2026届高三英语各地模考或重点中学（联考）阅读专项训练二十三（C篇）

2026届高三英语各地模考或重点中学（联考）阅读专项训练二十三（C篇）及答案详解 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一.（2026·福建厦门·二模）Getting the most out of going to galleries involves more than just showing up. While a casual approach — “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like” — might satisfy some, truly appreciating a painting requires a determination to go deeper. Trust your eyes. The visual arts are not called the visual arts for nothing. Art is made to be looked at. And when your eyes decide whether they like something or not, they are drawing on the experience of a lifetime. So trust your eyes when they whisper their first impressions. Why do so many people love Van Gogh’s Sunflowers? The moment you see them, they feel uplifting, joyous, and instantly pleasurable, reminding your eyes of the colour, mood and joy of a sunny day. Your eyes may be the most important organ for looking at art, but the heart runs them a close second. When we look at a painting, we get somebody’s message sent to us. One heart is trying to speak to another. Take Daughters Chasing a Butterfly by Thomas Gainsborough for example. The first thing to feel is, of course, the artist’s love for his little girls. To my eyes, it’s entirely unmissable. The two girls, their faces recorded with so much insider skills, are chasing a butterfly, which has landed on a prickly (有刺的) plant. When they try to grab it, they might get hurt. So a loving daddy hasn’t just painted his love for his daughters. He has also painted — and this is where the heart comes in — his fears for them. If you judge art by your own level of competence or understanding, you’re looking at art through a blindfold. In Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire, the old boat, bathed in an orange and purple sunset, is packed with significance and symbolism about a lost life and the end of the road. Just look at the power, the intensity, the volcanic brilliance of his depiction (描绘). Instead of limiting your appreciation to what you like, expand it to include what many others have liked before you. Like all life’s profound pleasures, looking at art is a complex business. More accurately, it’s a pleasure with many layers and stages. But for the experienced art lover, the real joy is in the build-up, the delicious journey, the awesome pay-off. 1．What are viewers advised to do first in looking at art? A．Go over the history of art. B．Draw on artists’ experience. C．Compare with other artwork. D．Rely on initial visual impressions. 2．Why is Gainsborough’s painting mentioned in paragraph 3? A．Love is popular in family-themed paintings. B．Viewing art involves heart-to-heart connection. C．Art is a visual record of an artist’s personal life. D．Viewers are easily struck by the skills of artists. 3．What does the author suggest about judging art in paragraph 4? A．Considering others’ opinions. B．Trusting your own judgment. C．Sticking to personal taste. D．Turning to realistic works. 4．What is the text mainly about? A．How to better engage with art. B．How to read artists’ emotion. C．How to better evaluate visual arts. D．How to analyze famous paintings. 二. （25-26高二下·河北雄安·月考）As a commercial solutions manager in a company, Robert Kurtz finds himself working right in the middle of a composting (堆肥) revolution. The composting company is based in Cleveland, Ohio. The goal is to deal with growing climate challenges by recycling as much food waste as possible, especially as the climate warms. “If we’re going to meet the climate goals that have been set out by our leaders and scientists, we’re going to have to tackle food waste,” Kurtz says. Wasted food winds up in landfills. As it breaks down, it creates a gas which traps heat in the atmosphere and fuels climate change. It is reported that the average families in the US spend large amounts of