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It has long been known that meat of fruit can be kept fresh for long periods by freezing; in ancient China, for example, food was stored with ice to keep it fresh. This method could also be useful for preserving humans.
However, most living beings that exist under warm conditions die when frozen. This is because of the harmful effects of freezing ice crystals(晶体), which not only are larger than the volume(体积) of the water originally in the cells, but also form sharp cutting shapes that harm the cells.
In the 1940s Dr B.J. Luyet and a group of scientists in England were working on the problem of freezing cells without damaging them. Since the harm caused by ice crystals was the main cause of damage, Luyet suggested removing some or all of the water from the cells before freezing them.
Using living cells form chicken, Luyet and his assistants discovered that they could partly dry the chicken cells, using a mixture of the white part of an egg and glycerin (丙三醇). Some success was obtained. The chicken cells were dried, frozen for a period of time, and then carefully unfrozen. Almost all the cells recovered when they reached normal temperatures.
Since then, the cooling of whole animals to a temperature far below freezing point for later unfreezing has become more of a possibility, and the glycerin method would probably be used to accomplish this. When this can be done completely and successfully, science will have moved much closer to its aim of freezing and storing incurable patients until the day they can be cured.
小题1:What does the passage mainly talk about?
A.Easy but practical ways to remove water from living cells. |
B.The possibility of preserving human bodies by freezing. |
C.The practice of preserving food by freezing. |
D.The harmful effects of freezing. |
A.has already been realized |
B.was invented in ancient China |
C.has its roots in the way of storing food |
D.is widely accepted by the scientific world |
A.is harmful to living cells |
B.is the best way of preserving food |
C.reduces the volume of water in living cells |
D.is a way of removing water from living cells |
A.It is impossible to have whole animals frozen. |
B.It remains unknown how to unfreeze frozen animals. |
C.Freezing incurable patients for later treatment is still an idea. |
D.The glycerin method has already been adopted to treat patients. |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:这篇文章讲的是通过冷冻的方法保存人类身体的可能性。因为冷冻对活的细胞是有害的,科学家用glycerin方法解决了这个问题,这个方法可用于冷冻不可治愈的病人供以后治疗。
小题1:主旨题:从第一段的句子:Many people have wondered whether it would be possible to find a way to preserve human bodies, and what would be the best way. 可知这篇文章讲的是通过冷冻的方法保存人类身体的可能性。选B
小题2:细节题:从第二段的句子:It has long been known that meat of fruit can be kept fresh for long periods by freezing; in ancient China, for example, food was stored with ice to keep it fresh. This method could also be useful for preserving humans. 可知冷冻保存人类身体的办法是来自于保存食品。选C
小题3:细节题:从第三段的句子:This is because of the harmful effects of freezing ice crystals(晶体), which not only are larger than the volume(体积) of the water originally in the cells, but also form sharp cutting shapes that harm the cells 可知冷冻对活的细胞是有害的,选A
小题4:细节题:从最后一段的句子:When this can be done completely and successfully, science will have moved much closer to its aim of freezing and storing incurable patients until the day they can be cured. 可知冷冻不可治愈的病人供以后治疗还是一个想法。选C
点评:这篇文章讲的是通过冷冻的方法保存人类身体的可能性。这篇阅读理解集中考查了细节理解题,要求考生仔细阅读全文,做好相应的标志,以提高阅读的效率和速度,做题时要审清题干,发觉和把握试题中有效的提示性信息,确认命题的角度、阅读范围和答题方式。
核心考点
试题【Since the beginning of history, man has been attracted by the idea of living for】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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An ability to tell family from strangers is well known in animals, allowing them to cooperate and share resources, but plants may possess similar social skills, scientists believe.
Susan Dudley and Amanda File of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, report they have demonstrated for the first time that plants can recognize their kin.
This suggests that plants, though lacking recognition and memory, are capable of complex social interactions.
“Plants have this kind of hidden but complicated social life,” Dudley said.
The study found plants from the same species of beach-dwelling wildflower grew aggressively alongside unrelated neighbors but were less competitive when they shared soil with their families.
Sea rocket, a North American species, showed stronger and healthier root growth when planted in pots with strangers than when raised with relatives from the same maternal(母系的) family, the study found.
This is an example of kin selection, a behavior common in animals in which closely related individuals take a group approach to succeeding in their environment, the researchers said.
Kin selection also applies to competition, because if family members compete less with each other, the group will do better overall. “Everywhere you look, plants are growing right up next to other plants,” Dudley said,“ Usually it’s a case of each plant for itself. But sometimes those plants are related, and there are benefits to not wasting resources on being competitive, and there is not really a cost to not being competitive as long as your neighbor is also not being competitive.”
