限時測試(17)

　　專題特訓(閱讀理解——猜測詞義)

　　體裁：記敘文　話題：人生經歷　時間：6分鐘

　　(1917～2001)．

　　rebellious.Almost everyone in my family is a musician and I wanted to be different.” says Zhang，36，who has learned piano，violin and viola since childhood.He took on a variety of jobs to distract him from music，from working in venture capital firms to comedy clubs.

　　But he has found himself in music nonetheless，and recently he played piano to accompany US soprano(女高音) Kerry Holahan in association with Li Delun Music Foundation.

　　More than 200 people，Chinese and expatriates，packed the library of the Beijing American Center.They performed songs by Broadway legend Cole Porter，including Night and Day and Anything Goes，and told stories about the composer's life.

　　“We became friends a long time ago.He is very nice and funny.When I made mistakes during a performance，he will say it's his fault，” says Holahan，who moved to Beijing as an exchange student 10 years ago.

　　Zhang and Holahan will tour universities around China，spreading their love of Broadway music to Chinese audiences.

　　“My aunt told me that the project I am doing is just like what my grandfather used to do，” Zhang says.“He used to go around with a cassette player and a stack of tapes，and gave lectures about classical music everywhere，from universities to factories.He enjoyed classical music so much that he loved sharing his knowledge with people in the hope that they can learn to appreciate it，too.”

　　Zhang and his parents moved to Toronto，Canada in 1990.When he returned to Beijing，he stayed with his grandparents.It is an old apartment in the capital's downtown area and it is where he was born and raised.

　　Located near the China National Symphony Orchestra，the apartment block is home to many of China's great musicians，including Li and his violinist wife Li Jue (1922～2024)．

　　－and－white photoaving his tiny arms like a conductor.

　　【語篇導讀】　盡管年輕時候的張克敏想盡一切辦法不再作像他祖父那樣的音樂家但是最終他還是從事了音樂事業。

　　A．Draw someone's attention away from something.

　　B．Draw someone's attention on something.

　　C．Pay someone's attention to something.

　　D．Pay someone's attention to only one thing.

　　解析　詞義猜測題。根據第一段中的“Zhang Kemin tried his hardest to resist becoming a professional musician like his grandfather...”以及第二段中的“I was rebellious.Almost everyone in my family is a musician and I wanted to be different.”可以推出distract的意思是“轉移注意力”。故選A。

　　答案　A

　　______．

　　B．Zhang Kemin gave up music at last

　　C．Zhang Kemin takes up music as his career

　　D．Zhang Kemin has never learned music at all

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第三段中的“But he has found himself in music nonetheless(女高音) Kerry Holahan...”可知C。

　　答案　C

　　A．He is a handsome boy.

　　B．He is friendly and easy－going.

　　－working.

　　解析　推理判斷題。根據第五段中的“He is very nice and funny.When I made mistakes during a performance可以推出Kerry Holahan認為張克敏是一位友好的、容易相處的人。

　　答案　B

　　A．About 10.

　　B．About 36.

　　C．About 2.

　　D．About 12.

　　解析　數字計算題。根據第二段中的“...Zhang以及倒數第三段中的“Zhang and his parents moved to Toronto可知現在(2024年)張克敏36歲那么1990年他大約是12歲。

　　答案　D

　　A．What kind of person was Zhang Kemin's grandfather.

　　B．What kind of project was Zhang Kemin doing now.

　　C．Zhang Kemin's grandfather lived in Toronto.

　　D．Zhang Kemin's grandfather liked to give lectures about the project.

　　解析　

　　答案　B

　　體裁：議論文　話題：電子圖書館　時間：10分鐘

　　Well，I can't.Ever since I was little I would go to the library and take out numerous books.From picture books to beginning chapter books to YA books，books have always been a part of my life.Unlike many people today，I don't own a Kindle or a Nook or any type of e－readerold－fashioned book.There is something

　　I am a fan of the old TV science－fiction series Twilight Zone.One episode(一段情節)is about a librarian who has become obsolete.Though__this__episode__aired__in__1961

　　In fact，in San Antonio，Texas the first－ever bookless library in the country opened.The library is full of iMacs－books.So the question is Mary Graham，vice president of South Carolina's Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce states，“This is the future...If you're going to be building new library facilities，this is what you need to be doing.”

　　It is our generation that will be the guinea pigs (試驗品) of increasing technology like this.Is this a good or bad thing? Wellhowever，I feel like something will always be lacking with a digital book.A digital library is just the beginning.

