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1、河南孟津县2017高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（三）（2016高考训练）阅读下列材料，从每题所给的选项中选出最佳选项。体裁：说明文话题：时间的快与慢词数：320时间：5Time and how we experience it have always puzzled us.Physicists have created_fascinating theories,but their time_is_measured_by_a_pendulum_(钟摆) and is not_psychological time,_which_leaps_with_little_regard_to_the_clock
2、_or_calendar.As someone who understood the distinction observed, “When you sit with a nice girl for two hours it seems like a minute, but when you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like two hours.”Psychologists have long noticed that larger units of time, such as months and years, fly on swifter wi
3、ngs as we age.They also note that the more time is structured with schedules and appointments, the more rapidly it seems to pass.For example, a days at the office flies compared with a days at the beach.Since most of us spend fewer day at the beach and more at the office as we age, an increase in st
4、ructured time could well be to blame for why time seems to speed up as we grow older.Expectation and familiarity also make time seem to flow more rapidly.Almost all of us have had the experience of driving somewhere weve never been before.Surrounded by unfamiliar scenery, with no idea of when well a
5、rrive, we experience the trip for a long time.But the return trip, although exactly as long, seems to take far less time.The novelty of the journey has become routine.Thus, taking a different route sometimes can often help slow the clock.When days become as similar as beads (小珠子) on a string, they m
6、ix together, and even months become a single day.To handle this, try to find ways to interrupt the structure of your dayto stop time.Learning something new is one of the ways to slow the passing of time.One of the reasons the days of our youth seems so full and long is that these are the days of lea
7、rning and discovery.For many of us, learning ends when we leave school, but this doesnt have to be.【语篇解读】文章先讲述了人们感受到的时间快慢与物理上的时间是有所不同的，并举例说明，且提出了一些能“减缓”时间的办法。1The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 is used to show _A. physical time is different from psychological timeBtime should not be measured by
8、a pendulumCpsychological time is quite puzzlingDphysical theory has nothing to do with the true sense of time答案A细节理解题。画线部分说明物理学家理解的时间是靠钟摆测量的，并不是我们心理上感受到时间，我们心理感受到的时间基本与表或日历无关，所以说物理上的时间与心理上的时间是不同的。2Why do units of time fly faster as we grow older?AOur sense of time changes.BWe spend less time at the
9、beach.CWe have too many appointments.DMore time is structured and scheduled.答案D细节理解题。由第二段最后一句可知“随着我们的成长，我们觉得时间过得越来越快其实是因为我们的计划好的时间增多了”，故选D。3In Paragraph 3 “novelty” probably means _Aunfamiliarity BexcitementCimagination Damusement答案A词义猜测题。由第三段第二句可知，这条路我们从来没来过，所以是陌生的。4Which statement is TRUE accordin
10、g to the article?AExpectation makes time seem to run slowly.BSitting with a pretty girl always makes time flow fast.CA day at the office is longer than a day at the beach.DLearning a new language is a good way to slow time.答案D细节理解题。由最后一段第一句可知“学习一些新的东西是减缓时间的一种方法”，故选D。5The purpose of the passage is to
11、 _Adescribe how we experience time psychologicallyBexplain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologicallyCshow the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on timeDgive various explanations about time答案B主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章前半部分解释了人们对时间有不同的心理感受，为什么有时人们感到时间过得很快，后半部分告诉我们“减缓”时间的方法。可以看出文章的写作目的是
12、为了向人们解释为什么感觉时间过得很快，以及如何减缓心理感受时间。高考英语冲刺阅读理解。请认真阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。Everybody is happy as his pay rises. Yet pleasure at your own can disappear if you learn that a fellow worker has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he is known as being lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behav
13、ior is regarded as “all too human”, with the underlying belief that other animals would not be able to have this finely developed sense of sadness. But a study by Sarah Brosnan of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as we
14、ll. The researchers studied the behaviors of some kind of female brown monkeys. They look smart. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food happily. Above all, like female human beings, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than mal
15、es. Such characteristics make them perfect subjects for Doctor Brosnans study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens (奖券) for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for pieces of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate and connected rooms, so that each other could observe what the other is getting in return for its rock, they became quite different. In the world of monkeys，grapes are excellent goods (and much preferable to cucumbers). So when one monkey was handed a grape in exchange for