Learning and memory appear to be important for kin recognition in animals, but this isn’t an option for plants, she noted.
Some researchers speculate(猜测) that plants communicate through their roots, identifying themselves using tiny chemical signatures specific to each plant’s family.
小题1:What’s the main idea of the message?
A.Studies find plants can recognize, communicate with relatives. |
B.Kin selection is important for plants. |
C.Animals can recognize and memorize their relatives. |
D.Competition asks plants to recognize their relatives. |
A.Animals can recognize and memorize their relatives. |
B.Animals’ social skill is to cooperate and share resources. |
C.Animals’ social skill can recognize close relatives in order to work together. |
D.Animals’ social skill is no use at all. |
A.grow well | B.compete with other kinds of plants |
C.strengthen the relationship among siblings | D.find which one is the best |
A.sea rocket is a South American species |
B.sea rocket grows aggressively alongside unrelated neighbors |
C.sea rocket grows aggressively alongside its siblings |
D.sea rocket is a kind of bush without flowers |
A.Plants communicate by using tiny chemical signatures specific to each plant’s family. |
B.Plants communicate with each other through their roots. |
C.Plants communicate with each other by their leaves. |
D.Plants communicate with each other with their flowers. |
The project to build a base on the moon will begin soon after 2020, with astronauts living there within four years.
The project comes after several excellent scientists and environmentalists asked humans to look beyond Earth to ensure the survival of the species (物种).
Eventually, the moon will be a base for humans to explore the solar system and one day land on Mars.
NASA began planning for the first moon landing since 1972 when George Bush, the US president, announced his new plan for space exploration four years ago.
NASA has already talked about the design of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the old space shuttle fleet in 2010.
The plan for the moon base, however, is the first detailed explanation of how NASA intends to prepare for the first manned exploration of deep space and a possible Mars mission within 30 years.
Scientists also believe that the south pole on the moon contain rich natural gases such as the rare helium-3 that could be used as fuel for the generation of nuclear power. Besides, teams of astronauts living there for six months at a time would mine for hydrogen and oxygen to make water and possibly rocket fuel.
小题1:When was the plan to explore space first announced according to the passage?
A.In 1972. | B.In 1950. | C.In 1968. | D.In 2020. |
A.to protect Earth | B.to explore deep space |
C.to finish Mars mission | D.to show how powerful the USA is |
A.hydrogen | B.food | C.oxygen | D.water |
A.the USA’s new plan for space exploration |
B.how to build a base on the moon |
C.why to ensure the survival of the species |
D.where to get new natural resources |
下面是几则培训班招生广告:
A. Comprehensive language skill training
100 lessons in total, focusing on pronunciation, grammar and discourse(语段). To enable the learners to master the basic knowledge of the Chinese language, to have the basic ability of listening, speaking, reading and writing, so that they are able to communicate with others and to meet the needs of everyday life, study and sociality. This will lay a foundation for further study of Chinese.
B. Intermediate(中等的)Chinese Comprehensive Course
40 lessons in all, focusing on the training of the comprehensive skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing of intermediate Chinese. To enable the students to recognize, understand and use the active and less active words, to improve their ability of expressing themselves in paragraphs and discourses, to master the new words, patterns, grammatical structures, paragraphs and discourses and means of connections so as to express the meaning of the texts correctly and fluently in paragraphs and discourses.
C. News Listening
Based on frequently used words, typical sentences and information and concentrating on improving the ability of listening comprehension. To improve the ability of collecting information, to grasp the knowledge and skills they have learned and to understand the broadcasting and TV news of similar themes and relevant level of difficulty with the correctness of 80%. To build up the foundation for further study.
D. Elementary English-Chinese Translation
25 classes in total, including various styles such as poems, popular science, political comments and news, about every aspect of everyday life. The texts vary from easy to difficult and combine theory with practice as well as translation and interpretation. About 185 hours are needed. To familiarize the learners with the equivalent(对应的)Chinese expressions of English. To enable them to know usage of Chinese and English words and sentences, cultural differences and the background knowledge.
E. Elementary Spoken Chinese in Business
24 units in all. Chinese words and expressions in business and trade are introduced in the form of vivid situational dialogues, notes and exercises. To enable the learners to master the words and expressions of elementary spoken business Chinese and to communicate with others in trade and business.
