北京市昌平区2018-2020年三年中考二模英语试题汇编-阅读理解专题

这是一份北京市昌平区2018-2020年三年中考二模英语试题汇编-阅读理解专题，共25页。

三、阅读下列短文, 根据短文内容, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选择最佳选项。
A
21. University f Trnt is in_________.
A. CambridgeB. ViennaC. OntariD. Lndn
22. If yu want t visit the ldest university in fur, yu shuld chse________.
A. Harvard UniversityB. Imperial Cllege Lndn
C. University f TrntD. University f Vienna
23. Hw many Nbel winners has Harvard prduced?
A. 32.B. 48.C. 49.D. 140.
【答案】21. C 22. D 23. C
【解析】
你想去国外上大学吗？这篇短文给我们介绍了四所国外的大学，有哈佛大学、维也纳大学、多伦多大学和帝国理工学院。
【21题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三篇短文中“It is a wrld leader in higher educatin and research, in Trnt, Ontari, Canada.”可知，多伦多大学在加拿大安大略省的多伦多。故选C。
【22题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章中对每所大学的建立时间的介绍可知，哈佛大学建立于1636年；维也纳大学建立于1365年；多伦多大学建立于1827年；帝国理工学院建立于1907年，因此最古老的是维也纳大学。故选D。
【23题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一篇短文中“It has prduced 49 Nbel winners, 32 heads f state and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners.”可知，哈佛大学产生了49个诺贝尔奖获得者。故选C。
B
Ryan Hrejac is a kid wh is 15 and lives in Canada. Withut his help, hundreds f wells that nw prvide fresh water fr peple in Africa, Central America, and India might never have been built. He travels the wrld t tell peple hw they can help slve a big prblem: the need f safe drinking water in many develping cuntries.
“Everybdy can d smething,” Ryan says.
Ryan's effrts didn't begin in a far-ff place, thugh, but right at hme in Kemptvlle, Ontari. In 1998, when he was 6 years ld, Ryan learned frm his teacher that children in Africa ften must walk miles each day t find water. His teacher said that sme f the children even died frm drinking bad water.
S Ryan decided t take actin. He did husewrk fr his parents and fr neighbrs t make sme mney. He spke t schls, churches, clubs abut his idea. The wrd spread, and dnatins（捐献）began cming in. After several mnths f hard wrk, Ryan had raised $2, 000, enugh t dig ne well.
An rganizatin called Canadian Physicians fr Aid and Relief（CPAR）chse a place fr the well in the village f Agwe, in Uganda, eastern Africa.
After the first well was built, “the ripple effect tk ver,” Ryan said, “and ne gal led t anther.”
He funded Ryan's Well Fundatin（基金会）fur years ag t educate peple abut the imprtance f water and help mre peple get clean water with thers' help. Nw the fundatin has raised mre than $1.5 millin and built 255 wells that culd serve mre than 427,000 peple in 12 cuntries.
Its website lists sme f the famus peple Ryan has met and the hnrs he has received.
Ryan isn't bragging（吹噓）. “The best peple I've met are the ther kids wh want t help, t.” he said. “The nly reasn I accept hnrs is that each wrd I say when I get ne might help ne mre persn.”