money per year on food that doesn’t get eaten. Businesses waste food too. That’s where Kurtz’s job comes in. Every day, Kurtz contacts grocery stores, restaurants, and other food-service businesses. He educates them about the harmful effects of food waste. Then he asks if they’re willing to change the way they dispose of their excess food. Besides, he guides the composting company and persuades other companies and households to do something differently with their food waste. Under his guidance, the company’s 7 trucks and 30 employees pick up their clients’ extra food. Then they compost it, turning it into soil. Compost soil is much more than just dirt. It’s made up of five ingredients that combine to help plants grow. That’s why Kurtz and his colleagues offer a second service: They sell the composted, nutrient-rich soil to people and businesses that need it. In addition to partnering with households and businesses, they team up with local schools. In an elementary school, they help the kitchen staff compost its food scraps. The 500 students work together to place their food waste into bins during lunch periods. The bins are then collected by the company. Emily Cass is a farm-to-school coordinator. “This program has created a space for all students to become environmental guardians in their own cafeteria when they might not otherwise have the opportunity,” Cass says. 5．What does the composting revolution aim to do? A．To classify wasted food. B．To fight climate change. C．To meet commercial challenges. D．To produce the best types of food. 6．What does paragraph 4 mainly say about Kurtz? A．His daily work. B．His food waste. C．His daily clients. D．His food consumption. 7．What spirit is shown in the 500 students’ action of dealing with food waste? A．Honesty. B．Bravery. C．Cooperation. D．Independence. 8．What is Cass’s attitude to Kurtz’s business? A．Indifferent. B．Suspicious. C．Appreciative. D．Cautious. 三. （2026·辽宁大连·一模）It is unbelievable that climate change can affect cows’ diets, which in turn affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory qualities — including its taste, color, and mouthfeel. This is at least true for Cantal, a hard cheese from central France, researchers report in the Journal of Dairy (乳制品) Science. Cows in this region traditionally feed on local grass. But as climate change causes more severe droughts, some dairy producers are shifting to alternative feeds like corn for their cows. “Farmers seek feeds that yield more or are more drought-tolerant than grass, but they also want to know how these dietary changes affect their products,” explains animal scientist Matthieu Bouchon. For almost five months, Bouchon and colleagues at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment tested 40 dairy cows of two breeds (品种) by creating a dry condition and supplementing grass with corn in varying amounts. The researchers regularly sampled the cows’ milk and analyzed its fatty acids, proteins, and beneficial microbes — key components that shape the production, quality and nutrition of cheese. The team found that a corn-based diet did not reduce milk yield and even led to an estimated reduction in methane, a major greenhouse gas emitted (排放) by cows. However, cheese from grass-fed cows was richer and more flavorful than that from cows mostly or entirely fed on corn. Grass-based diets also resulted in cheese with more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and higher levels of beneficial lactic (乳的) acid bacteria. To preserve quality, the researchers suggest farmers should include fresh grass in cows’ corn-based feed. French producers will possibly need different strategies to fit their environment and cow breeds. But Bouchon is certain of one thing: “If climate change continues on its current path, we will feel it in our cheese.” 9．What is the root cause of choosing alternative feeds? A．