高考阅读真题

2015年高考英语阅读理解题及答案(9套)

Our brains work in complex and strange are some people who can calculate the day of the week for any given date in 40,000 years, but who cannot add two plus can perform complex classical piano pieces after hearing them once, but they cannot read or write.

Down first described this condition in called these people idiot idiot savant is a person who has significant mental impairment (损伤) , such as in autism ( 孤独症，自闭症) or the same time, the person also exhibits some extraordinary skills, which are unusual for most skills of the savant may vary from being exceptionally gifted in music or in mathematics, or having a photographic memory.

One of the first descriptions of a human who could calculate quickly was written in 1789 by Rush, an American patient, Thomas Fuller, was brought to Virginia as

a slave took Thomas only 90 seconds to work out that a man who has lived 70 years,

17 days, and 12 hours has lived 2,210,500,800 this ability, he died in 1790 without ever learning to read or write.

Another idiot savant slave became famous as a pianist in the Tom had a vocabulary of only 100 words, but he played 5 ,000 musical pieces beautifully.

In the excellent movie Rain Man, made in 1988 and available on video cassette, Dustin Hoffman plays an idiot savant who amazes his brother played by Tom Cruise, with his ability to perform complex calculations very rapidly.

Today we more clearly recognize that the idiot savant is special because of brain not all brain impairment leads to savant studies have shown that people who have purposeful interruption of the left side of the brain can develop idiot savant few people wish to participate in such are many excellent reasons for not undergoing unnecessary experimentation on one's term idiot savant is outdated and all savants have a high degree of intelligence and are thus not idiots.

does the passage mainly talk about?

savants have areas of outstanding abilities.

Beings have complicated thinking process.

brains of the idiot savants are partly impaired.

reasons why people have wonderful skills vary.

of the following can be done by Rain Man?

can play wonderful pieces of classical music.

can guess out exactly the length of a man's life.

can memorize the contents of the pictures fast.

can count matches dropped on the floor quickly.

can you infer from the passage?

savants have real talents for art and math.

is the first person who found idiot savants.

people wish to risk becoming savants by brain operations.

left brain impairments will surely lead to idiot savants.

of the following shows the structure of the passage?

答案：72—75 ADCB