题目内容
One afternoon I was sitting at my favorite table in a restaurant, waiting for the food I had ordered to arrive. Suddenly I __(1)__ that a man sitting at a table near the window kept glancing in my direction, __(2)__ he knew me. The man had a newspaper __(3)__ in front of him, which he was __(4)__ to read, but I could __(5)__ that he was keeping an eye on me. When the waiter brought my __(6)__, the man was clearly puzzled （困惑） by the __(7)__ way in which the waiter and I __(8)__ each other. He seemed even more puzzled as __(9)__ went on and it became __(10)__ that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me. Finally he got up and went into the __(11)___. When he came out, he paid his bill and __(12)__ without another glance in my direction. I called the owner of the restaurant and asked what the man had __(13)__. “Well,”he said,“that man was a detective（侦探）. He __(14)__ you here because he thought you, were the man he __(15)__”“What?”I said, showing my __(16)__. The owner continued, “He came into the kitchen and showed me a photo of the wanted man. I __(17)__ say he looked very much like you! Of course, since we know you, we told him that he had made a __(18)__.”“Well, it's really __(19)__ I came to a restaurant where I'm known,”I said.“__(20)__, I might have been in trouble.”
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(1) ．由全文可知，“I”对“a man”并不认识，故可排除A、D; understand表示“理解”，与全文语意不符。而由下文中对“a man”行为举止的描述可知，“I”无意中注意到了有人在暗中观察自己，notice一词正可以表示“无意中注意到”。(2) ．由于那个人不停地瞅着“我”的方向，给“我”造成的印象是“似乎认识我”。(3) ．由下文“他在_____地读报纸”可知，报纸应该是打开着的。(4) ．由下文的“那人是位侦探”，并且是“跟踪作者来到餐馆”，可知此处最合理的选项应该是pretending，表示“假装在读报纸”。而hope表示“希望”；think 表示“认为”；continue表示“继续”。(5) ．本题考查词义辨析。see表示“看出，留意”；find表示“发现”；guess表示“猜想”；learn表示“得知”。由于该句中was keeping an eye on me与上文的kept glancing in my direction相呼应，所以此处应该表示“我看得出他--直在观察我”。句中but与pretending to read构成转折关系。(6) ．在全文第一句中就已经交代出“等着我点的饭菜”，可知当服务员给我送来的应该是已点的饭菜，故应该用food。(7) ．由下文的“all the waiters in the restaurant knew me”可知，那个人被我和服务员熟悉的交谈所困惑。(8) ．A项表示“与……聊天”；B项表示“看着……”；C项表示“嘲笑……”；D项表示“谈论”。在餐馆里，服务员与熟悉的顾客之间的交谈应该是“聊天”。(9) ．由上下文语意可知，该句中as表示“随着……”之意，而went on表示“进行下去，继续下去”，所以空格处应表示“随着时间的推移”。(10) ．该句中it为形式主语，that all the waiters in the restaurant knew me为真正的主语。对于侦探来讲，看到自己的跟踪目标几乎与餐馆里所有的服务员都熟悉自然令人困惑。A项表示“真实的”；B项表示“有希望的”；D项表示“可能的”。(11) ．由后文的“He came into the kitchen”可以作出判断。(12) ．由“he paid his bill”可知“此人”就要“离开”。(13) ．由上文所述，文中的“I”已经注意到了“the man”对于自己的注意，在他离去后，自然要打听一下那个人想要干什么。A项表示“想，想要”；B项表示“尝试，试图”；C项表示“命令”；D项表示“希望”。(14) ．由上文的“that man was a detective和下文的because he thought you were the man he”可知“I”被人跟踪了。(15) ．由上下文语境可知此处指“因为他认为你就是他要找的人”。(16) ．在提示了那个人的身份和行为后，作为“I”自然十分惊讶。(17) ．由侦探的跟踪行为及后文的“he looked very much like you”可知餐馆老板在此处的话应该表示肯定的语气。(18) ．由上文的“left without another glance in my direction”可知侦探已经弄明白了是自己搞错了。(19) ．由下文的“I might have been in trouble”可知，此时作者为自己感到庆幸。(20) ．由全文最后一句“哎呀，真庆幸我来到了一家别人都认识我的餐馆，否则我就可能陷入麻烦中了”可知，该空格最恰当的选项为otherwise。thus表示“如此，这样”，表示顺承；however表示“然而”，表示转折；therefore表示“因此”，表示因果。 |
People with bigger brains ftend to score higher on standardized tests of intelligence， according to new study findings.
However， the study author Dr Michael A.McDaniel of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond emphasized that these findings represent a general trend， and people with small heads should not automatically believe they are less intelligent. For instance， Albert Einstein’s brain was “not particularly large”， McDaniel noted. “There’s some relationship between brain size and intelligence on the average， but there’s plenty of room for exceptions，” he said.