Climate change. B．The shortage of grass. C．Producers’ concern. D．Farmers’ request. 10．Which aspect of the research does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about? A．Its influence. B．Its findings. C．Its significance. D．Its design. 11．Which may be increased with the corn-based diet? A．The flavor of cheese. B．The yield of milk. C．The emission of methane. D．The content of omega-3. 12．What is the purpose of this text? A．To provide tailored strategies for farmers. B．To stress French dairy producers’ worries. C．To explain the impact of climate change on cheese. D．To compare cheese from grass-fed and corn-fed cows. 四. （2026·广西桂林·一模）It isn’t just humans who can live in the land of pretend messy environment, but if you organise one, you might find that primates (灵长目动物) have more vivid imaginations than anyone expected. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University set up a scene similar to a child’s make-believe tea party. Kanzi, a 34-year-old ape, would face a researcher across a table set up with empty jugs, cups, bowls and jars. In one experiment, the cups and jugs were transparent and the researcher pretended to pour juice into the two cups and then pretended to pour the imaginary juice out of one of the cups before asking the ape “Where’s the juice?” They found that he was consistently able to point to the cup filled with imaginary juice. In a second experiment designed to test whether Kanzi understood the juice to be imaginary, the ape was able to tell between a cup full of real juice and the cup filled with imaginary juice, showing that he knew the cups in the first experiment were really empty. In a third experiment, the researcher pretended to take an imaginary grape from a bowl and place it inside one of two jars, before pretending to empty one jar. Kanzi was able to correctly pick the jar containing the imaginary grape. The study moved the cups and jugs around. Christopher, co-author of the study, said: “Imagination has long been seen as a critical element of what it is to be human but the idea that it may not be exclusive to our species is really transformative. Jane Goodall discovered that chimps make tools and that led to a change in the definition of what it means to be human and this, too, really invites us to reconsider what makes us special.” The study concluded: “Our study offers experimental evidence that a non-human animal can track pretend objects in pretend play, which is not uniquely human. Our findings suggest that the capacity to form secondary representations of pretend objects is within the cognitive potential of an ape, likely dating back 6-9 million years, to our common evolutionary ancestors.” 13．How did Kanzi engage in the experiments? A．By identifying objects. B．By learning sign language. C．By emptying the juice. D．By moving cups around. 14．What can we learn from the experiments? A．Apes fail to find objects in mess. B．Christopher found apes make tools. C．Only humans can make simple tools. D．Kanzi can choose jars with imagined grapes. 15．What might Christopher agree with? A．Imagination is unique to humans. B．Only humans can make simple tools. C．Their finding may be game-changing. D．Apes and humans have different ancestors. 16．Which can be a suitable title for the text? A．Apes: Evolutionary Ancestors B．Apes: Imaginative Creatures C．Apes: Clever Signal-Readers D．Apes: Skilful Tool Makers 五. （25-26高二下·河北雄安·月考）Wild cats showcase a surprising diversity of eye colors, proving a mystery for researchers. Most wild species are known to have narrow eye color ranges, usually black, brown, or yellow. Eye colors’ evolution is hard to track. Fossils don’t preserve it; preserved samples have artificial eyes; most books illustrate only one example per species. Now, scientists have used abundant online photographs of wild cats to chart the transition from brown eyes to colors such as green and blue — and found something of a gray area. Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments (黑色素) — eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and pheomelanin, which makes red-yellow. Eye colors vary according to the amounts of each, with different combinations leading to colors such as blue, green, and gray. Scientists, Tabin and Katherine, used a process called ancestral state reconstruction to determine the eye colors of extinct wild cat species based on those of their living descendants. They examined the clearest images submitted to the database iNaturalist, then classified each cat’s eye color, and mapped the data to the cat family tree, using an algorithm (算法) to find each common ancestor’s possible eye colors. The algorithm accounted for the likelihood of certain changes and figured in the time since species separated in order to generate the likeliest colors at every split. “It’s a way we can actually look into the eyes of the wild cat’s ancestor,” Tabin says. “The ancestor developed gray eyes, and then the eye color diversity just exploded.” Once an eye with moderate amounts of both eumelanin and pheomelanin appeared (producing gray eyes), blue and green were not far behind. The scientists next tried to connect the discovered eye colors with numerous factors, including habitat, fur color, and hunting behavior, to help explain why those shades had evolved. But they found little correlation. “Siberian dogs have those bright blue eyes because we wanted them to and bred them accordingly, but in wild cats, I have no idea what’s going on here,” Tabin says. Perhaps cats prefer particular eye colors in mates — but it would be challenging to test. 17．Why do wild cats’ eye colors puzzle researchers? A．Their diversity contradicts expected patterns. B．Fossils cannot preserve eye color information. C．Too many species exist to compare effectively. D．Lighting conditions alter colors in online photos. 18．How did the scientists conduct their study on wild cats’ eye colors? A．By observing fossil records of extinct cats. B．By analyzing photos from an online database. C．By examining melanin pigments in living cats. D．By studying artificial eyes of preserved samples. 19．What can we learn about the evolution of wild cats’ eye colors from Tabin’s words? A．Extinct cats had only one eye color type. B．Gray eyes led to different eye colors later. C．Blue and green eyes appeared before gray eyes. D．Gray eyes came from high melanin pigment amounts. 20．How does Tabin feel about the evolution of wild cats’ eye colors? A．Pleased. B．Relieved. C．Frightened. D．Confused. 六. （2026·河北沧州·一模）Literally a long read — this book is just over twice as long as it is wide — Nature’s Dance is a bifold (对开) hardback that explores the formations and movements of animals on the ground and in the earth, sea and sky. You might know a few. For example, geese often fly in a “V” shape. You can also see something like that when starling birds (椋鸟) move together in the sky, or when big groups of fish swim together in the sea. These “dances” usually serve a much greater purpose than the recreational dancing that we humans sometimes engage in — although it can be argued that we’re often doing much more than blowing off steam when we’re ballroom or nightclub dancing. For example, bees talk to each other by flying in special ways or by buzzing with different sounds. Sardines and other small fish gather in huge, orderly schools — sometimes millions strong. They form a ball, each fish perfectly positioned. This gives them the best chance to survive when potential attackers are nearby. Author and illustrator Núria Solsona has grouped six different species according to their different choreographies (编舞) — dances that can be seen being performed by other animals, too. She had