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辽宁朝阳市2017高考英语九月阅读理解选编阅读理解。阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (a、b、c和d) 中, 选出最佳选项。i just hope that our brains wont crash(死机). are you working on your typing skills to make you a more efficient worker? that may be all for nothing as intel believes that well be able to control our computers with our brains by 2020. intel and its research partners are studying how brain acts when it thinks. for example, scientists have found that peoples brains react in a similar manner when asked to think of a bear. through sensors(感应器)that can find this sort of brain activity, intel thinks that it will be able to read and translate this into an input system thanks to a chip in the brain. “were trying to prove you can do interesting things with brain waves. ”intel research scientist dean pomerleau told computerworld. “eventually people may be willing to be, more devoted to brain implants(植入物). imagine being able to surf the web with the power of your thoughts. ”even if thinking about a bear isnt enough to show that you want to copy and paste something. intel still thinks that theres a future in using your brain instead of the keyboard. “if we can get to the point where you can accurately find specific words, you could mentally type, ”he added. “you could compose characters or words by thinking about letters flashing on the screen or typing whole words rather than their individual characters. ”while this may all sound impractical for present time, intel thinks that its possible and something well all want. “i think human beings are unusually adaptive(适应的), ”said andrew chien, vice president of research and director of future technologies research at intel labs. “if you told people 20 years ago that they would be carrying computers all the time, they would have said, i dont want that. i dont need that. now you cant get them to stop carrying devices. there are a lot of things that have to be done first but i think implanting chips into human brains is well within the scope of possibility. ”make good use of your favorite mouse and keyboard set-up before theyre old-fashioned. 【文章大意】本文主要讲了现在intel及同伴正在研究怎样用人脑控制我们的电脑。1. what are intel and its partners doing at present? a. controlling our computers with our brains. b. working on typing skills to improve efficiency. c. studying how the brain behaves when it thinks. d. finding how the brain reacts when it thinks of a bear. 【解析】选c。细节理解题。根据文章第二段中首句intel and its research partners are studying how brain acts when it thinks可知答案。2. according to dean pomerleau, we can learn that. a. brain implants will not be acceptedb. he holds negative attitude to the researchc. mentally typing will be possible in the futured. people need a period of time to accept the new idea【解析】选c。推理判断题。根据文章第四段和第六段中dean pomerleau所言可以推知c项正确。其他选项所述与文章内容不符。3. computers were taken for example by andrew chien(in the last but one paragraph)to prove. a. nothing is impossibleb. mankind has great powerc. society is always changingd. human beings can adapt very well【解析】选d。细节理解题。根据文章倒数第二段首句i think human beings are unusually adaptive可知, andrew chien举电脑的例子是为了证明首句的观点。4. in the last paragraph, the author probably means that. a. there will be no mouse or keyboard any moreb. new kinds of mouse and keyboard will appearc. human brains will replace the present computersd. the mouse and keyboard should be used to the full【解析】选a。主旨大意题。最后一段作者风趣地告诉读者: 人类大脑将控制电脑是必然趋势, 鼠标和键盘终将被淘汰。2016高考训练题-阅读理解。阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（a、b、c、d）中，选出最佳选项。 every time lionel messi breaks a record, it seems appropriate to compare him to the legends that came before him. in 2012, he rewrote soccer history on multiple occasions, and his latest record came when he scored his 86th goal of the calendar year, breaking gerd mullers previous mark, before wrapping up the year with 91 goals. all statistics indicate that messi is currently the best player in the world, and that he will go down in history as the top footballer of his generation. but when he is judged against all-time greats like pele and diego maradona, he still has work to do. we dont know whether the barcelona striker will have another year in which he records more than 90 goals, but he must still sustain(维持)a similar level of production for the next several seasons. messi has already taken part in three of barcelonas victorious champions league(冠军联赛)campaigns, and he played an important role in two of them. in order to firmly establish himself as the greatest club football player in history, he must win the tournament a few more times. most importantly, the argentine(阿根廷人)needs to win on the international stage. regardless of what messi does for barcelona, his legacy will be incomplete if he cannot win the world cup with argentina. both pele and maradona led their countries to the top of international soccer during their careers, and messis performances for his country have been severely disappointing. while he was still a teenager in 2006-and his lackluster(平淡的)showing is excusable due to his youth-he cannot brush off the disappointment that characterized argentinas performance in 2010. but the 4-0 loss to germany in the 2010 world cup quarter final seems to have sparked messi. he scored 12 times for argentina last year, and the next world cup could finally be messis breakout performance in blue and white stripes. due to all of his accomplishments, it is easy to forget that the extraordinary footballer is just 25 years old. if he can avoid injury or lengthy slumps(低潮状态)until his speed and skills start to decline due to age, he may continue to break records and win trophies. 