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（D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（D篇）及答案详解 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一.（2026·辽宁锦州·一模）When people learn I write about time management, they typically assume two things: that I’m always on time (I’m not — I once arrived late to my own time management speech), and that I have countless tips for saving minutes here and there. Magazines often ask me for strategies to help readers “find an extra hour in the day” — like microwaving at the minimum suggested time, or DVRing shows to skip commercials and gain 32 minutes over two hours of TV. But I’ve come to realize these strategies have complete drawbacks. We don’t build the lives we want by saving time; we build the lives we want, and then time saves itself. Consider what I learned from a time diary project tracking 1,000 days in the lives of extremely busy women. These were women with demanding careers, businesses, children, aging parents, and community commitments. One woman’s week included a Wednesday night out, after which she returned home to find her water heater had flooded the basement — a destructive mess. She dealt with the consequence that night, arranged for plumbers (水管工) the next day, and hired cleaners for the ruined carpet afterward. This unexpected crisis consumed seven hours of her week. Now, if you’d asked her at the beginning of that week: “Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon? Could you find seven hours to mentor (指导) seven worthy people?” She almost certainly would have said, “No. Can’t you see how busy I am?” Yet when she needed seven hours because her basement was flooded, she found it. This reveals something fundamental: time is highly flexible. We cannot create more time, but time stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it. The key to time management isn’t shaving minutes off everyday activities. It’s treating our priorities with the same urgency as that broken water heater — recognizing that when something truly matters, we somehow make the time for it. 1．Why does the author mention being late to her own speech? A．To introduce her view on time. B．To prove she is not perfect. C．To remind readers not to be late. D．To show she is always busy. 2．What happened to the woman in the time diary project? A．She planned a triathlon training. B．Her basement was flooded repeatedly. C．She didn’t go back home on time. D．She spent several hours on an emergency. 3．What is the example of the woman in the time diary project used to demonstrate? A．Unexpected emergencies are a big waste of time. B．Most people overestimate how busy they really are. C．Time can expand when we are truly committed to a task. D．Busy people are actually more capable of handling crises. 4．How should we manage time according to the author? A．By focusing on what’s crucial. B．By avoiding emergencies. C．By finding an extra hour in the day. D．By saving minutes here and there. 二.（2026·北京东城·一模）Rewilding is a simple concept: areas of wilderness are identified for restoration, native animals and plants are reintroduced, and natural processes take over. The term was coined in the 1990s. Much like nature, language undergoes continuous transformation. To some, rewilding now incorporates the idea of building “corridors” so that species can cross from one area of wilderness to another, as they would have done in pre-human times. To others, it is about letting “natural chaos” take over, meaning any human interference is prohibited. Why might the average person be drawn to the idea of rewilding? Many hold that nostalgia is behind it. The fact is that most of us can’t say, “Where did all those Red Admiral butterflies go, that were once so common in my back garden?” We cannot recall things that are beyond living memory, let alone a time when wild pigs and deer ran through forests. Indeed, we need not be remotely sentimental (多愁善感) to see why biodiversity is desirable. There are numerous benefits to