1、阅读理解。Since the 1970s, scientists have been searching for ways to link the brain with computers. Brain-computer interface(BCI) technology could help people with disabilities send commands to machines.Recently, two researchers, Jose Millan and Michele Tavella from the Federal Polytechnic school in Lau
2、sanne, Switzerland, demonstrated（展示）a small robotic wheelchair directed by a persons thoughts.In the laboratory, Tavella operated the wheelchair just by thinking about moving his left or right band. He could even talk as he watched the vehicle and guided it with his thoughts.“our brain has billions
3、of nerve ceils. These send signals through the spinal cord （脊髓）to the muscles to give us the ability to move. But spinal cord injuries or other conditions can prevent these weak electrical signals from reaching the muscles,” Tavella says. “Our system allows disabled people to communicate with extern
4、al world and also to control devices.”The researchers designed a special cap for the user. This head cover picks up the signals from the scalp(头皮) and sends them to a computer. The computer interprets the signals and commands the motorized wheelchair. The wheelchair also has two cameras that identif
5、y objects in its path. They help the computer react to commands from the brain. Prof. Millan, the team leader, says scientists keep improving the computer software that interprets brain signals and turns them into simple commands. “The practical possibilities that BCI technology offers to disabled p
6、eople can be grouped in two categories: communication, and controlling devices. One example is this wheelchair.”He says his team has set two goals. One is testing with real patients, so as to prove that this is a technology they can benefit front. And the other is to guarantee that they can use the
7、technology over long periods of time.1.BCI is a technology that can A. help to update computer systems B. link the human brain with computersC. help the disabled to recover D. control a persons thoughts2. How did Tavella operate the wheelchair in the laboratory?A. By controlling his muscles. B. By t
8、alking to the machine.C. By moving his hand. D. By using his mind.3. Which of the following shows the path of the signals described in Paragraph 5?A. scalp computer cap wheelchairB. computer cap scalp wheelchairC. scalp cap computer wheelchairD. cap compute scalp wheelchair4. The team will test with
9、 real patients to A. make profits from them B. prove the technology useful to themC. make them live longer D. learn about their physical condition5. Which of the following would be the best title for the text?A. Switzerland, the BCI Research CenterB. New Findings About How the Human Brain WorksC. BC
10、I Could Mean More Freedom for the DisabledD. Robotic Vehicles Could Help to Cure Brain Injuries【文章大意】科普说明文。本文介绍了BCI脑机接口技术，它是帮助残疾人向机器输送指令。【参考方案】1-5、BDCBC阅读理解。 Boiler rooms are often dirty and steamy, but this one is clean and cool. Fox Point is a very new47-unit living building in South Bronx, one of
11、 the citys poorest areas. Two-thirds of the people living there are formerly (以前) homeless people, whose rent is paid by the government. The rest are low-income families. The boiler room has special equipment, which produces energy for electricity and heat. It reuses heat that would otherwise be los
12、t to the air, reducing carbon emissions(碳排放)while also cutting costs. Fox Point is operated by Palladian, a group that specializes in providing housing and services to needy, people. Palladian received support from Enterprise Community Partners (ECP), which helps build affordable housing by providin
13、g support to housing developers. w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o mECP has created national standards for healthy, environmentally (环境方面) clever and affordable homes which are called, the Green Communities Standards. These standards include water keeping, energy saving and the use of environmentally friendly build
14、ing materials. Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs. Even the positioning of a window to get most daylight can help save energy.Michael. Bloomberg, New Yorks mayor, plans to create 165,000 affordable housing units for500,
15、000 New Yorkers. Almost 80% of New York Citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing. So he recently announced that the citys Department of Housing and Preservation and Development (DHPD) , whose duty is to develop and keep the citys supply of affordabl
16、e housing, will require all its new projects to follow ECPs green standards. w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o mSimilar measures have been taken by other cities such as Cleveland and Denver, but New Yorks DHPD is the largest city developer of affordable housing in the country.( ) 1. What is the purpose of describin
