1、强化练(二)阅读理解细节理解题(二)AHow It Feels to Floatby Helena Fox If youre looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, grief (悲痛), and love, pick up a copy of How It Feels to Float and follow Biz as she comes of age.This moving novel will stay with you long after you finish reading it.Two
2、 Can Keep a Secretby Karen MMcManusPut on your crimesolving cap and get swept away in this thriller about a girl, a boy, and a string of unsolved murders.As threats and clues pile up, youll be burning the midnight oil trying to finish the book before dawn.Forest of a Thousand Lanternsby Julie CDaoTh
3、e first book in the Rise of the Empress series takes the bones of a traditional fairy talea poor girl fated to have power, an evil queen determined to stop her, love for someone who doesnt love back and magicand gives you a richly imagined East Asian setting.Duneby Frank HerbertIf the Star Wars movi
4、es have made you fall in love with the space opera, eventually youre going to read Frank Herberts most famous creation.The story, of centuriesold political plottingabout warring factions (派系) battling over control of the extremely valuable planet Arrakisis a classic and remains a wonderful introduct
5、ion to the larger, more complex world of science fiction just beyond the Star Wars trilogy.语篇解读本文介绍了四本书，包括其特点和内容概要等。1What is How It Feels to Float mainly about?AThe murder of a teenage girl.BA girls space adventures.CChallenges of growing up.DA poor girl with special powers.解析：细节理解题。根据第一段第一句“If your
6、e looking for a moving story that explores themes of mental illness, grief, and love, pick up a copy of How It Feels to Float and follow Biz as she comes of age.(如果你在寻找一个以精神疾病、悲伤和爱为主题的感人故事，那就买一本漂浮的感受，跟随Biz长大)”可知，C项“成长的挑战”符合题意。答案：C2What kind of book is Two Can Keep a Secret?AA fairy tale.BA sciencefi
7、ction story.CA love story.DA detective story.解析：细节理解题。根据第二段第一句“Put on your crimesolving cap and get swept away in this thriller about a girl, a boy, and a string of unsolved murders.”可知，这是一本关于谋杀案的侦探小说。故D项正确。答案：D3Which book is about battling for control of another planet?AHow It Feels to Float.BTwo C
8、an Keep a Secret.CForest of a Thousand Lanterns.DDune.解析：细节理解题。根据最后一段第二句中的“battling over control of the extremely valuable planet Arrakis”可知，Dune是一本关于争夺另一个星球控制权的小说，故D项正确。答案：DBYellow is usually the color of happy, joyful emotions.But according to a new study, not all people associate the color with g
9、ood feelings.To find out what factors might play a role, researchers tested a new hypothesis (假设): What if peoples physical surroundings affect their feelings about certain colors? For example, if someone lived in cold and rainy Finland, would he feel differently about the color yellow from someone
10、who lived near the Sahara Desert?The researchers looked at coloremotion data from an ongoing international survey of 6,625 people in 55 countries.The survey asked participants to rate 12 colors on how closely they were associated with feelings including joy, pride, fear, and shame.The researchers pa
11、id particular attention to the data for yellow, and analyzed how different factorsincluding hours of sunshine, hours of daylight, and the amount of rainfallwere associated with the emotions people reported for the color.The two best predictors of how people felt about yellow were the annual amount o
12、f rainfall, and how far they lived from the equator (赤道)Overall, people were more likely to associate yellow with joy when they lived in rainier countries that lay farther from the equator, researchers reported in the Journal of Environmental Psychology.In Egypt, the likelihood of yellow being assoc
13、iated with joy was just 5.7%, whereas in chilly Finland it was 87.7%.In the United States, with its mild climate and amber waves of grain, peoples yellowjoy association levels were between 60% and 70%.The researchers also checked whether associations changed with the seasonwhether, for example, peop
14、le in a certain country liked yellow more in the winter than they did in the summer.They found that opinions about the color remained fairly constant all year roundeven when the weather changed, the data on yellowjoy associations were as good as gold.语篇解读 研究人员通过研究一项有关颜色和情绪的调查数据发现，人们对黄色的感觉与年降雨量和他们住的地
15、方离赤道的距离有关，而与季节变化的关联性不大。4What did the researchers do before the survey?AThey went to Finland.BThey made an assumption.CThey studied certain colors.DThey analyzed some data.解析：细节理解题。 根据第二段中的“To find out what factors might play a role, researchers tested a new hypothesis”可知，在进行这项调查之前，研究人员提出了一个假设。故选B。答案
16、：B5Which of the following affects peoples feelings about yellow?AThe changeable weather.BThe length of daytime.CThe geographical position.DThe amount of snowfall.解析：细节理解题。 根据第四段第二句“The two best predictors of how people felt about yellow were the annual amount of rainfall, and how far they lived from