24. What prblem des Ryan want t slve?
A. The pr cnditin f schls.
B. The influence f war n children.
C. The illness caused by pllutin.
D. The need f safe drinking water.
25. Ryan himself raised mney by ________.
A. starting a website t get dnatins
B. creating an educatinal rganizatin
C. ding husewrk and intrducing his idea
D. travelling t a village acrss the wrld
26. Which f the fllwing wuld be the best title fr the passage?
A. An Organizatin f Saving Water
B. A Gal t Help African Peple
C. A By Wh Makes a Difference
D. A Well That Brught Peple Tgether
【答案】24. D 25. C 26. C
【解析】
这篇短文讲述的是15岁的男孩Ryan在了解到很多非洲的孩子没有饮用水，或因为饮用劣质水而死亡这一事实后，开始筹集资金，在很多国家挖井。他还建立了基金会，教育人们水的重要性，帮助更多的人得到干净的水。
【24题详解】
细节理解题。根据短文第一段“He travels the wrld t tell peple hw they can help slve a big prblem: the need f safe drinking water in many develping cuntries.”可知，Ryan想要解决的大问题就是很多发展中国家里安全饮水的问题。故选D。
【25题详解】
细节理解题。根据短文第四段“He did husewrk fr his parents and fr neighbrs t make sme mney. He spke t schls, churches, clubs abut his idea. The wrd spread, and dnatins（捐献）began cming in.”可知，Ryan给父母和邻居做家务赚钱，并且把他的想法告诉学校、教堂以及俱乐部，这样人们就开始捐钱。故选C。
【26题详解】
最佳标题题。A“一个节约用水的组织”；B“帮助非洲人的目标”；C“一个改变世界的男孩”；D“把人们团结在一起的一口井”。根据文意可知，这篇短文讲述了15岁的男孩Ryan筹集资金，帮助很多非洲国家挖井，以获得干净的饮用水，并创立基金会，帮助更多的人得到干净的水。C选项“一个改变世界的男孩”符合文意，故选C。
C
We have recently heard sme interesting ways that 5G technlgy might change ur lives in the future. 5G prmises internet speeds between 50 t 100 times faster than the present 4G systems. The technlgy is als built t deal with many mre users withut slwing services dwn. Such imprvements are sure t be ppular fr 5G users wrldwide.
While 5G is set t start in sme limited areas f the United States this year, much f the rest f the wrld is nt expected t receive such service widely until 2023.
One prject called 5G Rural First in Britain, thugh, is already testing this superfast technlgy, but nt n humans. Instead, the experiment invlves an unlikely grup f internet users-cws. The system cnnects the animals t 5G in an effrt t autmate（自动化）the milking prcess.
Testing areas are set up at farms in three cuntries f England. The cws are fitted with 5G devices（装置）that cnnect t a rbtic milking system. The system uses sensrs（传感器）and machine learning t fully autmate the prcess. System designers say technlgy takes ver after a cw feels ready t be milked and walks tward an autmatic gate. The device is designed t recgnize each cw. It then sets machine t the right height fr milking. During the prcess, machines give fd t the cw in return.
In ne f the test areas, abut 50 f the farm's 180 cws are fitted with 5G smart devices and health-watching sensrs. Prject fficials say the devices d nt harm the cws and the sensrs allw farmers t immediately discver any prblems such as health prblems.
Other technlgy tls pwering the 5G smart farms include autmated brushes that turn n when the cw tuches them. Sensrs als cntrl the supply f light in the cws' living areas depending n the weather. And an autmatic feeding system makes sure the animals always get enugh t eat.
Nick Chrisss wrks n the prject. He said the system can cnnect every cw, and every ther animal n the whle farm. “That's what 5G can d fr farming—really free the pwer that we have within this farm, everywhere arund the United Kingdm, and everywhere arund the wrld.”
