专题03 阅读理解之说明文（青海专用）-【好题汇编】备战2024-2025学年高一英语下学期期末真题分类汇编

专题03 阅读理解之说明文 （一） （青海省部分名校2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题） Flamingo (火烈鸟) images are everywhere in Florida, on tourist T-shirts, hotel names, and the Florida Lottery logo. However, real pink flamingos have been mostly gone from the state since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly wiped them out, seeking their stylish and valuable feathers (羽毛). Now, however, flamingos seem to be returning to Florida. Birders recorded 101 wild American flamingo sightings across the state in February, according to recently released figures from Audubon Florida. Environmentalists believe many of these birds were carried into the state on the winds of storm in August 2023. Flamingos have landed in Florida after storms in the past, but they usually don’t stay for too long. This time, birders and wildlife biologists all hope that the creatures can stay there. In recent decades, people have sometimes seen flamingos in Florida, including a well-known flamingo named Conchy, who was rescued from an airport in the Florida Keys in 2015. The data showed Conchy moved all over the southern part of the state, teaching scientists more about flamingos in Florida in two years than was known in the previous 100 years, writes Lori Rozsa. Meanwhile, environmentalists have been working to restore (恢复) the local wetland habitats (栖息地). In the Caribbean and Mexico, protection efforts have also helped increase the number of flamingo populations. Now, those efforts seem to be paying off. This year, forecasters are predicting a particularly bad storms season. It remains to be seen what that will mean for Florida’s burgeoning flamingo population—and other bird species, more broadly. There may be a few silver linings, however. After storms in September 2022, the number of shorebirds found wrapped in dangerous fishing line dropped by 58 percent in southwest Florida, since fishing piers were destroyed in the storm. “We never welcome storms here in Florida, but we did welcome some passengers,” Jerry Lorenz, director of research for Audubon Florida said. 1．What made pink flamingos almost disappear from Florida in the 1900s? A．The loss of habitat. B．Tourism industry. C．The overhunting for their feathers. D．Frequent storms. 2．What do we know about Conchy from paragraph 3? A．It was born in the Florida Keys. B．It was found in a zoo in southern Florida. C．It never left the area where it was rescued. D．It gave scientists insights into flamingos’ behavior. 3．What does the underlined phrase “silver linings” in the last paragraph probably mean? A．Something easy. B．Something good. C．Something popular. D．Something interesting. 4．Which can be a suitable title for the text? A．The Impact of Storms on Florida’s Ecosystem B．Climate Change and Its Effects on Flamingos C．The Pink Phenomenon: Flamingos’ Impact on Florida’s Culture D．Flamingos Return to Florida: Hope After Decades of Absence （二） （青海省西宁市大通县2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题） Joyce Loaiza, aged 81, lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, she often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central New York, it plays games and music for 92-year-old Marie Broadbent, who is blind and in a hospice (救济院), and in Washington, it helps 83-year-old Jan Worrell make new friends. The women are some of the first in the country to receive the robot ElliQ, whose creators, Intuition Robotics, say it is the only device to use artificial intelligence specifically designed to help many older Americans who live alone. “It’s interesting. You can actually talk to ElliQ,” said Loaiza. “She’ll make comments like, ‘I would go outside if I had hands, but I can’t hold an umbrella.’” The robot, which looks like a small table lamp, has an eyeless, mouthless head that lights up and swivels (旋转). It remembers each user’s interests and their conversations, helping plan future chats. ElliQ tells jokes and plays music. On a video screen, it provides tours of cities and museums. It leads exercises, asks about the owner’s health and gives reminders to take medications. It can also host video calls and contact relatives, friends or doctors in an emergency. But none of the conversations are heard by the company, with the information staying on each owner’s robot. The idea of ElliQ is for a robot that keeps seniors company by adapting to their individual personality and interests, said Dor Skuler, the CEO of the company. The average user talks with ElliQ more than 30 times daily, even 6 months after receiving it, and more than 90% report lower levels of loneliness, Skuler added. 5．How does the author introduce the topic of the text? A．By giving examples. B．By listing numbers. C．By telling a story. D．By making comparisons. 6．What is paragraph 5 about? A．How ElliQ feels. B．How ElliQ was created. C．What ElliQ can do. D．What people think of ElliQ. 7．What can be learned about ElliQ? A．It can lower the levels of complaints. B．It adapts itself to different users. C．It offers a connection between the seniors. D．It can completely replace the company of the family. 8．What is the best title for the text? A．AI Robot Opens a New World B．AI Robot Relieves People’s Pressure C．AI Robot Gets Popular with Young People D．AI Robot Helps Seniors Fight Loneliness （三） （青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷） Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter. People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day. There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy. 9．According the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch? A．Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages. B．Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread. C．Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes. D．Beef, pork, fish and milk, 10．It is important for people to eat ________. A．three times a day B．dinner at twelve o’clock C．cooked food all the time D．something from each of the seven kinds of food every day 11．People in different countries and different places of the world ________. A．have the right kinds of food to eat B．cook their food in the same way C．have their meals at the same time D．eat food in different ways 12．Which of the following is not true? A．People in some places don’t have enough to eat. B．There are too many people in the world. C．One of the problems is that no one is hungry. D．The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy. （四） （青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Video games sometimes have a bad name because they keep people indoors playing them instead of talking and playing with others face to face. However, a new study says that they might be good for young people’s brain development. Scientists from the University of Vermont used data from the ABCD project, which is a study of brain development and health of children in the US as they move into adulthood. The results ware taken from 2,217 children aged nine or ten. They were divided into two groups.The first group never play video games while the second group play them for three or more hours a day. The young people were set two tasks. The first one measured their reaction(反应) time by seeing how quickly they could press buttons that matched images on a screen. The second test tested their memory. They were show pictures of people’s faces and later were shown more and had to say if any of the faces were the same. During the tests, their brains were scanned with fMRI to measure brain activity. The people who played video-games were better at the two tasks, and the fMRI scans showed that they show more brain activity in memory and attention. However, researchers don’t know if gaming improved their memory and reactions, or if they already had good memories and reactions and therefore enjoyed gaming. The scientists hope to carry on studying the same young people as they get older to track the effects of gaming. The team could also find out in future if particular types of video games affect people’s brain activity differently. The lead scientist on the study, Bader, said that too much screen time isn’t good for people’s mental or physical health. Although playing video games may get the brain more active than just going through videos on YouTube, it’s important to spend time outdoors in the fresh air, taking exercise and having fun with friends and family. 13．What does the ABCD project do? A．It deals with adult brain development. B．It studies the development of young brains. C．It explores the harm of video games on teens. D．H focuses on the importance of communication. 14．How did the first group perform compared with the second one? A．They showed fewer problems in memory. B．They already had better memory ability. C．They showed better ability in attention. D．They showed more attention problems. 15．What do the researchers hope to do with the same young people? A．Track the effects of video games on them. B．Separate bad video games from good ones. C．Find ways to stop people from video games. D．Find a safe time limit on playing the games. 16．what can we infer from Bader’s words? A．The benefit of video games should be recognized. B．YouTube videos are less harmful than video games. C．There’re many better things to do than video games. D．