1、Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasnt tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to
2、see if elephants are frightened away.60. We know from the passage that elephants may he frightened of .A. loud noises B. some cropsC. video cameras D. angry bees61. As mentioned in the passage, LucyA. works by herself in AfricaB. needs to test more elephant groupsC. has stopped elephants eating crop
3、sD. has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms62. Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?A. To record the sound of bees.B. To make a video of elephants.C. To see if elephants would run away.D. To find out more about the behavior of bees.63. Which of the following is true according to
4、the passage?A. Young elephants ignore African honeybees.B. Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.C. Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them. D. Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.【考点】考察科普知识类阅读【文章大意】本文讲述了非洲大陆的大象十分害怕蜜蜂的声音,科学家Lucy King正在研究十分可以利用这个现象来保护庄
5、稼不受大象的侵扰。60. 【答案】D 【试题解析】细节题。根据文章第一句Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says.可知愤怒的蜜蜂的录音的声音足以让非洲大象都害怕地跑开。故D正确。61. 【答案】B 【试题解析】推理题。根据文章最后一段She hasnt tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to b
6、egin trials with farmers.可知她需要还需要对更多的象群进行研究,以证明蜜蜂的声音对大象是有影响的。故B正确。62. 【答案】A 根据文章第三段1,2行Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had cal
7、med down.他们找到一个蜂巢,放好录音机,然后扔一个石块击中蜂巢,让蜜蜂都飞起来寻找敌人。他们录下这个声音。可知他们扔石头是为了录下愤怒的蜜蜂的声音。故A正确。63. 【答案】C 根据文章倒数第二段From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds.
8、Out of a total of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees.可知当她播放蜜蜂的声音的时候,大部分的大象都在10秒钟只能离开了,说明大象很害怕蜜蜂的声音。故C正确。【长难句解析】Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says.【翻译】一个新的研究说:愤怒的蜜蜂的录音足以让体型巨大的非洲大象都逃走。【分析】本句中的表语are enough t
9、o send big, tough African elephants running away中的不定式to send big, tough African elephants running away表示的是结果。句中有一个固定搭配send sb doing sth让某人做某事,doing是宾语补足语的成分。二(2014北京卷)DMultitaskingWhat is the first thing you notice when you walk into a shop? The products displayed (展示) at the entrance? Or the soft b
10、ackground music?But have you ever notice the smell? Unless it is bad, the answer is likely to be no. But while a shops scent may not be outstanding compared with sightsand sounds, it is certainly there. And it is providing to be an increasing powerful tool in encouraging people to purchase.A brand s
11、tore has become famous for its distinctive scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines. A smell may be attractive but it may not just be used for freshening air. One sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores
12、, customers intension to purchase increased by 80 percent.When it comes to the best shopping streets in Pairs, scent is just as important to a brands success as the quality of its window displays and goods on slaes. That is mainly because shopping is a very different experience to what it used to be
13、.Some years ago,the focus for brand name shopping was on a few people with sales assistants disproving attitude and dont-touch-what-you-cant-afford displays. Now the rise of electronic commerce (e-commerce) has opened up famous brands to a wider audience. But while e-shops can use sights and sounds,
14、 only bricks-and-mortar stores (实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the moment they leave. Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destination. And scent is just one way to achieve this.Now a famous store uses complex man-ma
15、de smell to make sure that the soft scent of baby powder floats through the kid department, and coconut (椰子) scent in the swimsuit section. A department store has even opened a new lab, inviting customers on a journey into the stores windows to smell books, pots and drawers, in search of their perfe
16、ct scent.67. According to the passage, what is an increasingly powerful tool in the success of some brand store?A. Friendly assistant. B. Unique scents.C. Soft background music D. attractive window display.68. E-shops are mentioned in the passage to _ .A. show the advantages of brick-and-mortar stor
17、esB. urge shop assistants to change their attitudeC. push stores to use sights and soundsD. introduce the rise of e-commerce69. The underlined word “destination” in Paragraph 5 means _ .A. a platform that exhibts goodsB. a spot where travelers like to stayC.a place where customers love to goD. a tar
18、get that a store expects to meet70. The main purpose of the passage is to _ .A. compare and evaluate B. examine and assessC. argue and discuss D.inform and explain【文章大意】本文介绍了现在的很多商店都运用一个新方法:味道,来吸引顾客。并解释了这样做的原因。这是与网店比较起来实体店的一个优势。67. 【答案】B 根据文章第三段1,2行A brand store has become famous for its distinctive
19、 scent which floats through the fairly dark hall and out to the entrance, via scent machines.可知这家商店的成功的原因是店里很有特色的味道。68. 【答案】A 根据第五段3,4行But while e-shops can use sights and sounds, only bricks-and-mortar stores (实体店) can offer a full experience from the minute customers step through the door to the m
20、oment they leave.可知电子网店里可以使用声音和视觉来吸引顾客,那么实体店里就可以使用味道来吸引顾客。作者举电子网店是为了说明实体店也有自己的优势。69. 【答案】C 根据本句Another brand store seeks to be much more than a shop, but rather a destination.另外一家实体店通过种种方法努力让自己不仅仅是一个商店,而成为人们愿意去的目的地,既然来到这里,他们就可能多购物了。光顾该词是指C项含义。70. 【答案】D 本文介绍了现在的很多商店都运用一个新方法:也就是说本文是为了告诉我们这样的行为并做出解释。On
21、e sports goods company once reported that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers intension to purchase increased by 80 percent.【翻译】一家运动品牌公司曾经报道,当他们首先引进香味进入商店的时候,顾客们的购物欲望增加了百分之80.【分析】本句中动词reported后面含有一个宾语从句that when it first introduced scent into its stores, customers intension to
22、purchase increased by 80 percent.通常宾语从句的引导词that是可以省略的,但是本题宾语从句中有一个when引导的时间装预从句,所以that是不能省略。三(2014广东卷) Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流) . Most do it using satellites and other high-tech equipment. However, ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special way
23、 - by studying movements of random floating garbage. A scientist with many years experience, he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States. There were so many shoes that people w
24、ere setting up swap meets to try and match left and right shoes to sell or wear. Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoes about 60,000 in total fell into the ocean in a shipping accident. He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back. As expected, the company told h
25、im that they didnt. Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment. If he learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed, he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents. The Pacific Northwest is one of the worlds best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻)
26、because winds and currents join here, and as a result, there is a group of serious beachcombers in the area. Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed. In a year he collected reliable information on 1, 600 shoes. With this da
27、ta, he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to model ocean currents, and publish the findings of their study. As the result of his work, Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean. He has even started an associa
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