27. What's Paragraph 4 mainly abut?
A. Hw the system autmates the milking prcess.
B. Hw the technlgy knws when t milk cws.
C. Hw the designers cnnect 5G devices t cws.
D. Hw the testing areas were set up in the cuntries.
28. Accrding t the passage, 5G smart farms _________.
A. effect huge changes n the animals
B. imprve the cw peratins in many ways
C. make the internet speed slw dwn greatly
D. test the technlgy n bth cws and peple
29. What's Nick Chrisss' attitude twards the 5G technlgy?
A. Wrried.B. Hpeful.C. Surprised.D. Dubtful.
【答案】27. A 28. B 29. B
【解析】
我们都听说过5G技术的应用将会对我们的生活有多么大的影响，然而在全世界范围内普及5G技术还需要一段时间。但英国的一些农场已经在实验这种技术，这种在5G技术支持下的智能系统可以实现自动化挤奶。
【27题详解】
细节理解题。根据短文第四段的内容可知，这一段具体介绍了这一智能系统是如何实现为奶牛挤奶的。A选项符合语境，故选A。
【28题详解】
推理判断题。根据短文第四、五、六三段的介绍可知，这种智能化系统不但可以自动给奶牛挤奶，还能迅速发现一些问题，还有自动刷、根据天气情况控制奶牛生活区的光线以及自动喂养系统等。由此可见，5G智能农场从多个方面改善了奶牛的饲养。故选B。
【29题详解】
推理判断题。根据短文最后一段Nick 说话““That's what 5G can d fr farming—really free the pwer that we have within this farm, everywhere arund the United Kingdm, and everywhere arund the wrld.””可以看到，他对5G技术的前景充满希望。故选B。
D
Have yu ever gne t a fast-fd restaurant t eat and gtten a kid's meal that came with a ty? Smetimes thse meals have different tys fr bys and girls —maybe a truck fr the bys and a ty bear fr the girls. Wh decides that bys like t play with trucks and girls like t play with stuffed animals? I knw many bys wh like stuffed animals and lts f girls wh play with trucks. When we decide what smene will like r hw they will act just because they are bys r girls, we are steretyping（形成模式化观念）.
A steretype is a grup that we put peple int. Our human brains d this all the time; it's ne f the ways that ur brain has learned t deal with the wrld. We see smene and put that persn int a grup—fr example, the ld r the yung, a by r a girl. Is that a bad thing? N, it's nt.
One advantage f a steretype is that it enables us t deal with situatins rapidly because we may have had a similar experience befre. The use f steretypes is a majr way in which we simplify ur scial wrld; since they cut dwn the amunt f prcessing（i.e. thinking）we have t d when we meet a new persn.
Althugh gruping itself isn't bad, it can be harmful smetimes. It makes us ignre differences between each single persn, that is, we usually think all the peple in ne grup are the same but that might nt be true.
When we steretype, we think f a grup and give everyne in that grup certain characteristics. Fr example, the fast fd restaurant believed that all bys like t play with vehicles and all girls prefer ty animals. They did that based nly n whether they were bys r girls.
Steretypes are prblems when beliefs that peple have abut grups are nt necessarily true. Have yu ever heard anyne say that "Men are better drivers than wmen"? Statements like this take a grup f peple and give all f them the same behavirs r characteristics. I knw men wh are gd drivers, and I knw wmen wh are gd drivers. It's nt fair t judge all peple in a grup by a steretype. We need t remember that everyne in the grup is an individual wh has different abilities, interests, strengths and behavirs.