　　With all of this new technology，people seem to be more absorbed in their own world.One of my biggest complaints is when I am with my friends and they can't seem to get off their smart phone and talk to me.To make plans with a friend and then have them stuck on their phone the whole time is extremely rude.Not only is it disrespectful，but it reflects the direction of where human interactions are heading.Though social media is great，it also is addicting and has negative effects.

　　Often when I go on Facebook it just makes me feel worse about myself.I'll see many of my 800 Facebook friends showing off their newest accomplishment or acceptance to college.Additionally，our society is becoming increasingly lazy.For instance，instead of doing mental math，people use their phone to solve 89 ＋ 74.It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.

　　to use it alongside our great minds.After all，inventions are supposed to benefit society not harm it.In the day of technology，who knows what's next?

　　【語篇導讀】　本文是一篇議論文。隨著科技的發展現代化的設備越來越融入到圖書館里出現了完全無實體書

　　6．The underlined word “obsolete” (Paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to________．

　　C．expensive

　　D．meaningless

　　解析　猜測詞義題。根據obsolete所在的句子In today's 21st century, t's something I find scary.可知作者是個傳統的讀書人喜歡看紙質的書所以作者的這種行為在21世紀科技高速發展的今天可能變得過時了為此作者感到害怕。因此在此句中類似于outdated。

　　答案　A

　　A．The episode still enjoys great popularity nowadays.

　　B．Rod Serling liked making predictions about the future.

　　C．The situation of books today is similar to what Rod Serling predicted in the episode.

　　D．The episode airing in 1961 was the most entertaining of the TV science－fiction series.

　　解析　推理判斷題。根據劃線句子并結合前一句話可知在科幻電視劇中其中有一節就是關于一個過時的圖書管理員的情節盡管這段情節拍攝于1961年但是編劇準確地預測到了將來的圖書館的發展。由此推斷今天圖書館的發展形勢跟電視劇情節中的預測極其相似。

　　答案　C

　　A．It is the first－ever library in America.

　　C．It holds an exhibition of much electronic equipment.

　　D．People can read e－books there with the help of the new facilities.

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第三段開頭in San Antonio, －ever bookless library in the country opened.The library is full of iMacs, －books.可知德克薩斯州圣安A項錯誤。而且可知在這家圖書館有大量的現代化設施人們可以讀到大量的電子書所以D項正確。

　　答案　D

　　A．Great as social media is，it does have some negative effects.

　　B．With the increasing use of social media，something will actually be lost.

　　C．Through social media，people can develop educational and social skills around.

　　D．As a result of social media，people may communicate less with the people around.

　　解析　正誤判斷題。根據第五段最后一句Though social media is great, ng and has negative effects.可以判斷A項正確。根據第六段最后一句It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.可以判斷作者認為人們在缺失重要的教育和社交能力所以C項說通過社會媒體人們很容易發展受教育和社交能力不正確。而BWith all of this new technology, people seem to be more absorbed in their own world說明人們喜歡沉浸于自己的網絡世界從而會減少與人交流。所以D項正確。

　　答案　C

　　________．

　　C．supportive

　　D．objective

　　解析　作者態度題。根據第三段句子 So the question is, ？第四段句子however, 第五段句子Though social media is great, 第六段句子It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.可以看出作者對于現代科技對于人們的影響有些擔心所以作者是以worried的語調寫得這篇文章。

　　答案　B

　　體裁：說明文　話題：計算機程序　時間：10分鐘

　　Probably yes.

　　A computer algorithm(計算程序)works almost as well as a trained linguist(語言學家) in reconstructing how dead “protolanguages” would have sounded new study.

　　“Our computer system is doing a basic job right now，” says Alex Bouchard－C?tés a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start，the statistician added.

　　For centuries，scholars have reconstructed languages by hand: looking at the same word in two or more languages and making educated guesses about what that word's “ancestor” may have sounded like.For example，the Spanish word for man (“hombre”) and the French word for man (“homme”) developed from the Latin word “homo.” The way linguists compare words from descendant(后代)languages to reconstruct the parent language is called

　　The early 19th－century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greekrmanic languages developed from a common ancestor.

　　“The difference between that and Bouchard－C?té's program－C?té fed words from 637 Austronesian languages (spoken in Indonesia) into the new algorithm，and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like.In more than 85 percent of cases，the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.

　　The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists，but could speed up language analysis.

　　Using a computer to do large－scale reconstruction offers another advantage.Bouchard－C?té says big data sets，you can really start finding regularities...You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others.”

　　So Bouchard－C?té's team tested the “functional load hypothesis( which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time.A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard－C?té's algorithm looked at 637.

　　e numbers of protolanguages，” Bouchard－C?té and his coauthors write in the new study.

　　－C?té saysords that show you when the wheel was invented.”