rewilding, such as restoring natural biodiversity and improving the ecological resilience of damaged landscapes. Actually, at the most pragmatic level, without healthy ecosystems, our crops will fail and obviously we will not survive. A workable food chain must start with pollinators, such as bees and hoverflies. Intensive farming, however, has largely removed the wildflowers they feed on and turned much of our landscape into lifeless soil. Only by reintroducing missing insects, plants and animals can we reverse this trend. The idea of rewilding has certainly caught the public eye, and journalists have played their part in this. Some have warned about the potential terrible consequences. Others have showered praise on the plan of releasing beavers back into streams. Devoting attention to efforts like these is no bad thing, yet rewilding is something different altogether: an entire ecosystem becoming self-regulatory and self-sustaining. Furthermore, if the public are to be persuaded of the benefits of rewilding, they must be confident that journalists are providing the full picture. In Spain’s Guadarrama hills, for example, wolves’ return brings conservation joy but raises local concerns over lost sheep and cattle. Honest discussion about this kind of issue is required. Rewilding projects, it has to be said, do not always go as planned. The idea that we should allow nature to reclaim parts of our landscape is far more divisive than say, any proposal for reducing plastic waste or tackling the illegal wildlife trade. Few people would be blind to the advantages of limiting plastic consumption or argue against protecting elephants. Yet not so long ago, no-one gave a second thought to these things. It took the incredible efforts of a few passionate, principled individuals to educate the majority of us through long campaigning and evidence-based argument. Hopefully, fifty years from now, with ecosystems flourishing again, people will question why our generation ever saw rewilding as debated. 5．Why does the author mention Red Admiral butterflies? A．To contradict a claim. B．To justify a comparison. C．To challenge a convention. D．To illustrate an assumption. 6．What does the word “pragmatic” underlined in Paragraph 3 most probably mean? A．Complex. B．Precise. C．Advanced. D．Practical. 7．As for rewilding, which would the author agree with? A．The media play a major role in its progress. B．Objective reporting facilitates its promotion. C．Public concern about it shapes media coverage. D．Disagreement among journalists outweighs agreement. 8．Which would be the best title for the passage? A．Rewilding: One Step at a Time B．Rewilding: Back to the Unknown C．Rewilding: A Race against Limits D．Rewilding: The Recall of the Wild 三.（25-26高三下·广东惠州·月考）In the pre-digital era, forgetting was the default. To preserve a memory, one had to take a photograph,write in a diary, or consciously commit an event to mind. Today, the situation is reversed: remembering is the default. Every digital footprint — from social media posts to location data — is stored indefinitely in the vast “cloud.” While this total recall offers convenience, it also threatens a fundamental human capacity: the ability to move on from our past. Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, in his book Delete, argues that human forgetting serves a critical biological and social purpose. It allows us to filter out irrelevant information and, more importantly, to evolve beyond our past mistakes. When our every youthful error is preserved forever in a searchable digital record, we risk being “frozen” in time, judged by who we were rather than who we have become. This “digital permanence” can discourage individuals from taking risks or expressing unconventional ideas for fear of future repercussions. Furthermore, the constant presence of our past can distort our present. Psychological research suggests that the act of outsourcing our memory to devices — a phenomenon known as “cognitive offloading” — may actually weaken our internal recall. When we know a piece of information is saved online, our brains are less likely to process it deeply. We become masters of finding information, but slaves to the tools that store it. Restoring the balance requires a conscious effort to reintroduce “forgetting” into our digital systems. This could mean “expiration dates” for certain types of data or privacy laws that grant individuals the “right to be forgotten.” Technology should serve as a tool for human flourishing, not a digital cage that keeps us trapped in an unchangeable past. 9．