外研版高中英语选修6 Module5 名师名题：模块质量测评

名师名题：M5模块质量测评
(时间：90分钟满分：120分)
第一部分阅读理解(共两节，满分40分)
第一节：(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
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
A new study shows that fat people in the United States suffer direct economic and social effects because of their size. The findings are from an 8－year study of about 100 000 people. The people studied were between the ages of 16 and 25 when the research began.
The researchers who carried out the study say they consider the people fat if they are in the top of 5% of the measurement in which weight is connected with height. For example, fat women in the study were about 160 centimeters tall and weighed about 90 kilograms. Fat men in the study were about 175 centimeters tall and weighed 100 kilograms. The researchers say that more than 1 000 000 Americans are that big. The researchers found that fat young women were more likely to lose social and economic power even if they were from wealthy families. The fat women also were 20% less likely to get married and they earned an average of about $6 700 a year less than other women. The study showed less severe effect on fat men. They earned an average of about $ 3 000 a year less than other men. Fat men also were 11% less likely to get married.
1．From this passage we know fat people in America were ______.
A．admired B．respected
C．unhealthy D．unpopular
2．Which of the following was NOT mentioned in this passage?
A．The reason why fat people suffered.
B．The cause that caused people to be fat.
C．The standard of fat people.
D．The number of fat people.
3．The underlined word “severe” means ______.
A．economic B．social
C．serious D．favorable
4．Fat people were inferior to(比……差)other people in ______.
A．brain, human rights and payment
B．income, marriage and political rights
C．brain, education and marriage
D．marriage, getting jobs and income
B
From the moment that an animal is born, it has to make decisions. It has to decide which of the things around it are for eating, and which are to be avoided; when to attack and when to run away. The animal is, in fact, playing a very dangerous game with its environment, a game in which it must make decisions — a matter of life or death.
Animals' ability to act reasonably is believed to come partly from what we may call “genetic(遗传性的)learn ing”，which is different from the individual(个体的) learning that an animal does in the course of its own lifetime. Genetic learning is learning by a species — animals of the same kind as a whole, and it is achieved by selection of those members of each generation that happen to act in the right way. However, the role of genetic learning depends upon how similar the future environment is to the past. The more important individual experience is likely to be, the less important is genetic learning as a means of getting over the problems of the survival game. Because most animals live in ever changing environments from one generation to the next, it is not surprising to find that very few species indeed depend wholly upon genetic learning.
In the great majority of animals, their particular ways of acting in a new environment are a compound(复合体) of individual experience added to the action patterns animals are born with. That is why animals can survive.
5．The animal's life will come to an end ______.
A．if the animal makes a wrong decision
B．if the animal plays a dangerous game
C．when the animal attacks its enemy
D．when the animal runs too slowly
6．Very few species depend entirely on genetic learning because ______.。