2016年高考英语复习专题练习及答案:冠词

1. Researchers use hamsters in the experiment because ________.

A. they are similar to humans in dealing with colors

B. they are easy to observe and study

C. they are sensitive to colors like human beings

D. they are active at night and sleep during the day

2. What sign shows that the hamsters are depressed?

A. They drink less sugary water.

B. They don't sleep well.

C. Their eyesight becomes worse.

D. Their energy level becomes low.

3. ________ tends to cause hamsters to be depressed.

A. A dim light B. A red light

C. A blue light D. Darkness

4. What can help people who work late at night to avoid being depressed?

A. Not being exposed to a dim red light when using computers.

B. Equipping their computer screen to put it more in a reddish light.

C. Living or working in low levels of light overnight.

D. Going to see doctors of clinical depression regularly for help.

答案：

【语篇解读】　这是一篇科普文。美国的研究人员通过动物实验发现，通宵在昏暗的光线下生活和工作的人可能会患上重度抑郁症。

1. D　解析：细节理解题。第二段说，选择仓鼠作为实验对象是因为它们白天睡觉，夜间活动，因此选D。

2. A　解析：细节理解题。第四段说，研究人员发现喝糖水最少的仓鼠最为抑郁，因此选A。

3. C　解析：细节理解题。第五段说，在蓝色和白色灯光下睡觉的仓鼠表现得最为抑郁，因此选C。

4. B　解析：推理判断题。最后一段说，生活在蓝色和白色灯光下的仓鼠比生活在红色灯光下或黑暗中的仓鼠更抑郁，因此在红色光线中工作能防止抑郁，故B项正确。

B

John Cruitt, 62, spent decades tracking down his third­grade teacher.

He wanted to talk with Cecile Doyle about 1958—the year his mother, who was seriously ill, passed away.

Her death came just days before Christmas. Cruitt had been expecting to go home from school and decorate the Christmas tree.

“When I found out she died, I could certainly relate to that, because when I was 11, my own father died，” Doyle tells Cruitt at StoryCorps in Monroe, N.Y.“And you just don't know how you're going to go on without that person.”

When Cruitt returned to school, Doyle waited until all of the other children left the room at the end of the day, and told him that she was there if he needed her.

“Then you kissed me on the head，” Cruitt says. “And I felt that things really would be OK.”

“Well, Cruitt, I'm so glad that I could be there with you for that time，” says Doyle, 82.

Decades after his mother's death, Cruitt began to think more and more of Doyle. He finally wrote a letter：