What does the author mean by “remembering is the default” in Paragraph 1? A．People are now born with better memories. B．Digital information is automatically saved. C．Forgetting has become an impossible biological task. D．Most people prefer to keep their diaries online. 10．According to Mayer-Schönberger, what is a negative effect of “digital permanence”? A．It makes irrelevant information harder to process. B．It helps people learn more quickly from their errors. C．It forces individuals to repeat their past mistakes. D．It may prevent people from growing and changing. 11．What does the “cognitive offloading” mentioned in Paragraph 3 result in? A．A deeper understanding of digital tools. B．An increase in our brain’s storage capacity. C．A decline in our ability to remember things internally. D．A better balance between work and personal life. 12．What is the author’s main message in the text? A．Human development requires a healthy balance between remembering and forgetting. B．We should appreciate the convenience brought by the “cloud.” C．Digital storage should be expanded for future generations. D．Privacy laws are the only way to protect our digital footprints. 四. （2025·河北·二模）Being an information technology, or IT, worker is not a job I envy. They are the ones expected to instantly fix a projector that stops working, even right in the middle of a critical meeting. They have to tolerate the bad mood of colleagues who are upset after calling the help desk repeatedly for the same issue. They also know there are better, more reliable and faster systems available, but their employer simply will not provide the funds to buy them. According to a recent survey, employees reliant on IT support often consider it a major source of job dissatisfaction. Through no fault of their own, they can suddenly find their productivity deteriorating (退化) or quality control non-existent. And there’s little they can do about it. The experience of using IT affects almost every aspect of the workplace. It has become a crucial part of employees’ overall work experience. When IT is operating as it should, employee self-confidence increases. Their job satisfaction, too, can surge when well-functioning machines relieve them of dull tasks or repetitive processes. But if there’s one thing that triggers widespread frustration, it’s a failed IT transformation project. In such cases, high expectations are dashed, and a long list of promised efficiencies fails to materialize. This occurs when business leaders implement IT initiatives with little consideration of how those changes will impact the end user. This is why managers should appreciate how influential the IT user experience is, and make a substantial effort to ensure their IT team fixes programming errors and application crashes. Adequate and timely IT support should also be available to help users resolve technological issues at work. More importantly, IT practitioners need to understand how employees feel when they use IT. Therefore, businesses need to design their IT infrastructure (基础设施) to fit their employees’ work, rather than force employees to work around the company’s IT limitations. 13．What makes the author say IT work is not a job he envies? A．Fixing unexpected project problems. B．Upgrading the present systems repeatedly. C．Resolving tensions among unhappy colleagues. D．Handling high-pressure tasks with poor support. 14．