第四题：阅读理解第1篇：Water
(没找到原文)31 世原文 D
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好像是世界水总量 B 总水量维持不变?
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是大部分的可饮用水资源储存 答案A 冰川和山川?
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翻译短语 D 少量的?
35
raildown land多于ocean 还是ocean多于land?
B22的标准答案为DBADC (红色字体有待大家考证，黑色字体已经确认正确)
第2篇：Mind-reading
(参考教材，好像其中一个题选项提问与教材不一样)
32. Mind-reading1 Machine
A team of researchers in California has developed a way to predict what kinds of objects people are looking at by scanning what's happening in their brains.
When you look at something, your eyes send a signal about that object to your brain. Different regions of the brain process the information your eyes send. Cells in your brain called neurons are responsible for this processing.
The fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging ) 2 brain scans could generally match electrical activity in the brain to the basic shape of a picture that someone was looking at.
Like cells anywhere else in your body, active neurons use oxygen. Blood brings oxygen to the neurons, and the more active a neuron is, the more oxygen it will consume. The more active a region of the brain, the more active its neurons, and in turn, the more blood will travel to that region. And by using fMRI, scientists can visualize3 which parts of the brain receive more oxygen-rich blood--and therefore, which parts are working to process information.
An fMRI machine is a device that scans the brain and measures changes in blood flow to the brain. The technology shows researchers how brain activity changes when a person thinks, looks at something, or carries out an activity like speaking or reading. By highlighting the areas of the brain at work when a person looks at different images, fMRI may help scientists determine specific patterns of brain activity associated with different kinds of images.
The California researchers tested brain activity by having two volunteers view hundreds of pictures of everyday objects, like people, animals, and fruits. The scientists used an fMRI machine to record the volunteers' brain activity with each photograph they looked at. Different objects caused different regions of the volunteers' brains to light up on the scan, indicating activity. The scientists used this information to build a model to predict how the brain might respond to any image the eyes see.
In a second test, the scientists asked the volunteers to look at 120 new pictures. Like before, their brains were scanned every time they looked at a new image. This time, the scientists used their model to match the fMRI scans to the image. For example, if a scan in the second test showed the same pattern of brain activity that was strongly related to pictures of apples in the first test, their model would have predicted the volunteers were looking at apples.
词汇：
scan v. &n. 扫描
visualize v. 使可见;设想
neuron n. 神经元
注释:
1. Mind-reading: 能读出(猜出)人的想法的。mind-read: 可做动词，如，As a successful
salesman, he is able to mind-read his customers.
2. FMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) : 功能性磁振造影。这是一种新兴的神经影像学方式，其原理是利用磁振造影来测量神经元活动所引发之血液动力的改变。
3. visualize: 意为make(something)visible to the eye，即“使可见，使显现”。
36 . What is responsible for processing the information sent by your eyes?
A)A small region of the brain.
B)The central part of the brain.
C)Neurons in the brain.
D)Oxygen-rich blood.
37. Which of the following statements is NOT meant by the writer?
A)Ceils in your brain are called neurons.
B)The more oxygen a neuron consumes, the more blood it needs.
C)FMRI helps scientists to discover which parts of the brain process information.
D)fMRI helps scientists to discover how the brain develops intelligently.
38. "Highlighting the areas of the brain at work" means
A)"marking the parts of the brain that are processing information"
B)"giving light to the parts of the brain that are processing information"
C)"putting the parts of the brain to work"
D)"stopping the parts of the brain from working"
39. What did the researchers experiment on?
A)Animals, objects, and fruits.
B)Two volunteers.
C)fMRI machines.
D)Thousands of pictures.
40. Which of the following can be the best replacement of the tide?
A)The Recent Development in Science and Technology.
B)Your Thoughts Can Be Scanned.
C)A Technological Dream.
D)A Device that can Help You Calculate.
答案与题解：
36. C 文章第二段的最后两个句子提供了答案。Cells in your brain called neurons are
responsible for this processin9.这里的processin9指的就是上句中的内容。
37. 该题目发生变化。问题：fMIR这台机器是干什么用的?答案：An fMRI machine is a device that scans the brain and measures changes in blood flow to the brain. 见文章第5段。
38. A
highlight：使…显得突出，标出。at work：正在工作的。这里指正在处理信息的(大脑区域)。
39. B答案在文章的第六段中可以找到。实验者让两个自愿受试者观看许多照片，并用fMRI对设备测试他们的大脑在这一过程中的活动。
40.B
A论述的范围太大。fMR技术已不再是梦想，所以C也不是正确选择。D所述内容与文章完全不符。B符合文章内容，是最佳选择。
标准答案为 CCADA
第3篇：youth emancipation in Spain
The Spanish Government is so worried about the number of young adults still living with their parents that it has decided to help them leave the nest.
Around 55 percent of people aged 18-34 in Spain still sleep in their parents’ home, says the latest report from the country’s state-run Institute of Youth.
To coax young people from their homes, the Institute started a “Youth Emancipation” programme this month. The programme offers guidance in finding rooms and jobs.
Economists blame young people’s family dependence on the precarious labour market and increasing housing prices. Housing prices have risen 17 percent a year since 2000.
Cultural reasons also contribute to the problem, say sociologists. Family ties in south Europe – Italy, Portugal and Greece – are stronger than those in middle and north Europe, said Spanish sociologist Almudena Moreno Minguez in her report “The Late Emancipation of Spanish Youth Key for Understanding”.
“In general, young people in Spain firmly believe in the family as the main body around which their private life is organized,” said Minguez.
In Spain – especially in the countryside, it is not uncommon to find entire groups of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews all living on the same street. They regularly get together for Sunday dinner.
Parents’ tolerance is another factor. Spanish parents accept late-night partying and are wary of setting bedtime rules.
“A child can arrive home at whatever time he wants. If parents complain he’ll put up a fight and call the father a fascist,” said Jose Antonio Gomez Yanez, a sociologist at Carlos III University in Madrid.
Mothers’ willingness to do children’s household chores worsens the problem. Dionisio Masso, a 60-year-old in Madrid, has three children in their 20s. the eldest 28, has a girlfriend and a job. But life with mum is good.
“His mum does the wash and cooks for him, in the end, he lives well.” Masso said.
41The “Youth Emancipation” programme aims at helping young people
Alive in an independent way
Bfight for freedom
Cfight against social injustice
Dget rid of family responsibilities
42It can be inferred from paragraph 5 that family ties are stronger in Portugal than in
AGreece
BFinland(位于欧洲北部)
CSpain(位于欧洲西南)
DItaly
43Young people’s family dependence can be attributed to all the following factors EXCEPT
Aparents’ tolerance
Bhousing problems
CUnwillingness to get married.
Dcultural traditions
44Which of the following statements is NOT true of Dionisio Masso?
Ahe has a boyfriend
BShe is 60 years old.
CShe has three children
DShe lives in Madrid
45The phrase “wary of” in paragraph 8 could be best replaced by
Atired of
Bafraid of
Cworried about
D cautious about
答案与题解：
41. A： Live in an independent way.( 出题句：Coax(引诱) young people from their homes)
42. B： Finland (Greece/Spain出现在并列结构中， Spain在文章中提到了， 只有Finland没有被提到)
43. C： unwillingness to get married (该信息在文章中没有被提到)
44. A： She has a boy friend. (该题又是在考查插入语结构， 出题句 。。。， a 60-year-old in Madrid, had three children in their 20s. )
45. D： wary of /cautious about/小心谨慎的
标准答案为ABCAD
