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1、阅读下列短文，从每题所给的a、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。AIt is true that summer is hot. But here is something to make your day easier. Are you prepared? Meet the new AirFreez an alternative to traditional Air Conditioners that cools you just the same!How does it work?It is surprisingly easy to set up! You just need to plu

2、g it into a socket（插座）OR any USB port （it uses so little energy that it can even run off of a phone or laptop battery）.Once you have done that, simply fill it with 20oz/0. 6L of cold tap water.Now just press the power button and the instant cool air is here!What is so special about this little box?I

3、t is no larger than a lunchbox. It can be powered by a pocket solar panel（电池板）or battery pack and you probably have the worlds first and most portable AC unit.Bad sleepers are putting the AirFreez next to their beds at night. The relaxing blow of cool, clean air, the comforting soft night light and

4、the quiet create the perfect sleeping conditions!The price is just amazing. Most AC units cost at least $ 300+ AND you have to pay more to cover the expensive electricity bills each month. AirFreez costs less than $ 100 （actually $ 53 if you buy more than one here）.Top Tips： To make your air even co

5、oleradd a bottle of cold tap water from your refrigerator or even ice!For a beautiful relaxing atmosphereadd a few drops of fragrant oils to the water!1. Which is necessary to get AirFreez to work?A. A socket. B. A phone battery.C. A laptop and hot waten D. Cold water and power supply.2. How much do

6、 two sets of AirFreez cost?A. $106, B. $ 200.C. $ 300. D. $ 600.3. How can a user of AirFreez get cooler air?A. By adding ice into the machine.B. By putting it closer to ones bed.C. By filling the machine with tap water.D. By adding a few drops of special oils.【答案】1. D 2. A 3. A【解析】本文是一篇应用文，介绍了制冷小能手

7、AirFreez的相关信息。【1题详解】细节理解题。根据How does it work?部分中的“You just need to plug it into a socket（插座）OR any USB port （it uses so little energy that it can even run off of a phone or laptop battery）.”及“Once you have done that, simply fill it with 20oz/0. 6L of cold tap water.”可知，让AirFreez工作只需冷水和电源，故D项正确。【2题详解

8、】根据What is so special about this little box? 部分中的“AirFreez costs less than $ 100 （actually $ 53 if you buy more than one here）”可知，购买两台或两台以上AirFreez只需每台花53美元，所以买两台需付106美元，故A项正确。【3题详解】根据Top Tips部分中的“To make your air even cooleradd a bottle of cold tap water from your refrigerator or even ice!”可知，用AirF

9、reez获得更凉爽的空气需要往机器里放一些冰，故A项正确。BVacation in the U. S. usually means slower days, and no school teachers know, however, that vacation means students will likely fall behind, and forget things they learned during the year. Simon Vanderpool, a special education teacher in Lexington, Kentucky, decided to

10、do something about it.He started a program called Books and Barbers. Children go to the barber, choose a book and read out loud while the barber cuts their hair. The child gets a sticker and can take the book home. And there is an added bonus： money. The kids get paid to read.Vanderpool says barber

11、shops are places where kids can feel comfortable. “Once a student feels comfortable, thats whenever the brain opens up, and that they are able to start focusing on nothing but learning. ” Amir Shalash owns a barber shop. But he is doing more than cutting childrens hair. He is listening to them read,

12、 and helping them with their reading.Most of the children getting haircuts at barber shops are boys. Vanderpools idea was to do more than just help them with reading and money. The teacher wants to help kids who are growing up in a home without a father liike he did. Also, I created the program in o

13、rder to provide a positive mentor（指导者）for the kids that go into the barber shop, and are able to have someone that they can rely on and they can trust in, and just build a bond between the two of them. ” Shalash says he and his fellow barbers like being mentors.“The biggest thing is that we try to i

14、nfluence as many kids as we can, and that was my whole intention of it. ”4. Why did Simon Vanderpool start Books and Barbers ?A. To help children kill time.B. To bring children a fruitful vacationC. To reduce teachers，pressure from work.D. To improve childrens communication skills.5. What makes a ba

15、rber shop suitable for Books and Barbers program?A. Its collection of books.B. Its quiet atmosphere.C. Its relaxing environment.D. Its friendly barbers.6. What is Amir Shalashs purpose of taking part in the program?A. To offer valuable guidance to children.B. To show the importance of bonding.C. To

16、tell the necessity of trusting people.D. To influence his fellow barbers positively.7. What is the best title for the text?A. What It Takes to Be a Good BarberB. What to Expect During the VacationC. How Important Reading Is to ChildrenD. How a Haircut Is Helping Students Read【答案】4. B 5. C 6. A 7. D【

17、分析】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了Simon Vanderpool把理发和阅读结合起来，创办图书和理发店项目以给孩子们带来一个富有成效的假期。【4题详解】根据第一段中的“however, that vacation means students will likely fall behind, and forget things they learned during the year.”可知，孩子们在假期可能会忘掉所学的东西，学习退步，所以Simon Vanderpool创办图书和理发店项目是要给孩子们带来一个富有成效的假期，故B项正确。【5题详解】根据第三段中的“Vanderpool says