The young should be taught to stay off video games. （五） （青海省海南藏族自治州高级中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked (联系) closely with the emotions. People who show no human emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold-blooded. Cold-blooded people act in a cruel way. They may do brutal (野蛮的) things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He seemed to kill with no emotion. Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can warm your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expression — to get cold feet — that has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your duty. You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation. Cold can also affect your shoulder. You “give someone the cold shoulder” when you refuse to speak to him. You treat him in a distant, cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back towards someone, instead of speaking to him face to face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you or to someone who has lied about you to others. “A cold fish” is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and show no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. “Out in the cold” is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise. He was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be. 17．What does the passage intend to tell us? A．Cold weather has a great effect on human bodies. B．Many English expressions contain the word “cold”. C．Cold is a word closely linked with human emotions. D．The word “cold” has many different meanings in English. 18．What could make you get cold feet? A．You break the leg of a child and force him to beg for money. B．You are the only one who gets a pay raise in your company. C．You decide to catch a thief but then you find him take out a knife. D．You show no warmth or kindness to the people around you. 19．If the teacher gives all the boys except Tom a pen as a prize, you can say he ________. A．is given the cold shoulder B．is left out in the cold C．has got cold feet D．is murdered by a cold-blooded killer 20．In which part of a newspaper can we probably read this passage? A．Culture. B．Travel. C．Technology. D．Advertisement. （六） （青海省西宁市大通回族土族自治县2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） ★★★★★What an interesting movie 2 March, by Jane The Princess Dairies is a movie about a teenager named Mia Thermopolis. Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, she is shocked by the life-changing news that she is the princess of a fictional kingdom called Genovia. Starring Anne Hathaway, it is definitely a movie you should not miss! Mia, a socially awkward American girl, becomes princess of Genovia when her long-absent father, the Crown Prince, dies. She’ s taught how to behave perfectly. However, things get out of hand when the media gets hold of the story, putting Mia in the spotlight. On top of this, she must make a choice between continuing the normal life of a San Francisco teen and stepping up to the throne. The movie explores the theme of responsibility in an intelligent and humorous way. The most memorable scene is towards the end of the movie when, during Mia s darkest moment of self-doubt, she is touched by a letter her father left her.“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”It’s one of the most unforgettable lines from the movie. The Princess Diaries is an interesting movie. It’s about being and bettering yourself, and about knowing who your real friends are. Watch it now! 21．Who is the main character? A．Anne Hathaway. B．Mia’s father. C．The king. D．Jane. 22．What is the most memorable scene in the movie? A．Mia’s long-absent father dies. B．Mia gets the news of being a princess. C．Mia is taught how to behave perfectly. D．Self-doubting Mia is touched by a letter from her father. 23．What does the viewer think of the movie? A．Horrible. B．Boring. C．Interesting. D．Costly. 24．What is the text? A．A book. B．A movie review. C．A diary. D．A news report. （七） （青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered. And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals—including humans—rely upon. “It would be an extremely terrible place to live in—and certainly not something we should ever aim for,” Milman says of an insect-free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest... It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone.” Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U. N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades. “The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects,” he says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong... There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.” 25．What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about insects? A．Their importance. B．Their classification. C．Their food chain. D．Their population. 26．What can be inferred about Milman’s new book? A．It tells what’s happening with all insect species. B．It describes the worrying decline of insects. C．It shows half a million butterfly species will be in danger of extinction. D．It explains why the number of butterflies in South America has increased. 27．What is the author’s attitude to the decline of insect population? A．Positive. B．Worried. C．Unconcerned. D．Doubtful. 28．What is the text mainly about? A．The introduction of the endangered insects. B．The ways of increasing insects’ population. C．The effects of the declining insects’ population. D．The reasons of threatening insects’ population. （八） （青海省西宁市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Technology use seems to be the new wave of addiction hitting people of all ages. Its extreme use can be compared to the use of drugs, which is called Plugin Heroin. The next time you’re in a crowded public place, look at the people around you. It’s hard to find someone who isn’t glued to the tiny screen, fingers moving at lightning speeds, texting their friends, emailing co-workers or listening to music. It may seem ridiculous that someone is that addicted to such a small object. I’ve seen people who seem to be at their wits’ end (不知所措) if their phone or iPad has been taken away, lost or left at home. Some people may ask, “What’s wrong with technology use? It’s a way for people to communicate.” While this is true, the overuse of technology isn’t always appropriate in certain settings. Schools are becoming stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms. Various workplaces have signs hanging on their walls warning employees that “Cell phone use is not permitted” or “Cell phones are forbidden.” Electronics may be a way for people to communicate and stay in touch with each other, but the disadvantages may outweigh the benefits. People are losing the ability to hold face-to-face conversations with others. However, it’s hard to avoid electronics in this day and age because almost everything is turning into an electronic format. Books, originally meant for paper design, are now being transferred (转存) to electronic forms. Photo albums, and even yearbooks, can now be viewed via the internet. With this growing trend, future generations are bound to become even more addicted to technology. Is there a cure for electronic addiction? Simply turning electronics off for an hour or two a day may help to an extent, but it will not completely rid electronic addiction. There only seems to be one cure left, and it may be the hardest: self-control. 29．What is Plug-in Heroin? A．The growing popularity of electronics. B．The serious consequences of technology use C．The unreasonable dependence on electronics. D．The future possibility of technology development. 30．The second paragraph is intended to __________. A．tell people it is ridiculous to use electronics B．persuade people to quit electronics C．prove electronics are harmful to people D．show people’s addiction to electronics 31．Why is it difficult to avoid electronics nowadays? A．Too many things are available in electronic forms B．The design of paper books is less interesting. C．It is a must to use electronics to keep in touch. D．Fewer choices are left for communication. 32．In the author’s opinion, what is the best way to cure electronic addiction? A．Turn off the electronics for an hour or two. B．Be stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms C．Learn to control yourself. D．Cell phones are forbidden in the workplaces. （九） （青海省大通县（湟源县）2021-2022学年高一下学期期末调研测英语试题） The Giza Pyramids (金字塔), built to last forever, have done just that. The tombs could date back to Egypt’s Old Kingdom and were constructed some 4,500 years ago. Egypt’s pharaohs (法老)expected to become gods in the afterlife. To prepare for the next world they built temples to the gods and massive pyramid tombs for themselves, which were filled with all the things each ruler would need to guide and support himself in the next world. The ancient wonders at Giza were so impressive that even today scientists can’t be sure how the pyramids were built. Yet they have learned much about the people who built them. The builders were skilled, well-fed Egyptian workers who lived in a nearby city. Archaeological (考古的)digs on the attractive site have shown a highly organized community, rich with resources. If the Pyramids helped to build ancient Egypt, they also preserved it. Giza allows us to explore an ancient world. “Many people think of the site as just a tomb in the modern sense, but it’s a lot more than that,” says Peter Der Manuelian with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “In these decorated tombs you have wonderful scenes of every aspect of life in ancient Egypt—so it’s not just about how Egyptians died but how they lived.” Tomb art displays ancient farmers working on their fields and fishing. Words and texts also allow research into Egyptian grammar and language. “Almost any subject you want to study about the culture is available on the tomb walls at Giza,” Der Manuelian says. To help make these precious resources accessible to all, Der Manuelian heads the Giza Project, an enormous collection of Giza photographs, plans, drawings, object records, and diaries that enables online visits to the site. 33．