三、阅读理解
When your friends are having a bad day, you may go to them and try your best to make them feel better, right? Believe it or not, elephants can do the same thing.
Some scientists studied 26 elephants between the ages of 3 and 60 at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand. They find that elephants can know when their friends are not happy. They even try to make their friends happy. For example, when some elephants do not feel happy, the others in the family group always try to give them friendly touches. They do it by putting their long, big trunks (象鼻) in each other's mouths. Nearby elephants also make some special noise to calm them down. Sometimes, they just stand close to their friends.
Scientists also noticed something else. Elephants have feelings like us. They never leave behind their weak family members. When one elephant is hurt, the stronger elephants in the family group always go to take care of him.
The study surprised the scientists. They never expected (预料) that elephants cared about each other so much. Whether elephants are sick or sad, their friends never leave them alone. Not many animals can do that.
( ) 1. How many elephants did the scientists study in Thailand?
A. 12.
B. 26.
C. 60.
D. 63.
( ) 2. If an elephant doesn't feel happy, its friends may help it by _______.
① standing close to it ② making special noise ③ giving it friendly touches
A. ①②
B. ②③
C. ①③
D. ①②③
( ) 3. The underlined phrase "leave behind" in paragraph 3 means "_______".
A. care about
B. go away from
C. be willing to help
D. give support to
( ) 4. Which of the following is the structure (结构) of the passage?
A. P1 B. P1 C. P1 D. P1 P3
P2 P3 P2 P3 P4 P3 P2 P2
P4 P4
( ) 5. The purpose (目的) of the passage is to _______.
A. ask people to protect elephants
B. tell people about a study of elephants
C. help people find out why elephants are sad
D. teach people how to help elephants live in the park
答案:1. B
解析:根据第二段“Some scientists studied 26 elephants between the ages of 3 and 60 at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand.”可知,科学家在泰国研究了26头大象,故选B。
2. D
解析:根据第二段“give them friendly touches... nearby elephants make some special noise to calm them down... they just stand close to their friends”可知,大象不开心时,朋友会通过友好触摸(③)、发出特殊声音(②)、站得近(①)来帮助它,①②③均正确,故选D。
3. B
解析:根据第三段“elephants never leave behind their weak family members”及下文“the stronger elephants... always go to take care of him”可知,大象不会抛弃弱小的家庭成员,“leave behind”意为“离开;抛弃”,与“go away from”意思相近,故选B。
4. B
解析:文章结构:第一段(P1)总起,引出大象能安慰朋友的话题;第二段(P2)、第三段(P3)分述科学家的研究发现(大象帮助不开心的朋友、有情感不抛弃弱小);第四段(P4)总结研究结果。即“总—分—总”结构,对应选项B(P1总起,P2/P3/P4分述),故选B。
5. B
解析:文章主要介绍了科学家对大象的研究,发现大象会关心朋友、有情感,目的是告诉人们这项关于大象的研究,故选B。
四、信息还原
阅读短文,从方框里选出能填入空格处的最佳选项,有一个多余选项。
Happiness is for everyone. You don't need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens. 1 Why? Because people with big houses may often feel lonely and people with cars may want to walk on the country roads in their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. 2 When you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health. When you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you. When you do something wrong, people around you will help you correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. 3 If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. 4 When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can't be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy. That's because you have more chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving (旋转的) door. When it closes, it also opens. 5
A. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you.
B. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
C. All these are your happiness.
D. There are a lot of people who wait for your help.
E. You don't need to admire (羡慕) those who have cars, either.
F. It is a feeling of your heart.
1. _______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______
答案:1. E
解析:上文提到“不需要在意有大房子的人”,下文“有车的人可能想在空闲时走乡间小路”,可知空格处与“车”相关,E项“你也不需要羡慕那些有车的人”承接上下文,故选E。
2. F
解析:上文“幸福总在你身边,如果你用心感受”,下文列举不同场景下的幸福,F项“它是你内心的一种感觉”解释幸福的本质,引出下文具体例子,故选F。
3. C
解析:上文列举“努力学习时父母照顾、成功时朋友祝贺、犯错时他人帮助、做好事时自己开心”等场景,C项“所有这些都是你的幸福”总结上文,与下文“注意到这些,就能看到幸福在身边”衔接,故选C。
4. A
解析:上文“幸福和金钱不同”,下文“贫穷时也能幸福,因为有金钱买不到的东西”,A项“在学校遇到困难时,朋友会帮助你”举例说明非金钱的幸福(朋友的帮助),符合语境,故选A。
5. B
解析:上文“生活像旋转门,关一扇开一扇”,B项“如果你抓住每一个机会,就能成为快乐幸运的人”承接“门开了”,鼓励抓住机会获得幸福,故选B。