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B The world’s astronomers came to their senses yesterday and approved a new definition of the word “planet” that would drop tiny Pluto from the club and relegate it instead to a lesser realm of “dwarf planets.” It was a welcome step away from a proposal that would have kept Pluto as a planet but meantime opened the door for dozens of small, icy bodies on the fringes of the solar system. The important vote came after fierce debate at a
66. We can know from the passage that the new definition of planet __________. A. has been welcomed by all walks of life B. will kick the Pluto out of the planet group in the solar system C. still makes the Pluto as a planet D. will enlarge the number of planets in our solar system into permanently 12
本文主要探讨天文学家如何定义planet，新的规定 已将太阳系的行星Pluto去掉，从九颗降为八颗，而 避免了升为12颗。由首段that would drop tiny Pluto from the club and relegate it instead to a lesser realm of “dwarf planets.”可得出正确答案。
【考点】日常生活类—夹斜夹议 【文章大意】本文主要介绍作者讲述在自己教学生 涯中，在文学课上，如何教学生文学阅读的亲身体 验，可以美化他们的心灵。 66.【答案】D 【试题解析】句意理解题。这句话运用了明喻和暗 喻的修辞手法，“一本书就是能融化我们冰冻着的 内心的一把斧子”，这是表面意思，即指一本书能 够唤醒我们内心深处的情感，引起共鸣之意。故选D 项。 67【答案】D 【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第三段“But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen”可知，D项正确。
58 1. no more than 的意思是“仅仅”“只有”“最 多不超过”，强调少,强调数字事实。如： This test takes no more than thirty minutes. 这个测验只要30分钟。
2. not more than 为 more than （多于）的否定 式，其意为“不多于”“不超过”。如： Not more than 10 guests came to her birthday party. 来参加她的生日宴会的客人不超 过十人。 比较： She has no more than three hats. 她只有 3顶帽子。（太少了） She has not more than three hats. 她至多 有3顶帽子。（也许不到3顶帽子）
meeting of the International Astronomical Union, which had been considering a proposal to define a planet as any object that orbits a star and is large enough for its own gravity to pull it into a spherical (球形的) shape. That definition was scientifically precise but led to results that offended common sense. An asteroid, a small moon, and another icy ball like Pluto would suddenly have risen to planethood, swelling the number of planets to 12, with many more icy rocks likely to qualify as more was learned about them.
61.【答案】C 【试题解析】推理判断题。根据第五段中“Global demand is at an all-time record high, and global supplies are at all-time record lows”可 推断Matt Rush认为，全球对农业的需要达到了最 高，而全球的供应则达到了最低，故在农业上投资 肯定会获利，即C项正确。 62.【答案】C 【试题解析】句意理解题。根据最后一段第二句中 “…this is a new time in agriculture —will motivate the next generation…”可推断此处表示 的是“农业的新时机将会激励下一代来参与，即农 民的平均年龄将会年轻化”，故C项正确。
68.【答案】C 【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第四段“The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates”可知C 项正确。 69.【答案】A 【试题解析】推理判断题。根据第五段第四句“I have never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious.”可推断作 者对孩子阅读小说的创造力感到惊讶，字里行间流露出 自豪，故A项正确。
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49. put up 建造，支起，搭起；张贴；进行(抵抗等)； 提供，提名，提出；提高(价格、速度)；为…提供食 宿，投宿 She put up a game fight against her detractors. 她勇敢对抗那些诽谤她的人。 He put up a good fight against his sickness. 他同疾病作顽强的斗争。 Here, I'd like to put up an idea for your consideration. 我想在这儿提个意见供你考虑。 He put up a good show in the final examination. 他在期末考试中表现得不错。 We'd better put up a notice here. 我们最好在这儿贴一张通知。
58.【答案】A 【试题解析】推理判断题。根据四个大标题 “Spouse/Partner”，“Clooney/Cruz”,“MP3 Player”和“Dog”下的段落中关键词，“the South African women/ the Indian women, Russian men, the Mexian men, older than 45”等都可看出是从性 别、国籍、年龄这三个方面来调查的，故A项正确。
【考点】科技类—说明文 【文章大意】本文是一篇科技文，主要介绍了美国在农 业方面临农民人数少，年龄偏大的问题，同时还缺少专 业大学生从事农业生产。该怎么样解决这个问题。 59.【答案】A 【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“The country’s farmers are getting older, and there are fewer people standing in line to take their place”可 知，A项正确。 60.【答案】D 【试题解析】细节理解题。根据第二段第一句中“…is making stops at universities across the country in hopes of encouraging more students to think about careers in agriculture”可知，D项正确。
Pluto, with its small size and oddball orbit, should never have been deemed a planet in the first place. Henceforth there will be eight planets, at least three dwarf planets, and tens of thousands of “smaller solar system bodies,” like comets and asteroids. Our only regret is that the astronomers chose the name “dwarf planets” for Pluto’s new category instead of abandoning the word entirely when discussing these less-than-planetary bodies.
The victim put up a heroic stru受害者与攻击者展开了英勇的搏斗。