Why did Egypt’s pharaohs build the pyramids? A．To satisfy personal needs. B．To pay respects to gods. C．To protect the culture. D．To benefit local poor people. 34．What remains unclear about the pyramids? A．Who built them. B．How they were built. C．Where they were. D．When they were built. 35．What is the Giza Project intended for? A．Raising money for the farmers. B．Collecting drawings and photos worldwide. C．Helping people develop fishing. D．Providing online access to the pyramids. 36．What is the text mainly about? A．Pyramids at Giza. B．Modern painting art. C．An ancient king. D．A museum in Egypt. （十） （青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） A study on astronauts found that a short sleep during the day up to two and a half hours long improved working memory performance. Working memory includes focusing attention on one task while holding other tasks in memory, so a poor working memory could result in errors. Taking a short sleep may make you think more clearly for the period right after you wake up and maybe hours into the day. Taking a short sleep once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Heart. After tracking more than 3,400 people between the ages of 35 and 75 for slightly more than five years, the researchers found that those who enjoyed occasional short sleep — once or twice a week, for five minutes to an hour — were 48% less likely than those who didn't take a short sleep to experience a heart attack or heart failure. A lack of quality sleep could lead to overeating because not enough sleep is believed to stimulate hunger and stop hormone (荷尔蒙) signals that communicate fullness. The findings were important because women were at high risk of fatness and sleep disorders, the researchers said, which could both be driven by a high intake of food. Taking a short sleep has been found to improve your creativity. The right side of your brain might experience a strong mental feeling during a short sleep, research suggested. The right side is the hemisphere (半球体) most associated with creative tasks, such as imagination and thinking, while the left is more logical. Researchers monitoring the brain activity of 15 people found that the right side of their brain communicated busily with itself as well as with its left part. The left side of the brain, however, remained relatively quiet. In a January 2020 study of 2,214 Chinese adults aged 60 and older, those who took afternoon sleep for five minutes to two hours showed better mental response than those who didn’t take a short sleep. 37．What do we know about the study on astronauts? A．Taking a short sleep surely results in errors. B．Improving working memory ability needs a long sleep. C．Sleeping up to one and a half hour is needed during the day. D．Having a good working memory may complete the task better. 38．What can we infer about taking a short sleep from paragraph 2? A．It may make you think clearly all day. B．It could reduce the risk of heart attacks. C．It made 48% of people free from a heart attack. D．It may cause over 3,400 persons to suffer from heart attack. 39．What does the underlined word “stimulate” in paragraph 3 mean? A．Refer to. B．Focus on. C．Give up. D．Result in. 40．In which section of a newspaper may this text appear? A．Sports. B．Education. C．Health. D．Technology. （十一） （青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Your math teacher wears clothes made in 1985 and always mispronounces your name. Your English teacher loves to start classes with quick quizzes. It can be hard to think of these givers of grades as real people. But they eat pizza, watch movies and enjoy sports on weekends, just like you. So how can you get along well with your teachers? You can do a lot of things to develop a good relationship with your teacher. First, do the obvious things: Show up in class on time with all tasks completed. Stay focused, be respectful and ask questions. Second, show an interest in the subject. Obviously, your teachers are really interested in their subjects, or they wouldn’t have decided to teach them! Show the teacher that you care about the subject—even if you’re not a math talent or fluent in French—and send the message that you are a hard-working student. You can also schedule a private meeting in a teacher’s free time. Use this time to get extra help, ask questions, ask for information about a career (职业) in the subject or talk about your progress in class. You may be surprised to learn that your teacher is a bit more relaxed when only facing you than when teaching in front of the whole class. What if you just don’t like the teacher? When it comes to working with teachers, one’s characteristics can come into play just as they can in any other relationships. People just naturally get along better with some people than with others; it’s impossible to like everyone all the time. Learning to work with people you don’t like is a good interpersonal (人际的) skill to have in life,  no matter what your goals are. Teachers are there for more than just homework; they know about more than their subject matters. They can help you learn how to behave as an adult and lifelong learner. Undoubtedly, there will be a few teachers along the way who you’ll always remember—and who might change your life forever. 41．How can students develop a good relationship with their teachers? A．By learning as many subjects as possible. B．By respecting other students in class. C．By finishing their homework on time. D．By developing personal interests. 42．What is important when working with teachers you don’t like? A．Your characteristics. B．Your interpersonal skills. C．Your career goals. D．Your grades in exams. 43．What can we learn from the last paragraph? A．Teachers can help you grow up. B．Teachers are all lifelong learners. C．Teachers should set enough homework. D．Teachers tend to change you completely. （十二） （青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷） If you hold up a seashell to your ear, you will hear the sea, no matter how far inland you currently are. In fact, it is not the case. So, what’s actually going on here? One popular explanation is that you are listening to your own blood coursing through you. Popular as this blood theory is, it doesn’t hold water. “Press your ear to a shell and listen, then run around on the beach for a few minutes to increase the blood flow all through your body, and again listen to your magic shell,” Kruszelnicki wrote. “You’ll find that the loudness of the ‘sound of the sea is still the same’.” If we truly were hearing the sound of our blood rushing through our bodies, that wouldn’t be the case: exercising makes your blood pressure rise, which would thus increase the supposed sounds being “reflected” by the shell. The fact that we don’t hear a difference before and after exercise, therefore, makes quite an evident statement. There’s another idea that the “sea” you can hear in a shell is actually air-air flowing through the shell and out again, which creates the noise. “In a soundproof room, you won’t hear anything from a shell,” confirmed Andrew King, director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Integrative Neuroscience. “Background noise must be present.” That’s the biggest clue as to what’s really going on here: the sounds we hear “inside” seashells are not coming from inside our bodies, but rather around them. “You are hearing surrounding or background noise that has been increased in amplitude (振幅) by the physical characteristic of the seashell,” King explained, “the specific sounds we hear within a shell depend on the exact shape of itself-the hard, curved surfaces inside the shell cause the sound waves that enter to bounce around, increasing some frequencies while reducing others.” Seashells may be the most poetic of ways to experience this resonance (共振), but they’re definitely not the only method - pretty much any convex (凹面的) surface will do. 44．What is the author’s attitude toward the blood theory in paragraph 2? A．Opposing. B．Supportive. C．Defensive. D．Unconcerned. 45．What can we infer from Andrew King’s words? A．Background noise can be heard in a soundproof room. B．The sound from seashells is the changed noise around you. C．The shape of seashells can help produce the same sea sound. D．Sound waves can bounce around to increase them in your ears. 46．What is the text mainly about? A．Why you can hear the sea from a seashell. B．How people explore the secret of seashells. C．Why popular beliefs sometimes prove wrong. D．