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1、.体验高考Passage 1 体裁：说明文话题：科学研究时间：6分钟(2014广东卷，D)Scientists today are making greater effort to study ocean currents (洋流)Most do it using satellites and other hightech equipment.However，ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special wayby studying movements of random floating garbage.A scientist wit
2、h many years experience，he started this type of research in the early 1990s when he heard about hundreds of athletic shoes washing up on the shores of the northwest coast of the United States.There were so many shoes that people were setting up swap_meets to try and match left and right shoes to sel
3、l or wear.Ebbesmeyer found out in his researches that the shoesabout 60,000 in totalfell into the ocean in a shipping accident.He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back.As expected，the company told him that they didnt.Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment.If h
4、e learned when and where the shoes went into the water and tracked where they landed，he could learn a lot about the patterns of ocean currents.The Pacific Northwest is one of the worlds best areas for beachcombing(海滩搜寻) because winds and currents join here，and as a result，there is a group of serious
5、 beachcombers in the area.Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed.In a year he collected reliable information on 1,600 shoes.With this data，he and a colleague were able to test and improve a computer program designed to mod
6、el ocean currents，and publish the findings of their study.As the result of his work，Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions about any unusual objects found floating in the ocean.He has even started an association of beachcombers and ocean experts，with 500 subscribers from
7、 West Africa to New Zealand.They have recorded all lost objects ranging from potatoes to golf gloves.【语篇导读】本文是说明文，介绍了一种研究洋流的特别方式。1The underlined phrase swap meets in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _.Afitting rooms Btrading fairsCbusiness talks Dgroup meetings解析词义猜测题。由前面的so many shoes和后面的to try
8、 and match left and right shoes to sell or wear，特别是sell，可知是建立交易市场，故选B。答案B2Ebbesmeyer phoned the shoe company to find out _.Awhat caused the shipping accidentBwhen and where the shoes went missingCwhether it was all right to use their shoesDhow much they lost in the shipping accident解析事实细节题。由第二段二、三、四
9、句“He phoned the shoe company and asked if they wanted the shoes back.As expected，the company told him that they didnt.Ebbesmeyer realized this could be a great experiment”可知，选C。答案C3How did Ebbesmeyer prove his assumption?ABy collecting information from beachcombers.BBy studying the shoes found by be
10、achcombers.CBy searching the web for ocean currents models.DBy researching ocean currents data in the library.解析事实细节题。由第三段第二句Ebbesmeyer got to know a lot of them (serious beachcombers) and asked for their help in collecting information about where the shoes landed及其后几句可知，选A，“通过海滩清理者收集信息”。答案A4Ebbesme
11、yer is most famous for _.Atraveling widely the coastal cities of the worldBmaking records for any lost objects on the seaCrunning a global currents research associationDphoning about any doubtful objects on the sea解析事实细节题。由第四段第一句Ebbesmeyer has become known as the scientist to call with questions abo
12、ut any unusual objects found floating in the ocean可知，选D。答案D5What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?ATo call peoples attention to ocean pollution.BTo warn people of shipping safety in the ocean.CTo explain a unique way of studying ocean currents.DTo give tips on how to search for l
13、ost objects on the beach.解析主旨大意题。文章主题句在第一段，即However，ocean expert Curtis Ebbesmeyer does it in a special wayby studying movements of random floating garbage，由此可知选C。答案CPassage 2 体裁：说明文话题：旅鸽时间：6分钟(2014课标卷)Passenger pigeons(旅鸽)once flew over much of the United States in unbelievable numbers.Written acco
14、unts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks(群)so large that they darkened the sky for hours.It was calculated that when its population reached its highest point，there were more than 3 billion passenger pigeonsa number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the total bird population in the United St
15、ates，making it perhaps the most abundant bird in the world.Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller，a flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen near Cincinnati.Sadly，the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing.Whe
16、re the birds were most abundant，people believed there was an everlasting supply and killed them by the thousands.Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with grain，waited until pigeons had settled to feed，then threw large nets over them，taking hundreds at a time.The birds were shipped to large cities an