What is said about Information Technology’s influence on employees? A．It mainly helps the tech-skilled. B．Its negatives may outweigh positives. C．It can hurt or improve work and well-being. D．It often lowers productivity and satisfaction. 15．What should managers and businesses do to improve the IT experience? A．Make IT training available to staff. B．Tailor technology to fit human work patterns. C．Upgrade systems regardless of cost for efficiency. D．Focus first on solving urgent technical breakdowns. 16．Which would be the best title for the text? A．Employee Training in the Digital Age B．The Rising Cost of Business Technology C．Why IT Departments Need More Funding D．Human-Centered IT: A Key to Productivity 五. （2026·浙江绍兴·二模）Early in my academic career, I noticed that one of the most popular classes on campus was Introduction to Astronomy. The students all loved it — especially the non-science majors. I asked one of them, an economics student, why she enjoyed astronomy so much. She didn’t say anything about stars, but said, “When I go into this class, I am usually stressed out about my life. But 90 minutes later, I feel relief because I am just a speck on a speck.” She was expressing a philosophical truth. We tend to believe that to be happier, we need to become bigger in our own mind and in the minds of others. But that’s wrong. What we really need to achieve both the perspective on life and the peace we desire is to get smaller in relation to everything and everyone else. We are not the center of most things in life. And yet, when we don’t recognize the truth, we go about our business with the illusion that we are the focus of intense outside interest. This fantasy is almost certainly a product of evolution: Our ancestors struggled to rise in social hierarchies by thinking that they mattered more as individuals than they actually did. This work of constantly comparing themselves with others made it more likely that they would keep their genes in a competitive mating environment. We inherited their belief of self-importance. But this comes at a cost. Researchers have shown that such self-focus can cause emotional problems, making social situations or task performance feel frightening and unpleasant. As I have shown in the past, getting happier very often requires you not to give in to natural tendencies. The world is constantly inviting you to try to make yourself appear bigger in others’ eyes and in your own. The trick to finding happiness is to get smaller. 17．What helped the economics student reduce her stress? A．Her great interest in astronomy. B．Her realization of being small. C．Her temporary escape from reality. D．Her academic progress in the subject. 18．What do most people believe about how to achieve happiness? A．By focusing on the outside world. B．By exploring their inner minds. C．By adapting to the environment. D．By making themselves important. 19．What does the underlined word “inherited” in paragraph 3 mean? A．Reflected on. B．Approved of. C．Passed on. D．Gave up. 20．What is the author’s advice on finding happiness? A．To accept one’s insignificance. B．To develop strong self-awareness. C．To follow our ancestors’ footsteps. D．To improve cooperation within social groups. 六. （2026·辽宁大连·一模）Are you more logical or creative? If you believe you’re the former, you might be labeled “left-brained”; if the latter, then “right-brained”. It’s widely believed that the left brain is for analysis and the right is for creativity and that our characteristics are determined by which half is dominant. However, the idea that people are either left-brained or right-brained is a myth. Although we all obviously have different personalities and talents, modern brain research hasn’t found any conclusive evidence of left or right brain dominance. One serious problem of this view is its one-sided definition of human abilities. Math, for instance, which requires logical thought, is generally associated with the left brain, but it is also a genuinely creative activity. So is a gifted