　　【語篇導讀】　本文是一篇說明文主要向讀者介紹了一種能夠輔助語言學研究者的計算機程序它能夠再現一些已經消失的古代語言的語音信息從而加快語言分析的速度和效率。

　　________．

　　the languages that couldn't be reconstructed by hand

　　B．parent languages that existed in the past

　　C．languages developed from a common ancestor

　　D．languages used to explain things that occurred in the past

　　解析　詞義猜測題。根據第一段的設問“軟件能夠讓消失的語言再現嗎？很可能會”可以推知此處指的是“一種計算機程序能夠像訓練有素的語言學家一樣再現一些業已消失的語言在過去的讀音信息”。protolanguage指的應該是存在于過去的現在已經消失的語言。

　　答案　B

　　________．

　　Ais commonly accepted as false

　　B．dates back to the 19th century

　　C．focuses on European languages

　　D．is conducted using the comparative method

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第四段的最后一句“The way linguists compare words...the comparative method”以及第五段中The early 19th－century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greek以及Jacob Grimm, 可以推知語言學學者再現一些已經消失的語言用的是比較的方法。

　　答案　D

　　－C?té “protolanguages” might ________．

　　B．allow us to find answers to some historical questions

　　C．enable us to picture the way linguists communicated

　　D．help figure out how the wheel was invented

　　解析　細節理解題。根據最后一段的第一句“In addition to simply helping linguists...studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historic questions”以及上下句可以推知這是Bouchard－cote所持有的觀點即研究

　　答案　B

　　bably wants to prove the computer algorithm program led by Bouchard－C?té ________．

　　B．can take the place of linguists in language analysis

　　C．is of great help to promote language analysis with big data sets

　　D．can merely reconstruct Asian－Pacific “protolanguages”

　　解析　細節理解題。根據倒數第五段“The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists, 以及倒數第四段“with big data sets, arities”可知作者主要是想證明Bouchard－cote所領導的這個計算機程序課題項目由于有巨大的數據庫所以可以大大推動語言分析的速度和效率。

　　答案　C

　　限時測試(17)

　　專題特訓(閱讀理解——猜測詞義)

　　體裁：記敘文　話題：人生經歷　時間：6分鐘

　　(1917～2001)．

　　rebellious.Almost everyone in my family is a musician and I wanted to be different.” says Zhang，36，who has learned piano，violin and viola since childhood.He took on a variety of jobs to distract him from music，from working in venture capital firms to comedy clubs.

　　But he has found himself in music nonetheless，and recently he played piano to accompany US soprano(女高音) Kerry Holahan in association with Li Delun Music Foundation.

　　More than 200 people，Chinese and expatriates，packed the library of the Beijing American Center.They performed songs by Broadway legend Cole Porter，including Night and Day and Anything Goes，and told stories about the composer's life.

　　“We became friends a long time ago.He is very nice and funny.When I made mistakes during a performance，he will say it's his fault，” says Holahan，who moved to Beijing as an exchange student 10 years ago.

　　Zhang and Holahan will tour universities around China，spreading their love of Broadway music to Chinese audiences.

　　“My aunt told me that the project I am doing is just like what my grandfather used to do，” Zhang says.“He used to go around with a cassette player and a stack of tapes，and gave lectures about classical music everywhere，from universities to factories.He enjoyed classical music so much that he loved sharing his knowledge with people in the hope that they can learn to appreciate it，too.”

　　Zhang and his parents moved to Toronto，Canada in 1990.When he returned to Beijing，he stayed with his grandparents.It is an old apartment in the capital's downtown area and it is where he was born and raised.

　　Located near the China National Symphony Orchestra，the apartment block is home to many of China's great musicians，including Li and his violinist wife Li Jue (1922～2024)．

　　－and－white photoaving his tiny arms like a conductor.

　　【語篇導讀】　盡管年輕時候的張克敏想盡一切辦法不再作像他祖父那樣的音樂家但是最終他還是從事了音樂事業。

　　A．Draw someone's attention away from something.

　　B．Draw someone's attention on something.

　　C．Pay someone's attention to something.

　　D．Pay someone's attention to only one thing.

　　解析　詞義猜測題。根據第一段中的“Zhang Kemin tried his hardest to resist becoming a professional musician like his grandfather...”以及第二段中的“I was rebellious.Almost everyone in my family is a musician and I wanted to be different.”可以推出distract的意思是“轉移注意力”。故選A。

　　答案　A

　　______．

　　B．Zhang Kemin gave up music at last

　　C．Zhang Kemin takes up music as his career

　　D．Zhang Kemin has never learned music at all

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第三段中的“But he has found himself in music nonetheless(女高音) Kerry Holahan...”可知C。

　　答案　C

　　A．He is a handsome boy.

