阅读理解 第一篇 A male zebra finch chirps away to himself. Suddenly he notices a female bird, nearby: He realizes he has an audience and immediately changes his song. Can the female tell the difference in his performance? According to a new study, the female zebra finch knows. And she prefers the special trills he creates when he sings to her. A male zebra finch changes his song when singing to a female in ways that people can barely detect. But the female finch can tell the difference. In the study, Woolley and Doupe set up a long cage with a sound speaker at each end. One broadcast the sound of a male zebra finch singing to himself, like someone singing in the shower. The other speaker broadcast a male performing for a female audience, as if he was giving a concert. Mated females also had a chance to listen to two different performance songs, one from an unknown male, and one from their mate. They spent more time listening, to the concert version of their mates songs. This suggests that after a while, females learn to recognizeand prefer-the songs of their mates. 31 What does the first paragraph say about zebra finches? __________ B Male zebra finches sing louder than female zebra finches. D Male zebra finches like to listen to female zebra finches sing. A Female finches liked songs male finches sang for them. C Female finches liked to listen to songs from both speakers. 33 What is meant by concert songs in the seventh paragraph? __________ B Songs sung by male finches for female finches. D Songs sung by male finches to many female finches. A The sender of a message has a specific audience. C Mothers talk to their babies. 35 Which of the following can best reflect the theme of the passage? _________ B Birdsongs as communication. D Enjoying birdsongs. Media and Current Events Electronic media are having a greater impact on the peoples lives every day. People gather more and more of their impressions from representations. Television and telephone communications are linking people to a global village, or what one writer calls the electronic city. Consider the information that television brings into your home every day. Consider also the contact you have with others simply by using telephone. These media extend your conscious-ness and your contact. For example, the video coverage of the 1989 San Francisco earthquake focused on live action such as the fires or the rescue efforts. This gave the viewer the impression of total disaster. Television coverage of the Iraqi War also developed an immediacy. CNN reported events as they happened. This coverage was distributed worldwide. Although most people were far away from these events, they developed some perception of these realities. 36 The best title for the passage is ____________. B The Impact of Media on Current Events D How Media Cover Events ____________. A electronic media can extend ones contact with the world C all the events occurring on the university campus at Berkeley were given national media coverage 38 The term electronic city in Paragraph 2 refers to ____________. B San Francisco D Earth A the jury acquitted the policemen who had beaten Rodney King C video coverage from helicopters had made people angry 40 It can be inferred from the passage that ____________. B most people who had seen the video of the Rodney King beating agree with the verdict of the jury D Rodney King seemed very angry when he appeared on television on Friday Learning Disabilities Since about 1970, new research has helped brain scientists understand these problems better. Scientists now know there are many different kinds of learning disabilities and that they are caused by many different things. There is no longer any question that all learning disabilities result from differences in the way the brain is organized. In one study, researchers examined the brain of a learning-disabled person who had died in an accident. They found two unusual things. One involved cells in the left side of the brain, which control language. These cells normally are white. In the learning disabled person, however, these cells were gray. The researchers also found that many of the nerve cells were not in a line the way they should have been. The nerve cells were mixed together. Other researchers did not examine brain tissue. Instead, they measured the brains electrical activity and made a map of the electrical signals. 41 Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage? _________. B Learning disabilities may result from damage to a wide area of the brain. D Learning disabilities may result from problems in the left side of the brain. A structure and function C size and arrangement 43 All of the following statements are TRUE except that _________. B a learning-disabled person shows no outward signs D the brain activity of learning-disabled children is different from that of normal children A he found the exact cause of learning disabilities C the problem of learning disabilities resulted from the left side of the brain 45 According to the passage we can conclude that further researches should be made __________. B to study how children learn to read and write, and use numbers D to explore how the left side of the brain functions in language learning 31 C 32 A 33 B 34 D 35 B 41 A 42 D 43 C 44 D 45 C
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