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1、 外研版 2021 版高考英语选修7 一轮复习达标检测卷 Module 4Music Born in America 建议用时 35 分钟 阅读理解 A 2020 昆明摸底调研 A study of 500 000 songs released 发行 in the UK between 1985 and 2015 showed that pop music had decreased in happiness and increased in sadness In a report published in the journal Royal Society Open Science rese
2、archers at the University of California examined hundreds of thousands of songs and classified them by their mood Happiness is going down sadness is going up and at the same time the songs are becoming more danceable and more party like co author Natalia L Komarova told The Associated Press The stud
3、y found songs in 2014 like Stay with Me by Sam Smith Whispers by Passenger and Unmissable by Gorgon City have a low happiness trend However tracks from 1984 like Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen Would I Lie to You by Eurythmics and Freedom by Wham had a high happiness trend The public seems to prefer
4、 happier songs even though more and more unhappy songs are being released each year the researchers wrote Apart from the emotional trends researchers discovered that dances and pop were the most successful styles of music and that there was a clear downward trend with the popularity of rock beginnin
5、g in the early 2000s So it looks like while the overall mood is becoming less happy people seem to want to forget it all and dance Komarova wrote in an email It was also found that the maleness of songs the frequency of male singers in popular music had decreased during the last 30 years Successful
6、songs are characterised by a larger percentage of female artists compared to all songs they wrote This discovery appears at a time when the conversation around sex equality in the music industry is at its height with more male artists and songwriters 解题导语 本文是一篇说明文 主要介绍了流行音乐表达的情绪的变化趋势 1 The researche
7、rs examined lots of songs to A find songs for dances and parties B choose songs for a journal C release more songs D know better about songs D解析 推理判断题 本文第二段介绍了加州大学的研究者们调查了成千上万的歌曲 并把它们按情绪分类 紧接着得出歌曲分类的结果 可见他们调查歌曲的目的是想对歌曲有 更多的了解 故选D A C 两项曲解文意 B 项无中生有 2 Whose music style tends to bring you more happine
8、ss A Natalia L Komarova s B Sam Smith s C Gorgon City s D Bruce Springsteen s D解析 细节理解题 根据第三段中的 However tracks from 1984 like Glory Days by Bruce Springsteen had a high happiness trend 可知 D 项正确 Natalia L Komarova 为报 道的合著者 而非歌手 Sam Smith Gorgon City 所演唱的歌曲有让人开心感降低的趋势 故排除 3 What do we know about songs
9、 over the past three decades A Rock became popular in the early 2000s B Fewer unhappy songs came to light every year C Male singers were better at performing pop music D Female artists were less skilled in writing songs A解析 细节理解题 根据第四段中的 with the popularity of rock beginning in the early 2000s 可知 摇滚
10、乐在21 世纪初开始流行 故A 项正确 其余三个选项的内容均与文意不 符 4 What can be a suitable title for the text A Pop Music Is Getting Sadder B Music Calls for Sex Equality C Pop Music Has a Long History D Music Industry Is Going Down A解析 标题归纳题 根据本文首段总述及后续段落的描述可知 全文重点介绍了流 行音乐正变得越来越伤感 故选A 项 B 项仅是本文中提到的一个细节 C 项不是本文的 重点 D 项扩大外延 属过度概
11、括 故排除 B 2020 成都高三摸底 As evolution tends to remove waste how come we evolved such large energy consuming brains The dominant hypothesis 假设 suggests that tough social interactions are the driving force But our new study done in an unusual way shows that human brain expansion is likely driven by ecology
12、 生态 Scientists have tested the ecological and social hypotheses before The common approach is to look at many species and investigate whether large brains are associated with specific problems For example do primates or other animals with large brains have a diet that is challenging to find but nutr
13、itionally rewarding This would indicate an ecological origin Or do they live in large groups where they face lots of social problems While many studies have found such associations there is a problem It cannot tell whether large brains evolved to solve the difficult problems or whether they evolved
14、for other reasons and then enabled their bearers to deal with the hard problems To find out the causes of brain expansion we recreated the scenarios 可能出现的情况 of the two hypotheses using a mathematical model We found that a combination of ecological and social challenges do produce the brain size we s
15、ee in humans But it was ecological challenges that expanded brains In contrast to the dominant view and our own expectation we found that social challenges contributed by decreasing brain size But you need both factors to get the brain size we see today if there were no social challenges our brains
16、would have been even larger but likely poorly suited to social life Bigger isn t necessarily better But many animals face hard ecological problems Why don t they all have large brains We found that ecological problems only lead to human sized brains when individuals can keep learning hard skills as they grow So our results and those of others suggest that hard ecology and the accumulation of cultural knowledge could act together to produce a human sized brain Will the human brain expand further
