worse at thetasks as time went on,but people with hearing loss had an especially sharp decline.On average,a suddendrop in performance would come about three years earlier to people with hearing loss.Lin cautions that the study has found an association between hearing loss and mental abilities.Those whocan"t hear well might avoid social situations and isolation()is known to be bad for the brain."Yougradually become more socially disconnected."Lin says."Social isolation is a major factor for dementia andcognitive decline.Lin and his team hope to study whether improvements in hearing brought about by hearing aids or otheranything about it?"he says.完形填空1.(30)You Are the Apple of My EyeEver since I could remember,Ive been told I was the apple of my daddy"s eye.When I was growing up,my dad had a(n)(1)at home.It seemed huge to me,(2)dark wood.I used to (3)under that desk,hiding for hours.Why was I (4)to that old desk?Besides the books on the desk,there was also a polished wooden apple witha frame (5)a picture of me.It was a visible (6)of how my father felt about me.The picture to be seen (7)he raises his head while working at the desk showed how (8)I was to my dad.This saying was (9)and Id heard many people refer to others as the apple of their eye.Many years later Ibegan to (10)about the origin of this saying and learned the apple of the eve is the pupil()of the eve andthat this saying was (11)a word picture()about relationship.It"s a picture of being so (12)tosomeone that you can see yourself reflected in the pupil of their eye.That picture brought (13)to my own eyes,as I remembered how much I meant to my father.How does that(14)to the time my son spent as a soldier at war?One day,when I was struggling with fear over his (15)I read the poetry in which a (16)refers to his people as the apple of his eye.It reminded me that (17)my son was special to me.he was considerably more precious to the country.第3页1共11页