　　B．He is friendly and easy－going.

　　－working.

　　解析　推理判斷題。根據第五段中的“He is very nice and funny.When I made mistakes during a performance可以推出Kerry Holahan認為張克敏是一位友好的、容易相處的人。

　　答案　B

　　A．About 10.

　　B．About 36.

　　C．About 2.

　　D．About 12.

　　解析　數字計算題。根據第二段中的“...Zhang以及倒數第三段中的“Zhang and his parents moved to Toronto可知現在(2024年)張克敏36歲那么1990年他大約是12歲。

　　答案　D

　　A．What kind of person was Zhang Kemin's grandfather.

　　B．What kind of project was Zhang Kemin doing now.

　　C．Zhang Kemin's grandfather lived in Toronto.

　　D．Zhang Kemin's grandfather liked to give lectures about the project.

　　解析　

　　答案　B

　　體裁：議論文　話題：電子圖書館　時間：10分鐘

　　Well，I can't.Ever since I was little I would go to the library and take out numerous books.From picture books to beginning chapter books to YA books，books have always been a part of my life.Unlike many people today，I don't own a Kindle or a Nook or any type of e－readerold－fashioned book.There is something

　　I am a fan of the old TV science－fiction series Twilight Zone.One episode(一段情節)is about a librarian who has become obsolete.Though__this__episode__aired__in__1961

　　In fact，in San Antonio，Texas the first－ever bookless library in the country opened.The library is full of iMacs－books.So the question is Mary Graham，vice president of South Carolina's Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce states，“This is the future...If you're going to be building new library facilities，this is what you need to be doing.”

　　It is our generation that will be the guinea pigs (試驗品) of increasing technology like this.Is this a good or bad thing? Wellhowever，I feel like something will always be lacking with a digital book.A digital library is just the beginning.

　　With all of this new technology，people seem to be more absorbed in their own world.One of my biggest complaints is when I am with my friends and they can't seem to get off their smart phone and talk to me.To make plans with a friend and then have them stuck on their phone the whole time is extremely rude.Not only is it disrespectful，but it reflects the direction of where human interactions are heading.Though social media is great，it also is addicting and has negative effects.

　　Often when I go on Facebook it just makes me feel worse about myself.I'll see many of my 800 Facebook friends showing off their newest accomplishment or acceptance to college.Additionally，our society is becoming increasingly lazy.For instance，instead of doing mental math，people use their phone to solve 89 ＋ 74.It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.

　　to use it alongside our great minds.After all，inventions are supposed to benefit society not harm it.In the day of technology，who knows what's next?

　　【語篇導讀】　本文是一篇議論文。隨著科技的發展現代化的設備越來越融入到圖書館里出現了完全無實體書

　　6．The underlined word “obsolete” (Paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to________．

　　C．expensive

　　D．meaningless

　　解析　猜測詞義題。根據obsolete所在的句子In today's 21st century, t's something I find scary.可知作者是個傳統的讀書人喜歡看紙質的書所以作者的這種行為在21世紀科技高速發展的今天可能變得過時了為此作者感到害怕。因此在此句中類似于outdated。

　　答案　A

　　A．The episode still enjoys great popularity nowadays.

　　B．Rod Serling liked making predictions about the future.

　　C．The situation of books today is similar to what Rod Serling predicted in the episode.

　　D．The episode airing in 1961 was the most entertaining of the TV science－fiction series.

　　解析　推理判斷題。根據劃線句子并結合前一句話可知在科幻電視劇中其中有一節就是關于一個過時的圖書管理員的情節盡管這段情節拍攝于1961年但是編劇準確地預測到了將來的圖書館的發展。由此推斷今天圖書館的發展形勢跟電視劇情節中的預測極其相似。

　　答案　C

　　A．It is the first－ever library in America.

　　C．It holds an exhibition of much electronic equipment.

　　D．People can read e－books there with the help of the new facilities.

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第三段開頭in San Antonio, －ever bookless library in the country opened.The library is full of iMacs, －books.可知德克薩斯州圣安A項錯誤。而且可知在這家圖書館有大量的現代化設施人們可以讀到大量的電子書所以D項正確。

　　答案　D

　　A．Great as social media is，it does have some negative effects.

　　B．With the increasing use of social media，something will actually be lost.

　　C．Through social media，people can develop educational and social skills around.

　　D．As a result of social media，people may communicate less with the people around.

