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山东省即墨市2014高考英语二轮阅读理解精英训练精品题（7）及答案【浙江省宁波市2014高考英语十校联考试题】c imagine youre in a dark room, running your fingers over a smooth surface in search of a single dot the size of this period, how high do you think the dot must be for your finger to feel it? scientists have determined that the human finger is so sensitive it can detect a surface bump just one micron（l06m）high the human eye, by contrast, cant tell anything much smaller than100 micronsno wonder we rely on touch rather than eyesight when faced with a new roll of toilet paperbiologically, touch is the mother of all sensory（感觉的） systemsit is an ancient sense in evolution: even the simplest single-celled living things can feel when something brushes up against them and will respond by moving closer or pulling away it is the first sense aroused during a babys development and the last to weaken at lifes peak patients in a deep coma （昏迷）who seem otherwise lost to the world will show skin reaction when touched by a nurse “touch ,is so central to what we are that we almost cannot imagine ourselves without it,” said chris dijkerman“its not like eyesight, where you close your eyes and you dont see anything you cant do that with touchits always there long ignored in favor of the sensory heavyweights of eyesight and hearing, the study of touch lately: has been gaining new concern among scientiststheyre exploring the effects of recently reported false touch impressions, of people being made to feel as though they had three arms, for example, with the hope of gaining the true understanding of how the mind worksothers are turning to touch for more practical purposes: to build better touch screen instruments and robot hands, a more well-rounded virtual life。“theres a fair amount of research into new ways of offloading information onto our sense of touch, said lynette jones to have your cell phone buzzing （making a low sound） as opposed to ringing turned out to have a lot of advantages insome situations touch is our most active sense, our means of seizing the world and experiencing it first hand drsusan lederman pointed out that while we can become aware of something by seeing or hear,ing7;-from a distance and without really trying, if we want to learn about something by means of touch, we must make a movewe must rub the cloth, or pet the cat touching is a two-way street, and thats not true for seeing or hearing if you have a soft object and you squeeze it, you change its shape the physical world reacts back our hands are smart and can do many tasks automatically - button a shirt, fit a key in a lock, play the; piano for othersdrlederman and her colleagues have shown that blindfolded subjects can easily recognize a wide range of common -objects placedin their handsbut on some feeling tasks, touch is all thumbs （very clumsy） when people are given a raised line drawing of a common object, theyre puzzled“if all weve got is outline information; drlederman said,“no weight, no texture, no temperature information, well, were very, very bad with that touch also turns out to be easy to fool, among the sensory tricks now being investigated is something called the pinocchio illusion researchers have found that if they shake the band of the biceps（二头肌）, many people report feeling that their forearm is getting longer, their hand floating ever further from their elbow（肘） and if they are told to touch the forefinger of the shaken arm to the tip of their nose, they feel as though their nose was lengthening, too 50which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a our eyes are more sensitive than our fingers b our fingers are more sensitive than our eyes c our eyes are more sensitive than our ears d our noses are less sensitive than our ears51the sense that is firstly awaked during a childs development is the sense of a sight b taste c hearing d touch52the underlined sentence “you cant do that with touch” here means “you cant ” a close your skin b close your eyes c touch anything d see anything53scientists are lately getting interested in the following except a living a well-rounded virtual life b understanding how the mind worksc favoring eyesight and hearing d building better touch screen objects54in the view of , movement is needed when we want to know something by touching a the author b chris dijkermanc lynette jonesd susan lederman【参考答案】5054、bdacd 【浙江省宁波市2014高考英语十校联考试题】doscar-winning actress joan fontaine, who rose to fame during hollywoods golden age as the star of several alfred hitchcock classics, died from natural causes at her home in carmel, northern california on december 16, 2013 aged 96, us media reports said born in japan to british parents, fontaine moved in 1919 to california, where she and her elder sister screen idol olivia de havillandwere to shape successful movie careersfontaine and de havilland remain the only sisters to have won lead actress honours at the academy awardsyet the two sisters also had an uneasy relationship, with fontaine recording a bitter competition in her own account no bed of roses fontaine began her acting career in her late teens with largely less important roles on the stage and later in mostly b-movies in the 1930s it was not before famous british film director hitchcock spotted her a decade later that her career took off greatly surprised by her expressive looks, the suspense (悬念） master cast fontaine in his first us film, a 1940 adaptation of the daphne du maurier novel rebecca she received an academy award nomination（提名） for her performance as a troubled wife a year later, fontaine finally won the long-sought golden figure, for her role as leading lady in suspicion opposite cary grant, becoming the first and only actress to earn the title for a hitchock film although her sister, olivia de havilland, preceded her in gaining hollywood fame, fontaine was the first of the sisters to win an oscar, beating olivias nomination as best actress in mitchell leisens hold back the dawn the dislike ,between the sisters was felt at the oscars ceremonyi froze i stared across the table, where olivia was sittingget up there! she whispered commandingly, fontaine