30. The example f different tys fr bys and girls is mentined t shw that_________.
A. bys and girls prefer different tys
B. bys and girls are treated unfairly
C. peple smetimes mix children's likes
D. peple have fixed ideas n things
31. Which f the fllwing steretypes is useful?
A. Making friends by his appearance.
B. Bys d better in science than girls.
C. Yuth easily d unreasnable things.
D. Red signs n the rad warn us f danger.
32. The underlined wrd “ignre” in Paragraph 4 prbably means _________.
A. fail t nticeB. fail t trustC. fail t searchD. fail t face
33. What des the writer want t tell us abut steretyping?
A. Steretyping is like a cin which has tw sides.
B. It helps ur brain learn t deal with similar situatins.
C. Judging peple by steretyping them makes things hard.
D. Trying t learn abut and frm sme kinds f them steretypes.
【答案】30. D 31. D 32. A 33. A
【解析】
模式化观念就是我们把人们放在某一个群体里，产生固有印象。模式化观念既有优点，也有缺点。优点是它能使我们迅速处理各种情况，简化社会世界；缺点是它会让我们忽视每个个体之间的差异。
【30题详解】
推理判断题。根据短文第一段的内容可知，作者先从生活中的事例出发，目的是给读者引出模式化观念这一概念，然后对它进行具体的介绍。D选项符合文意，故选D。
【31题详解】
推理判断题。根据短文第三段“One advantage f a steretype is that it enables us t deal with situatins rapidly because we may have had a similar experience befre.”可知，模式化观念的一个优点是使我们根据以前的相似经历，快速处理各种情况。结合生活常识可知，红色会起到警告的作用，D选项符合文意，故选D。A、B和C三项都是模式化观念产生的不好的影响。
【32题详解】
词义猜测题。根据语境“It makes us ignre differences between each single persn, that is, we usually think all the peple in ne grup are the same but that might nt be true.”“它使我们……每个个体之间的差异，认为一个群体里所有人都是一样的”，由此可猜测ignre意为“忽视”，即“没能注意到……”，故选A。
【33题详解】
主旨大意题。根据短文第三段“One advantage f a steretype is that it enables us t deal with situatins rapidly because we may have had a similar experience befre.”可知，这里介绍了模式化观念的优点；再根据第四段“Althugh gruping itself isn't bad, it can be harmful smetimes.”可知，模式化观念也有缺点。A选项“每个硬币都有两面”符合文意，故选A。B和C两个选项太片面；D选项不符合文意。
2019年北京市昌平区九年级中考二模英语试题
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共26分，每小题2分）
A
21. When is the Palace Museum pen in Nvember?
A. 4 pm.B. 5 pm.C. 6 pm.D. 7 pm.
22. Wh can visit the Palace Museum fr free?
A. Dctrs. B. Disabled visitrs.
C. 10-year-ld children. D. Healthy and strng men.
23. __________ emperrs lived in the Palace Museum ever.
A. 14.B. 24.C. 25.D. 70.
B
“I’m ging t make a time capsule(胶囊),” Anna tld her parents at the breakfast table.
Dad lked up frm his cffee cup and smiled. “Sunds interesting.”
“Dad, I’m building a time capsule – it’s like a memry bx. I watched my teacher dig ne up frm ur schl yard yesterday. Sme students buried(埋) the capsule thirty years ag. It had a lt f ld things in it, s we culd see what life was like back then.”
After breakfast, Anna lked arund in the garden and fund an ld cffee can. What shuld she put in the can?
With her cat Kitty fllwing clse behind, Anna lked thrugh her things. She grabbed her favrite bk, her y-y and sme phts. She put them in the can. She pulled ff her watch and placed it in the can t.
“What else shuld I put int it?” she asked Kitty.
“Mew.” Kitty pushed a ball tward the can.
“Sure, Kitty, I’ll include yur ball.” Anna put Kitty’s ball in the can.
Anna put the tp n and clsed the can. On the frnt, she wrte ANNA AND KITTY’S TIME CAPSULE and then buried it in the garden. “All dne,” she tld Kitty.
After a few minutes, Anna sighed. What shuld she d next? She culdn’t y-y. Or read
her favrite bk. She’d buried thse. Nw, she missed them.
“Mew.” Kitty lked at her.
“D yu miss yur ball?” Anna asked. “Dn’t wrry. I’ll get it fr yu.” S Anna dug up their time capsule.
Kitty punced n the ball. And Anna pulled n her watch and read her bk while y-ying under a tree in the garden.
24. When did Anna begin t build a time capsule?
A. In the mrning.B. At nn.
C. In the afternn.D. In the evening.
25. What did Anna put int a time capsule?
A. A y-y, phts and her skirt.B. A bk, a watch and her dress.
C. A bk, a watch and the cat’s ball.D. A y-y, phts and the cat’s bell.
26. At last, Anna dug up the can because __________.
A. her cat lst its ballB. her cat needed a can
C. she had nthing t dD. she wuld put mre int it
C
The biggest influence that technlgy has n family time is the change f it. Peple used t spend mre time with their family members befre. Nwadays, with children (and the parents, t) spending mre time texting, watching mvies and televisin, playing vide games, and listening t music, when will the family find time t bnd (培养感情) and create lasting memries tgether?