　　解析　正誤判斷題。根據第五段最后一句Though social media is great, ng and has negative effects.可以判斷A項正確。根據第六段最后一句It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.可以判斷作者認為人們在缺失重要的教育和社交能力所以C項說通過社會媒體人們很容易發展受教育和社交能力不正確。而BWith all of this new technology, people seem to be more absorbed in their own world說明人們喜歡沉浸于自己的網絡世界從而會減少與人交流。所以D項正確。

　　答案　C

　　________．

　　C．supportive

　　D．objective

　　解析　作者態度題。根據第三段句子 So the question is, ？第四段句子however, 第五段句子Though social media is great, 第六段句子It is simple tasks like these that are allowing people to lack important educational and social skills.可以看出作者對于現代科技對于人們的影響有些擔心所以作者是以worried的語調寫得這篇文章。

　　答案　B

　　體裁：說明文　話題：計算機程序　時間：10分鐘

　　Probably yes.

　　A computer algorithm(計算程序)works almost as well as a trained linguist(語言學家) in reconstructing how dead “protolanguages” would have sounded new study.

　　“Our computer system is doing a basic job right now，” says Alex Bouchard－C?tés a good enough job that it may be able to give linguists a head start，the statistician added.

　　For centuries，scholars have reconstructed languages by hand: looking at the same word in two or more languages and making educated guesses about what that word's “ancestor” may have sounded like.For example，the Spanish word for man (“hombre”) and the French word for man (“homme”) developed from the Latin word “homo.” The way linguists compare words from descendant(后代)languages to reconstruct the parent language is called

　　The early 19th－century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greekrmanic languages developed from a common ancestor.

　　“The difference between that and Bouchard－C?té's program－C?té fed words from 637 Austronesian languages (spoken in Indonesia) into the new algorithm，and the system came up with a list of what the ancestor words of all those languages would have sounded like.In more than 85 percent of cases，the automated reconstruction came within one character of the ancestor word commonly accepted as true by linguists.

　　The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists，but could speed up language analysis.

　　Using a computer to do large－scale reconstruction offers another advantage.Bouchard－C?té says big data sets，you can really start finding regularities...You might find that certain sounds are more likely to change than others.”

　　So Bouchard－C?té's team tested the “functional load hypothesis( which says that sounds that are more important for two clearly different words are less likely to change over time.A formal test of this hypothesis in 1967 looked at four languages; Bouchard－C?té's algorithm looked at 637.

　　e numbers of protolanguages，” Bouchard－C?té and his coauthors write in the new study.

　　－C?té saysords that show you when the wheel was invented.”

　　【語篇導讀】　本文是一篇說明文主要向讀者介紹了一種能夠輔助語言學研究者的計算機程序它能夠再現一些已經消失的古代語言的語音信息從而加快語言分析的速度和效率。

　　________．

　　the languages that couldn't be reconstructed by hand

　　B．parent languages that existed in the past

　　C．languages developed from a common ancestor

　　D．languages used to explain things that occurred in the past

　　解析　詞義猜測題。根據第一段的設問“軟件能夠讓消失的語言再現嗎？很可能會”可以推知此處指的是“一種計算機程序能夠像訓練有素的語言學家一樣再現一些業已消失的語言在過去的讀音信息”。protolanguage指的應該是存在于過去的現在已經消失的語言。

　　答案　B

　　________．

　　Ais commonly accepted as false

　　B．dates back to the 19th century

　　C．focuses on European languages

　　D．is conducted using the comparative method

　　解析　細節理解題。根據第四段的最后一句“The way linguists compare words...the comparative method”以及第五段中The early 19th－century linguist Franz Bopp was the first to compare Greek以及Jacob Grimm, 可以推知語言學學者再現一些已經消失的語言用的是比較的方法。

　　答案　D

　　－C?té “protolanguages” might ________．

　　B．allow us to find answers to some historical questions

　　C．enable us to picture the way linguists communicated

　　D．help figure out how the wheel was invented

　　解析　細節理解題。根據最后一段的第一句“In addition to simply helping linguists...studying ancient languages can perhaps answer historic questions”以及上下句可以推知這是Bouchard－cote所持有的觀點即研究

　　答案　B

　　bably wants to prove the computer algorithm program led by Bouchard－C?té ________．

　　B．can take the place of linguists in language analysis

　　C．is of great help to promote language analysis with big data sets

　　D．can merely reconstruct Asian－Pacific “protolanguages”

　　解析　細節理解題。根據倒數第五段“The algorithm won't replace trained human linguists, 以及倒數第四段“with big data sets, arities”可知作者主要是想證明Bouchard－cote所領導的這個計算機程序課題項目由于有巨大的數據庫所以可以大大推動語言分析的速度和效率。

　　答案　C