17、g the boiler room in the first paragraph? w_w w. k#s5_u.c o*mA. To explain the measures the city takes to care for poor people. B. To suggest that affordable housing is possible in all areas.C. To show how the environment-friendly building works.D. To compare old and new boiler rooms.( ) 2. What is
18、an advantage of the buildings meeting the Green Communities Standards? A. Lower running costs. w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o m B. Costing less in construction. C. Less air to be lost in hot days. D. Better prices for homeless people.( ) 3. It can be learned from the text that, A. New York City is seriously poll
19、uted w_w*w.k_s*5_u.c_o mB. peoples daily life causes many carbon emissions in New York CityC. a great number of people in New York City dont have houses to live inD. some other cities have developed more affordable housing than New York City( ) 4. What is the main purpose of this text? w_w w. k#s5_u
20、.c o*mA. To call on people to pay more attention to housing problems.B. To prove that some standards are needed for affordable housing.C. To ask society to help homeless people and low-income families.D. To introduce healthy, environmentally clever-and affordable housing.语篇解读：本篇文章为科技说明文。作者以Fox Point
21、居住群的boiler rooms为切入点，阐述此类房子的环保节能的优点，以及各城市特别是纽约队建造此类建筑的积极响应。1. 答案：C考点：作者的写作意图解析：从第一段最后两句，作者描述开水房仅是从一个侧面展示整个建筑群的节能，环保，可以得出答案。2. 答案：A考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第三段倒数第二句：Meeting the standards increases housing construction costs by 2%, which is rapidly paid back by lower running costs.可得到答案。句意为“达到这一标准会将建筑成本提高2%，但很快会
22、被它的低成本运行成本补回”3. 答案：B考点：细节理解解析：依据文章第四段第二句：Almost 80% of New York Citys greenhouse-gas emissions come from buildings, and 40% of those are caused, by housing.可得出答案4. 答案：D考点：作者的写作目的解析：本文主要让读者了解这类健康、环保、经济类住房。【四川省凉山州2014第二次诊断性测试】阅读下面五篇短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Even while in a deep sleep, people
23、can still learn brand new information. Sleepers soak innew associations between smells and sounds, knowledge that lingers(逗留）into the next wakingday, researchers report online August 26 in Nature Neuroscience. The new study is the first to show that entirely new information can get into the sleeping
24、mind, says Anat Arzi of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The brain is not passivewhile you sleep. Its quite active. You can do quite a lot of things while you are asleep. But the results dont mean that Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand. L,Researchers have tried
25、but largely failed to find evidence that complicated information, such asnew pairs of words, can make its way into the brain during sleep. Instead of trying to teach people something complicated like a new language, Arzi and hercolleagues relied on the sense of smell and hearing. As anyone who has w
26、alked by a dumpster（垃圾车）in July knows, smells can cause a nose-jerk reaction. Catching a bad smell automaticallymakes people inhale(吸气)less, reducing the size of the inhale. But。scent of fresh bread causesa long, deep inhale.、rzi and her team took advantage of this reaction for their experiment. As
27、people slept in the laboratory, the researchers delivered pleasant scent, such as shampoo.As this nice smell got into the sleepers noses, the researchers played a particular music. Later, adisgusting smell, such as rotten fish or meat, was paired with a different music. Neither the smellnor the soun
28、d woke people up. After just four exposures to the smell-music pair during a singlenight, the sleepers started to automatically respond to the tones without the accompanying smells,taking in bigger breaths when the shampoo-associated tone played and smaller breaths when playedthe sound linked to the
29、 rotten fish smell. This new learned association lingered into the next waking day, too. Even though the sleepershad no idea they had been exposed to smells or sounds, their behavior proved that their brain hadactually learned something during sleep. As before, the shampoo sound stimulated a long, d
30、eepinhale, while the rotten fish tone caused more shallow breaths.43. We can infer from the passage that A. while sleeping, we can learn whatever we want to learn B. we will increase the size of inhale if we catch a pleasant smell C. the knowledge we learned while sleeping will be forgotten in the n
31、ext waken day D. when walking by a bakery, the fresh bread will cause a nose-jerk reaction44. What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. One cant acquire complicated knowledge during the sleeping hours. B. Spanish vocabulary tapes now have a place on the nightstand C. Researchers have tried to find eviden
