北京市崇文区高三2010届一模英语(7)

北京市崇文区高三一模英语

skills．However few people wish to participate in such experiments．There are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's brain．The term idiot savant is outdated and inappropriate．Virtually all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots．

63．What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．Idiot savants have areas of outstanding abilities．

B．Human Beings have complicated thinking process．

C．The brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired．

D．The reasons why people have wonderful skills vary．

64．Which of the following can be done by Rain Man?

A．He can play wonderful pieces of classical music．

B．He can guess out exactly the length of a man's life．

C．He can memorize the contents of the pictures fast．

D．He can count matches dropped on the floor quickly．

65．What can you infer from the passage?

A．Idiot savants have real talents for art and math．

B．Dr．Down is the first person who found idiot savants．

C．Few people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations．

D．Intentional left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants．

66．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

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1—5refer to paragraph 1—5.

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The recent, apparently successful, prediction by mathematical models of an appearance of El Nino—the warm ocean How that periodically develops along the Pacific coast of South America has excited researchers．Jacob Bjerknes pointed out years ago how winds might create either abnormally warm or abnormally cold water in the eastern equatorial （赤道附近的） Pacific．Nevertheless, before the creation of the models, no one could explain why conditions should regularly change between appearances of the warm El Nino and the so-called anti-El Nino．The answer, at least if the current model that links the behavior of the ocean to that of the