saidall the dislike wed felt toward each other as childrenall came rushing back in quickly changing picturesi felt olivia would spring across the table and seize me by the hair olivia did not win her first oscar until 1946, for her role as the lover of a world war i pilot in leisens to each his own fontaine later made it known that her sister had slighted her as she attempted to offer congratulations“she took one look at me, ignored my hand, seized her oscar and wheeled away,” she said the sisters were also reportedly competitors in love howard hughes, a strange businessman who dated the elder de havilland for a time, offered marriage to fontaine several timesi married first, won the oscar before olivia did, and if i die first, shell undoubtedly be extremely angry because i beat her to it! fontaine once joked as her film career fruited in the 1950s, fontaine turned to television and dinner theatre, and also appeared in several broadway productions, including the lion in winter anything but the ordinary lady, fontaine was also a licensed pilot, a champion balloonist, an accomplished golfer, a licensed .decoration designer and a first-class cook55when she moved to california, joan fontaine was years olda two b twelve c twentyd twenty -two56fontaine did not become successful or popular until the _ a 1930s b 1940s c 1950s d 1960s57fontaine won her oscar for her role in the film of “ ” a rebecca b suspicioncto each his own d hold back the dawn58which of the following statements is true according to the passage? a olivia preceded fontaine in getting married b olivia gamed hollywood fame after fontaine c fontaine won an oscar before her sister olivia, d fontaine wanted to meet her death before olivia59the dislike between fontaine and olivia began when they acompeted for an oscar bcompeted for a husbandcwere small children d were successful actresses60as can- be seen from the passage, fontaine was a person who was a disliked by her family b always a troubled wife c able to do few jobs d gifted in many ways【参考答案】5560、abbccd阅读理解if you were a pilot flying a plane, and suddenly the engine failed, would you eject(跳出), or stay in? for a pilot, the choice is very difficult. if he ejects, he is safe, but the plane crashes. if he stays in the plane, he risks his life. recently, chinese air force pilot li feng, 38, faced this choice during a training exercise. it was march 7 and he was flying a jian-10 (fighter-10) at 4,500 meters. a warning appeared on the planes computer screen. he realized the plane might fail at any moment.li feng did a quick check of the engine and asked the base if he could return. when the fighter was 7 km away from the airport, however, the engine stopped working. the plane began to fall at a speed of 25 meters a second at an altitude of 1,160 meters .under air force rules, fighter pilots may eject if their aircraft loses engine power below 2,000 meters and cant be restarted. before li lost contact with the control tower, the commander in the air base asked him to eject. but li feng insisted on having another try.“i knew where the deadline (to give up the aircraft) was and was prepared for the ejection, but i decided not to give up unless the fighter was totally out of control,” li recalled（回忆） during a recent television interview.after 104 seconds, li was able to bring the fighter to a safe landing. the plane only suffered slight damage.“you are a hero! congratulations!” lis teacher, xu yongling wrote in a text message to him after the landing. he said li was a cool-headed pilot and very professional(专业的).lis brave and calm act not only saved the 200 million yuan aircraft but also gave him invaluable first-hand experience of dealing with an engine emergency(紧急情况).for his outstanding performance, the air force recently awarded him a gold medal.67. when the engine stopped working, li feng . a. was flying a jian-10 at 4,500 metersb. saw a warning appear on the planes computer screen c. decided not to give up the plane d. was asked to stay in, but he ejected 68. when the fighter plane loses engine power below 2,000 meters . a. pilots must restart it as soon as possible b. pilots should repair it as soon as possible c. pilots may eject for safety d. pilots should bring it to a safe landing 69. according to the passage, what kind of person is li feng? a. he is cool-headed. b. he is confident.c. he is fearless and cool under pressure. d. all of the above.70. what is the best title for the passage? a. flying the fighter correctly b. when to give up the aircraft c. how to deal with an engine emergency d. bring the fighter to a safe landing 阅读理解- (2011陕西卷，d)ever since they were first put on the market in the early 1990s, genetically modified (gm, 转基因) foods have been increasingly developed and marketed in many countries in the world，mainly on the basis of their promise to end the worldwide food crisis. but can gm technology solve world hunger problems? even if it would，is it the best solution?despite what it promises，gm technology actually has not increased the production potential(潜力)of any crop. in fact studies show that the most widely grown gm crop, gm soybeans, has suffered reduced productivity. for instance, a report that analysed nearly two decades of research on major gm food crops shows that gm engineering has failed to significantly increase us crop production.something else, however, has been on the rise. while gm seeds are expensive, gm companies tell farmers that they will make good profits by saving money on pesticides(杀虫剂). on the contrary, us government data show that gm crops in the us have produced an overall increase in pesticide use compared to traditional crops. “the promise was that you could use less chemicals and boost production. but neither is true，” said bill christison, president of the us national family farm coalition.at the same time, the authors of the book world hunger: twelve myths argue that there actually is more than enough food in the world and that the hunger crisis is not caused by production, but by problems in food distribution and politics. these indeed deserve our efforts and money. meanwhile, the rise in food prices r