广西苍梧县 2017 高考英语暑假阅读理解编练（五） 8页

只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 1 广西苍梧县 2017 高考英语暑假阅读理解编练（五） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项 。 In a few years, you might be able to speak Chinese, Korean, Japanese, French, and English—and all at the same time. This sounds incredible, but Alex Waibel, a computer science professor at US’s Carnegie Mellon University(CMU)and Germany’s University of Karlsruhe, announced last week that it may soon be a reality. He and his team have invented software and hardware that could make it far easier for people who speak different languages to understand each other. One application, called Lecture Translation, can easily translate a speech from one language into another. Current translation technologies typically limit speakers to certain topics or a limited vocabulary. Users also have to be trained how to use the programme. Another prototype (雏形机)can send translations of a speech to different listeners depending on what language they speak. “It is like having a simultaneous translator right next to you but without disturbing the person next to you,”Waibel said. Prefer to read? So-called Translation Glasses transcribe (转录) the translations on a tiny liquid-crystal (液晶) display(LCD)screen. Then there’s the Muscle Translator. Electrodes capture the electrical signals from facial muscle movements made naturally when a person is mouthing words. The signals are then translated into speech. The electrodes could be replaced with wireless chips implanted in a person’s face, according to researchers. During a demonstration held last Thursday in CMU’s Pittsburgh campus, a Chinese student named Sang Jun had 11 tiny electrodes attached to the muscles of his cheeks, neck and throat. Then he mouthed—without speaking aloud—a few words in Mandarin (普通话) to the audience. A few seconds later, the phrase was displayed on a computer screen and spoken out by the computer in English and Spanish: “Let me introduce our new prototype.” This particular gadget (器具), when fully developed, might allow anyone to speak in any number of languages or, as Waibel put it, “to switch your mouth to a foreign language”. “The idea 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 2 behind the university’s prototypes is to create‘good enough’ bridges for cross-cultural exchanges that are becoming more common in the world,”Waibel said. With spontaneous (自发的) translators, foreign drivers in Germany could listen to traffic warnings on the radio, tourists in China could read all the signs and talk with local people, and leaders of different countries could have secret talks without any interpreters there. 1. Which of the following statements is not true? A. A lecture translation can translate what you said into other languages easily. B. Muscle Translators can translate what you think into speech if you just move your mouth. C. There is no Muscle Translator in the world now. D. The spontaneous translators will help us a lot. 2. What kind of equipment is NOT mentioned in this passage? A. Lecture Translation. B. Multiple Translator. C. Muscle Translator. D. Translation Prototype. 3. What’s the final destination of inventing the language translators? A. To make cultural exchanges between different countries easier. B. To help students learn foreign languages more easily. C. To make people live in foreign countries more comfortably. D. To help people learn more foreign languages in the future. 4. What can be inferred from the seventh paragraph? A. The translator is so good that it can translate any language into the very language you need. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 3 B. The translator is becoming more and more common in the world as a bridge. C. With the help of the translator, you only need to open your mouth when you want to say something without saying the exact words at all. D. The translator needs to be improved before being put into market. 5. Where can this passage probably be excerpted from? A. A newspaper. B. A magazine on science. C. A fairy tale. D. A scientific fantasy book. 【参考答案】1—5、CBADB 黑龙江省大庆市喇中 2016 高考英语阅读练习——科普环保类 Many gardeners believe that “talking” to their plants helps them grow---it turns out that they may not be crazy after all. According to the scientists from the University of Exeter, plants may keep communicating with each other through a secret “unseen” language. For their experiment, the scientists picked a cabbage plant that is known to send out a gas when its surface is cut. In order to get video evidence of the communication, they changed the cabbage gene by adding the protein---luciderase(虫荧光素酶), which is what makes fireflies(萤 火虫) glow in the dark. When the changed cabbage plant was in full bloom, they cut a leaf off with a pair of scissors, and almost immediately, thanks to the luciderase, they could see the plant sending out “methyl jasmonate(茉莉酸甲酯)”. While this was a known fact, what was surprising was the fact that the minute this gas began to give out, the nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger and started to send out a gas that they normally have to keep predators(捕食者) like caterpillars(毛虫) away. What the scientists are not sure is whether the plants are trying to warn the other leaves or the near plants about the danger---something that will require further research However, the 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 4 team, which is led by Professor Nick Smirnoff, is quite excited about the findings because this is the first time it has been proved that plants do not live a passive life, but actually move, sense and even communicate with each other. However, before you get all concerned, they are quite sure that plants do not feel the pain when they are cut, since they do not have nerves---so go ahead and bite into that juicy carrot! 