1、高考英语大二轮总复习 第4部分 阅读理解 专题1 拨云见日巧解事实细节类题目.体验高考(2014安徽)Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big,tough African elephants running away,a new study says.Beehives (蜂窝)either recorded or realmay even prevent elephants from damaging farmers crops.In 2002,scientist Lucy King and her team found that elep
2、hants avoid certain trees with bees living in them.Today,Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops.But before she asked farmers to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms,she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.Lucy foun
3、d 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 calmed down.Next,Lucy searched out elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and
4、 put a speaker in a tree close to each family.From a distance,Lucy switched on the prerecorded 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.Out of a total of 17 groups,only one group ignored the sound
5、 of the angry bees.Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them.When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families,the animals were undisturbed.Even after four minutes,most of the groups sta
6、yed in one place.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
7、the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.【语篇导读】本文讲述了科学家Lucy King和她的团队发现大象害怕发怒的蜜蜂,并且做实验来证实这个事情的故事。1We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of _.Aloud noises Bsome cropsCvideo cameras Dangry bees解析事实细节题。根据文章第一段“Recordings of angry bees are.farmers crops”可知愤怒的蜜蜂是大象所害怕的。故选D。答
8、案D2. As mentioned in the passage,Lucy _.Aworks by herself in AfricaBneeds to test more elephant groupsChas stopped elephants eating cropsDhas got farmers to set up beehives on their farms解析事实细节题。根据文章最后一段中“Lucy is now studying.she hasnt tested enough groups yet to know”可知Lucy需要对更多的象群进行实验,故选B。答案B3Why
9、did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?ATo record the sound of bees.BTo make a video of elephants.CTo see if elephants would run away.DTo find out more about the behavior of bees.解析事实细节题。根据文章第三段中“Lucy found a wild beehive.and set up a recorder”和第四段中“Lucy switched on the prerecorded sound.a video
10、 camera.”可知Lucy向野蜂窝扔石头是为了激怒蜜蜂以便录下它们的声音。故选A。答案A4Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?AYoung elephants ignore African honeybees.BWaterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.CElephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.DFarmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in th
11、eir fields.解析事实细节题。根据文章第二段“In 2002,scientist Lucy King and her team.living in them”一句,可知大象不敢靠近住有蜜蜂的树。故选C。答案C.仿真、模拟Passage 1 体裁:说明文话题:广告信息时间:6分钟(2014四川成都检测)Our travel experts are eager to assist you with your cheap flight tickets and package deal bookings.Call us for cheap air ticket deals on flights
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