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1、1河南孟津县河南孟津县 20172017 高考英语一轮阅读理解选练（三）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_
2、with_little_regard_to_the_clock_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 mont
3、hs and years, fly on swifter wings 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 offi
4、ce as we age, an increase in structured 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 scene
5、ry, with no idea of when well arrive, 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
6、beads (小珠子) on a string, they mix 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
7、 that these are the days of learning 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 time
8、Btime should not be measured by a pendulum2Cpsychological 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
9、changes.BWe spend less time at the 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
10、，所以是陌生的。4Which statement is TRUE according 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
11、一种方法” ，故选 D。5The purpose of the passage is to _Adescribe how we experience time psychologicallyBexplain why time flies and how to slow it down psychologicallyCshow the different ideas of physicists and psychologists on time3Dgive 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
12、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 bei
13、ng lazy, you might even be quite cross. Such behavior 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
14、 Nature, suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.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 attent
15、ion to the value of “goods and services” than males.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 cuc
16、umber. 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 her token, the second was not willing to hand hers over for a mere piece of cucumber. And if o