How scientists produce a sound as a seashell does. 47．What do you think the author will mention next? A．Different types of seashells. B．Causes of the sea sound. C．The sound in soundproof rooms. D．Ways to set off resonance. 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！2 / 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$ 专题03 阅读理解之说明文 （一） （青海省部分名校2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题） Flamingo (火烈鸟) images are everywhere in Florida, on tourist T-shirts, hotel names, and the Florida Lottery logo. However, real pink flamingos have been mostly gone from the state since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly wiped them out, seeking their stylish and valuable feathers (羽毛). Now, however, flamingos seem to be returning to Florida. Birders recorded 101 wild American flamingo sightings across the state in February, according to recently released figures from Audubon Florida. Environmentalists believe many of these birds were carried into the state on the winds of storm in August 2023. Flamingos have landed in Florida after storms in the past, but they usually don’t stay for too long. This time, birders and wildlife biologists all hope that the creatures can stay there. In recent decades, people have sometimes seen flamingos in Florida, including a well-known flamingo named Conchy, who was rescued from an airport in the Florida Keys in 2015. The data showed Conchy moved all over the southern part of the state, teaching scientists more about flamingos in Florida in two years than was known in the previous 100 years, writes Lori Rozsa. Meanwhile, environmentalists have been working to restore (恢复) the local wetland habitats (栖息地). In the Caribbean and Mexico, protection efforts have also helped increase the number of flamingo populations. Now, those efforts seem to be paying off. This year, forecasters are predicting a particularly bad storms season. It remains to be seen what that will mean for Florida’s burgeoning flamingo population—and other bird species, more broadly. There may be a few silver linings, however. After storms in September 2022, the number of shorebirds found wrapped in dangerous fishing line dropped by 58 percent in southwest Florida, since fishing piers were destroyed in the storm. “We never welcome storms here in Florida, but we did welcome some passengers,” Jerry Lorenz, director of research for Audubon Florida said. 1．What made pink flamingos almost disappear from Florida in the 1900s? A．The loss of habitat. B．Tourism industry. C．The overhunting for their feathers. D．Frequent storms. 2．What do we know about Conchy from paragraph 3? A．It was born in the Florida Keys. B．It was found in a zoo in southern Florida. C．It never left the area where it was rescued. D．It gave scientists insights into flamingos’ behavior. 3．What does the underlined phrase “silver linings” in the last paragraph probably mean? A．Something easy. B．Something good. C．Something popular. D．Something interesting. 4．Which can be a suitable title for the text? A．The Impact of Storms on Florida’s Ecosystem B．Climate Change and Its Effects on Flamingos C．The Pink Phenomenon: Flamingos’ Impact on Florida’s Culture D．Flamingos Return to Florida: Hope After Decades of Absence 【答案】1．C 2．D 3．B 4．D 【来源】青海省部分名校2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。讲述了火烈鸟在佛罗里达灭绝之后，在人类的帮助下重回佛罗里达。 1．细节理解题。根据文章第一段“However, real pink flamingos have been mostly gone from the state since the early 1900s, when hunters nearly wiped them out, seeking their stylish and valuable feathers(然而，自20世纪初以来，真正的粉红色火烈鸟已经从该州消失了，当时猎人为了寻找它们时尚而珍贵的羽毛，几乎将它们消灭了)”可知，猎人过度捕猎火烈鸟的羽毛导致其消失。故选C。 2．细节理解题。根据文章第三段“The data showed Conchy moved all over the southern part of the state, teaching scientists more about flamingos in Florida in two years than was known in the previous 100 years, writes Lori Rozsa.(洛里·罗莎写道，数据显示，Conchy在佛罗里达州的南部地区到处移动，这两年里教给科学家的关于佛罗里达州火烈鸟的知识比过去100年里所知道的还要多)”可知，Conchy给科学家们带来了很多关于火烈鸟的知识。故选D。 3．词义猜测题。根据所猜词后“After storms in September 2022, the number of shorebirds found wrapped in dangerous fishing line dropped by 58 percent in southwest Florida, since fishing piers were destroyed in the storm(在2022年9月的风暴之后，在佛罗里达州西南部发现的被危险鱼线包裹的滨鸟数量下降了58%，因为捕鱼码头在风暴中被摧毁)”可知，风暴将捕渔码头摧毁，从而让很多被鱼线所困住的鸟被释放。由此推知，风暴也会带来一些好处。故选B。 4．主旨大意题。根据文章第二段第一句“Now, however, flamingos seem to be returning to Florida(然而，现在烈鸟似乎回到佛罗里达)”可知，本文主要讲述了火烈鸟在弗罗里达灭绝之后，在人类的帮助下重回佛罗里达。故选D。 （二） （青海省西宁市大通县2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题） Joyce Loaiza, aged 81, lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, she often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central New York, it plays games and music for 92-year-old Marie Broadbent, who is blind and in a hospice (救济院), and in Washington, it helps 83-year-old Jan Worrell make new friends. The women are some of the first in the country to receive the robot ElliQ, whose creators, Intuition Robotics, say it is the only device to use artificial intelligence specifically designed to help many older Americans who live alone. “It’s interesting. You can actually talk to ElliQ,” said Loaiza. “She’ll make comments like, ‘I would go outside if I had hands, but I can’t hold an umbrella.’” The robot, which looks like a small table lamp, has an eyeless, mouthless head that lights up and swivels (旋转). It remembers each user’s interests and their conversations, helping plan future chats. ElliQ tells jokes and plays music. On a video screen, it provides tours of cities and museums. It leads exercises, asks about the owner’s health and gives reminders to take medications. It can also host video calls and contact relatives, friends or doctors in an emergency. But none of the conversations are heard by the company, with the information staying on each owner’s robot. The idea of ElliQ is for a robot that keeps seniors company by adapting to their individual personality and interests, said Dor Skuler, the CEO of the company. The average user talks with ElliQ more than 30 times daily, even 6 months after receiving it, and more than 90% report lower levels of loneliness, Skuler added. 5．How does the author introduce the topic of the text? A．By giving examples. B．By listing numbers. C．By telling a story. D．By making comparisons. 6．What is paragraph 5 about? A．How ElliQ feels. B．How ElliQ was created. C．What ElliQ can do. D．What people think of ElliQ. 7．What can be learned about ElliQ? A．It can lower the levels of complaints. B．It adapts itself to different users. C．It offers a connection between the seniors. D．It can completely replace the company of the family. 8．What is the best title for the text? A．AI Robot Opens a New World B．AI Robot Relieves People’s Pressure C．AI Robot Gets Popular with Young People D．AI Robot Helps Seniors Fight Loneliness 【答案】5．A 6．C 7．B 8．D 【来源】青海省西宁市大通县2023-2024学年高一下学期期末联考英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文，文章介绍了ElliQ是一款专为孤独老年人设计的人工智能机器人，能够通过个性化互动、娱乐、健康咨询和提醒服务来降低老年人的孤独感。 5．推理判断题。根据第一段“Joyce Loaiza, aged 81, lives alone, but when she returns to her apartment at a Florida senior community, she often has a chat with a friendly female voice that asks about her day. A few miles away, the same voice comforted 83-year-old Deanna Dezern when her friend died. In central New York, it plays games and music for 92-year-old Marie Broadbent, who is blind and in a hospice (救济院 ), and in Washington, it helps 83-year-old Jan Worrell make new friends.(乔伊斯·洛艾萨，81岁，独自生活，但当她回到佛罗里达州一个老年人社区的公寓时，她经常与一个友好的女性声音聊天，询问她的一天过得如何。几英里外，当83岁的迪安娜·德泽恩的朋友去世时，同样的声音安慰着她。在纽约市中心，它为92岁的玛丽·布罗德本特（Marie Broadbent）玩游戏和音乐，她是盲人，住在临终关怀院。在华盛顿，它帮助83岁的简·沃雷尔（Jan Worrell）结交新朋友。)”可知，作者通过提供乔伊斯·洛艾萨等几位老年人与ElliQ互动的具体例子来引入主题，展示了机器人在老年人生活中的实际应用。故选A项。 6．主旨大意题。根据第五段“ElliQ tells jokes and plays music. On a video screen, it provides tours of cities and museums. It leads exercises, asks about the owner’s health and gives reminders to take medications. (ElliQ会讲笑话和播放音乐。在视频屏幕上，它提供城市和博物馆的游览。它引导做运动，询问主人的健康状况，并提醒服药。)”可知，第五段主要描述了ElliQ的功能，包括娱乐、教育、健康咨询和提醒服务。故选C项。 7．推理判断题。根据最后一段“The idea of ElliQ is for a robot that keeps seniors company by adapting to their individual personality and interests, said Dor Skuler, the CEO of the company. (公司首席执行官多尔·斯库勒说，ElliQ的理念是成为一个能够适应老年人个性和兴趣的陪伴机器人。)”可知，ElliQ能够根据不同用户的特点进行个性化适应，这是它的核心特性之一。故选B项。 8．主旨大意题。根据最后一段“The average user talks with ElliQ more than 30 times daily, even 6 months after receiving it, and more than 90％ report lower levels of loneliness, Skuler added. (斯库勒补充道，平均用户每天与ElliQ交谈超过30次，即使在收到它6个月后也是如此，超过90%的用户报告孤独感减少。)”可知，文章通过描述ElliQ如何减少老年人的孤独感，强调了这款AI机器人在帮助老年人方面的作用，因此D选项“人工智能机器人帮助老年人抗击孤独”是最佳标题。故选D项。 （三） （青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷） Scientists have learned a lot about the kinds of people need. They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are: (1) green and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2) citrus (柑桔) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; 94) meat of all kinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal (谷类), rice is also in this kind of food; (7) butter, or something like butter. People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at different times of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat three or four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day. There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some way to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry. The second is to make sure that people everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy. 9．