1. what will messi have to do in order to be complete in his soccer career? a. he must win the world cup with argentina. b. he must win the tournament a few more times. c. he must defeat pele and maradona. d. he must avoid injury or lengthy slumps. 2. how was messis performance in 2010 world cup? a. excellent. b. inspiring. c. disappointing. d. normal. 3. what can we infer from the passage? a. messi has firmly established himself as the greatest club soccer player in history. b. messi will try his best to win the next world cup with argentina. c. messi can avoid injury and lengthy slumps to break records and win trophies. d. pele and maradona led their countries to the top of international soccer during their careers. 4. what is the best title of the passage? a. lionel messi, the best soccer player of all timeb. lionel messi, the greatest soccer player in historyc. barcelona and lionel messid. world cup and lionel messi参考答案1-4. acba 阅读理解 walk through the amazon rainforest today and you will find it is steamy, warm, damp and thick. but if you had been around 15,000 years ago, during the last ice age, would it have been the same? for more than 30 years, scientists have been arguing about how rainforests like the amazon might have reacted（反应）to the cold, dry climates of the ice ages, but until now, no one has reached a satisfying answer. rainforests like the amazon are important for mopping up co2 from the atmosphere and helping to slow global warming. currently the trees in the amazon take in around 500 million tones of co2 each year; equal to the total amount of co2 giving off in the uk each year. but how will the amazon react to future climate change? if it gets drier ,will it still survive and continue to draw down co2 ? scientists hope that they will be able to learn in advance how the rainforest will manage in the future by understanding how rainforests reacted to climate change in the past. unfortunately, getting into the amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult. to study past climate, scientists need to look at fossilized pollen, kept in lake muds. going back to the last ice age means drilling deep down into lake sediments （沉淀物）, which requires specialized equipment and heavy machinery . there are very few roads and paths, or places to land helicopters and aeroplanes. rivers tend to be the easiest way to enter the forest ,but this still leaves vast areas between the rivers completely unsampled（未取样）. so far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the amazon rainforest reacts to climate change. 1. the underlined phrase “mopping up” in the second paragraph means _.a. cleaning up b. taking in c. wiping out d. giving out 答案解析：答案为b。本题为词义推断题。结合上下文，与mopping up并列的是 “helping to slow global warming”，由此可以推断，mop up 就是去除co2；并且后面的 “currently the trees in the amazon take in around 500 million tones of co2 each year”中的 “take in” 也对此进行了呼应，故答案为b。“clean up”意为 “清洁”； “wipe out” 意为 “消灭，彻底摧毁”； “give out”意为“分发，散发”。2. how will the amazon rainforest react to future climate change?a. itll get drier and continue to remove c o 2.b. itll remain steamy, warm, damp and thickc. itll get warmer and then colder and drier.d. there is no exact answer up to present.答案解析：答案为d。本题为细节题。第二段提出问题，第三段进行探索问题。结合第三段首句 “unfortunately, getting into the amazon rainforest and collecting information are very difficult.” 和最后一句 “so far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.” 可知，收集信息非常困难，即使目前收集到的一点信息也没有哪一点可以作出证明。故答案为d。3. whats the main idea of the last paragraph?a. its important to drill deep down into lake sediments to collect information.b. its impossible to prove how climate changes in the amazon rainforest.c. its hard to collect information for studies of the past climate in the amazon rainforest.d. its necessary to have specialized equipment and machinery to study the past climate. 答案解析：答案为c。从第三段的最后一句话 “so far, only a handful of cores have been drilled that go back to the last ice age and none of them provide enough information to prove how the amazon rainforest reacts to climate change.” 可知，答案为c。b选项显得绝对。4. the best title for this passage may probably be_.a. studies of the amazon b. climates of the amazonc. secrets of the rainforests d. changes of the rainforests答案解析：答案为c。 本文第一段前两句提出问题，第三句话引入文本的讨论点：热带雨林的变化。下文以亚马逊热带雨林为例进行研究，最终发现很难收集资料去证明热带雨林的变化，热带雨林的秘密有待人们去探索。故答案为c。本文的重心是在讨论如何收集到足够的证据来证明热带雨林的变化，而不是揭示热带雨林有何变化。故排除干扰性最强的d选项。a study involving 8, 500 teenagers from all social backgrounds found that most of them are ignorant when it comes to money. the findings, the first in a series of reports from natwest that has started a five-year research project into teenagers and money, are particularly worrying as this generation of young people is likely to be burdened with greater debts than any before. university tuition fees(学费) are currently capped at 3, 000 annually, but this will be reviewed next year and the government is under enormous pressure to raise the ceiling. in the research, the teenagers were presented with the terms of four different loans but 76 per cent failed to identify the cheapest. the young people also predicted that they would be earning on average 31, 000 by the age of 25, although the average salary for those aged 22 to 29 is just 17, 815. the teenagers expected to be in debt when they finished university or training, although half said that they assumed the debts would be less than 10, 000. average debts for graduates are 12, 363. stephen moir, head of community investment at the royal bank of scotland group which owns natwest, said, “the more exposed young people are to financial issues, and the younger they become aware of them, the more likely they are to become responsible, forward-planning adults who manage their finances confidently and effectively. “ ministers are deeply concerned about the financial pressures on teenagers and young people because of s