【小题 1】What’s the best title of the passage? A． Plants Can Send Some Gas B． Plants Can Communicate with Each Other C． The “Unseen” Language of Plants D． Plants Can’t Feel Pain 【小题 2】What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 1 mean? A． Gardeners B． Plants C． Scientists D． Fireflies 【小题 3】When the plant sent out methyl jasmonate, which of the following statements is NOT TRUE? A． The nearby cabbage plants seemed to sense some kind of danger. B． The nearby cabbage plants started to send out a gas. C． The nearby cabbage plants tried to warn the near plants. D． The nearby cabbage plants communicated through a secret language. 【小题 4】According to the experiment, plants ________________. A． don’t live a passive life B． can feel pain when they are cut C． can warn the other leaves about danger D． can talk with each other 【2014 第七次适应性训练】 阅读下列四篇短文，从每小题后所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。并在答题卡上将该选项涂 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 5 黑。 Last week I talked with some of my students about what they wanted to do after they graduated, and what kind of job prospects they thought they had. Given that I teach students who are training to be doctors, I was surprised to find that most thought that they would not be able to get the jobs they wanted without “outside help”. “What kind of help is that?” I asked, expecting them to tell me that they would need a relative or family friend to help them out. “Surgery(外科手术)”, one replied. I was pretty alarmed by that response. It seems that the graduates of today are increasingly willing to go under the knife to get ahead of others when it comes to getting a job. One girl told me that she was considering surgery to increase her height. “They break your legs, put in special extending screws, and slowly expand the gap between the two ends of the bone as it re-grows, you can get at least 5 cm taller!” At that point, I was shocked. I am short, I can’t deny that, but I don’t think I would put myself through months of agony(痛苦) just to be a few centimeters taller. I don’t even bother to wear shoes with thick soles, as I’m not trying to hide the fact that I am just not tall! It seems to me that there is a trend toward wanting “perfection”, and that is an ideal that just does not exist in reality. No one is born perfect, yet magazines, TV shows and movies present images of thin, tall, beautiful people as being the norm. Advertisements for slimming aids, beauty treatments and cosmetic surgery clinics fill the pages of newspapers, further creating an idea that “perfection” is a requirement, and that it must be purchased, no matter what the cost. In my opinion, skills, rather than appearance, should determine how successful a person is in his chosen career. 53. We can know from the passage that the author works as ________. A. a doctor B. a model C. a teacher D. a reporter 54. Many graduates today turn to cosmetic surgery to ________. A. marry a better manwoman B. become a model C. get an advantage over others in job-hunt D. attract more admirers 55. According to the passage, the author believes that ________. A. everyone should purchase perfection, whatever the cost 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 6 B. it’s right for graduates to ask for others to help them out in hunting for jobs C. it is one’s appearance instead of skills that really matters in one’s career D. media are to blame for misleading young people in their seeking for surgery 56. The best title for the passage should be “________”. A. Young Graduates Have Higher Expectation B. Young Graduates Look to Surgery for Better Jobs C. Young Graduates’ Opinion About Cosmetic Surgery D. Young Graduates Face a Different Situation in Job-hunt 【参考答案】53-56. CCDB 黑龙江省大庆市喇中 2016 高考英语阅读练习——科普环保类 Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes are brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes. An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys (调查) on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point where this behavior is appropriate. However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children. In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grown children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible? Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents—today’s grandparents—would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier. 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 7 Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past. Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings. 【小题 1】The surveys inform us of______. A．the development of technology B．the changes of adult children’s behavior C．the parents’ over-protection of their college children D．the means and expenses of students’ communication 【小题 2】 The writer believes that__________. A．parents today are more protective than those in the past B．the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages C．technology explains greater involvement with their children D．parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed independence 【小题 3】What is the best title for the passage? A．Technology or Attitude B．Dependence or Independence C．Family Influences or Social Changes D．College Management or Communication Advancement 只有比别人更早、更勤奋地努力，才能尝到成功的滋味。 8 【小题 4】Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?