题目内容
18.In 1952,on the island of Koshima(越谷,日本某地),scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand.The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes,but they found the dirt unpleasant.An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream.She taught this trick to her mother.Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.Between 1952and 1958all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement.Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.
Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes.Let's further suppose that later that morning,the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.Then it happened.By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
But notice:A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama(高岐山)began washing their sweet potatoes.Thus,when a certain critical number achieves an awareness,this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.Although the exact number may vary,this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way,it may remain the conscious property(个人意识性属性)of those people.
But there is a point at which if only one more person comes to a new awareness,a field(能量场)is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!
Your awareness is needed.You may be the"hundredth monkey"
41.The passage may be adapted fromD.
A.a text book
B.a newspaper
C.an advertisement
D.a scientific report
42.It wasA that found the way to make potatoes clean by washing them.
A.a young clever female monkey
B.an old experienced monkey
C.an 18-year-old mother monkey
D.a monkey finding a potato in the river
43.The last sentence of Paragraph 1"This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists"implies thatA.
A.monkeys have learnt the new way unconsciously
B.monkeys like picking up things on the ground
C.it is very difficult for monkey to learn a new way
D.monkeys learnt the new way from scientists
44.According to the writer,the hundredth monkeyC.
A.is the last one to learn to wash potatoes
B.is the most stupid in learning
C.makes a great difference in spreading a new way
D.plays a small part in the breakthrough
45.The write wrote the last paragraphD.
A.to draw a conclusion that one day monkeys will become human beings
B.to predict that one day every reader can turn into the hundredth monkey
C.to encourage people to learn more knowledge
D.to emphasize the importance of each person's contribution to spreading a new method.
分析 本文属于说明文阅读,作者通过这篇文章主要向我们描述了作者和同伴所发现的科学研究的结论.
解答 41.D.推理判断题.根据第一段In 1952,on the island of Koshima(越谷,日本某地),scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand.The monkey liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes,but they found the dirt unpleasant可知本段落可改编自一个科学报告;故选D.
42.A.细节理解题.根据第二段An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream.She taught this trick to her mother.Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too可知一个年轻聪明的母猴发现了通过清洗土豆来清洁土豆的方法;故选A.
43.A.句意理解题.根据第三段Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists可知猴子们学到新的方式在不知不觉中;故选A.
44.C.细节理解题.根据第二段By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough可知第一百只猴子在传播一种新的有很大的差异的生活方式;故选C.
45.D.推理判断题.根据最后一段 Your awareness is needed.You may be the"hundredth monkey"可知那是为了强调每个人的贡献的重要性传播的一种新方法;故选D.
点评 考察学生的细节理解和推理判断能力,做细节理解题时一定要找到文章中的原句,和题干进行比较,再做出正确的选择.在做推理判断题不要以个人的主观想象代替文章的事实,要根据文章事实进行合乎逻辑的推理判断.

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