课时微训练25

课时微训练25(时间：45分钟　满分：41分)Ⅰ.阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2分，满分16分)A(2014·安徽卷)Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big，tough African elephants running away，a new study says.Beehives (蜂窝)—either recorded or real—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmers' crops.In 2002，scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them.Today，Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops.But before she asked farmers to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms，she needed to find out if the bees would scare elephants away.Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder.Then she threw a stone into the beehive，which burst into life.Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down.Next，Lucy searched our elephant families in Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.From a distance，Lucy switched on the pre​r ecorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera.Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds.Out of a total of 17 groups，only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees.Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them.When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布)instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families，the animals were undisturbed.Even after four minutes，most of the groups stayed in one place.Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times.She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know，but her initial(最初的)results were promising enough to begin trials with farmers.She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.[语篇解读]　最新研究表明，蜂窝能够阻止大象破坏农民的庄稼。

1．We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of ________.A．loud noises B．some cropsC．video cameras D．angry bees解析：细节理解题。

根据第一段中的“Recordings of angry bees are enough to send big，tough African elephants running away，a new study says.Beehives(蜂窝)—either recorded or read—may even prevent elephants from damaging farmers' crops”可知选D。

答案：D2．As mentioned in the passage，Lucy ________.A．works by herself in AfricaB．needs to test more elephant groupsC．has stopped elephants eating cropsD．has got farmers to set up beehives on their farms解析：推理判断题。

根据最后一段“She hasn't tested enough groups yet to know”可推知选B。

答案：B3．Why did Lucy throw a stone into a wild beehive?A．To record the sound of bees.B．To make a video of elephants.C．To see if elephants would run away.D．To find out more about the behavior of bees.解析：推理判断题。

根据第四段内容可知，Lucy使用这个预先录制的愤怒蜜蜂的声音是去测试象群的反应，故推知，她用石头砸蜂窝是为了录下愤怒蜜蜂的声音。

故选A。

答案：A4．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A．Young elephants ignore African honeybees.B．Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.C．Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.D．Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.解析：正误判断题。

根据第二段的首句“In 2002，scientist Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them”可知C项正确。

答案：CB(2014·石家庄市高中毕业班第二次模拟考试)The Internet already dominates(占据)every aspect of our work and social life.So what's next for the Internet？You may have already heard about the so​c alled“Internet of Things”．It has received a lot of attention recently with several tech​o riented media regarding 2014 as the year of the Internet of Things.The Internet connects us to our devices，enabling us to upload data.In the Internet of Things，however，data is transferred over a network without requiring human－to－human or human－to－computer interaction.The concept has changed from the union of wireless technology and micro－electromechanical systems.A thing，in the Internet of Things，can be a person or a car that has built－insensors to warn the driver when the tire pressure is low.Here is a simple explanation offered by The Atlantic：“Companies can put chips in lifeless objects—cars，refrigerators—that allow those objects to be connected to the Internet and controlled remotely.”At the beginning of the Internet age，we had to use a mouse to visit a website when we interacted with our devices.But the Internet of Things replaces these Internet－related actions.Our smartphones already have the ability to gather information without our awareness.The next step is to make our smartphones even smarter by having them remote－control our lighting systems or home security without us giving any commands.In 2014，we will see a breakthrough of the Internet of Things，says the Quartz article.That's because in the past year or so，tech companies have created inexpensive，power－efficient chips that enable pretty much anything to connect to the Internet via Wi－Fi or to a mobile phone.Giant technology companies are looking to cash in on this next big thing.The marketing language about the Internet of Things reflects their desire to dominate it.You'll be hearing a lot about the Internet of Things in 2014.[语篇解读]　近来，物联网被炒得火热，一些科技媒体更是高调宣称2014年将是“物联网之年”，那么物联网是什么呢？本文对此作了详细的介绍。