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1、天津市宁河县2014高考英语阅读理解训练（3）及答案（解析）阅读理解 The Tibetan Plateau(青藏高原) is the worlds highest place. Its four times the size of France and home to most of the worlds highest mountains.As you might expect, its cold there. And it may be that the deep chill of the Tibetan Plateau played a role in the evolution of
2、 some of the worlds most charismatic(魅力十足的) animals.Thats the belief of a scientist who discovered the skull of a woolly rhino(长毛犀) on the Tibetan Plateau.The woolly rhino two tons, two tusks, lots of hair and lots of attitude was an Ice Age giant. It lived with other Ice Age beasts in Europe and As
3、ia, starting about 2.5 million years ago.But Xiaoming Wang, from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, was shocked when he found a 3.5-million-year-old rhino skull(头骨化石) on the Tibetan Plateau. It caught us by complete surprise that they are actually up in the high plateau well before th
4、e Ice Age has started, Wang says.Thats about a million years before the Ice Age started, in fact. Wang thinks his discovery shows that at least some animals were prepared for the Ice Age. At least in the case of the woolly rhino, it actually adapted itself in the cold environment in the Tibetan Plat
5、eau before the Ice Age has even started, Wang says. The animal actually used its head to sweep snow, Wang explains, so they can get at the vegetation below the snow cover. So Wang thinks the Plateau was a sort of evolutionary cradle(摇篮) for cold-weather animals. When the rest of the world eventually
6、 iced up, they moved out of Tibet and took over.Anthony Barnosky, a paleontologist at the University of California, Berkeley, says even now, these isolated cradles are important for evolution(进化).The interesting thing, Barnosky says, is on Earth today we have biodiversity(生物多样性) isolated in certain
7、spots, and we just never know which of those isolated places will be the cradle of evolution for the next big environmental change coming down the pike(出现).The only problem is that to be ready, you have to know what the next environment will be like. Or just be very lucky.16. The underlined word chi
8、ll in Para.2 could be replaced as _.A. hole B. coldC. shape D. lake17. Which is NOTtrue about the woolly rhinos(长毛犀) on the Tibetan Plateau?A. They were Ice Age giants with two tusks, lots of hair and lots of attitude. B. They had lived on the Tibetan Plateau before the Ice Age has started.C. They w
9、ere able to sweep snow with their heads.D. They hardly adapted themselves in the cold environment.18. What did Anthony Barnosky think of the isolated cradles ?A. They adapted the cold weather.B. They played an important role in evolution.C. It was hard to know whether they would change.D. It was luc
10、k to change the next big environmental.19. The research might appear in the .A. journal science B. newspaper C. English textbook D. blog20. From the passage, we can infer that _.A. Facing the cold, the animals continuously evolvedB. Xiaoming Wang works in the USAC. Both Wang and Barnosky are paleont
11、ologistsD. A Chinese scientist discovered the skull of a woolly rhino【参考答案】1620、BDBAA 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AIn Singapore, most of us love window-shopping while some others enjoy having a picnic at East Coast Park or Changi Beach on sunny days. Singapor
12、eans are never bothered by the occasional thunderstorm. However, we know that if it rains for long continuous periods, there will be more serious effects. Just recently the main shopping street of Orchard Road was flooded and some part of Bukit Timah was impassable to traffic. People reacted by writ
13、ing in to the newspaper to complain about this! We forget that other countries suffer much worse effects. Elsewhere, heavy tropical（热带的）storms often result in floods that ruin crops especially in Thailand and Malaysia. This in turn usually means that the price of rice and vegetables here in Singapor
14、e will rise because we import these products from them. If there is a typhoon or tsunami, thousands of lives are lost too. This happened in Indonesia and Phuket in Thailand in 2004 and it serves to remind us of how Mother Nature can cause great damage.Weather patterns in general have changed dramati
15、cally in recent years. Scientists believe that global warming and the resulting melting of the polar ice-cap has caused the level of the ocean to rise. This in turn causes flooding of low-lying areas in countries where the land is rather flat and some parts of which is below water level. It is belie
16、ved that human activities have caused Mother Nature to show her extreme anger, so it is now important that we really work together to cut down on harmful activities, for example, illegal logging（伐木）or irresponsible forest-burning to clear land for farming.56.From Paragraph 1, we can see that most Singaporeans love_.
