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1、温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后。关闭Word文档返回原板块。专题检测卷(二十二) 阅读理解（建议用时：25分钟）A体裁说明文题材电影艺术词数280From Avatar to Lord of the Rings, plants are no strangers to playing big movie roles. However, no one has ever shot a film that plants themselves can watch until now. In a New York art gallery, s
2、even house plants have spent the last seven weeks watching Strange Skies, the first travel documentary for a vegetable audience. All the plants sat in the cinema in rows, enjoying themselves in Italian sunshine. The movie was made by American artist Jonathon Keats. It consists of Italian skies recor
3、ded over two months and made into a six-minute-long movie. The film shows the clear dawn(黎明), high clouds, amazing dusk and then beautiful night. The movie has no sound and the plants, of course, do not applaud. But Stephen Squibb, a professor from Harvard University, said these plants could benefit
4、 from itthe light of the movie keeps them alive because they can continue the process of turning light into energy. “I realized there was a much larger audienceplantsthat were not being serviced, ”Keats said. “I wanted to provide plants with entertainment that companies such as Disney provide for hu
5、mans. ”Meanwhile, Keats also wants to explore plants sensibilities(敏感性)further. He plans to open a“restaurant for plants”at a Californian museum. One visitor, photographer Abbas Ebrahimi, admired(羡慕)the green audience, “Plants are better than us. We die and go, while in spring they come back each ti
6、me. ”But when talking about the movie, he said after thinking for a few minutes, “It doesnt mean anything to me at all. Its just about light. For some people, it might mean something. ”1. What can we learn about Keats according to the passage? A. He is an artist from Harvard University. B. He opened
7、 a restaurant for plants. C. He made the film Strange Skies. D. He liked recording Italian skies. 2. It can be learned that Strange Skies. A. has already created beautiful soundB. was shot from dawn to duskC. made plants play roles in itD. is the first travel film for plants3. What did Stephen Squib
8、b think of Strange Skies? A. He thought it had explored plants sensibilities. B. He thought it meant nothing to him. C. He thought it could keep plants growing. D. He thought it offered entertainment to plants. 4. Why did Abbas Ebrahimi admire the green audience? A. Because they die and re-grow in s
9、pring. B. Because they mean something to him. C. Because there are more plants than people. D. Because they can enjoy the movie. B体裁议论文题材大脑的研究词数390What makes humans smarter than other animals? Weve got a bigger brain, of course. But when it comes to brains, is bigger always better? Traditionally, sc
10、ientists have thought that humans superior intelligence derived(源于)mostly from the fact that our brains are three times bigger than those of our nearest living relatives, chimpanzees. People even used to believe that because men have slightly larger brains than women that men are smarter. This, howe
11、ver, is not the truth. Scientists at University College London in the UK have found that brain organization, and not brain size, is the key to the superiority of human intelligence, reported Live Science. Through millions of years of evolution, our ancestors were constantly pushed to get smarter so
12、that they could meet the demands of new environments. However, holding this growing intelligence in increasingly large brains was not the best choice because bigger brains require more energy to power. “This is when reorganization may come into play, ”said Christophe Soligo, a member of the London r
13、esearch team. In the study, scientists looked at the brains of 17 species of primates(灵长目动物), including monkeys, apes and humans. They found that in the process of evolution, brains didnt keep growing as a whole. Certain regions of the brain grew prior to others in response to species needs, and in
14、this way they could make the best use of their limited brain space. For example, when early humans were struggling to survive, the brain region in charge of using tools and finding food grew in size more than other regions. But in modern times, the prefrontal cortex(前额皮质)the region in charge of soci
15、al cognition(认知), moral judgments and goal-directed planninggrew more than the rest of the brain. Think of the brain as a room. If a big room is poorly organized, it doesnt necessarily store more stuff than a smaller one. Paul Manger, professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, e
16、xplains this principle using the example of whales. He told Scientific American: “Whales have big brains, absolutely. But if you look at the actual structure of the brain, its not very complex. Brain size only matters if the rest of the brain is organized properly. ”5. It has recently been found that humans are smarter than the other animals mainly because