Far t ften we dn’t pay mre attentin t making time fr members f ur wn family. By the end f a lng day at wrk r schl, members f the family want t relax. And nw that technlgy use is widespread acrss the cuntry, nrmally ur “relaxing” is als knwn as spending time n smart phnes.
Nt nly is the amunt f family time affected (影响) by technlgy, but als the quality. Technlgy can affect the quality in different ways. Fr example, family members can be distracted (使分心) by their phnes while trying t play a bard game tgether, which wuldn't have happened if the phne didn’t exist in the first place.
If “family time” means everyne sitting in the same rm while playing nline, what value is there? Persnal interactin is key t time well spent with lved nes. Families dn’t even need t have smething t d while tgether. If they simply ask each ther hw their day is and play a simple game tgether, family bnds will get better.
When technlgy becmes a fcus, quality(有质量的) time fr families ges dwn, which in turn affects everyne’s life. Lack f family interactin causes the family’s unity t weaken, and each f the family will be influenced in different ways. Children are mre likely t develp unhealthy habits when they fail t interact with their parents. Meanwhile, parents wh put wrk befre family r pay less attentin t their children’s grwth are mre likely t face bad parent-child relatinship. 67 percent f American teens say they want t spend mre time with their parents, which is rather sad. Therefre, this passage is meant t shw hw technlgy has negatively influenced families.
27. Accrding t Paragraph 3, we can knw that technlgy__________.
A. makes us put wrk befre family B. affects the quality f family time
C. brings us cnvenience and happiness D. affects the family time in the same way
28. What’s Paragraph 4 mainly abut?
A. Simple games are helpful fr family bnds.
B. Families dn’t need t d anything tgether.
C. Persnal interactin is imprtant fr family time.
D. Staying in the same rm is necessary fr family.
29. What’s the writer’s attitude twards the technlgy influence?
A. Puzzled.B. Wrried.C. Surprised.D. Satisfied.
D
When I was in schl, ur classes were always divided int smaller grups fr reading guidance. These reading grups were named after animals. The high-achieving readers were knwn as the birds, and the kids with the mst difficulty were the mice.
I was a bird, and my best friend Bbby was a muse. I can still remember hw uncmfrtable it was t hear Bbby read sentences ut and he culd nly read several wrds in the sentence.
This is hw we usually think f a reading “prblem” — the inability t decde symbls(解码) and change them int spken language. Kids with this prblem are hard t miss. But there may be many ther kids in the classrm wh are als pr readers, but in a very different way that’s ften invisible. These kids read crrectly and fluently frm the page — they might even be birds — but they dn’t understand mst wrds frm their muths.
Charles Hulme and his team f Yrk University have been explring this hidden reading prblem, and they’ve cme t believe that it may be at its heart a spken language prblem.
In ne study, they fund 8- and 9-year-ld children wh had reading cmprehensin(理解) prblems. Then, sme gt help in reading and understanding written text, and thers gt nly help with spken language and still thers gt a mix f bth. They all gt 90 minutes f help every week fr 20 weeks, after which their skills were tested. They were als tested again almst a year later, t see if any imprvements existed.
All three grups shwed imprvements in cmprehensin sn after the training, but thse trained nly in spken language shwed great imprvements int the fllwing year — much mre than the thers. What’s mre, the imprvements frm the spken language training and the less imprvements frm a cmbined (融合的) way appeared t cme frm imprvements in vcabulary. In ther wrds, the spken language training seems t have resulted in a generalized imprvement in the kids’ ability t understand language.
Reading cmprehensin is imprtant fr success in life, mre than ever in histry. Reading difficulties create educatinal difficulties, which in turn lead t scial and ecnmic disadvantage, including jblessness. Kids wn’t be asked t read ut lud in the real wrld, but they will be expected t knw what they’ve read.
