2019江苏省高考英语模拟试卷(带话题作文热点,答案解析,很实用)

阅读理解(共两节)第一节阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。A

Memory, they say, is a matter of practice and exercise. If you have the wish and really make a conscious effort, then you can quite easily improve your ability to remember things. But even if you are successful, there are times when your memory seems to play tricks on you.

Sometimes you remember things that really did not happen. One morning last week, for example, I got up and found that I had left the front door unlocked all night, yet I clearly remember locking it carefully the night before.

Memory “tricks” work the other way as well. Once in a while you remember not doing something and then find out that you did. One day last month, for example, I was sitting in a barbershop waiting for my turn to get a haircut, and suddenly I realized that I had got a haircut two days before at the barbershop across the street from my office.

We always seem to find something funny and amusing in incidents caused by people's forgetfulness or absent-mindedness. Stories about absent-minded professors have been told for years, and we never get tired of hearing new ones. Unfortunately, however, absent-mindedness is not always funny. There are times when “tricks” of our memory can cause us great trouble.

21．If you want to have a good memory, you should ________．

A．force yourself to remember thingsB．make a conscious effort of practice and exercise C．never stop learningD．try hard to remember things

22．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

A．One night the writer forgot to lock the front door.

B．One night the writer forgot having locked the front door.

C．The writer remembered to lock the door.

D．The writer remembered unlocking the front door.

23．Which can be inferred from the text?

A．If you improve your memory, memory can't trick you.

B．The author went to the same barbershop to get a haircut.

C．Memory can trick people in different ways.

D．Absent-mindedness surely causes us trouble.

24．Which of the following could be the best title for this passage?

A．The Key to a Good MemoryB．“Tricks” of Memory

C．The Dangers of ForgetfulnessD．The Dangers of Absent-mindedness

B

The discovery of a dwarfed (矮个的) “human being” who lived in Flores, Indonesia (印度尼西亚), up to 18，000 years ago is changing the way we think about the human family. This “Flores Human” was three feet tall and her brain was smaller than that of the average chimp (黑猩猩), yet she and her relatives apparently lived fully human lives. They seemed to have made tools, worked together to find food and cook it, and perhaps even buried the dead with ceremony.

It was a major surprise to find tools associated with the new human family member. The tools are like those formerly seen only with European fossils (化石) from our own species, Homo sapiens (智人), and the oldest of them were made 94，000 years ago. Homo sapiens is thought to have arrived in the island about 40，000 years ago, much too late to be responsible for the tools. If this_tiny_human made the tools, then the inside structure (结构) of its brain must have been more like our own than a chimp's, despite being just a third the size of ours.

This “new human” was suspected to be a dwarfed branch of Homo erectus (直立人). When creatures are separated in regions with rare resources but few enemies, being big is a disadvantage, and evolution tends to shrink them, a process known as island dwarfing. Could natural selection make a human smaller while keeping —even improving —mental ability? Quite possibly, believes Christopher Wills of the University of California.

Has the “Flores Human” even shown the ability of language? “I find it difficult to imagine that people could make tools, use fire, and kill large animals without fairly advanced communication.” says Wills. Did “Flores Human” possess t he basic components of human culture，such as the burying of the dead with ceremony? Emiliano Bruner of the Institute points out that Indonesia's hot, wet environment is bad for fossilization. It is reasonable to assume, he says, that the 18，000-year-old bones of the most complete Flores woman were well preserved because she was buried with special care.

25．According to the passage, “Flores Human” ________．

A．lived a partly human lifeB．was a branch of Homo sapiens

C．used tools before Homo sapiens arrivedD．had a brain as a common chimp's

26．The underlined part “this tiny human” in Paragraph 2 refers to ________．

A．a chimp B．Flores HumanC．Homo sapiens D．Homo erectus

27．This passage mainly talks about ________．

A．the tools made by “Flores Human”B．the lang uage used by “Flores Human”

C．the evolution of “Flores Human”D．the major surprising findings about “Flores Human”

28．According to the passage, it is believed that “Flores Human” ________．

A．was dwarfed by its enemiesB．could use language

C．left a lot of fossils in hot and wet environmentD．reached Flores 40，000 years ago

C

More than 10 years ago, it was difficult to buy a tasty pineapple (菠萝). The fruits that made it to the UK were green on the outside and, more often than not, hard with an unpleasant taste within. Then in 1996, the Del Monte Gold pineapple produced in Hawaii first hit our shelves.

The new type of pineapple looked more yellowy-gold than green. It was slightly softer on the outside and had a lot of juice inside. But the most important thing about this new type of pineapple was that it was twice as sweet as the hit-and-miss pineapples we had known. In no time, …… 此处隐藏：9277字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……