江苏省2014届高三英语（牛津版）一轮复习攻略训练：阅读理解（14）
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Listening to a favorite son might promote the brain’s ability to respond to other stimuli(刺激) in people with chaos of consciousness.
Music has been shown to have a beneficial influence on cognitive(认知) process in healthy people and those who have brain damage. For example, daily music therapy can help to increase cognitive recovery.
Fabien Perrin at the University of Lyon, France, and colleagues recorded brain activity in four patients while they were reading a list of people’s names, including their own names. Before the list, they listened to either their favorite music—chosen by family or friends –or “musical noise”. The team then repeated the experiment with ten healthy volunteers.
In all four patients, playing the music rather than musical noise promoted the quality of the brain’s response to their own names, bringing it closer to the brain response of the healthy volunteers to hearing their names. The work was presented at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness meeting in Brighton, UK, last month.
Perrin has two theories about what’s going on. “Listening to preferred music excites our memory of ourselves—so it could make it easier for the response to the information such as our own names,” he says. “Another theory is that music promotes awareness, so maybe it temporarily increases consciousness and recognition of one’s own names becomes easier.”
“The familiar music might be causing an emotional arousal effect, and once the patient with brain damage is aroused, there is a small window that opens for increased communication and the brain responds to the name,” suggests Carsten Finke, an expert at Charite Medical School in Berlin, Germany, who was not involved in the study.
So is Perrin’s music waking some form of consciousness in the people with brain damage? “I haven’t come across any responses like this to music before and it’s too early to conclude that it has any therapeutic effects in these patients,” says Adrian Owen at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
56. What did Fabien Perrin find about the four patients in the experiment?
A. Their cognitive recovery was increased after listening to music noise.
B. They responded to music noise more quickly than to their favorite music.
C. Their consciousness and recognition of music noise became easier.
D. They could react to their own names better after listening to their favorite music.
57. From Adrian Owen’s words, we can infer that _______________.
A. music can increase consciousness
B. preferred music can excite one’s memory of his own
C. music has no therapeutic effects on people with brain damage
D. more research should be done to confirm the influence of music
58. What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. People with brain damage like listening to music.
B. Familiar music could help people with brain damage.
C. People with brain damage can recognize their own names.
D. Everyone can increase cognitive recovery through music.
B
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A. He should design his own route.
B. He should book the tickets in advance.
C. He should accompany the tourists on their travels.
D. He should organize at least 15 tourists with the same route.
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A. Free visa.
B. Comfortable van
C. Bilingual personal guide.
D. Flexible time and sightseeing spots.
61. You will spend less time on the flight if you choose _________.
A. Cathay Pacific
B. Chinese Airlines
C. United Airlines
D. Korean Air
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A. He must choose another tour.
B. He will afford over 80% of the fines.
C. He will have no chances to travel again.
D. He will be fined only a little if he can find a replacement.
C
The largest campaign of killing rats in history is set to poison millions of rats on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. Scientists say the campaign planned for 2016mand 2014 will restore beautiful South Georgia to the position it once held as the world’s most important nesting sites for seabirds.
It was sailors in the late 18th century who unintentionally introduced rats to what had been a fresh environment. “If we can destroy the rats, at least 100 million birds will return to their home on South Georgia,” says Tony Martin, a biology professor at the University of Dundee who was invited to lead the project.
South Georgia is by far the largest island to get rid of animals that destroy native wildlife after being introduced deliberately or accidentally by people. Though rats and mice have done the most damage, cats, foxes, goats, deer, rabbits and other species have been targeted in the campaigns around the world.
South Georgia is seven times the size of New Zealand’s Campbell Island, currently the largest area ever killing rats. The successful war against Campbell Island rats was carried our in 2001 with 132 tons of poison dropped from five helicopters.
“New Zealand pioneered the techniques for ridding islands of rats and in fact our operation on South Georgia is based on New Zealand’s technology.” Says Martin. “Some New Zealanders will be helping our campaign, including our chief pilot, Peter Garden, who was also chief pilot for the projects at Campbell Island and Rat Island, in the Aleutian chain of the north Pacific.”
