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第四部分:阅读理解(第31~45题,每题3分,共45分)
下面有3篇短文,每篇短文后有5道题,每题后面有4个选项。请仔细阅读短文并根据短文回答其后面的问题,从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。
第一篇
Listening to Birdsong
A male zebra finch chirps awww.100ksw.communication, in this case their songs.
31 What does the first paragraph say about zebra finches? __________
A Male zebra finches like to sing to female zebra finches.
B Male zebra finches sing louder than female zebra finches.
C Male zebra finches change their songs in female zebra finches' presence.
D Male zebra finches like to listen to female zebra finches sing.
32 What did the researchers find in their study of female zebra finches? _________
A Female finches liked songs male finches sang for them.
B Female finches only liked songs male finches sang for their mates.
C Female finches liked to listen to songs from both speakers.
D Female finches chose the best male singers as their mates.
33 What is meant by “concert songs” in the seventh paragraph? __________
A Songs sung by zebra finches at a concert.
B Songs sung by male finches for female finches.
C Songs sung by female finches for male finches.
D Songs sung by male finches to many female finches.
34 What is NOT tree of directed communication? __________
A The sender of a message has a specific audience.
B Male zebra finches sing to female finches.
C Mothers talk to their babies.
D Male zebra finches sing to themselves.
35 Which of the following can best reflect the theme of the passage? _________
A Chirping away.
B Birdsongs as communication.
C Zebra finches and their life.
D Enjoying birdsongs.
第二篇
Media and Current Events
The media can impact current events. As a graduate student at Berkeley in the 1960s, I remember experiencing the events related to the People's park that www.100ksw.compression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi www.100ksw.com a certain event can also have some perception of realities by watching television
C all the events occurring on the university campus at Berkeley were given national media coverage
D video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake gave the viewers the impression of the total disaster
38 The term “electronic city” in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________.
A Los Angeles
B San Francisco
C Berkeley
D Earth
39 The 1992 Los Angeles riots broke out because ____________.
A the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King
B people can make their own judgements
C video coverage from helicopters had made people angry
D video coverage had provided powerful feedback
40 It can be inferred from the passage that ____________.
A media coverage of events as they occur can have either good or bad results
B most people who had seen the video of the Rodney King beating agree with the verdict of the jury
C the 1992 Los Angeles riots lasted a whole week
D Rodney King seemed very angry when he appeared on television on Friday
第三篇
Learning Disabilities
Learning disabilities are very common. They affect perhaps 10 percent of all children. Four times as many boys as girls have learning disabilities.
Since about 1970, newww.100ksw.comally are www.100ksw.comainly from problems in the left side of the brain. He believed this side of the brain failed to develop normally. Probably, he said, nerve cells there did not connect as they should. So the brain www.100ksw.comented www.100ksw.common problem that affects 10 percent of the population
D the brain activity of learning-disabled children is different from that of normal children
44 Doctor Duffy believed that __________.
A he found the exact cause of learning disabilities
B the problem of learning disabilities did not lie in the left side of the brain
C the problem of learning disabilities resulted from the left side of the brain
D the problem of learning disabilities was not limited to the left side of the brain
45 According to the passage we can conclude that further researches should be made __________.
A to help learning-disabled children to develop their intelligence
B to study how children learn to read and write, and use numbers
C to investigate possible influences on brain development and organization
D to explore how the left side of the brain functions in language learning