put these dances under the microscope, examining the evolutionary reasons why each species has adopted a particular dance, while putting her artistic talent to the test by drawing some incredibly detailed and technical illustrations — her paintings of starling flights and sardine schools are particularly impressive. The unusual bifold format of this print suits Nature’s Dance really well. It’s a relatively short book, but there’s a lot to learn from it, even for nature lovers. It’ll certainly put the next flight of ducks or group of insects in a different light the next time you see them. 21．Why do sardines gather in huge schools? A．To find more food easily. B．To communicate with each other. C．To increase their chances of survival. D．To show their orderly characteristics. 22．What do we know about Núria Solsona from the text? A．She is good at both writing and drawing. B．She is a professional dancer. C．She is the first to discover animal dances. D．She prefers the bifold format to other formats. 23．What is the main topic of the book Nature’s Dance? A．Human dance history. B．The author’s artistic talent. C．Bee communication methods. D．Animal movement patterns. 24．What does the author imply in the last paragraph? A．The book is short but hard to read. B．The book targets professional biologists. C．The book offers new perspectives on nature. D．The book changes how readers view huge animals. 试卷第1页，共3页 试卷第1页，共3页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 《2026届高三英语各地模考或重点中学（联考）阅读专项训练二十三（C篇）及答案详解》参考答案 题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 答案 D B A A B A C C A D 题号 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 答案 B C A D C B A B B D 题号 21 22 23 24 答案 C A D C 一. 1．D 2．B 3．A 4．A 【难度】0.73 【导语】本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了如何更深入地欣赏艺术作品。 1．细节理解题。根据第二段“So trust your eyes when they whisper their first impressions.(所以，当你的眼睛轻声传达第一印象时，要相信它们)”可知，在欣赏艺术作品时，作者建议观众首先依靠最初的视觉印象，故选D项。 2．推理判断题。根据第三段“When we look at a painting, we get somebody’s message sent to us. One heart is trying to speak to another. Take Daughters Chasing a Butterfly by Thomas Gainsborough for example.(当我们看一幅画时，我们接收到了某人传递给我们的信息。一颗心试图与另一颗心对话。以托马斯·庚斯博罗的《女儿们追逐蝴蝶》为例)”可知，提到庚斯博罗的画是为了说明欣赏艺术涉及心灵与心灵的连接，故选B项。 3．细节理解题。根据第四段“Instead of limiting your appreciation to what you like, expand it to include what many others have liked before you.(不要把你的鉴赏局限于自己喜欢的事物，而应拓宽眼界，去接纳那些在你之前就已被无数人喜爱的作品)”可知，作者建议在评判艺术时考虑他人的意见，故选A项。 4．主旨大意题。根据第一段“Getting the most out of going to galleries involves more than just showing up. While a casual approach — “I don’t know much about art, but I know what I like” — might satisfy some, truly appreciating a painting requires a determination to go deeper.(想要充分享受逛美术馆的乐趣，仅仅到场是远远不够的。虽然 “我不懂艺术，但我知道自己喜欢什么” 这种随性的态度或许能让一些人感到满足，但真正欣赏一幅画作，需要有决心去看得更深)”可知，文章围绕如何更好地欣赏艺术展开，介绍了欣赏艺术的方法，如相信最初视觉印象、感受心灵连接、考虑他人意见等，A选项“How to better engage with art.（如何更好地欣赏艺术。）”能概括文章主要内容。故选A项。 二. 5．B 6．A 7．C 8．C 【难度】0.85 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了堆肥公司经理罗伯特·库尔茨通过回收食物垃圾应对气候变化。 5．细节理解题。根据第一段中“The goal is to deal with growing climate challenges by recycling as much food waste as possible, especially as the climate warms. (目标是尽可能多地回收食物垃圾，以应对日益严峻的气候挑战，尤其是在气候变暖的情况下。)”可知，堆肥革命旨在应对气候变化。故选B。 6．主旨大意题。根据第四段中“Every day, Kurtz contacts grocery stores, restaurants, and other food-service businesses. He educates them about the harmful effects of food waste. Then he asks if they’re willing to change the way they dispose of their excess food. Besides, he guides the composting company and persuades other companies and households to do something differently with their food waste. Under his guidance, the company’s 7 trucks and 30 employees pick up their clients’ extra food. Then they compost it, turning it into soil. (每天，库尔茨都会联系杂货店、餐馆和其他食品服务企业。他向他们宣传食物浪费的危害。然后他询问他们是否愿意改变处理多余食物的方式。此外，他还指导堆肥公司，并说服其他公司和家庭以不同的方式处理他们的食物垃圾。