mathematician left-brained or right-brained? Likewise, artistic creativity isn’t just uncontrolled emotion. Many of the greatest works of art are products of thorough, precise thought. Like many modern myths, the left/right brain theory is rooted in a bit of real science. In the 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning research on epilepsy (癫痫) patients, who had undergone surgery to separate the two halves of their brains, made an unexpected discovery: the right half was better at spatial (空间的) tasks, while the left excelled at language and problem-solving. Yet the real division of labor in the brain is far more complex than the claim that “the left brain is for logic and the right is for creativity”. Then, why is the myth so popular? It satisfies our desire to label ourselves as simple “types”. This works much like the Barnum Effect, a famous psychological phenomenon: people easily believe general, positive personality descriptions — like those from MBTI tests — are true and accurate. Similarly, the left/right brain theory is popular because it gives us a “scientific” way to talk about our favorite subject — ourselves. 21．What does the underlined word “myth” in Paragraph 2 mean? A．A false belief. B．A mysterious idea. C．An established theory. D．An ancient story. 22．What can be known about a gifted mathematician? A．He is definitely left-brained. B．He has uncontrolled emotion. C．He is artistically creative. D．He has integrated abilities. 23．Which best describes the left/right brain theory? A．It is scientifically proven. B．It is rather oversimplified. C．It is truly objective. D．It is entirely groundless. 24．Why is the left/right brain theory popular? A．It meets people’s mental needs. B．It gives an accurate description. C．It offers real-time feedback. D．It uses the Barnum Effect. 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（D篇）及答案详解》参考答案 题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 答案 A D C A D D B D B D 题号 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 答案 C A D C B D B D C A 题号 21 22 23 24 答案 A D B A 一. 1．A 2．D 3．C 4．A 【难度】0.71 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。主要介绍作者对时间管理的新看法，即时间具有弹性，管理时间的关键是优先处理重要事务。 1．推理判断题。根据第一段中的“When people learn I write about time management, they typically assume two things: that I’m always on time (I’m not — I once arrived late to my own time management speech), and that I have countless tips for saving minutes here and there. (当人们知道我写关于时间管理的文章时，他们通常会假设两件事：我总是准时（我并不是——有一次我自己的时间管理演讲都迟到了），以及我有无数到处节省时间的技巧。)”可知，作者提到自己演讲迟到，是为了打破人们对时间管理作者的固有印象，从而引出自己对时间的真正观点。故选A项。 2．细节理解题。根据第三段中的“One woman’s week included a Wednesday night out, after which she returned home to find her water heater had flooded the basement — a destructive mess. She dealt with the consequence that night, arranged for plumbers (水管工) the next day, and hired cleaners for the ruined carpet afterward. This unexpected crisis consumed seven hours of her week. (有一位女性在周三晚上外出，回家后发现热水器淹了地下室——一片狼藉。她当晚处理了后续问题，第二天安排了水管工，之后雇了清洁工清理被毁的地毯。这场突发危机耗费了她一周中的七个小时。)”可知，这位女士花了几个小时处理一起紧急事件。故选D项。 3．推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“This reveals something fundamental: time is highly flexible. We cannot create more time, but time stretches to accommodate what we choose to put into it.(这揭示了一个基本道理：时间是极具弹性的。我们无法创造更多时间，但时间会延伸，以容纳我们选择投入的事情。)”可知，这位女士的例子被用来说明当我们真正投入一项任务时，时间是可以延展的。故选C项。 4．推理判断题。根据最后一段中的“The key to time management isn’t shaving minutes off everyday activities. It’s treating our priorities with the same urgency as that broken water heater — recognizing that when something truly matters, we somehow make the time for it. (时间管理的关键不是从日常活动中挤时间。而是要像对待热水器坏掉这类事一样，以紧迫感对待我们的优先事项——意识到当某件事真正重要时，我们总会想办法腾出时间。)”可知，作者认为我们应该专注于重要的事情来管理时间。故选A项。 二. 5．D 6．D 7．B 8．D 【难度】0.4 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要讨论了“再野生化”这一概念，包括其定义、公众对其的看法、好处以及面临的挑战，同时强调了客观报道在推动“再野生化”进程中的重要性。 5．推理判断题。