According the scientists, which of the following groups of food is the healthiest for your lunch? A．Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages. B．Potatoes, carrots, rice and bread. C．Oranges, bananas, fish and tomatoes. D．Beef, pork, fish and milk, 10．It is important for people to eat ________. A．three times a day B．dinner at twelve o’clock C．cooked food all the time D．something from each of the seven kinds of food every day 11．People in different countries and different places of the world ________. A．have the right kinds of food to eat B．cook their food in the same way C．have their meals at the same time D．eat food in different ways 12．Which of the following is not true? A．People in some places don’t have enough to eat. B．There are too many people in the world. C．One of the problems is that no one is hungry. D．The scientists are trying to make people grow to be strong and healthy. 【答案】9．A 10．D 11．D 12．C 【来源】青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要说明全世界不同地区的人，有不同的饮食习惯，不论怎样，最重要的是存在两大问题，一是消除饥饿，二是吃出健康。 9．细节理解题。根据文章第一段内容“They say that there are several kinds of food that people should eat every day, they are:(1)green and yellow vegetables of all kinds;(2)citrus fruits and tomatoes;(3)potatoes and other fruits and vegetables;(4)meat of all kinds, fish and eggs;(5)milk and foods made from milk;(6)bread or cereal, rice is also in this kind of food;(7)butter, or something like butter.”（他们说人们每天应该吃几种食物，它们是:(1)各种绿色和黄色的蔬菜;(2)柑橘类水果和西红柿;(3)土豆和其他水果和蔬菜;(4)各种肉，鱼和蛋;(5)牛奶和牛奶制成的食物;(6)面包或谷物，大米也在这类食物中;(7)黄油，或类似黄油的东西）可知，有几种人们每天应该吃的食物，它们是（1）各种各样的绿色和黄色蔬菜；（2）柑橘类水果和番茄；（3）土豆和其他水果和蔬菜；（4）各种各样的肉，鱼和鸡蛋；（5）牛奶和食物牛奶制成；（6）面包或谷物，大米；（7）黄油，或者类似的黄油。）可知，A项Chicken, apples, cereal and cabbages.提到的食物为“鸡肉、苹果、麦片和卷心菜”包含在以上七种食物内，因此它是作为午餐最健康的食物。故选A。 10．细节理解题。根据第二段的“It doesn’t matter whether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned (罐装的) or frozen (冷冻的). It doesn’t matter if a person eats dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon or at eleven o’clock at night. The important thing is what you eat every day.”（不管食物是生的还是熟的，罐装的还是冷冻的。一个人是在下午4点吃晚餐还是在晚上11点吃晚餐并不重要。重要的是你每天吃什么。）可知，对于人们来说，每天从这七种食物中各吃点东西才是重要的。故选D。 11．细节理解题。根据文章第二段内容“People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foods are cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways.”（世界上不同国家和不同地方的人吃不同种类的东西。食物以许多不同的方式烹饪和食用。）可知，世界上不同国家和不同地方的人吃不同种类的东西，食物的烹饪和食用方式有很多种。故选D。 12．细节理解题。根据文章末尾段内容“There are two problems, then, in feeding the large number of people on the earth. The first is to find some ways to feed the world’s population so that no one is hungry.”（因此，在养活地球上的大量人口方面存在两个问题。首先是找到一些方法来养活世界人口，这样就没有人挨饿了。）由此可知，还是有人挨饿的。因此选项C“One of the problems is that no one is hungry.(其中一个问题是没有人挨饿)”表述错误。故选C。 （四） （青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Video games sometimes have a bad name because they keep people indoors playing them instead of talking and playing with others face to face. However, a new study says that they might be good for young people’s brain development. Scientists from the University of Vermont used data from the ABCD project, which is a study of brain development and health of children in the US as they move into adulthood. The results ware taken from 2,217 children aged nine or ten. They were divided into two groups.The first group never play video games while the second group play them for three or more hours a day. The young people were set two tasks. The first one measured their reaction(反应) time by seeing how quickly they could press buttons that matched images on a screen. The second test tested their memory. They were show pictures of people’s faces and later were shown more and had to say if any of the faces were the same. During the tests, their brains were scanned with fMRI to measure brain activity. The people who played video-games were better at the two tasks, and the fMRI scans showed that they show more brain activity in memory and attention. However, researchers don’t know if gaming improved their memory and reactions, or if they already had good memories and reactions and therefore enjoyed gaming. The scientists hope to carry on studying the same young people as they get older to track the effects of gaming. The team could also find out in future if particular types of video games affect people’s brain activity differently. The lead scientist on the study, Bader, said that too much screen time isn’t good for people’s mental or physical health. Although playing video games may get the brain more active than just going through videos on YouTube, it’s important to spend time outdoors in the fresh air, taking exercise and having fun with friends and family. 13．What does the ABCD project do? A．It deals with adult brain development. B．It studies the development of young brains. C．It explores the harm of video games on teens. D．H focuses on the importance of communication. 14．How did the first group perform compared with the second one? A．They showed fewer problems in memory. B．They already had better memory ability. C．They showed better ability in attention. D．They showed more attention problems. 15．What do the researchers hope to do with the same young people? A．Track the effects of video games on them. B．Separate bad video games from good ones. C．Find ways to stop people from video games. D．Find a safe time limit on playing the games. 16．what can we infer from Bader’s words? A．The benefit of video games should be recognized. B．YouTube videos are less harmful than video games. C．There’re many better things to do than video games. D．The young should be taught to stay off video games. 【答案】13．B 14．D 15．A 16．C 【来源】青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述一项研究表明，玩电脑游戏有利于青少年的大脑发育，也能使他们的记忆和注意力更集中，但青少年仍然需要走出户外多活动。 13．细节理解题。根据第二段“Scientists from the University of Vermont used data from the ABCD project, which is a study of brain development and health of children in the US as they move into adulthood. (佛蒙特大学的科学家使用了ABCD项目的数据，该项目是一项关于美国儿童成年后大脑发育和健康的研究。)”可知，ABCD这个项目研究青少年成长为成年人的过程中大脑的发育情况。故选B。 14．推理判断题。根据第四段“The people who played video-games were better at the two tasks, and the fMRI scans showed that they show more brain activity in memory and attention. However, researchers don’t know if gaming improved their memory and reactions, or if they already had good memories and reactions and therefore enjoyed gaming. (玩电子游戏的人更擅长这两项任务，功能磁共振成像扫描显示，他们在记忆力和注意力方面表现出更多的大脑活动。然而，研究人员不知道游戏是否改善了他们的记忆力和反应，或者他们是否已经有了良好的记忆力和反映，因此喜欢游戏。)”可知，谈到科研人员对这两组年轻人的研究，提到第一组是从来不玩电脑游戏的，但是第二组的人员在两项任务中都比第一组的人表现得更出色，大脑的记忆和注意力方面都更活跃，由此推断第一组的人表现出更多的注意力问题。故选D。 15．细节理解题。根据第五段“The scientists hope to carry on studying the same young people as they get older to track the effects of gaming. The team could also find out in future if particular types of video games affect people’s brain activity differently. (科学家们希望随着年龄的增长，继续研究同样的年轻人，以追踪游戏的影响。该团队还可能在未来发现特定类型的电子游戏是否会对人们的大脑活动产生不同的影响。)”可知，研究人员打算继续研究这些年轻人，以追踪电脑游戏对他们的影响。故选A。 16．推理判断题。根据最后一段“The lead scientist on the study, Bader, said that too much screen time isn’t good for people’s mental or physical health. Although playing video games may get the brain more active than just going through videos on YouTube, it’s important to spend time outdoors in the fresh air, taking exercise and having fun with friends and family. (这项研究的首席科学家Bader说，过多的屏幕时间对人们的心理或身体健康都不好。尽管玩电子游戏可能会让大脑比在YouTube上看视频更活跃，但花时间在户外呼吸新鲜空气、锻炼身体以及与朋友和家人一起玩得开心是很重要的。)”可知，看屏幕的时间太长对人们的身心健康都不好，虽然电脑游戏能够让大脑更活跃，但在户外活动、锻炼仍然很重要。由此推知，有很多比电子游戏更好的事情。故选C。 （五） （青海省海南藏族自治州高级中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Cold weather has a great effect on how our minds and our bodies work. Maybe that is why there are so many expressions that use the word “cold”. For centuries, the body’s blood has been linked (联系) closely with the emotions. People who show no human emotions or feelings, for example, are said to be cold-blooded. Cold-blooded people act in a cruel way. They may do brutal (野蛮的) things to others, and not by accident. For example, a newspaper says the police are searching for a cold-blooded killer. The killer murdered someone, not in self-defense. He seemed to kill with no emotion. Cold can affect other parts of the body, the feet, for example. Heavy socks can warm your feet, if your feet are really cold. But there is an expression — to get cold feet — that has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you decided to do. For example, you agree to be president of an organization. But then you learn that all the other officers have resigned. All the work of the organization will be your duty. You are likely to get cold feet about being president when you understand the situation. Cold can also affect your shoulder. You “give someone the cold shoulder” when you refuse to speak to him. You treat him in a distant, cold way. The expression probably comes from the physical act of turning your back towards someone, instead of speaking to him face to face. You may give a cold shoulder to a friend who has not kept a promise he made to you or to someone who has lied about you to others. “A cold fish” is not a fish. It is a person. But it is a person who is unfriendly, unemotional and show no love or warmth. A cold fish does not offer much of himself to anyone. “Out in the cold” is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got. A person might say that everybody but him got a pay raise. He was left out in the cold. And it is not a pleasant place to be. 17．