在他的指导下，公司的7辆卡车和30名员工收集客户的剩余食物。然后他们将其堆肥，变成土壤。)”可知，本段主要介绍了库尔茨的日常工作。故选A。 7．推理判断题。根据第五段中“The 500 students work together to place their food waste into bins during lunch periods. (500名学生在午餐时间一起将食物垃圾放入垃圾桶。)”可知，500名学生在处理食物垃圾时展现出了合作精神。故选C。 8．推理判断题。根据最后一段中“This program has created a space for all students to become environmental guardians in their own cafeteria when they might not otherwise have the opportunity (这个项目为所有学生创造了一个空间，让他们在自己的自助餐厅里成为环境守护者，否则他们可能没有这样的机会)”可知，卡斯认为库尔茨的项目为学生提供了成为环境守护者的机会，因此她对库尔茨的业务持赞赏态度。故选C。 三. 9．A 10．D 11．B 12．C 【难度】0.69 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章介绍了气候变化导致干旱，迫使法国奶牛场主改用玉米饲料，研究发现这会影响奶酪的营养价值和感官品质，并探讨了不同饲料对奶酪的影响。   9．细节理解题。根据第二段中“But as climate change causes more severe droughts, some dairy producers are shifting to alternative feeds like corn for their cows.(但随着气候变化导致更严重的干旱，一些奶制品生产商正在转向使用玉米等替代饲料来喂养奶牛。)”可知，选择替代饲料的根本原因是气候变化。故选A。 10．主旨大意题。根据第三段中“For almost five months, Bouchon and colleagues at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment tested 40 dairy cows of two breeds by creating a dry condition and supplementing grass with corn in varying amounts. The researchers regularly sampled the cows’ milk and analyzed its fatty acids, proteins, and beneficial microbes(在近五个月的时间里，Bouchon和他在法国国家农业、食品和环境研究所的同事们通过创造干燥条件并以不同量的玉米补充草料，对两个品种的40头奶牛进行了测试。研究人员定期采集牛奶样本，分析其中的脂肪酸、蛋白质和有益微生物)”可知，本段主要介绍了研究的实验设计和方法。故选D。 11．推理判断题。根据第四段中“The team found that a corn-based diet did not reduce milk yield and even led to an estimated reduction in methane(研究小组发现，以玉米为主的饲料并未减少牛奶产量，甚至导致甲烷的估计减少)”可知，以玉米为主的饲料可能使牛奶产量保持不变或有所增加，而“methane(甲烷)”的排放量是减少的。又根据第四段中“However, cheese from grass-fed cows was richer and more flavorful(然而，草饲奶牛的奶酪更丰富、更美味)”和“Grass-based diets also resulted in cheese with more heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids(以草为基础的饮食也导致奶酪含有更多对心脏有益的omega-3脂肪酸)”可知，“flavor(风味)”和Omega-3是草饲的优势。因此，相对于草饲，玉米饲料可能维持或增加的方面是“Yield of milk(产奶量)”。故选B。 12．推理判断题。通读全文，结合第一段“It is unbelievable that climate change can affect cows’ diets, which in turn affect cheese’s nutritional value and sensory qualities(令人难以置信的是，气候变化会影响奶牛的饮食，进而影响奶酪的营养价值和感官品质)”可知，文章介绍了气候变化导致干旱，迫使法国奶牛场主改用玉米饲料，研究发现这会影响奶酪的营养价值和感官品质，并探讨了不同饲料对奶酪的影响。因此，本文的目的是为了解释气候变化对奶酪的影响。故选C。 四. 13．A 14．D 15．C 16．B 【难度】0.83 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了研究人员通过一系列模拟虚构游戏的实验，发现猩猩Kanzi能够准确追踪想象中的物品，区分真实与虚拟物体，证明想象力并非人类独有。这一研究具有变革意义，促使人们重新思考人类的独特性，并表明这种认知能力可能源于人类与灵长类动物数百万年前的共同祖先。 13．细节理解题。由文章第二段中“In one experiment, the cups and jugs were transparent and the researcher pretended to pour juice into the two cups and then pretended to pour the imaginary juice out of one of the cups before asking the ape “Where’s the juice?” They found that he was consistently able to point to the cup filled with imaginary juice. In a second experiment designed to test whether Kanzi understood the juice to be imaginary, the ape was able to tell between a cup full of real juice and the cup filled with imaginary juice, showing that he knew the cups in the first experiment were really empty. In a third experiment, the researcher pretended to take an imaginary grape from a bowl and place it inside one of two jars, before pretending to empty one jar. Kanzi was able to correctly pick the jar containing the imaginary grape.(在一次实验中，杯子和罐子是透明的，研究人员假装往两个杯子中倒入果汁，然后假装从其中一个杯子中倒出想象中的果汁，接着问猩猩“果汁在哪里？”他们发现，它总是能够指向装有想象中果汁的杯子。在另一项旨在测试卡尼兹是否理解果汁是虚构的实验中，这只猩猩能够区分装有真果汁的杯子和装有想象果汁的杯子，这表明它知道在第一次实验中那些杯子实际上是空的。在第三项实验中，研究人员假装从一个碗里取出一个想象中的葡萄，并将其放入两个罐子中的一个里，然后假装倒空其中一个罐子。卡尼兹能够正确地挑选出装有假想的葡萄的罐子。)”可知，Kanzi在每次实验中都是通过指出或挑选出含有想象中物品的杯子或罐子来参与实验的，即通过“识别物体”完成任务。故选A。 14．细节理解题。由文章第二段中“In a third experiment, the researcher pretended to take an imaginary grape from a bowl and place it inside one of two jars, before pretending to empty one jar. Kanzi was able to correctly pick the jar containing the imaginary grape.(在第三项实验中，研究人员假装从一个碗里取出一个想象中的葡萄，并将其放入两个罐子中的一个里，然后假装倒空其中一个罐子。卡尼兹能够正确地挑选出装有假想的葡萄的罐子。)”