根据第二段中“Why might the average person be drawn to the idea of rewilding? Many hold that nostalgia is behind it. The fact is that most of us can’t say, “Where did all those Red Admiral butterflies go, that were once so common in my back garden?” (为什么普通人会被“再野生化”的想法所吸引?许多人认为这背后是怀旧情绪。事实上，我们大多数人都说不出：“那些曾经在我家后院很常见的红蛱蝶都到哪里去了?”)”可知，作者提到红蛱蝶是为了说明人们对于过去生物多样性的怀念，进而支持人们被“再野生化”想法吸引这一假设。故选D项。 6．词句猜测题。划线词前文“There are numerous benefits to rewilding, such as restoring natural biodiversity and improving the ecological resilience of damaged landscapes. (再野生化有很多好处，比如恢复自然生物多样性和改善受损景观的生态恢复能力。)”谈论的是再野生化对环境和生态的影响，是宏观方面的意义，而后文“without healthy ecosystems, our crops will fail and obviously we will not survive (没有健康的生态系统，我们的庄稼就会歉收，显然我们将无法生存)”强调了健康生态系统对我们生存的实际重要性，前后形成对比。由此可推知，“at the most pragmatic level”指的是“在最实际的层面上”，故划线词pragmatic意为“实际的”。故选D项。 7．推理判断题。根据第四段中“Furthermore, if the public are to be persuaded of the benefits of rewilding, they must be confident that journalists are providing the full picture. (此外，如果要说服公众相信“再野生化”的好处，他们必须确信记者提供了全面的信息。)”可知，作者认为客观全面的报道有助于公众了解“再野生化”的好处，从而推动其推广。故选B项。 8．主旨大意题。通读全文，尤其是第一段中“Rewilding is a simple concept: areas of wilderness are identified for restoration, native animals and plants are reintroduced, and natural processes take over. (“再野生化”是一个简单的概念：确定需要恢复的荒野区域，重新引入本地动植物，让自然过程接管。)”可知，文章主要讨论了“再野生化”这一概念，包括其定义、公众看法、好处以及面临的挑战，D项“再野生化：荒野的回归”符合文章主旨，适合作为文章标题。故选D项。 三. 9．B 10．D 11．C 12．A 【难度】0.49 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章对比了数字时代和前数字时代的记忆模式，论述了数字永久存储的弊端，呼吁人们平衡记忆与遗忘。 9．推理判断题。根据第一段中“In the pre-digital era, forgetting was the default. To preserve a memory, one had to take a photograph,write in a diary, or consciously commit an event to mind. Today, the situation is reversed: remembering is the default. Every digital footprint — from social media posts to location data — is stored indefinitely in the vast “cloud.” (在前数字时代，遗忘是常态。为了保存记忆，人们不得不拍照、写日记，或者有意识地把一件事记在脑子里。如今，情况截然相反：记忆是常态。每一个数字足迹——从社交媒体帖子到位置数据——都会被无限期地存储在浩瀚的“云端”)”可知，作者说与前数字时代的“遗忘是常态”相对比，数字时代“记忆是常态”，意思是数字时代各类数字信息会被自动保存在“云端”。故选B项。 10．推理判断题。根据第二段中“Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, in his book Delete, argues that human forgetting serves a critical biological and social purpose. It allows us to filter out irrelevant information and, more importantly, to evolve beyond our past mistakes. When our every youthful error is preserved forever in a searchable digital record, we risk being “frozen” in time, judged by who we were rather than who we have become.(Viktor Mayer-Schönberger在他的书《删除》中认为，人类的遗忘服务于重要的生物学和社会目的。它允许我们过滤掉不相关的信息，更重要的是，超越我们过去的错误。当我们年少时所有的错误都被永久保存在可检索的数字记录中时，我们会有被“困在”过去的风险，人们会用过去的我们来评判我们，而非现在的我们)”可知，Mayer-Schönberger认为数字永久存储的负面影响是，它可能会把人们“困在”过去，进而阻碍人们成长和改变。故选D项。 11．细节理解题。根据第三段中“Psychological research suggests that the act of outsourcing our memory to devices — a phenomenon known as “cognitive offloading” — may actually weaken our internal recall.(心理学研究表明，把记忆交给电子设备的行为——这种现象被称为“认知卸载”——实际上可能会削弱我们内在的记忆能力)”可知，认知卸载会导致自身内在记忆能力下降。故选C项。 12．主旨大意题。通读全文，根据第一段中“While this total recall offers convenience, it also threatens a fundamental human capacity: the ability to move on from our past.(尽管这种完全记忆提供了便利，但它也威胁到了人类一项基本能力：放下过去的能力)”和最后一段中“Restoring the balance requires a conscious effort to reintroduce “forgetting” into our digital systems.(恢复这种平衡需要有意识地将“遗忘”重新引入我们的数字系统)”可知，作者想要传达的核心观点是人类发展需要在记忆和遗忘之间找到健康的平衡。故选A项。 四. 13．D 14．C 15．B 16．D 【难度】0.62 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章通过分析IT工作者面临的困境、IT系统对普通员工工作效率与满意度的双重影响，最终论证了企业管理中应以员工体验为中心设计技术方案的必要性。 13．细节理解题。根据第一段中“They are the ones expected to instantly fix a projector that stops working, even right in the middle of a critical meeting. They have to tolerate the bad mood of colleagues who are upset after calling the help desk repeatedly for the same issue. They also know there are better, more reliable and faster systems available, but their employer simply will not provide the funds to buy them.(IT人员需要在关键会议进行到一半时，立刻修复出现故障的投影仪。他们还得忍受那些因同一问题反复致电求助台而心情不佳的同事的坏脾气。他们也知道有更好、更可靠、更快捷的系统，但雇主就是不愿出资购买。)”可知，作者列举了IT工作者的工作内容，综合来看，他们要处理各种高压力任务，且得不到足够的支持，所以作者说信息技术工作并非是他所羡慕的职业。故选D。 14．推理判断题。