What does the passage intend to tell us? A．Cold weather has a great effect on human bodies. B．Many English expressions contain the word “cold”. C．Cold is a word closely linked with human emotions. D．The word “cold” has many different meanings in English. 18．What could make you get cold feet? A．You break the leg of a child and force him to beg for money. B．You are the only one who gets a pay raise in your company. C．You decide to catch a thief but then you find him take out a knife. D．You show no warmth or kindness to the people around you. 19．If the teacher gives all the boys except Tom a pen as a prize, you can say he ________. A．is given the cold shoulder B．is left out in the cold C．has got cold feet D．is murdered by a cold-blooded killer 20．In which part of a newspaper can we probably read this passage? A．Culture. B．Travel. C．Technology. D．Advertisement. 【答案】17．B 18．C 19．B 20．A 【来源】青海省海南藏族自治州高级中学2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了一些含有“cold”这个词的一些英文表达的含义。 17．推理判断题。纵览全文可知文章主要介绍了一些含有“cold”的习语，由此可推知这篇文章意在告诉我们许多英语表达中都含有“cold”这个词。也就是在不同场景的应用中，“cold”有很多不同的含义，故选B。 18．细节理解题。根据第二段“But there is an expression — to get cold feet — that has nothing to do with cold or your feet. The expression means being afraid to do something you decided to do.( 但是有一个表达——get cold feet——和冷或者你的脚无关。这个表达的意思是害怕做你决定做的事。)”可知“get cold feet”这个短语的意思是“害怕做决定做的事”，结合选项可知选项B. You decide to catch a thief but then you find him take out a knife.(你决定抓住一个小偷，但你发现他拿出了一把刀。)所描述的情境与“害怕做决定做的事”一致。故选C。 19．细节理解题。根据最后一段“”Out in the cold” is an expression often heard. It means not getting something that everybody else got.( “Out in the cold”是一个经常听到的表达。意思是得不到其他人都得到的东西。)”可知“如果老师给除了汤姆以外的所有男孩一支笔作为奖励”可以用“Out in the cold”这个短语来表达。故选B。 20．推理判断题。纵览全文可知文章主要介绍了一些含有“cold”的习语，由此可推知这篇文章与语言文化有关，由此可推知我们可能在报纸的文化版块读到这篇文章。故选A。 （六） （青海省西宁市大通回族土族自治县2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） ★★★★★What an interesting movie 2 March, by Jane The Princess Dairies is a movie about a teenager named Mia Thermopolis. Shortly before her sixteenth birthday, she is shocked by the life-changing news that she is the princess of a fictional kingdom called Genovia. Starring Anne Hathaway, it is definitely a movie you should not miss! Mia, a socially awkward American girl, becomes princess of Genovia when her long-absent father, the Crown Prince, dies. She’ s taught how to behave perfectly. However, things get out of hand when the media gets hold of the story, putting Mia in the spotlight. On top of this, she must make a choice between continuing the normal life of a San Francisco teen and stepping up to the throne. The movie explores the theme of responsibility in an intelligent and humorous way. The most memorable scene is towards the end of the movie when, during Mia s darkest moment of self-doubt, she is touched by a letter her father left her.“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”It’s one of the most unforgettable lines from the movie. The Princess Diaries is an interesting movie. It’s about being and bettering yourself, and about knowing who your real friends are. Watch it now! 21．Who is the main character? A．Anne Hathaway. B．Mia’s father. C．The king. D．Jane. 22．What is the most memorable scene in the movie? A．Mia’s long-absent father dies. B．Mia gets the news of being a princess. C．Mia is taught how to behave perfectly. D．Self-doubting Mia is touched by a letter from her father. 23．What does the viewer think of the movie? A．Horrible. B．Boring. C．Interesting. D．Costly. 24．What is the text? A．A book. B．A movie review. C．A diary. D．A news report. 【答案】21．A 22．D 23．C 24．B 【来源】青海省西宁市大通回族土族自治县2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要是关于《公主日记》这部电影的影评。 21．细节理解题。根据文章第一段“Starring Anne Hathaway, it is definitely a movie you should not miss!(由安妮·海瑟薇主演，这绝对是一部你不容错过的电影！)”可知，电影中的主角是Anne Hathaway。故选A。 22．细节理解题。根据文章第三段“The most memorable scene is towards the end of the movie when, during Mia s darkest moment of self-doubt, she is touched by a letter her father left her.(最令人难忘的一幕是在影片的最后，在米娅自我怀疑的最黑暗时刻，她被父亲留给她的一封信感动了。)”可知，电影中最让人难忘的场景是来自Mia的父亲的信鼓励处于自我怀疑期的Mia。故选D。 23．细节理解题。根据文章最后一段“The Princess Diaries is an interesting movie.(《公主日记》是一部有趣的电影。)”可知，作者认为这部电影是有趣的。故选C。 24．推理判断题。通读全文，尤其是文章开头的推荐指数和最后一段“The Princess Diaries is an interesting movie. It’ s about being and bettering yourself, and about knowing who your real friends are. Watch it now!(《公主日记》是一部有趣的电影。这是关于自我完善，关于知道谁是你真正的朋友。现在就看！)”可推断，文章是一篇影评。故选B。 （七） （青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Habitat loss, pesticides (农药) and climate change are threatening insect populations worldwide. In 2019, Biological Conservation reported that 40% of all insects species are declining (减少) globally and that a third of them are endangered. And while it may sound nice to live in a world with fewer bad insects, environmental writer Oliver Milman says that human beings would be in big trouble without insects. That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals—including humans—rely upon. “It would be an extremely terrible place to live in—and certainly not something we should ever aim for,” Milman says of an insect-free existence. “You would certainly have mass starvation and social unrest... It’d be a place where there would be smelly waste and dead bodies everywhere because insects that break down those materials would be gone.” Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good: The butterfly population in North America has declined quickly in the past 40 years, for example, and a U. N. assessment done in 2019 found that half a million insect species are under threat of extinction, some in the coming decades. “The world, our surroundings, would be far quieter, far duller without insects,” he says. “When you start kind of digging down into these figures looking at the research, it’s clear that there’s something seriously wrong... There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.” 25．What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us about insects? A．Their importance. B．Their classification. C．Their food chain. D．Their population. 26．What can be inferred about Milman’s new book? A．It tells what’s happening with all insect species. B．It describes the worrying decline of insects. C．It shows half a million butterfly species will be in danger of extinction. D．It explains why the number of butterflies in South America has increased. 27．What is the author’s attitude to the decline of insect population? A．Positive. B．Worried. C．Unconcerned. D．Doubtful. 28．What is the text mainly about? A．The introduction of the endangered insects. B．The ways of increasing insects’ population. C．The effects of the declining insects’ population. D．The reasons of threatening insects’ population. 【答案】25．A 26．B 27．B 28．C 【来源】青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍的是昆虫数量下降对人类产生的影响。 25．主旨大意题。根据第二段“That’s because insects play important roles in pollinating (给……授粉) plants we eat, breaking down waste in forest soil and forming the base of a food chain that other larger animals—including humans—rely upon.(这是因为昆虫在为我们食用的植物授粉、分解森林土壤中的废物和形成其他大型动物——包括人类，所依赖的食物链的基础方面发挥着重要作用。)”可知，本段主要介绍了昆虫的重要性。故选A。 26．推理判断题。根据第四段中“Milman charts the troubling decline of insects in his new book, The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World. He says that while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening with every insect species in the world, the overall trends are not good.(米尔曼在他的新书《昆虫危机：统治世界的小帝国的衰落》中描绘了昆虫令人不安的衰落。他说，虽然不可能确切知道世界上每一种昆虫的情况，但总体趋势并不好。)”可知，米尔曼的这本新书中主要描述了令人担忧的昆虫数量的下降情况。故选B。 27．推理判断题。根据第二段中介绍了昆虫的重要性，第四段中以米尔曼的新书描述了昆虫令人不安的衰落。同时根据文中最后一段中“There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.(大多数昆虫的数量直线下降，这给它们和我们都带来了很大的麻烦。)”可知，作者对昆虫下降的态度是担忧的。故选B。 28．主旨大意题。通读全文，以及最后一段中“There is a straight decline in most insect populations, and that spells major trouble for them but also for us.(大多数昆虫的数量直线下降，这给它们和我们都带来了很大的麻烦。)”可知，文章主要介绍了昆虫下降对人类产生的影响。C选项“The effects of the declining insects’ population.( 昆虫数量下降的影响。)”概括文章主要内容。故选C。 （八） （青海省西宁市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Technology use seems to be the new wave of addiction hitting people of all ages. Its extreme use can be compared to the use of drugs, which is called Plugin Heroin. The next time you’re in a crowded public place, look at the people around you. It’s hard to find someone who isn’t glued to the tiny screen, fingers moving at lightning speeds, texting their friends, emailing co-workers or listening to music. It may seem ridiculous that someone is that addicted to such a small object. I’ve seen people who seem to be at their wits’ end (不知所措) if their phone or iPad has been taken away, lost or left at home. Some people may ask, “What’s wrong with technology use? It’s a way for people to communicate.” While this is true, the overuse of technology isn’t always appropriate in certain settings. Schools are becoming stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms. Various workplaces have signs hanging on their walls warning employees that “Cell phone use is not permitted” or “Cell phones are forbidden.” Electronics may be a way for people to communicate and stay in touch with each other, but the disadvantages may outweigh the benefits. People are losing the ability to hold face-to-face conversations with others. However, it’s hard to avoid electronics in this day and age because almost everything is turning into an electronic format. Books, originally meant for paper design, are now being transferred (转存) to electronic forms. Photo albums, and even yearbooks, can now be viewed via the internet. With this growing trend, future generations are bound to become even more addicted to technology. Is there a cure for electronic addiction? Simply turning electronics off for an hour or two a day may help to an extent, but it will not completely rid electronic addiction. There only seems to be one cure left, and it may be the hardest: self-control. 