F. Chinese Human Geography
Introduction to geographic environment and cultural phenomena in various parts of China, such as natural features, historical backgrounds, religious sites, ancient battle fields, dramas and arts, traditional products, and special food, etc. Through the introduction to historical and cultural sites and scenery, the learners will have a general view about Chinese geography, history, culture and regional features.
下面是5个想学习汉语的学生,阅读下面的信息,找出适合他们每个人的课程:
小题1:Mathew majors in media and hopes to understand Chinese broadcasting and TV News and communicate with the Chinese people.
小题2:Sarah is a learner of Chinese with a fairly good knowledge of basic Chinese grammar and a vocabulary of 2,500, hoping to improve her Chinese ability in speaking, reading and writing.
小题3:Lois majors in teaching Chinese as a foreign language and hopes to improve her ability in translation.
小题4:Dennis once has taught himself Chinese and can speak a little Chinese but with poor pronunciation and grammar, hoping to meet the needs of everyday life and study, and understand each other in basic communication through training.
小题5:Georgia specializes in the Chinese language and culture at the average level. He plans to have a tour in China.
Educating girls quite possibly yields a higher rate of return than any other investment (投资)available in the developing world. Women"s education may be unusual territory for economists(经济学家), but enhancing women"s contribution to development is actually as much an economic as a social issue. And economics(经济因素), with its emphasis on incentives, provides guideposts that point to an explanation for why so many girls are deprived(剥夺)of an education.
Parents in low-income countries fail to invest(投资)in their daughters because they do not expect them to make an economic contribution to the family: girls grow up only to marry into somebody else"s family and bear children. Girls are thus seen as less valuable than boys and art kept at home to do housework while their brothers are sent to school - the prophecy (预言) becomes self- fulfilling, trapping women in a vicious circle (恶性循环) of neglect.
An educated mother, on the other hand, has greater earning abilities outside the home and faces an entirely different set of choices. She is likely to have fewer but healthier children and can insist on the development of all her children, ensuring that her daughters are given a fair chance. The education of her daughters then makes it much more likely that the next generation of girls, as well as of boys, will be educated and healthy.
Few will dispute that educating women has great social benefits. But it has enormous economic advantages as well. Most obviously, there is the direct effect of education on the wages of female workers. Wages rise by 10 to 20 per cent for each additional year of schooling. Such big returns are impressive by the standard of other available investments, but they are just the beginning. Educating women also has a significant impact on health practices, including family planning.
Topic: The significance of female小题1: in developing countries
Opinion | Educating girls in more小题2: than any other investment. | |
Families | From low-income families | From educated mothers’ families |
Attitudes | Girls are of less小题3: than boys. | Development should be for all小题4: . |
小题5: | There is小题6: invests ment in daughters. Girls are made to may at home, 小题7: housework. | Girls and boys have小题8: chances. |
Significance | Educating girls小题9: to social benefits, conceit advantages and health practices, including faruly planning. | |
小题10: | Educating girls in developing countries is important and rewarding. |
Today, sustainable development is a proper trend in many countries. According to a recent study, the global market for low-carbon energy will become three times bigger over the next decade. China, for example, has set its mind on leading that market, hoping to seize chances in the new round of the global energy revolution. It is now trying hard to make full use of wind and solar energy, and is spending a huge amount of money making electric cars and high-speed trains. In addition, we are also seeing great growth in the global markets for sustainable products such as palm oil, which is produced without cutting down valuable rainforest. In recent years the markets for sustainable products have grown by more than 50%.
Governments can fully develop the potential of these new markets. First, they can set high targets for reducing carbon emissions(排放)and targets for saving and reusing energy. Besides, stronger arrangement of public resources like forests can also help to speed up the development. Finally, governments can avoid the huge expenses that are taking us in the wrong direction, and redirecting some of those expenses can accelerate the change from traditional model to a sustainable one.
The major challenge of this century is to find ways to meet the needs of growing population within the limits of this single planet. That is no small task, but it offers abundant new chances for sustainable product industries.
小题1:The traditional business model is harmful because of all the following EXCEPT that _________.
A.it consumes natural resources |
B.it makes the world warmer |
C.it brings severe damage to forests |
D.it makes growth hard to continue |
A.China lacks wind and solar energy. |
B.China is the leader of the low-carbon market. |
C.Palm oil is made at the cost of valuable forests. |
D.High-speed trains are a low-carbon development. |
A.cut public expenses | B.encourage energy conservation |
C.develop public resources | D.forbid carbon emission |
A.To advocate sustainable development. | B.To compare two business models. |
C.To predict a change of the global market. | D.To introduce a new business model. |
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