浙江省苍南县高考英语阅读理解专题选练(11)

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阅读理解。

Beginning college is exciting: new ideas to explore, new challenges to be met and

many decisions to be made. Your future begins here.

However, you will find college life is different from your previous school environm

ent. Many of us can be easily overwhelmed(压垮) by the details of running a

well-balanced life. While some of us may have the know-how, I guess there are more

of us who can benefit from learning about the experiences of other who have walked

the college halls before you.

The following you may find of use about life on campus.

1. Plan well. There are so many new things to do at a new college or university,

social and academic(学术的). Give yourself time to make new friends and become

familiar with the campus, but don’t forget why you are there. Give some time for

social activities and manage your time wisely.

2. If you don’t have a “system” for planning your time now (like a day time,

a computer date book), get one. Most of all, don’t depend on your memory.

3. Don’t miss the guidelines, restrictions, rules and regulations of all kinds

can usually be found in your student handbook. Consider them well-balanced food for

thought. What dates are important? What pieces of paper need to be handed in? What

can/can’t you do in your student residence(住处)? Who has authority for what? What

do you need to complete to graduate?

4. Write the word “STUDY” on the walls of our bedroom and bathroom, and maybe

it will help to write it on a piece of paper and stick it on the telephone, TV and

the kitchen table. Consider this – you are paying thousands of dollars for courses.

You pay every time you have to repeat or replace a course.

1. What is the main purpose of the passage?

A. To offer advice on college life.

B. To explain why college life is exciting.

C. To describe the importance of college life. - 2 - D. To persuade you to go to college ]

2. From the passage, we can know .

A. one will have more freedom at college

B. one will make more friends at college

C. one prepares for one’s future career and life at college

D. professors at college will provide you with many new ideas

3. What is the probable meaning of the underlined word “know-how” (in Paragraph

2)?

A. An understanding of how things are going at college.

B. A practical knowledge about how to behave and what to do at college.

C. College halls where rules and regulations are presented.

D. An environment completely different from the one you’re used to.

4. According to the passage, college students .

A. needn’t learn from those who went to college before them

B. should spend as much time as possible on social activities

C. should have a “system” for planning their time

D. are supposed to repeat or replace at least one course

【参考答案】1—4、ACBC

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。

Almost anyone who has read a travel brochure about Africa has heard of elephants

getting drunk from the fruit of the marula tree. It is said that elephants can get

drunk by eating the fermented (发酵) fruit rotting on the ground. Books have even

been written to prove the truth of the phenomenon.

But a study published in the journal Physiological and Biochemical Zoology tells

a very different story.

Steve Morris, a biologist at the University of Bristol in England and an author

of the study, says there is nothing in the biology of either the African elephant - 3 - or the marula fruit to support the stories. Morris says, “ people just want to believe

in drunken elephants.”

The marula tree, a member of the same family as the mango, grows widely in Africa.

Its sweet, yellow fruit is used for making jam, wine and beer. “The first mistake

of the drunken-elephant theory is that it’s unlikely that an elephant would eat the

fruit if it were rotten, ” Morris says. “Elephants eat the fruit right off the tree,

not when it’s rotten on the ground, ” he explains.

Other experts add that if an elephant were to eat the fruit on the ground, it

wouldn’t wait for the fruit to ferment. Michelle Gadd, an African wildlife specialist,

says that elephants and many other animals, including birds and monkeys, are too fond

of marula fruit to let it rot.

If fermented fruit on the ground is out of the question, so is the notion that

the fruit could ferment in the stomach of elephants, according to the study authors.

Food takes between 12 and 46 hours to pass through an elephant’s digestive system,

the authors point out, which is not enough for the fruit to ferment.

Supposing that this happened, it’s still highly improbable that the food would

produce enough alcohol to make an elephant drunk. Through calculations of body weight,