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1、【高阶测控】甘肃省部分普通中学2016高考英语新课标学能专业高阶测控特练试题（六）【全国优秀高中英语名师】甘肃庆阳 刘克炜注意：本试卷分第卷（选择题）和第卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分。考试时间100分钟。第卷第一部分：阅读理解( 共两节，满分40分)第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）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。AOne day, I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physical pr
2、oblem, while the student claimed a perfect score. I was elected as their arbiter（仲裁人）. I read the examination problem: “Show how it is possible to determine the height of a tall building with the aid of a barometer（气压计）. ”The student had answered; Take the barometer to the top of the building, attac
3、h a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of it is the height of the building.”The student had really answered the question completely, but the answer didnt confirm his competence in physics. I suggested the student try again. I g
4、ave him six minutes to answer the question, warning that the answer should show some knowledge of physics. Five minutes later, he said he had many answers and dashed off one, which read：“Take the barometer to the top of the building and lean over the edge of the roof. Drop the barometer, timing its
5、fall with a stopwatch. Then, use the physical formula（公式）to calculate the height of the building.”At this point, my colleague had to accept it, and then the student made almost full marks. I couldnt help asking the student what the other answers were. He listed many others, and then added, Probably
6、the best is to take the barometer to the administrator and said to him, Sir, here is a fine barometer. If you tell me the height of the building, I will give it to you.”, Then, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said t
7、hat he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think.The name of the student was Bohr who later was famous all over the world. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922.1. The student got a zero at the beginning because _. A. the teacher wasnt satisfied with h
8、im B. his answer wasnt complete or correct C. the teacher didnt fully understand his answer D. his answer didnt show his knowledge of physics2. We know from the passage that _. A. the student knew the expected answer B. the administrator told Bohr the height C. the author preferred Bohrs last answer
9、 D. the teacher was a very stubborn person3. We can learn from the passage that _. A. instructors can teach students how to think B. arbiters can help students to get high scores C. students should be given more freedom in thinking D. teachers should make students use physical formulas4. What was Bo
10、hrs attitude toward his schooling? A. Optimistic B. Critical C. Approving D. Neutral BRecordings of angry bees are enough to send big, tough African elephants running away, a new study says. Beehives (蜂窝)either recorded or realmay even prevent elephants from damaging farmers crops.In 2002, scientist
11、 Lucy King and her team found that elephants avoid certain trees with bees living in them. Today, Lucy wants to see if African honeybees might discourage elephants from eating crops. But before she asked farmer to go to the trouble of setting up beehives on their farms, she needed to find out if the
12、 bees would scare elephants away.Lucy found a wild beehive inside a tree in northern Kenya and set up a recorder. Then she threw a stone into the beehive, which burst into life. Lucy and her assistant hid in their car until the angry bees had calmed down. Next，Lucy searched out elephant families in
13、Samburu National Reserve in northern Kenya and put a speaker in a tree close to each family.From a distance, Lucy switched on the pre-recorded sound of angry bees while at the same time recording the elephants with a video camera. Half the elephant groups left the area within ten seconds. Out of a t
14、otal of 17 groups, only one group ignored the sound of the angry bees. Lucy reported that all the young elephants immediately ran to their mothers to hide under them. When Lucy played the sound of a waterfall (瀑布) instead of the angry bees to many of the same elephant families, the animals were undi
15、sturbed. Even after four minutes, most of the groups stayed in one place.Lucy is now studying whether the elephants will continue to avoid the sound of angry bees after hearing it several times. She hasnt tested enough groups yet to know, but her initial (最初的) results were promising enough to begin
16、trials with farmers. She has now begun placing speakers in the fields to see if elephants are frightened away.5. We know from the passage that elephants may be frightened of .A. loud noises B. some crops C. video cameras D. angry bees6. As mentioned in the passage, Lucy .A. works by herself in Africa