可知，Kanzi能够正确挑选出装有假想葡萄的罐子。故选D。 15．推理判断题。由文章第三段Christopher所说的话“Imagination has long been seen as a critical element of what it is to be human but the idea that it may not be exclusive to our species is really transformative.(想象力长期被视为人类的关键特质，但认为它可能并非人类独有的这一想法确实具有变革性。)”可知，Christopher认为这一发现可能是具有颠覆性、具有变革意义的。故选C。 16．主旨大意题。文章开篇“It isn’t just humans who can live in the land of pretend messy environment, but if you organise one, you might find that primates (灵长目动物) have more vivid imaginations than anyone expected.(并非只有人类才能生活在虚构的世界里，如果你设计一个这样的场景，或许会发现灵长类动物的想象力比任何人预想的都要丰富。)”提出灵长类动物可能拥有比预期更生动的想象力，随后通过三个实验证明猿类能够追踪想象物体，最后引用研究者观点指出想象力并非人类独有。全文核心围绕“猿类具备想象力”展开，B选项“Apes: Imaginative Creatures(猿类：富有想象力的生物)”能够概括文章主旨，为最佳标题。故选B。 五. 17．A 18．B 19．B 20．D 【难度】0.85 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了科学家通过研究野生猫科动物的眼睛颜色，发现其祖先最先演化出灰色眼睛，随后眼睛颜色变得多样化，且目前尚未找到眼睛颜色演化与环境、习性等因素的关联。 17．细节理解题。根据第一段“Wild cats showcase a surprising diversity of eye colors, proving a mystery for researchers. Most wild species are known to have narrow eye color ranges, usually black, brown, or yellow.(野生猫科动物展现出惊人的眼睛颜色多样性，这对研究人员来说是个谜。大多数野生动物的眼睛颜色范围很窄，通常是黑色、棕色或黄色。)”可知，野生猫科动物眼睛颜色的多样性与预期的模式相悖，因此让研究者感到困惑。故选A。 18．细节理解题。根据第二段“They examined the clearest images submitted to the database iNaturalist, then classified each cat’s eye color, and mapped the data to the cat family tree.(他们查看了提交到iNaturalist数据库中最清晰的图片，然后对每只猫的眼睛颜色进行分类，并将数据映射到猫科动物的进化树上。)”可知，科学家通过分析在线数据库中的照片开展研究。故选B。 19．推理判断题。根据第三段“‘It’s a way we can actually look into the eyes of the wild cat’s ancestor,’ Tabin says. ‘The ancestor developed gray eyes, and then the eye color diversity just exploded.’(‘这是一种我们真正能够窥见野生猫科动物祖先眼睛的方式，’塔宾说，‘祖先演化出了灰色眼睛，之后眼睛颜色的多样性就爆发了。’)”可知，灰色眼睛之后催生了多种多样的眼睛颜色。故选B。 20．推理判断题。根据最后一段“‘Siberian dogs have those bright blue eyes because we wanted them to and bred them accordingly, but in wild cats, I have no idea what’s going on here,’ Tabin says.(‘西伯利亚犬拥有明亮的蓝眼睛是因为人类刻意选育，但对于野生猫科动物，我完全不知道背后的原因。’塔宾说。)”可知，塔宾对野生猫科动物眼睛颜色的演化感到困惑。故选D。 六. 21．C 22．A 23．D 24．C 【难度】0.73 【导语】本文是一篇说明文。主要介绍了《自然的舞蹈》一书，探讨了动物在陆地、海洋和天空中的运动模式及其生存意义。 21．细节理解题。根据第三段“Sardines and other small fish gather in huge, orderly schools — sometimes millions strong. They form a ball, each fish perfectly positioned. This gives them the best chance to survive when potential attackers are nearby. (沙丁鱼和其他小鱼会大量聚集，形成有序的鱼群——有时多达数百万条。它们形成一个球体，每条鱼都处于完美的位置。当潜在的攻击者靠近时，这给了它们最好的生存机会)”可知，沙丁鱼大量聚集是为了增加生存机会。故选C项。 22．细节理解题。根据第四段“Author and illustrator Núria Solsona has grouped six different species according to their different choreographies (编舞) — dances that can be seen being performed by other animals, too. She had put these dances under the microscope, examining the evolutionary reasons why each species has adopted a particular dance, while putting her artistic talent to the test by drawing some incredibly detailed and technical illustrations — her paintings of starling flights and sardine schools are particularly impressive. (作家兼插画家Núria Solsona根据不同的编舞将六种不同的物种分组，这些舞蹈也可以被其他动物表演。她把这些舞蹈放在显微镜下，研究了每个物种采用特定舞蹈的进化原因，同时通过绘制一些非常详细和技术性的插图来检验她的艺术天赋——她关于椋鸟飞行和沙丁鱼鱼群的画作尤其令人印象深刻)”可知，Núria Solsona既擅长写作又擅长绘画。故选A项。 23．细节理解题。根据第一段“Literally a long read — this book is just over twice as long as it is wide — Nature’s Dance is a bifold (对开) hardback that explores the formations and movements of animals on the ground and in the earth, sea and sky. (这本书读起来着实漫长 —— 它的长度几乎是宽度的两倍多。——《自然之舞》是一本对开精装画册，展现了动物在陆地、地下、海洋与天空中的形态与动态。)”以及全文内容可知，本文主要介绍了《自然的舞蹈》这本书，其核心内容是动物的运动模式。故选D项。 24．推理判断题。根据最后一段“It’s a relatively short book, but there’s a lot to learn from it, even for nature lovers. It’ll certainly put the next flight of ducks or group of insects in a different light the next time you see them. (这是一本相对较短的书，但即使对于自然爱好者来说，也可以从中学到很多东西。下次你看到下一群鸭子或一群昆虫时，肯定会对它们有不同的看法)”可知，作者暗示这本书为读者提供了对自然的新视角。故选C项。 答案第1页，共2页 答案第1页，共2页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $