专题02 阅读理解(说明文)-【好题汇编】2024年高考英语一模试题分类汇编（山东专用）

专题02 阅读理解说明文 1.【2024届山东省德州市一模试题】 Think you have a good grasp of English? Good. Read the six sentences below, then. Sentence 1: The old man the boat. Sentence 2: The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. Sentence 3: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. Sentence 4: Fat people eat collects. Sentence 5: The man who hunts ducks out on weekends. Sentence 6: The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families. Linguists (语言学家) call these “garden path sentences”, which take you by the hand and lead you down a winding path to a dead end. Despite this, they’re all grammatically correct. Let’s see why. Sentence 1: The old man the boat. Besides sounding like a rejected Hemingway title, this sentence is indeed grammatically correct thanks to some well-placed homonyms—words that share the same spellings but have different meanings. Homonym 1 here is “old”, used as a noun, meaning “old people”; homonym 2 is “man”, used as a verb, meaning “to serve in/on”. With that in mind, the sentence means “The old people serve on the boat”. Sentence 2: The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi. At first read, you’d think “is made of” is the main verb of this sentence. But it’s not. The simplest form of this sentence is “The cotton grows in Mississippi”; confusingly, “clothing is made of” is used to tell us what cotton we’re talking about. This sentence would make way more sense if written “The cotton that clothing is made of grows in Mississippi”, but English allows us to remove certain conjunctions like “that”, with its meaning maintained. Sentence 3: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. The first half of this sentence is easy to catch. So when dealing with the other half, people usually follow the structure of the first half, and it’d be understood as “fruits fly like bananas”. This is obviously unreasonable. Only when people rethink can they recognize the true meaning of the sentence. Therefore, such sentences manage to