1、每小题2分,满分30分)阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳答案。A(2015课标全国卷)Conflict is on the menu tonight at the cafe La Chope.This evening,as on every Thursday night,psychologist Maud Lehanne is leading two of Frances favorite pastimes,coffee drinking and the “talking cure”Here they are learning to get in touch w
2、ith their true feelings.It isnt always easy.The customerssome thirty Parisians who pay just under $2 (plus drinks) per sessionare quick to intellectualize (高谈阔论),slow to open up and connect.“You are forbidden to say one feels, or people think,”Lehanne told them.“Say I think,Think me”A cafe society w
3、here no intellectualizing is allowed?It couldnt seem more unFrench.But Lehannes psychology cafe is about more than knowing oneself:Its trying to help the citys troubled neighborhood cafes.Over the years,Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestylelonger working hours,a fastfo
4、od boom and a younger generations desire to spend more time at home.Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation.Cafes focused around psychology,history,and engineering are catching on,filling tables well into the evening.The citys “psychology cafes”,which offer great comfort,are among t
5、he most popular places.Middleaged homemakers,retirees,and the unemployed come to such cafes to talk about love,anger,and dreams with a psychologist.And they come to Lehannes group just to learn to say what they feel.“Theres a strong need in Paris for communication,”says Maurice Frisch,a cafe La Chop
6、e regular who works as a religious instructor in a nearby church.“People have few real friends.And they need to open up.”Lehanne says shed like to see psychology cafes all over France.“If people had normal lives,these cafes wouldnt exist,” she says.“If life werent a battle,people wouldnt need a spec
7、ial place just to speak.” But then,it wouldnt be France.1What are people encouraged to do at the cafe La Chope?ALearn a new subject.BKeep in touch with friends.CShow off their knowledge.DExpress their true feelings.2How are cafes affected by French lifestyle changes?AThey are less frequently visited
8、.BThey stay open for longer hours.CThey have bigger night crowds.DThey start to serve fast food.3What are theme cafes expected to do?ACreate more jobs.BSupply better drinks.CSave the cafe business.DServe the neighborhood.4Why are psychology cafes becoming popular in Paris?AThey bring people true fri
9、endship.BThey give people spiritual support.CThey help people realize their dreams.DThey offer a platform for business links.语篇解读:心理学家Lehanne开设了一家主题咖啡店,在这里顾客可以敞开心扉,自由表达自己的真实情感。她希望把自己的咖啡店推广到整个法国,因为法国人需要这样的“心理咖啡店”。1解析:事实细节题。根据第一段第三句“Here they are learning to get in touch with their true feelings”以及本段最
10、后一句Lehanne所说的话中“SayI think,Think me”可以看出Lehanne鼓励来咖啡店的顾客表达自己的真实情感。故D项符合文章内容。答案:D2解析:推理判断题。根据第二段中的“Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestylelonger working hours, a fastfood boom and a younger generations desire to spend more time at home.”可知,这些年以来,巴黎的咖啡店都成为法
11、国人的生活方式发生改变的受害者,如法国人工作时间变长,非常喜欢快餐,年轻一代更渴望待在家里面(而不愿去咖啡店)。故A项符合文章内容。3解析:根据第二段倒数第二句“Dozens of new theme cafes appear to change the situation.”可知,许多新的主题咖啡店的出现是为了改变法国咖啡店的现状,故C项正确。C4解析:最后一段指出中年家庭主妇、退休人员、失业人员会到这样的“心理咖啡店”向心理学家畅谈自己的爱情、愤怒和梦想,“心理咖啡店”会给他们巨大的安慰,因而是最受欢迎的地方之一。故B项符合文章意思。B安徽卷)As Internet users becom
12、e more dependent on the Internet to store information,are people remembering less?If you know your computer will save information,why store it in your own personal memory,your brain?Experts are wondering if the Internet is changing what we remember and how.In a recent study,Professor Betsy Sparrow c
13、onducted some experiments.She and her research team wanted to know how the Internet is changing memory.In the first experiment,they gave people 40 unimportant facts to type into a computer.The first group of people understood that the computer would save the information.The second group understood t
14、hat the computer would not save it.Later,the second group remembered the information better.People in the first group knew they could find the information again,so they did not try to remember it.In another experiment,the researchers gave people facts to remember,and told them where to find the info
15、rmation on the computer.The information was in a specific computer folder (文件夹)Surprisingly,people later remembered the folder location (位置) better than the facts.When people use the Internet,they do not remember the information.Rather,they remember how to find it.This is called “transactive memory (交互记忆)”According to Sparrow,we are not becoming people with poor memories as a result of the Internet.Instead,computer users are developing stronger transactive memories;that is,people are learning how to organize huge quantities of informat
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