30. __________ are called “mice" in the writer’s class.
A. Students wh like animalsB. Students wh have gd scres
C. Students wh are in small grups D. Students wh d wrst in reading
31. What des the underlined wrd “invisible” prbably mean?
A. Cannt be tried.B. Cannt be seen.
C. Cannt be hidden. D. Cannt be taught.
32. What des the result f Charles Hulme’s research tell us?
A. Scientists shuld bserve lng-term influence.
B. A hidden reading disability have been explred.
C. Reading difficulties create educatinal difficulties.
D. Speaking training imprves cmprehensive ability.
33. Which is the best title fr the passage?
A. Is language training meaningful?
B. Is language training easy r nt?
C. Is reading cmprehensin a hard prblem?
D. Is reading cmprehensin a hidden disability?[]
2018年北京市昌平区九年级中考二模英语试题
答案：
21-23：ABB
24-26：ACC
27-29：BCB
30-33：DBDD
阅读理解（共 36 分）
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的 A、 B、 C、 D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共 26 分，每小题 2 分）
A
21. If yu are gd at ftball, where can yu g fr a summer jb?
A. CRUISE SHIP B. PRIMARY SCHOOL
C. DELIVERY COMPANY D. CITY MUSEUM
22. Wh will help yu knw mre abut the wrk n the ship?
A. Ms. Lri Lee. B. Mr. Kevin Smith. C. Ms. Jnes Stevens. D. Mr. Jack Green.
23. What can yu d at the CITY MUSEUM?
A. Get the ships ready fr passengers. B. Help children with math prblems.
C. Guide peple arund the building. D. Help the driver lift the heavy bxes.
B
Garry started cking when he was 11, partly thanks t his mther. “My
mm didn’t really like cking, and when she did ck, I didn’t really like her
fd. Once I was watching smething n the Fd Netwrk n TV and I
thught, ‘I culd d this’, s I went t the bkstre and lked fr the biggest
ckbk I culd find.”
Within a year, he has prduced mst f the dishes in the ckbk and was
ready fr a bigger plan. “I wanted t create my wn dishes and I started t ck
fr mre peple than just my family t.” His family allwed him t build a test
kitchen in his bedrm. “At first, they were fine with it, but then they asked,
‘d yu want t be sleeping next t a cker?’ Yes, I said! It started ff as tw
tables with sme simple ckers, my desk and my bed, but then I needed mre space fr cking, s I
mved the desk ut and gt a small bed.” Then Garry’s lder sister, whse bedrm has mre space, went
ff t cllege. He mved dwn t her rm and filled with a large cker, fur wrk statins and a lng
area fr finishing the last steps n plates.
Garry and his mther set up Eureka, a super club business that rganizes mnthly events inside his
hme. Garry, wh has als cked in tp-class restaurants arund the US, says he’s nt ding it fr the
mney, but because he lves cking. “At the pint in yur life where yu stp caring if yu’re ging t
be famus r d well, yur dream will cme t yu. I did smething with my heart and peple can see it.
I hpe t keep getting better and better.
24. Why did Garry begin t ck at 11?
A. Because his mther lves cking a lt.
B. Because his mther advised him t ck.
C. Because he bught a ckbk frm the bkstre.
D. Because he thught he culd d better than his mm.
25. Where was his test kitchen at first?
A. In his wn bedrm. B. In his sister’s bedrm.
C. In a famus restaurant. D. In his sister’s cllege.
26. Hw did his dream cme t him?
A. He bught many ckbks. B. He tries hard t be famus.
C. He cared much n the skills. D. He keeps his lve fr cking.
C
Have fun and get smarter?
We all knw abut the pleasure and fun that we get frm playing vide games. There’s the
satisfactin f finally reaching the last level f a game after mnths f trying. Sme experts nw say that
as well as ffering pleasure, vide games might als be gd fr yu.
T gd t be true?