29．What is Plug-in Heroin? A．The growing popularity of electronics. B．The serious consequences of technology use C．The unreasonable dependence on electronics. D．The future possibility of technology development. 30．The second paragraph is intended to __________. A．tell people it is ridiculous to use electronics B．persuade people to quit electronics C．prove electronics are harmful to people D．show people’s addiction to electronics 31．Why is it difficult to avoid electronics nowadays? A．Too many things are available in electronic forms B．The design of paper books is less interesting. C．It is a must to use electronics to keep in touch. D．Fewer choices are left for communication. 32．In the author’s opinion, what is the best way to cure electronic addiction? A．Turn off the electronics for an hour or two. B．Be stricter about the use of cell phones, iPads and other electronics in classrooms C．Learn to control yourself. D．Cell phones are forbidden in the workplaces. 【答案】29．C 30．D 31．A 32．C 【来源】青海省西宁市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了过度使用电子产品的成瘾行为，并具体阐明了这一成瘾行为的危害、社会背景原因及可能的解决办法。 29．细节理解题。根据第一段“Technology use seems to be the new wave of addiction hitting people of all ages. Its extreme use can be compared to the use of drugs, which is called Plug-in Heroin. (过度使用科技似乎是新的成瘾形式。过度使用科技产品与吸毒一样，被称之为Plug-in Heroin)”可知，Plug-in Heroin是指过度使用电子产品的成瘾行为。下文接着通过公共场所的例子说明人们对电子产品的过度使用和依赖，由此可知，Plug-in Heroin是指不理性地依赖电子产品。故选C。 30．主旨大意题。根据第二段“It’s hard to find someone who isn’t glued to the tiny screen, fingers moving at lightning speeds, texting their friends, emailing co-workers or listening to music. (很难发现某个人不盯着手机屏幕，手指快速地翻阅手机，给朋友们发短信，给同事发电子邮件或听音乐)”并结合该段其他内容可知，第二段描写了人们对电子产品终日沉迷的现象。故选D。 31．细节理解题。根据第四段中“However, it’s hard to avoid electronics in this day and age because almost everything is turning into an electronic format.(然而，在这个时代很难避免电子产品，因为几乎所有东西都变成了电子形式)”可知，当今人们很难避免使用科技产品，因为更多的信息倾向于以电子形式提供。故选A。 32．细节理解题。根据最后一段的“There only seems to be one cure left, and it may be the hardest: self control.(似乎只剩下一种治愈方法，而且可能是最困难的：自我控制)”可知，作者认为最好的治愈电子上瘾的方法是学会控制自己。故选C。 （九） （青海省大通县（湟源县）2021-2022学年高一下学期期末调研测英语试题） The Giza Pyramids (金字塔), built to last forever, have done just that. The tombs could date back to Egypt’s Old Kingdom and were constructed some 4,500 years ago. Egypt’s pharaohs (法老)expected to become gods in the afterlife. To prepare for the next world they built temples to the gods and massive pyramid tombs for themselves, which were filled with all the things each ruler would need to guide and support himself in the next world. The ancient wonders at Giza were so impressive that even today scientists can’t be sure how the pyramids were built. Yet they have learned much about the people who built them. The builders were skilled, well-fed Egyptian workers who lived in a nearby city. Archaeological (考古的)digs on the attractive site have shown a highly organized community, rich with resources. If the Pyramids helped to build ancient Egypt, they also preserved it. Giza allows us to explore an ancient world. “Many people think of the site as just a tomb in the modern sense, but it’s a lot more than that,” says Peter Der Manuelian with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. “In these decorated tombs you have wonderful scenes of every aspect of life in ancient Egypt—so it’s not just about how Egyptians died but how they lived.” Tomb art displays ancient farmers working on their fields and fishing. Words and texts also allow research into Egyptian grammar and language. “Almost any subject you want to study about the culture is available on the tomb walls at Giza,” Der Manuelian says. To help make these precious resources accessible to all, Der Manuelian heads the Giza Project, an enormous collection of Giza photographs, plans, drawings, object records, and diaries that enables online visits to the site. 33．Why did Egypt’s pharaohs build the pyramids? A．To satisfy personal needs. B．To pay respects to gods. C．To protect the culture. D．To benefit local poor people. 34．What remains unclear about the pyramids? A．Who built them. B．How they were built. C．Where they were. D．When they were built. 35．What is the Giza Project intended for? A．Raising money for the farmers. B．Collecting drawings and photos worldwide. C．Helping people develop fishing. D．Providing online access to the pyramids. 36．What is the text mainly about? A．Pyramids at Giza. B．Modern painting art. C．An ancient king. D．A museum in Egypt. 【答案】33．A 34．B 35．D 36．A 【来源】青海省大通县（湟源县）2021-2022学年高一下学期期末调研测英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了伟大的Giza金字塔，介绍了其建造的时间、构成、以及存在的意义等。 33．推理判断题。根据文章第一段“Egypt’s pharaohs (法老)expected to become gods in the afterlife. To prepare for the next world they built temples to the gods and massive pyramid tombs for themselves, which were filled with all the things each ruler would need to guide and support himself in the next world. (埃及的法老期望在死后成为神。为了为下一个世界做准备，他们为自己建造了神庙和巨大的金字塔坟墓，里面装满了每个统治者在另一个世界里需要指导和养活自己的所有东西。)”可推断，古埃及的法老之所以建造金字塔是为了自己死后所需，故选A。 34．细节理解题。根据文章第二段“The ancient wonders at Giza were so impressive that even today scientists can’t be sure how the pyramids were built. (Giza的古代奇观令人印象深刻，即使是今天的科学家也不能确定金字塔是如何建造的。)”可知，科学家们至今不知道金字塔是如何建造的。故选B。 35．细节理解题。根据最后一段“To help make these precious resources accessible to all, Der Manuelian heads the Giza Project, an enormous collection of Giza photographs, plans, drawings, object records, and diaries that enables online visits to the site.(为了帮助所有人都能获得这些宝贵的资源，Der Manuelian领导了“Giza计划”，该计划收集了大量的Giza照片、平面图、图纸、实物记录和日记，使人们能够在线访问该网站。)”可知，该计划是为了让人们能够从网上获取Giza金字塔的相关信息。故选D。 36．主旨大意题。文章第一段提出Giza金字塔的永恒；第二段介绍了Giza金字塔的建造非常复杂；第三段和第四段介绍了Giza金字塔让我们了解了古埃及人们的生活、文化等；最后则介绍了Giza计划。所以本文是围绕Giza金字塔展开的。故选A。 （十） （青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） A study on astronauts found that a short sleep during the day up to two and a half hours long improved working memory performance. Working memory includes focusing attention on one task while holding other tasks in memory, so a poor working memory could result in errors. Taking a short sleep may make you think more clearly for the period right after you wake up and maybe hours into the day. Taking a short sleep once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Heart. After tracking more than 3,400 people between the ages of 35 and 75 for slightly more than five years, the researchers found that those who enjoyed occasional short sleep — once or twice a week, for five minutes to an hour — were 48% less likely than those who didn't take a short sleep to experience a heart attack or heart failure. A lack of quality sleep could lead to overeating because not enough sleep is believed to stimulate hunger and stop hormone (荷尔蒙) signals that communicate fullness. The findings were important because women were at high risk of fatness and sleep disorders, the researchers said, which could both be driven by a high intake of food. Taking a short sleep has been found to improve your creativity. The right side of your brain might experience a strong mental feeling during a short sleep, research suggested. The right side is the hemisphere (半球体) most associated with creative tasks, such as imagination and thinking, while the left is more logical. Researchers monitoring the brain activity of 15 people found that the right side of their brain communicated busily with itself as well as with its left part. The left side of the brain, however, remained relatively quiet. In a January 2020 study of 2,214 Chinese adults aged 60 and older, those who took afternoon sleep for five minutes to two hours showed better mental response than those who didn’t take a short sleep. 37．What do we know about the study on astronauts? A．Taking a short sleep surely results in errors. B．Improving working memory ability needs a long sleep. C．Sleeping up to one and a half hour is needed during the day. D．Having a good working memory may complete the task better. 38．What can we infer about taking a short sleep from paragraph 2? A．It may make you think clearly all day. B．It could reduce the risk of heart attacks. C．It made 48% of people free from a heart attack. D．It may cause over 3,400 persons to suffer from heart attack. 39．What does the underlined word “stimulate” in paragraph 3 mean? A．Refer to. B．Focus on. C．Give up. D．Result in. 40．In which section of a newspaper may this text appear? A．Sports. B．Education. C．Health. D．Technology. 【答案】37．D 38．B 39．D 40．C 【来源】青海省海东市2021-2022学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要内容是白天短时间的睡眠可以善我们的工作记忆表现、降低心脏病发作的风险、提高创造性，并且可以使我们的精神状态更好。 