The second and third stages in 2016 and 2014 will involve dropping as much as 300 tons of poison from the air onto every part of the island where rats might live. It is a huge operation, carried out during the stormy southern autumn when the rats are hungry and the risks of poisoning native wildlife are less than in the spring and summer months. “Ideally we’d do in winter but the weather makes that too risky,” Martin says.
The ecological payback will be priceless. But Martin says, “The full benefits will take decades to arrive, because some of these birds are slow to hatch.”
63. According to the passage, how did the rats appear on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia ?
A. They were attracted there by wildlife.
B. They escaped there from Campbell Island.
C. They were introduced there by sailors accidently.
D. They were brought in by people deliberately.
64. Which of the following is True about Peter Garden ?
A. He is in charge of the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.
B. He will be the only pilot for the project on the sub-Antarctic island.
C. He will benefit a lot from the campaign on the sub-Antarctic island.
D. He made great contributions to the project at Campbell Island and Rat Island.
65. The operation of ridding South Georgia of rats is to carried out in autumn because _________.
A. the war against Campbell Island rats failed in all seasons except autumn.
B. only then do the New Zealanders to help the operation have the spare time.
C. rats then need more food and the operation does less harm to native wildlife.
D. the poison kills rats more effectively than it does in any other season.
66. What can we infer from the passage?.
A. The campaign of killing rats will benefit the native wildlife in a short time.
B. Rats aren’t the only species to be blamed for the disappearance of wildlife.
C. The first stage of killing rats on the sub-Antarctic island didn’t make great achievements.
D. The campaign in South Georgia will fully follow in the footsteps of that on Campbell Island.
D
Every school has an ugly girl. In my primary school, it was me.
From first grade through fourth, I had to wear heavy orthopedic(整形外科的)shoes because of my weak ankles. I sounded like overweight elephant wearing bricks whenever I took a single step.
“Hey, Bigfoot!”
“Geez, you’re going to start an earthquake!”
Then in sixth grade I had to start wear glasses. Mom asked for the least expensive ones and that made me look like a fool.
“Four eyes!”
“Couldn’t you cover up more of your faces? Why stop at the eyes?”
In Seventh, I started competing on the city swim team, thinking that if I got a killer body, nobody would notice my face. Wrong again. I loved being fast and winning ribbons now and then, but now I had red, wet eyes from the chlorine(氯) in the pool. I also did not develop a killer body.
I changed my strategy at Eighth grade, the last year of middle school. I offered my help to anyone who needs. I worked for other girls, so they could hang out with their friends. My new program began to work. People who would never have acknowledged my existence before were suddenly seeking me out.
I’d been feeling pretty good until one day I went to Christine’s house to help her fill envelopes. Going into each envelope was invitation to Christine’s birthday party; it was a big event at a fancy hotel. Complete with dinner. She asked me to help her address these envelopes. There was no envelope for me.
My heart was broken. I tried to escape from all the eyes. High school had to be better, right？ Yes and no. now that I’m here, I know there are still lots of shallow people judging you on what you’re wearing or how cool your hair is . but there are also kids who talk to you because they liked your answers or just as you’re kind, honest, and a good friend.
I still do kind things because I like the feeling I get when I am helping people. I, with my friends, went to Children’s hospital, playing games and reading to the sick kids.
I still had wet red and not a smart look, but you cannot tell me I am not beautiful. Every time I visit hospital, five-year-old Terry grasps my hand, “Morri, you are so nice. I want to grow up to be just like you.”
67. Why was Morri laughed at by her classmates when she was in primary school?
A. She had weak ankles and eyesight. m]B. Her glasses couldn’t cover up her face.
C. She couldn’t get along well with them.
D. She looked like an overweight elephant.
68. Which of the following is the real reason for Morri competing on the city swim team?
A. To win more ribbons.
B. To shift others’ attention from her face.
C. To develop a killer body.
D. To have red wet eyes.
69. From what Morri experienced in the last year of middle school, we can learn that __________.
A. her classmates thought highly of her
B. she was popular among her classmates
C. she was often cheated by her classmates
D. her classmates just took advantage of her
70. The passage is intended to encourage people to __________.
A. address as many as invitation envelopes as possible
B. take more sport activities including swimming
C. take others’ comments into careful consideration
D. take positive attitude towards disadvantages in life
56—58 DDB
59—62 DACD
63—66 CDCB
67—70 ABDD