It seems that when yu play vide games, yu might get sme very imprtant skills. They are great
fr yur cncentratin (集中注意力). Being able t fcus is a skill yu can use at schl r later, in a jb.
Fitness (健身) games, which are very ppular, allw yu t practise sprts skills like balancing. A lt f
games als teach decisin-making skills. Fr example when yu have t chse the best way t escape
frm a burning building in a game, yu’re learning hw t slve prblems and make yur decisin
quickly. Gaming teaches yu abut success and failure t. A lt f games are difficult, and yu have t
wrk hard t reach the tp level, which teaches yu that in life yu can succeed if yu keep n trying. On
the ther hand, games teach yu that if yu fail, dn’t give up – have a break, and then try again.
Sme psychlgists (心理学家) believe that rle-playing games are particularly valuable. In the
virtual envirnment, yung peple can take n rles which are ften nt pssible fr them in real life.
Yu can becme a leader, and have t deal with peple wh lie t yu, r hide things frm yu. By
dealing with these situatins, yu can develp scial skills that might help yu in the real wrld when
yu’re lder.
Gaming des have its disadvantages, f curse. Playing fr a while is great, but peple wh play fr
hurs can have prblems. Physically, it can stp yu frm getting enugh exercises, which is unhealthy.
Psychlgically, sme players can becme addicted (上瘾) t their games and begin t prefer their
“virtual” lives, where they are always in cntrl.
But verall, playing vide games is nt harmful, unless yu spend t much time. While yu’re
building yur city, r lking after yur farm in a game, yu’re als develping skills that will stay with
yu fr the rest f yur life.
27. What des the underlined wrd “virtual” mean?
A. Unclear. B. Unreal. C. Valuable. D. Pssible.
28. Hw des the writer think f vide games?
A. They’re harmful t ur study and wrk.
B. They give us chances t realize ur dream.
C. Playing vide games is bad fr ur health.
D. Vide games can benefit us in many ways.
29. What des gaming teach us abut success and failure?
A. Avid the difficult tp levels. B. Chse the best way t play.
C. Believe in hard trying fr success. D. Get enugh rest after each failure.
D
Snw mnkeys have been discvered taking baths in man-made ht springs
during winter in recent years. Nw, researchers have fund exactly why the mnkeys
d this.
The results are nt surprising: The mnkeys are cld. But the researchers als fund that
bathing in a ht-spring may lwer the mnkeys’ levels f stress.
“This shws that, as in humans, the ht spring has a stress-reducing effect in snw mnkeys,” said Rafaela Takeshita, the study lead writer. “This habit f ht spring bathing by snw mnkeys shwed hw animals’ behavir can help fight against cld-climate stress,” Takeshita said. Snw mnkeys live in very cld place in the wrld. They are especially used t living in the cld; they grw thicker and
lnger fur in the winter.
In 1963, a female Japanese snw mnkey living in Jigkudani Mnkey Park in Nagan, Japan, was
seen bathing in an utdr ht spring belnging t a nearby htel, and ther mnkeys sn cpied this
behavir, the researchers said. As yu might imagine, a grup f mnkeys bathing in a ht spring meant
t hld peple made peple feel the ht spring dirty, s the park management built a new ht spring just
fr the mnkeys. By 2003, abut a third f the snw mnkeys living in this park ften bathed in the ht
spring in the winter. The bathing mnkeys are nw already a ppular turist attractin.
The bathing mnkeys seemed t be bathing t stay warm, but scientists had n data t supprt this
thery, they said. In the new study, the researchers cllected data frm 12 adult female mnkeys in
Jigkudani Mnkey Park between April and June, and again frm Octber t December. They examined
hw much time the mnkeys spent in the ht spring, and als studied the data fr “fecal gluccrticid” ,
a metblite（代谢物） , related t the levels f stress in mnkeys.
The researchers fund that female snw mnkeys did use the ht spring mre ften in the winter
than in the spring, especially during clder weeks.