37．推理判断题。由第一段“A study on astronauts found that a short sleep during the day up to two and a half hours long improved working memory performance. Working memory includes focusing attention on one task while holding other tasks in memory, so a poor working memory could result in errors.(一项针对宇航员的研究发现，白天长达两个半小时的短睡眠可以改善工作记忆表现。工作记忆包括将注意力集中在一项任务上，同时对其他任务保持记忆，所以糟糕的工作记忆可能会导致错误)”可知，糟糕的工作记忆可能会导致错误，由此推知，良好的工作记忆可以让人更好地完成任务。故选D项。 38．推理判断题。由第二段的句子“Taking a short sleep once or twice a week could lower the risk of heart attacks, according to a 2019 study published in the journal Heart. (2019年发表在《心脏》杂志上的一项研究表明，每周睡一两次的短时间睡眠可以降低心脏病发作的风险)”可推知，短时间睡眠可以降低心脏病发作的风险。故选B项。 39．词句猜测题。由划线单词前面的句子“A lack of quality sleep could lead to overeating(缺乏高质量的睡眠可能会导致暴饮暴食)”可知，缺乏睡眠会让人吃得过多，吃得多肯定是因为产生了饥饿感。所以文中划线词stimulate与result in意思相近，是“导致、产生”的意思。故选D项。 40．推理判断题。本文的主要内容是说白天短时间的睡眠可以改善我们的工作记忆表现、降低心脏病发作的风险、提高创造性，并且可以使我们的精神状态更好，这些都是和健康密切相关的话题。所以文章可能会出现在报纸的“Health”板块。故选C项。 （十一） （青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题） Your math teacher wears clothes made in 1985 and always mispronounces your name. Your English teacher loves to start classes with quick quizzes. It can be hard to think of these givers of grades as real people. But they eat pizza, watch movies and enjoy sports on weekends, just like you. So how can you get along well with your teachers? You can do a lot of things to develop a good relationship with your teacher. First, do the obvious things: Show up in class on time with all tasks completed. Stay focused, be respectful and ask questions. Second, show an interest in the subject. Obviously, your teachers are really interested in their subjects, or they wouldn’t have decided to teach them! Show the teacher that you care about the subject—even if you’re not a math talent or fluent in French—and send the message that you are a hard-working student. You can also schedule a private meeting in a teacher’s free time. Use this time to get extra help, ask questions, ask for information about a career (职业) in the subject or talk about your progress in class. You may be surprised to learn that your teacher is a bit more relaxed when only facing you than when teaching in front of the whole class. What if you just don’t like the teacher? When it comes to working with teachers, one’s characteristics can come into play just as they can in any other relationships. People just naturally get along better with some people than with others; it’s impossible to like everyone all the time. Learning to work with people you don’t like is a good interpersonal (人际的) skill to have in life,  no matter what your goals are. Teachers are there for more than just homework; they know about more than their subject matters. They can help you learn how to behave as an adult and lifelong learner. Undoubtedly, there will be a few teachers along the way who you’ll always remember—and who might change your life forever. 41．How can students develop a good relationship with their teachers? A．By learning as many subjects as possible. B．By respecting other students in class. C．By finishing their homework on time. D．By developing personal interests. 42．What is important when working with teachers you don’t like? A．Your characteristics. B．Your interpersonal skills. C．Your career goals. D．Your grades in exams. 43．What can we learn from the last paragraph? A．Teachers can help you grow up. B．Teachers are all lifelong learners. C．Teachers should set enough homework. D．Teachers tend to change you completely. 【答案】41．C 42．B 43．A 【来源】青海省西宁市2022-2023学年高一下学期期末考试英语试题 【导语】这是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了构建良好师生关系的方法。 41．细节理解题。根据文章第二段第二句“First, do the obvious things: Show up in class on time with all tasks completed.(首先，做一些显而易见的事情:按时上课并完成所有任务。)”可知，学生应该通过按时完成作业来发展良好的师生关系。故选C。 42．细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“Learning to work with people you don’t like is a good interpersonal skill to have in life, no matter what your goals are.(无论你的目标是什么，学会和你不喜欢的人一起工作是一项很好的人际交往技能。)”可知，与你不喜欢的人一起工作时，你需要的就是你的人际交往能力。故选B。 43．推理判断题。根据文章最后一段中“They can help you learn how to behave as an adult and lifelong learner(他们可以帮助你学习如何表现得像一个成年人和终身学习者)”可知，老师帮助我们成长为一个(合格的)成年人和终身的学习者。故选A。 （十二） （青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷） If you hold up a seashell to your ear, you will hear the sea, no matter how far inland you currently are. In fact, it is not the case. So, what’s actually going on here? One popular explanation is that you are listening to your own blood coursing through you. Popular as this blood theory is, it doesn’t hold water. “Press your ear to a shell and listen, then run around on the beach for a few minutes to increase the blood flow all through your body, and again listen to your magic shell,” Kruszelnicki wrote. “You’ll find that the loudness of the ‘sound of the sea is still the same’.” If we truly were hearing the sound of our blood rushing through our bodies, that wouldn’t be the case: exercising makes your blood pressure rise, which would thus increase the supposed sounds being “reflected” by the shell. The fact that we don’t hear a difference before and after exercise, therefore, makes quite an evident statement. There’s another idea that the “sea” you can hear in a shell is actually air-air flowing through the shell and out again, which creates the noise. “In a soundproof room, you won’t hear anything from a shell,” confirmed Andrew King, director of the University of Oxford’s Centre for Integrative Neuroscience. “Background noise must be present.” That’s the biggest clue as to what’s really going on here: the sounds we hear “inside” seashells are not coming from inside our bodies, but rather around them. “You are hearing surrounding or background noise that has been increased in amplitude (振幅) by the physical characteristic of the seashell,” King explained, “the specific sounds we hear within a shell depend on the exact shape of itself-the hard, curved surfaces inside the shell cause the sound waves that enter to bounce around, increasing some frequencies while reducing others.” Seashells may be the most poetic of ways to experience this resonance (共振), but they’re definitely not the only method - pretty much any convex (凹面的) surface will do. 44．What is the author’s attitude toward the blood theory in paragraph 2? A．Opposing. B．Supportive. C．Defensive. D．Unconcerned. 45．What can we infer from Andrew King’s words? A．Background noise can be heard in a soundproof room. B．The sound from seashells is the changed noise around you. C．The shape of seashells can help produce the same sea sound. D．Sound waves can bounce around to increase them in your ears. 46．What is the text mainly about? A．Why you can hear the sea from a seashell. B．How people explore the secret of seashells. C．Why popular beliefs sometimes prove wrong. D．How scientists produce a sound as a seashell does. 47．What do you think the author will mention next? A．Different types of seashells. B．Causes of the sea sound. C．The sound in soundproof rooms. D．Ways to set off resonance. 【答案】44．A 45．B 46．A 47．D 【来源】青海省西宁市2023-2024学年高一下学期期末调研测试英语试卷 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了人们从海螺中听到大海的声音的原因。 44．推理判断题。从第二段中的“Popular as this blood theory is, it doesn’t hold water.“Press your ear to a shell and listen, then run around on the beach for a few minutes to increase the blood flow all through your body, and again listen to your magic shell,” Kruszelnicki wrote. “You’ll find that the loudness of the “sound of the sea ‘is still the same. ”(尽管这种血液理论很受欢迎，但它站不住脚。Kruszelnicki写道：“把你的耳朵贴在贝壳上听，然后在海滩上跑几分钟，增加全身的血液流量，然后再听你神奇的贝壳。”你会发现“大海之声”的响度还是一样的)”可知，人们运动之后听到的声音没有改变，所以blood theory是不成立的。由此推知，作者对“血液理论”持反对态度。故选A项。 45．推理判断题。根据第五段““You are hearing surrounding or background noise that has been increased in amplitude(振幅)by the physical characteristic of the seashell,” King explained, “the specific sounds we hear within a shell depend on the exact shape of itself-the hard, curved surfaces inside the shell cause the sound waves that enter to bounce around, increasing some frequencies while reducing others.”(“你听到的周围或背景噪音的振幅由于贝壳的物理特性而增加了，”King解释说，“我们在贝壳内听到的特定声音取决于它本身的确切形状——贝壳内坚硬的、弯曲的表面导致声波进入周围反弹，一些频率增加，另一些频率降低。”)”可知，从贝克里听到的声音其实是周围的声音在贝壳内部曲面反弹，因此加强了它的振幅，因此这种声音其实就是周围被贝壳增大振幅后的声音。故选B项。 46．主旨大意题。根据首段中的“If you hold up a seashell to your ear, you will hear the sea, no matter how far inland you currently are. In fact, it is not the case. So, what’s actually going on here?(如果你把一个贝壳举到耳边，你就会听到大海的声音，不管你现在在内陆有多远。事实上，事实并非如此。那么，这里到底发生了什么?)”可知，本段通过提问的形式引出本文的话题，根据第二段中的“One popular explanation is that you are listening to your own blood coursing through you. Popular as this blood theory is, it doesn’t hold water.(一种常见的解释是，你在听自己的血液在你体内流动。虽然这种血液理论很流行，但它站不住脚)”以及第四段中的“There’s another idea that the “sea” you can hear in a shell is actually air-air flowing through the shell and out again, which creates the noise.(还有一种观点认为，你在贝壳里听到的“海”实际上是空气——空气穿过贝壳又流出来，这就产生了噪音)”可知，全文解释从海贝壳听到大海的音的原因。故选A项。 47．推理判断题。根据最后一段“Seashells may be the most poetic of ways to experience this resonance(共振), but they’re definitely not the only method - pretty much any convex (凹面的) surface will do.(贝壳可能是体验这种共鸣的最诗意的方式，但它们绝对不是唯一的方法——几乎任何凸面都可以)”推知，接下来应该提到能产生共振的其他方式。故选D项。 原创精品资源学科网独家享有版权，侵权必究！2 / 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$