18、 barber shops are places where kids can feel comfortable. “Once a student feels comfortable, thats whenever the brain opens up, and that they are able to start focusing on nothing but learning.”可知，理发店是孩子们感到舒适的地方，一旦他们感到舒适，他们就可以开始专注于学习，由此可知，放松的环境使理发店适合图书和理发店项目，故C项正确。【6题详解】根据第三段中的“Amir Shalash owns a b

19、arber shop. But he is doing more than cutting childrens hair. He is listening to them read, and helping them with their reading.”可知，Amir Shalash拥有这样的一家理发店，但他所做的不仅仅是给孩子们剪头发，他在听他们阅读，帮助他们阅读，由此可知，Amir Shalash参加这个项目的目的是给孩子提供有价值的指导，故A项正确。【7题详解】主旨大意题。通读全文可知，本文主要讲述的是Simon Vanderpool把理发和阅读结合起来，创办图书和理发店项目以给孩子

20、们带来一个富有成效的假期，故D项（理发如何帮助学生阅读）作标题最能概括出文章内容。【点睛】文章标题形式的主旨大意题难度较大，要具有高度的概括性，例如本篇第4题，通读全文可知，本文主要讲述了Simon Vanderpool把理发和阅读结合起来，创办图书和理发店项目以给孩子们带来一个富有成效的假期，因此标题一定要体现出“理发”和“阅读”两方面，故D项（理发如何帮助学生阅读）作标题最能体现出文章内容。CWhales, like all mammals（哺乳动物）,need air, and come to the surface to breathe through a blowhole. A dr

21、one（无人机）that floats over the blowholes of humpback whales as they are making annual journey along Australias east coast is being used by Australian scientists for collecting nasal mucus（鼻腔粘液）of whales.Vanessa Pirotta, a biologist at Macquarie University says that nasal mucus indicates the health of

22、the whale. “It is the biological mixture that you see as a whale takes a breath as it surfaces from the water，” she said. You can hear sounds of sharp breaths as a whale breathes because, after all, they are animals like you and I. So as they take a breath it is a lot of lung bacteria coming out fro

23、m their lungs, which we can collect to provide a brief idea of whale health.Australian researchers have attached a special dish that is used in scientific tests to a drone which flies through the whales nasal mist. As a whale comes to take a breathyou can actually see it coming to the surface on rea

24、lly good weather days the drone then lowers, the dish is then opened, collecting nasal mucus for later research.The research could help to solve one of the secrets of another impressive creature of the deep the Southern right whale. Its numbers have recovered on Australias west coast since hunting b

25、ecame suppressed but its population on the eastern seaboard remains stubbornly low.In the past studies into whale health had to rely on examining whales that were either killed or those whales that had been trapped on a beach. Drones allow scientists to collect nasal mucus from free-swimming whales

26、to gather information in a safe way.8. What is the drone mainly used to do?A. To gather information for researchers.B. To record new species of whales.C. To guarantee the safety of whales.D. To take photos of whales annual journey.9. How can a biologist find out a whales health condition in the stud

27、y?A. By examining liquids from its breath.B. By checking its lungs on a machine.C. By listening to the sounds of its breath.D. By studying its similarity with humans.10. What does the underlined word “suppressed” in Paragraph 4 mean?A. Commercial. B. Rewarding.C. Hidden. D. Forbidden.11. Why is the

28、Southern right whale mentioned?A. To describe the difficulty to track it.B. To show the increasing population.C. To stress the urgency of doing the research.D. To indicate the potential application of the research.【答案】8. A 9. A 10. D 11. D本文是一篇说明文，介绍了科学家利用无人机来收集鲸鱼的鼻腔粘液以了解它们的健康状况。【8题详解】根据第一段中的“A dron

29、e（无人机）that floats over the blowholes of humpback whales as they are making annual journey along Australias east coast is being used by Australian scientists for collecting nasal mucus（鼻腔粘液）of whales.”可知，无人机是用来收集鲸鱼的鼻腔粘液的，也就是为研究人员收集信息，故A项正确。【9题详解】根据第二段中的“Vanessa Pirotta, a biologist at Macquarie Unive

30、rsity says that nasal mucus indicates the health of the whale.”可知，鼻腔粘液能够反映出鲸鱼的健康情况，由此可知，生物学家在研究中是通过检查鲸鱼呼出的粘液来了解鲸鱼的健康状况的，故A项正确。【10题详解】词义猜测题。根据画线词前的“Its numbers have recovered on Australias west coast since hunting became”可知，自捕猎活动受到禁止以来，澳大利亚西海岸的南露脊鲸数量已经开始回升，南露脊鲸数量的回升得益于禁止非法捕猎，由此可知画线词词义为“禁止”，故D项正确。【11题

31、详解】推理判断题。根据倒数第二段中的“but its population on the eastern seaboard remains stubbornly low.”可知，东部沿海的南露脊鲸的数量仍然很低，言外之意，可以利用这项研究来弄清楚东部沿海的南露脊鲸的数量低的原因，由此可知，文章提到南露脊鲸是为了指出这项研究的潜在应用，故D项正确。【点睛】词义猜测题的难度较大，对画线词上下文的理解是关键，例如本篇第3题，根据画线词前的“Its numbers have recovered on Australias west coast since hunting became”可知，自捕猎活动受到禁止以来，澳大利亚西海岸的鲸鱼数量已经开始回升，根据常识可知，一个物种数量的回升得益于禁止非法捕猎，由此可知画线词词义为“禁止”，故D项正确。DGoogle previously announced s