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1、江西景德镇市2016高考英语(二轮)阅读理解编练(2)2016高考训练-阅读理解。阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中,选出最佳选项。Usually when dogs and cats live in the same home they will fight instead of being friendly. People who are thinking about adopting a dog as a friend will not have a cat as their pet at the same time. But recently a new resea
2、rch has found a new recipe of success. According to the study, if the cat is adopted before the dog, and if they are introduced when still young (less than 6 months for cats, a year for dogs), it is highly probable that the two pets will get along swimmingly. Two-thirds of the homes interviewed repo
3、rted a positive relationship between their cat and dog.However, it wasnt all sweetness and light. There was a reported coldness between the cat and dog in 25% of the homes, while aggression and fighting were observed in 10% of the homes. One reason for this is probably that some of their body signal
4、s were just opposite. For example, when a cat turns its head away it signals aggression, while a dog doing the same signals submission.In homes with cats and dogs living peacefully, researchers observed a surprising behavior. They are learning how to talk each others language. It is a surprise that
5、cats can learn how to talk “dog”, and dogs can learn how to talk “cat”.Whats interesting is that both cats and dogs have appeared to develop their intelligence. They can learn how to read each others body signals, suggesting that the two may have more in common than we previously suspected. Once fam
6、iliar with each others presence and body language, cats and dogs can play together, greet each other nose to nose, and enjoy sleeping together on the sofa. They can easily share the same water bowl and in some cases groom (梳理) each other.The significance of the research on cats and dogs may go beyon
7、d petsto people who dont get along, including neighbors, colleagues at work, and even world superpowers. If cats and dogs can learn to get along, surely people have a good chance.29. The underlined wordswimminglyin Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .A. early B. sweetly C. quickly D. smoothly30. S
8、ome cats and dogs may fight when .A. they share their belongings together B. they look away from each otherC. they misunderstand each others signals D. they are raised in the same home at an early age31. What is found surprising about cats and dogs?A. They eat and sleep together. B. They can speak t
9、he same language.C. They learn to speak each others language. D. They know something from each others voices.32. What can we human beings learn from cats and dogs?A. We should learn to live in harmony. B. We should know more about animals.C. We should live in peace with animals. D. We should learn m
10、ore body languages.参考答案2932 DCCA 2016高考英语阅读理解人物传记/故事类阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中, 选出最佳选项。According to the US government, wind farms off the Pacific coast could produce 900 gigawatts of electricity every yearUnfortunately, the water there is far too deep for even the tallest windmills to touch bottom
11、An experiment under way off the coast of Norway, however, could help put them anywhere The project, called Hywind, is the worlds first large-scale deepwater wind turbine (涡轮发电机)Although it uses a fairly standard 152-ton, 23-megawatt turbine, Hywind represents totally new technologyThe turbine will b
12、e fixed 213 feet above the water on a floating spar, a technology Hywinds creator, the Norwegian company StatoilHydro, has developed recentlyThe steel spar, which is filled with stones and goes 328 feet below the sea surface, will be tied to the ocean floor by three cables ; these will keep the spar
13、 stable and prevent the turbine from moving up and down in the wavesHywinds stability in the cold and rough sea would prove that even the deepest corners of the ocean are suitable for wind powerIf all goes according to the plan, the turbine will start producing electricity six miles off the coast of
14、 southwestern Norway as early as September To produce electricity on a large scale, a commercial wind farm will have to use bigger turbines than Hywind does, but its difficult enough to balance such a large turbine so high on a floating spar in the middle of the oceanTo make that turbine heavier, th
15、e whole spars center of gravity must be moved much closer to the oceans surfaceTo do that, the company plans to design a new kind of wind turbine, one whose gearbox (变速箱) sits at sea level rather than behind the blades Hywind is a test run, but the benefits for perfecting floating wind-farm technolo
16、gy could be extremely largeOut at sea, the wind is often stronger and steadier than close to shore, where all existing offshore windmills are plantedDeep-sea farms are invisible from land, which helps overcome the windmill-as-eyesore objectionIf the technology catches on, it will open up vast areas of the p