17、 the equator.”可知，人们对黄色的感觉的两个最好预示物是年降雨量和他们住的地方离赤道的距离。由此可知，地理位置影响人们对黄色的感觉。故选C。答案：C6How did the researchers carry out the survey?ABy interviewing participants.BBy studying the data collected.CBy traveling around the world.DBy looking at color combinations.解析：细节理解题。 根据第三段第一句“The researchers looked at co
18、loremotion data from an ongoing international survey of 6,625 people in 55 countries.”可知，研究人员是通过研究收集的数据来进行该项调查的。故选B。答案：B7What can be the best title of the text?AFinland: A Country Admiring YellowBYellow：Associated with Joy ConditionallyCColor: An Important Role in Good FeelingsDColoremotion Data：Col
19、lected Internationally解析：标题归纳题。文章主要介绍了一项新的研究发现不是所有人都把黄色与令人愉快的情绪联系在一起。研究人员通过研究相关调查数据，分析了不同的因素是如何与人们对黄色的感觉联系在一起的。由此可知，B项最适合作本文标题。答案：BCRoyal Dutch Shell is launching a $300 million forestry program, at a time when an increasing number of oil companies are putting money in carbon offset (碳补偿) plans to m
20、eet climate goals.The company will spend the money over the next three years on projects to store carbon, including large forests in the Netherlands and Spain, and will start offering motorists the option of purchasing carbon offsets when they buy petrol at the pump.The executives of the company exp
21、lained that these carbon offset projects were a new business opportunity for Shell, as well as a way to meet its climate targets.“We believe that over time we will be building a business, because these carbon credits will become more valuable as carbon becomes more limited，” they said.Shell recently
22、 decided to cut its net carbon footprint (碳排放量) by 2 to 3 percent in five years, which includes emissions from the products it sells.The company plans to produce carbon credits from the forestry projects, then sell these credits on to customers buying its oil and gas products, or apply the credits t
23、o its own operations to lower its carbon footprint.Plants absorb carbon dioxide as they grow and restoring forests and other natural areas is considered one of the simplest ways to store carbon.However, the voluntary market for carbon credits based on forestry projects has its critics, as projects i
24、n developing countries can be hard to monitor.Shells move has also been criticized by some environmentalists.They worried that there was a risk of “greenwash” when companies invested in forestry projects.“There is an entire debate about whether forestry projects truly reduce emissions or not，” they
25、said, pointing out that planting in one area could cause deforestation (滥伐森林) to another.Shell said it would rely on the third party to ensure its forestry program to meet the Voluntary Carbon Standard and strict biodiversity requirements.Mark Lewis, head of Climate Change Investment Research at BNP
26、 Paribas, said, “Planting trees to offset emissions, as far as it goes, is a step in the right direction.”语篇解读本文主要介绍了荷兰皇家壳牌石油公司在接下来三年的时间里，通过资金投入等措施，实施碳补偿计划的相关情况。8What is popular among oil companies these days?AStudying climate changes.BLaunching forestry programs.CWorking out carbon offset plans.DAt
27、tracting motorists to buy their petrol.解析：细节理解题。 根据第一段第一句中的“an increasing number of oil companies are putting money in carbon offset plans to meet climate goals”可知，越来越多的石油公司把钱投在碳补偿计划上面，以实现气候目标。由此可知，当前制订自己的碳补偿计划在石油公司中盛行。故选C。答案：C9How will Shell make profits from its carbon offset projects?ABy quitting
28、 the emissions of its products.BBy reducing its carbon footprint by a quarter.CBy limiting the oil used by its own operations.DBy putting carbon credits it produces on the market.解析：细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句“The company plans to produce carbon credits from the forestry projects, then sell these credits on to
29、customers buying its oil and gas products.lower its carbon footprint.”可知，壳牌公司计划从林业项目中获得碳信用额，然后将这些信用额转售给购买其石油和天然气产品的客户，或者将这些信用额用于自己的业务，以降低其碳排放量。故选D。答案：D10What concerns some environmentalists about forestry projects?AThe projects cant really stop carbon emissions.BThe projects are hard to monitor in p
30、oor countries.CThe projects may lead to deforestation in other forests.DThe projects havent met strict biodiversity requirements.解析： 细节理解题。 根据第三段中的“pointing out that planting in one area could cause deforestation to another”可知，环保主义者担心石油公司在一个地方实施林业项目会导致另一个地方滥伐森林。故选C。答案：C11What does the underlined wor
31、d “greenwash” in Paragraph 3 mean?ADiscount.BCheat.CDecline. DChange.解析：词义猜测题。 根据第三段中的“as projects in developing countries can be hard to monitor”以及“There is an entire debate about whether forestry projects truly reduce emissions or not.pointing out that.deforestation to another.”可知，环保主义者对林业项目是否真的能降低碳排放存在很大的争议，他们担心在一个地方实施林业项目会导致另一个地方滥伐森林。由此可推知，画线词的意思与B项的词义相近。答案：B