32、ce that the new words can be learned during sleep. D. Complicated information can make its way into the brain during sleep45. How do Arzi and her team do their research? By A. giving instructions B. analyzing human brains C. following the guides of others D. doing experiments46. In which part of a w
33、ebsite may this passage most likely appear? A. Culture. B. Science. C. History. D. Economy. 【参考答案】4345、BAD 46、B 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。Nick Petrels is a doctor in Montreal.He works 60 hours a week.He takes care of 159 patients a week in the hospital and at his office.Hes been a doc
34、tor for ten years.Dr Petrels gives his patients good medical advices.But he doesnt just tell his patients when to do.He also sings to them on television.Dr Petrels has his own TV show.The show is in Italia，English and French.The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.He exp
35、lains a medical problem or disease in simple language.After that，he sings another song.Dr Petrels produces and performs in his own show every week.The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.His dream is to perform in Las Vegas.His favorite songs are love song
36、s，and he has a compact disk of love songs that he wrote.Dr Petrels says，“I always love to sing.All my problems are gone when I sing.”But when Dr Petrels was young，his father didnt want him to be a singer，so he went to a medical school.Some people tell Dr Petrels he can help people more as a doctor.B
37、ut Dr Petrels says he helps people when he sings，too.“I like to make people smile.Sometimes its difficult to make a sick person smile.Medicine and entertainment (娱乐)both try to do the same thing.They try to make people feel good.”【语篇解读】这篇文章描绘了蒙特利尔一个有趣的医生，他不但给病人治病，还在自己的节目中为病人唱歌，给他们带来欢笑。1Dr Petrels wo
38、rks 60 hours a week，because he_.Agives his patients medical advicesBtakes care of 159 patients a weekCsings on televisionDhas his own TV show解析：细节理解题。第一段告诉我们“He takes care of 159 patients a week，所以他每周工作60个小时。答案：B2Why is Dr Petrels called a singing doctor? ABecause he has been a doctor for ten years.
39、 BBecause he always loves singing. CBecause he is popular with his patients. DBecause he also sings to his patients on TV.解析：细节理解题。由第二段的“He also sings to them on television.”我们可得知他被称为a singing doctor的原因。答案：D3In his TV show，Dr Petrels_. Asings and gives medical advices Bsings about different diseases
40、 Cstarts to explain diseases with a song Dsings love songs he wrote解析：细节理解题。根据第二段的“The doctor starts the show with a song and then gives medical advice.”我们可以知道Dr Petrels在他的节目中干些什么。答案：A4Dr Petrels show is popular_.Ain Las VegasBat medical schoolCwith people who like his singingDwith patients in Montr
41、eal解析：细节理解题。根据第三段第二句“The program is very popular with his patients and with people who enjoy his singing.”可推知答案为C。Dr Petrels受欢迎不只限于Las Vegas和他的病人。答案：C5Dr Petrels says he likes to_.Ahelp people sing Bmake people feel betterCdo the same thing Dmake difficult people smile解析：细节理解题。最后一句“They try to make
42、people feel good.”告诉我们Dr Petrels想干什么。答案：B。【2014高考英语广东省佛山市质测试题】信息匹配（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读下列应用文及相关信息，并按照要求匹配信息。请将答案填涂在答题卡标号为46-50的相应位置上。首先，请阅读以下杂志的封面信息及简介：请阅读以下人员信息，然后匹配人员与相关杂志：46. Mr. Jones likes military history very much. He knows well a lot of battles in World War Two. Now he wishes to know even mo
43、re. He wants to learn about some other battles that happened in different parts of the world, so he wants to get a magazine to help him.47. Mr. Spencer has a very big family and they have different interests, so he wishes to subscribe a magazine that can satisfy all of his family members needs. For
44、example, he is interested in politics and events, his wife cares about movies while his sons and daughters love music and fashion.48. Mrs. Baker is trying to subscribe a magazine for her son, aged 10, and her daughter, aged 8. She needs one that includes fun facts about human body and animals, stori
45、es, and illustrations designed to spark her childrens interest, educating while also entertaining.49. Mrs. Bates has a full-time job while she has to take care of her family. Sometimes she finds it really difficult for her to get meals ready for them after she gets back from work. Now she needs to f
46、ind a magazine that could help her prepare some quick and easy food for her family.50. Mr. Barrow runs a small pub in downtown areas and every day he gets quite a lot of customers who come for beers. To offer better service to his customers, he wishes to know more about beer like new trends in beer. So he wants to find a magazine to do that.【参考答案】4650、EDAFC
