《2026年水木金卷高考模拟试卷精编英语》

C
Sometimes a person loses a sense in early childhood. Then their brain develops in a dramatically different way. Parts of the brain that are usually used for the lost sense will begin to respond to the remaining senses. This is neuroplasticity: your brain’s ability to reorganize itself.
Researchers wanted to know how the brain responds to moving sounds. Does it work differently for sighted people than for people who have been blind since early childhood? Their experiment tested how people separate a moving sound from background noise. Your brain often has to separate important details from distractions. It is easy to listen to someone talk in a quiet room, but hard to listen when many people are talking at once.
Researchers recruited(招募) 8 sighted participants with normal vision and 8 early blind participants. Researchers mixed a recording of a sound moving from one side to the other with random bursts of static noise(静电噪音). Participants listened to the mixture of noise and sounds. They tried to tell what direction the sound was moving in. Each participant did the test 6,000 times!
Their results suggest that early blind people are very good at tuning out background noise. Researchers can guess this is probably true for people born blind, too. This might be because they have lots of practice using sound to identify motion. Another reason may be neuroplasticity. The brain does a lot of reorganizing itself during early childhood. Maybe parts of the brain that are normally used for vision get used for hearing instead. When a person loses a sense, they do not suddenly receive super senses. It can be frustrating for a blind person when people assume that. Being blind doesn’t mean they will have an amazing sense of smell or hearing. It is a myth(荒诞的说法) that the loss of one sense makes the others stronger. Blind people have the same kind of ears as sighted people—so they aren’t any better at hearing quiet sounds. However, they do learn to expertly use sound to navigate(导航) the world. So, there is a bit of truth in the myth—the brain does learn how to use the other senses more skillfully. It is amazing how the brain can adapt!
46. According to Paragraph 1, what happens if a person loses a sense as a child?
A. The brain starts to re-identify itself.
B. The brain will have the ability to reorganize itself.
C. The relevant part of the brain responds to the rest of the senses.
D. Parts of the brain stop developing dramatically.
47. According to Paragraph 2, what’s the purpose of the experiment?
A. To test how people separate a moving sound from background noise.
B. To know the difference between the sighted and the blind.
C. To figure out how the brain responds to moving sounds.
D. To help the brain separate important details from distractions.
48. What does the author intend to tell us in Paragraph 3?
A. The author wants to illustrate the difficulty of the whole experiment.
B. The author wants to emphasize the importance of the experiment.
C. The author wants us to know how many people participated in the experiment.
D. The author wants to introduce the method of the experiment to us.
49. What conclusion can be drawn from Paragraph 4?
A. Neuroplasticity helps the brain adapt to early loss of vision.
B. The myth that the loss of one sense makes the others stronger is entirely true.
C. Blind people have the same ears as normal people.
D. People who lose their sight early are good at ignoring background noise.
50. What could be the best title for the passage?
A. What Is Neuroplasticity?
B. The Loss of One Sense Makes the Others Stronger
C. How Does the Brain Adapt to Blindness?
D. Our Brain Develops in a Dramatically Different Way

答案： 46.C 细节理解题。题干意为:根据第一段,如果一个人在小时候失去了一种感官功能,会发生什么?根据第一段中“Parts of the brain that are usually used for the lost sense will begin to respond to the remaining senses.”可知,失去一种感官功能后,原本负责该感官的大脑区域会开始对其他感官做出反应。故选C。
47.C 细节理解题。题干意为:根据第二段,实验的目的是什么?根据第二段中“Researchers wanted to know how the brain responds to moving sounds.”可知,实验的目的是弄清楚大脑如何对移动的声音做出反应。故选C。
48.D 段落大意题。题干意为:作者想要在第三段告诉我们什么?根据第三段内容可知,本段主要介绍了实验的研究对象以及实验过程。由此可知,作者想在第三段告诉我们实验的方法。故选D。
49.A 推理判断题。题干意为:从第四段中可以得出什么结论?根据第四段中“Their results suggest that early blind people are very good at tuning out background noise.Researchers can guess this is probably true for people born blind,too.This might be because they have lots of practice using sound to identify motion.Another reason may be neuroplasticity.”可知,早期失明者更擅长屏蔽背景噪音,原因有二:其一,他们进行了大量练习来利用声音去识别运动;其二:神经可塑性。由此可推知,神经可塑性有助于大脑适应早期听力丧失。故选A。
50.C 标题归纳题。题干意为:本文的最佳标题是什么?通读全文可知,文章开篇介绍了神经可塑性的概念,接着介绍了研究人员针对视力正常者和幼儿期失明者对移动声音反应的实验,结果表明幼儿期失明者善于屏蔽背景噪音,分析了可能的原因,包括大量使用声音识别运动的练习以及神经可塑性;文章最后指出失明并不意味着其他感官会突然变强这一误解,强调失明者能熟练地利用声音来导航世界,体现了大脑对失明状况的适应。由此可知,文章围绕大脑如何适应失明展开,所以C项“大脑如何适应失明?”是本文的最佳标题。故选C。