根据第三段中“The experience of using IT affects almost every aspect of the workplace. It has become a crucial part of employees’ overall work experience. When IT is operating as it should, employee self-confidence increases.(使用信息技术的体验几乎影响着职场的方方面面。它已成为员工整体工作体验中至关重要的一部分。当信息技术正常运行时，员工的自信心会增强。)”及第四段中“Their job satisfaction, too, can surge when well-functioning machines relieve them of dull tasks or repetitive processes. But if there’s one thing that triggers widespread frustration, it’s a failed IT transformation project.(当运转良好的机器将员工从枯燥的任务或重复的流程中解脱出来时，他们的工作满意度也会大幅提升。但是，如果说有什么事情会引发普遍的挫败感，那就是失败的IT转型项目。)”可知，信息技术对员工的影响既有积极的一面，也有消极的一面，即它可以影响工作和生活的好坏，故选C。 15．推理判断题。根据最后一段“Therefore, businesses need to design their IT infrastructure (基础设施) to fit their employees’ work, rather than force employees to work around the company’s IT limitations.(因此，企业需要设计适合员工工作的IT基础设施，而不是强迫员工去适应公司的IT限制。)”可知，管理者和企业要根据人类的工作模式定制技术。故选B。 16．主旨大意题。纵观全文，尤其根据最后一段“Therefore, businesses need to design their IT infrastructure (基础设施) to fit their employees’ work, rather than force employees to work around the company’s IT limitations.(因此，企业需要设计适合员工工作的IT基础设施，而不是强迫员工去适应公司的IT限制。)”可知，本文先揭示IT工作者及普通员工因技术问题面临的困境（引出现象）， 进而分析IT对员工效率与心理的双重影响（剖析问题），最后提出根本出路在于以员工为中心设计IT系统（提出解决方案）。D项“Human-Centered IT: A Key to Productivity(以人为本的IT：提高生产力的关键)”概括了文章主题，适合作为最佳标题。故选D。 五. 17．B 18．D 19．C 20．A 【难度】0.69 【导语】这是一篇议论文。主要论述了真正的快乐并非让自己显得更重要，而是意识到自身在世界中的渺小，放下自我中心，从而获得内心平静与幸福。 17．细节理解题。根据原文第一段“I asked one of them, an economics student, why she enjoyed astronomy so much. She didn’t say anything about stars, but said, “When I go into this class, I am usually stressed out about my life. But 90 minutes later, I feel relief because I am just a speck on a speck.”(我问其中一个学生，她是学经济学的，为什么这么喜欢天文学。她没有说任何关于星星的话，而是说道：“我去上这门课的时候，通常都对生活感到压力很大。但90分钟后，我就释然了，因为我不过是一粒尘埃中的尘埃罢了。”)” 可知，意识到自己的渺小帮助这名经济学专业的学生减轻了压力，故选B。 18．细节理解题。根据原文第二段“We tend to believe that to be happier, we need to become bigger in our own mind, and in the minds of others.(我们往往认为，要变得更快乐，就需要在自己和别人的心目中显得更重要。)” 可知，大多数人认为获得幸福的方式是让自己变得重要，故选D。 19．词句猜测题。根据原文第三段“This work of constantly comparing themselves with others made it more likely that they would keep their genes in a competitive mating environment. We inherited their belief of self-importance.(这种不断与他人比较的做法，让他们更有可能在竞争激烈的繁衍环境中保留自己的基因。我们inherited他们那种自我重视的观念。)” 可知，那种自我重视的观念从祖先那里延续到我们身上，说明inherited 表示“传承、继承”，与passed on意思相近，故选C。 20．细节理解题。根据原文最后一段“The trick to finding happiness is to get smaller.(找到幸福的诀窍是让自己变得渺小。)” 可知，作者关于寻找幸福的建议是接受自己的微不足道，故选A。 六. 21．A 22．D 23．B 24．A 【难度】0.74 【导语】本文是一篇议论文。文章主要论述了“左脑/右脑理论”是错误观念，指出其过于简化且受欢迎的原因。 21．词句猜测题。根据第二段中“However, the idea that people are either left-brained or right-brained is a myth. Although we all obviously have different personalities and talents, modern brain research hasn’t found any conclusive evidence of left or right brain dominance.(然而，认为人们要么是左脑型，要么是右脑型的想法是一个myth。尽管我们显然都有不同的个性和才能，但现代大脑研究还没有发现任何关于左脑或右脑占主导地位的确凿证据。)”可知，现代大脑研究并未发现左脑或右脑占主导地位的确凿证据，所以“人是左脑型或右脑型”这种说法是错误的，myth意为“错误的观念”。故选A。 22．推理判断题。根据第二段中“Math, for instance, which requires logical thought, is generally associated with the left brain, but it is also a genuinely creative activity. So is a gifted mathematician left-brained or right-brained?(例如，数学需要逻辑思维，通常与左脑有关，但它也是一项真正有创造力的活动。那么，一个有天赋的数学家是左脑型还是右脑型呢？)”可知，一个有天赋的数学家既需要逻辑思维（左脑功能），也需要创造力（右脑功能），说明他具有综合的能力。故选D。 23．推理判断题。根据第三段中“Yet the real division of labor in the brain is far more complex than the claim that “the left brain is for logic and the right is for creativity”.(然而，大脑中真正的分工远比“左脑负责逻辑，右脑负责创造力”这一说法复杂得多。)”可知，左脑/右脑理论过于简化了大脑的实际分工。故选B。 24．细节理解题。根据最后一段中“Then, why is the myth so popular? It satisfies our desire to label ourselves as simple “types”. This works much like the Barnum Effect, a famous psychological phenomenon: people easily believe general, positive personality descriptions — like those from MBTI tests — are true and accurate.(那么，为什么这个神话如此受欢迎呢？它满足了我们将自己归类为简单“类型”的愿望。这很像著名的心理现象巴纳姆效应：人们很容易相信一般性的、积极的人格描述——比如MBTI测试中的描述——是真实准确的。)”可知，左脑/右脑理论受欢迎是因为它满足了人们将自己简单归类的心理需求。故选A。 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 $