The researchers als fund that the dminant (统领) females spent the mst time bathing because
they need mre energy t keep their psitin. They als have a higher level stress.
The researchers cncluded that ht-spring bathing becmes a traditin that prvides physilgical
(生理的) benefits t the mnkeys.
30. What’s the best title fr the passage?
A. Snw mnkeys in spring B. Snw mnkeys with a new habit
C. Snw mnkeys in winter D. Snw mnkeys under heavy stress
31. Hw des Rafaela think f snw mnkeys’ behavir?
A. It’s a natural traditin.
B. It’s a turist attractin.
C. It helps them get used t the envirnment.
D. It makes them feel the psitin is imprtant.
32. What d the experiments carried in tw different perids shw?
A. The female snw mnkeys enjy bathing in winter mre.
B. The number f ht-spring bathing snw mnkeys grws.
C. The experiments are easier t carry ut in winter mnths.
D. The bathing habits f the dminant male snw mnkeys.
33. Which f the fllwing is TURE accrding t the passage?
A. Sme snw mnkeys are cpying humans’ behavirs.
B. Snw mnkeys are happy t live in very cld weather.
C. Researchers fund ld snw mnkeys enjy ht springs.
D. Ht-spring bathing helps lwer human’s and animals’ stress.
答案：
21-23 BAC
24-26 DAD
27-29 BDC
30-33 BCAD
D yu want t study at a freign university? The fllwings may give yu sme ideas.
Harvard University
It is an American private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Its histry, high standard f educatin, research influence, and wealth have made it ne f the mst respected universities in the wrld. It has prduced 49 Nbel winners, 32 heads f state and 48 Pulitzer Prize winners.
Set up: in 1636
Official Website:
http www. harvard. edu/
University f Vienna
It is in Vienna, Austria. It's ne f the ldest universities in the wrld, and ne f the mst respected amng the German-speaking peples. Over its six-and-a-half-century histry, it has grwn large enugh t serve 94,000 students, abut a third f whm are internatinal students frm ver 140 different natins.
Set up: in 1365
Official Website: https: //www. univie. ac. at/en/
University f Trnt
It is a wrld leader in higher educatin and research, in Trnt, Ontari, Canada. Students can chse frm mre than 980 prgrams fr university degrees and abve spread ver three different schlyards.
Set up: in 1827
Official Website:
httpswww utrnt. ca/
Imperial Cllege Lndn
It is a public research university in the United Kingdm, specializing engineering, medicine and business. It used t be part f the federal University f Lndn. It is made up f many schlyards in and arund Lndn.
Set up: in 1907
Official Website:
httpwww. imperial. ac. uk/
Yur Cmplete Guide
The Palace Museum

Facts abut the Palace Museum
Mst utstanding feature: It’s the largest imperial palace in the wrld.
Things t see: imperial living and gverning quarters, valuable artwrks, and traditinal gardens
Time needed: at least 2 – 3 hurs
Lcatin: the center f Beijing, nrth f Tian’anmen Square
Open: 8:30 am – 5 pm April – Octber r 8:30 am – 4:30 pm Nvember – March; clsed n Mndays
Entry: An adult: 60 yuan April – Octber; 40 yuan Nvember – March
Students: 20 yuan
Fr free: Disabled visitrs and children under the age f 6
Numbers t Describe the Palace Museum
1. The Frbidden City tk 14 years t build (frm 1406 t 1420).
2. It was built by ver 1,000,000 wrkers, including mre than 100,000 craftsmen.
3. It was the hme f 24 emperrs (皇帝) — 14 f the Ming dynasty and 10 f the Qing dynasty
4. It has 980 buildings in ver 70 palace cmpunds, with ver 8,700 rms.
5. It is surrunded by a 10-meter-high wall, which is 3.4 km (2 miles) lng.
6. It hsts 14 millin visitrs per year, a maximum f 80,000 visitrs per day.