2019高考英语阅读理解（四选一）专题分类特训---阅读3（二）

2019高考英语阅读理解（四选一）专题分类特训---阅读3
（二）
1、A study showed that the experiences children have in their first few years are important . These experiences affect the development of the brain. When children receive more attention, they often have higher IQs. Babies receive information when they see, hear and feel things, which makes connections between different parts of the brain. There are a hundred trillion(万亿)connections in the brain of a
three-year-old child.
Researcher Judit Gervain tested how good newborns are at distinguishing different sound patterns. Her researchers produced images of the brains of babies as they heard different sound patterns. For example, one order was mu-ba-ba. This is the pattern"A-B-B". Another order was mu-ba-ge. This is the pattern “A-B-C”. The images showed that the pa rt of the brain responsible for speech was more active during the" A-B-B"pattern. This shows that babies can tell the difference between different patterns. They also were sensitive to where it occurred in the order.
Gervain is excited by these findings because the order of sounds is the building block of words and grammar."Position is key to language," she says. "If something is at the beginning or at the end, it makes a big difference:'John caught the bear.' is very different from 'The bear caught John.'”
Researchers led by scientist Patricia Kuhl have found that language delivered by televisions, audio books,the Internet, or smartphones-no matter how educational-doesn’t appear to be enough for children’s brain development. They carried out a
study of nine-month-old American babies. They expected the first group who’d watched videos in Chinese to show the same kind of learning as the second group who were brought face-to-face with the same sounds. Instead they found a huge difference. The babies in the second group were able to distinguish between similar Chinese sounds as well as native listeners. But the other babies -regardless of whether they had watched the video or listened to the audio-learned nothing.
1.What makes connections in a baby’s brain?
A.Having a higher IQ.
B.Experiencing new information
C.The baby’ early age
D.The connection with other babies
2.What did Judit Gervain and her team find in the experiment?
A.Babies identify different sound patterns.
B.Word order is relevant to meaning.
C.Babies can well understand different words.
D.A certain brain region processes language.
3.What does the underlined sentence mean in Paragraph 3?
A.Grammar is important in learning languages.
B.Different orders have different meanings.
C.Different languages have different grammar.
D.Words have different sounds.
4.What is the main conclusion from the study led by Patricia Kuhl?
A. Babies shouldn’t watch a lot of television.
B.Listening to different languages develops babies’ brain
C.Foreign languages help babies’ brain develop
D.Social communication improves babies’ brain development.
2、Have you ever heard of a pawpaw? If not,do not feel bad. Most Americans do not know of the fruit, although it is native to the United States. Once, however, it was one of the most popular fruits in North America. Happily, those who love the pawpaw are trying to return it to its former position in American foods.
The pawpaw is a kind of fruit that grows on trees found all over the eastern United States. It is similar in size to a typical mango. It has a dull green-colored skin, and a soft, almost creamy orange inside. Most people agree that it tastes like a combination of bananas, apricots and mangoes. Most people are very surprised by its sweet taste. The fruit has a very short harvest season, for two to three weeks in September and October.
The pawpaw has never been sold commercially, the fruit requires a very special environment—low, wet areas that are sometimes flooded. In addition, it is good to eat for only two to three days after harvesting, which makes it hard to sell anywhere distant from the pawpaw trees.
But farmers are still growing pawpaw trees and harvesting the fruit. In several states the farmers have organized "pawpaw festivals" to reintroduce the fruit to people.
Farmers are trying to grow all kinds of pawpaws that will be easier to ship and sell commercially. Donna and Jim Davis are pawpaw farmers in Westminster, Maryland. They told National Public Radio that they purchased their pawpaw trees in the 1990s and now sell the fruit at farmer markets and online.
So, in the near future, maybe the pawpaw will show up at a market near your house.
1.What is the pawpaw's most outstanding nature?
A.Its harvest season is autumn.
B.It tastes like an apricot.
C.It looks like a banana.
D.It is rich in sugar.
2.Why is it difficult for the pawpaw to become a big business?
A.Because it has small production.
B.Because it needs floods to grow well.
C.Because it is hard to keep it fresh long.
D.Because it requires special living conditions.
3.What do farmers do to deal with the disadvantage of pawpaws?
A.Reintroduce pawpaws to people.
B.Plant improved pawpaw trees.
anize festivals for the pawpaw.
D.Sell the fruit at farmer markets.
4.Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
A.A forgotten American fruit has become popular again
B.The pawpaw plays an important part in America
C.Most people hardly eat fresh pawpaws
D.A traditional fruit comes on a new look
3、Technological change is everywhere and affects every aspect of life, mostly for the better. However, social changes brought about by new technology are often mistaken for a change in attitudes.
An example at hand is the involvement of parents in the lives of their children who are attending college. Surveys (调查) on this topic suggests that parents today continue to be “very” or “somewhat” overly-protective even after their children move into college dormitories. The same surveys also indicate that the rate of parental involvement is greater today than it was a generation ago. This is usually interpreted as a sign that today’s parents are trying to manage their children’s lives past the point
where this behavior is appropriate.
However, greater parental involvement does not necessarily indicate that parents are failing to let go of their “adult” children.
In the context (背景) of this discussion, it seems valuable to first find out the cause of change in the case of parents’ involvement with their grow n children. If parents of earlier generations had wanted to be in touch with their college-age children frequently, would this have been possible? Probably not. On the other hand, does the possibility of frequent communication today mean that the urge to do so wasn’t present a generation ago? Many studies show that older parents - today’s grandparents - would have called their children more often if the means and cost of doing so had not been a barrier.
Furthermore, studies show that finances are the most frequent subject of communication between parents and their college children. The fact that college students are financially dependent on their parents is nothing new; nor are requests for more money to be sent from home. This phenomenon is neither good nor bad; it is a fact of college life, today and in the past.
Thanks to the advanced technology, we live in an age of bettered communication. This has many implications well beyond the role that parents seem to play in the lives of their children who have left for college. But it is useful to bear in mind that all such changes come from the technology and not some imagined desire by parents to keep their children under their wings.
1. The surveys inform us of ______.
A. the development of technology
B. th e changes of adult children’s behavior
C. the parents’ over-protection of their college children
D. the means and expenses of students’ communication
2. The writer believes that ______.
A. parents today are more protective than those in the past
B. the disadvantages of new technology outweigh its advantages
C. technology explains greater parental involvement with their children
D. parents’ changed attitudes lead to college children’s delayed Independence
3. What attitude does the writer hold towards greater parental involvement according to the last
paragraph?
A. negative
B. supportive
C. understandable
D. sceptical
4. What is the best title for the passage?
A. Technology or Attitude
B. Dependence or Independence
C. Family Influence or Social Changes
D. College Management or Communication Advancement
5. Which of the following shows the development of ideas in this passage?。