Interest in the relationship between brain size and intelligence grew in the1830s， when German anatomist(解剖学家) Frederich Tiedmann wrote that he believed there was “an unquestionable connection between the size of the brain and the mental energy displayed by the individual man”. Since that statement， scientists have conducted numerous studies to determine if Tiedmann’s assertion was， in fact， correct. Most studies have looked into the link between head size and intelligence. More recently， however， researchers have published additional studies on brain size and intelligence， measured using MRI scan(核磁共振成像扫描).
For his study， McDaniel analyzed more than 20 studies that looked into the relationship between brain size and intelligence in a total of 1,530 people. The studies showed that on the average， people with larger brain volume tended to be more intelligent. The relationship between brain volume and intelligence was stronger in women than men， and in adults than in children. McDaniel notes in the journal Intelligence.
McDaniel is not sure why the relationship was stronger for adults and women. “Other research has shown that women， on the average， tend to have smaller brains than men， but score just as well—if not higher—in tests of intelligence，” he said.
McDaniel insisted that the relationship between brain size and intelligence is not a “perfect” one. “One can certainly find lots of examples of smaller-sized people who are highly intelligent，” he said， “But， on the average， the relationship holds.”
【小题1】. What does the text mainly talk about？
| A．MRI scans are applied to intelligence. |
| B．On the average， a bigger brain means higher IQ. |
| C．Dr McDaniel did well in his intelligence study. |
| D．Scientists are interested in Tiedmann’s idea. |
| A．Albert Einstein was intelligent |
| B．the result of intelligence test was false |
| C．being hard working is more important than intelligence |
| D．brain size doesn’t necessarily decide the level of intelligence |
A. experiment B. statement C proof D. demand
【小题4】 After Frederich Tiedmann wrote his article， .
| A．many scientists agreed with him |
| B．numerous studies have failed to prove his idea |
| C．MRI scan became popularly used |
| D．lots of researchers were interested in the connections between head size and intelligence |
| A．proves Tiedmann’s idea was completely true |
| B．shows women are smarter than men |
| C．involves many studies and a lot of people |
| D．explains why people with smaller brains are clever |
Sustainable development is applied to just about everything from energy to clean water and economic growth, and as a result it has become difficult to question either the basic assumptions behind it or the way the concept is put to use. This is especially true in agriculture, where sustainable development is often taken as the measure of progress without a proper appreciation of historical and cultural perspectives.
To start with, it is important to remember that the nature of agriculture has changed markedly throughout history, and will continue to do so. Medieval agriculture in northern Europe fed, clothed and sheltered a mainly rural society with a much lower population density than it is today. It had minimal effect on biodiversity, and any pollution it caused was typically localized. In terms of energy use and the nutrients captured in the product it was relatively inefficient.
Contrast this with farming since the start of the industrial revolution. Competition from overseas led farmers to specialize and increase yields. Throughout this period food became cheaper, safer and more reliable. However, these changes have also led to habitat loss and to reducing biodiversity.
All this means that agriculture in the 21st century will have to be very different from how it was in the 20th. This will require thorough thinking. For example, we need to move away from the idea that traditional practices are certainly more sustainable than new ones. We also need to abandon the notion that agriculture can be “zero impact”. The key will be to abandon the rather simple and static(稳定的)measures of sustainability, which centre on the need to maintain production without increasing damage. Instead we need a more dynamic interpretation, one that looks at the pros and cons of all the various way land is used. There are many different ways to measure agricultural performance besides food yield: energy use, environmental costs, water purity, carbon footprint and biodiversity. It is clear, for example, that the carbon of transporting tomatoes from Spain to the UK is less than that of producing them in the UK with additional heating and lighting. But we do not know whether lower carbon footprints will always be better for biodiversity.
What is important is recognizing that sustainable agriculture is not just about sustainable food production.
【小题1】How do people often measure progress in agriculture?
| A．By its impact on the environment | B．By its contribution to economic growth |
| C．By its productivity | D．By its sustainability |
| A．Localized pollution | B．The shrinking of farmland |
| C．the decrease of biodiversity | D．competition from overseas |
| A．They are not necessarily sustainable | B．They have not kept pace with population growth |
| C．They have remained the same over the centuries | D．They are environmentally friendly |
| A．It will abandon traditional farming practices | B．It will mainly keep traditional farming |
| C．It will go through complete changes | D．It will cause zero damage to the environment |
| A．To remind people of the need of sustainable development. |
| B．To urge people to rethink what sustainable agriculture is. |
| C．To advance new criteria for measuring farming progress. |
| D．To suggest ways of ensuring sustainable food production. |