落堕市安心阳光实验学校密云区2014高考英语阅读理解系列训练（28）及答案
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Intellectual property (IP) is a product of the mind that has commercial value．The concept dates back to 1623,when the first patent law to protect IP rights was pasd．IP rights protect an artist from having his/her creative ideas copied by another．For example, if somebody generates an idea for a novel, that idea is protected by IP rights．If someone el wishes to reprent the idea or develop it further, he/she must consult the original artists, who will normally be rewarded financially for its u．Back in the 17th century, IP rights were primarily carried out to protect newly developed manufacturing process against stealing, but today, intellectual property rights, are also enjoyed by tho who create music, art and literature．
In recent years, IP rights have been the focus of a great deal of discussion becau of a technology which looks t to weaken them altogether: the Internet．Many years ago, if you wanted a recording of a song, you would have to purcha it from a music store; if a no
vel, from a book store．In tho days, IP rights were easily protected since it was very difficult to obtain intellectual property without paying for it．However, a lot of IP, including songs, films, books and artwork, can be downloaded today free of charge using the Internet．This practice has now taken the world by storm, dramatically affecting the way in which we view IP rights．
68．According to the writer, in the beginning, IP rights were mainly of u to ____ __．
A．tho creating music, art and literature
B．novelists
C．engineers and inventors
D．tho not receiving financial reward for their work
69．What do we know about the Internet according to the passage?
结婚送什么好A．It makes IP rights harder to protect．
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B．It lls songs and films．
C．It does not affect the way we understand IP rights．
D．It prevents the production of artwork．
回南天是什么70．According to Paragraph 2, what has “taken the world by storm”?
A．Intellectual property rights． B．The Internet．
C．Free downloading． D．The large number of songs, films and books．
71．A possible title for this passage could be _____ _．
A．A History of IP Rights B．Ways to Protect Your IP Rights
C．The Prent and the Future of IP D．IP Rights and Our Attitudes
4. 答案 68.C 69.A 70.C 71.D
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“Old wives tales” are beliefs pasd down from one generation to another, For example, most of us remember our patents’ telling us to eat more of certain foods or not to do certain things. Is there any truth in the teachings? Some of them agree with prent medical thinking, but others have not pasd the test of time
Did your mother ever tell you to eat your carrots becau they are good for your eyes? Scientists now report that eating carrots can help prevent a rious eye dia called macular degeneration Eating just one carrot a day can reduce the possibility of getting this dia by 40%. Garlic（蒜）is good for you, too。It can kill the type of virus that caus colds.
Unfortunately, not all of Mom’s advice pasd the test of medical studies. For example, generations of children have been told not to go swimming within an hour after eating. But rearch suggests that there is no danger in doing so. Do sweets cau tooth problems? Well, yes and no. sticky sweets made with grains tend to cau more problem
s than sweets made with simple sugars.
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Even though science can tell us that some of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water, there is still a lot of truth in the old wives’ tales, After all, much of this knowledge has been accumulated （积累） from thousands of our traditional beliefs don’t hold water should respect this body of knowledge even as rearch for clear scientific support to proven it true or fal
48. Which of the following is TRUE according to the text？
A, Eating garlic is good for our eyes 唐俭
B, Sticky sweets are damaging to our teeth
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C, Swimming after a meal is dangerous。
D, Carrots prevent people from catching colds
49.The author develops the third paragraph mainly--------。
A. by cau and effects B. by order in space
C. by order in time D. by examples
50.The phra “hold water” in the last paragraph most probably means“ ”
A. to be believable B. to be valuable
C. to be admirable D. to be stable
51 What is the author’s attitude toward “old wives’ tales” in the text?
A. So objective B. Objective
C. Dissatisfied D. Curious
2. 答案 48.B 49.D 50.A 51.B
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There is increasing evidence that the impacts of meteorites (陨星) have had important effects on Earth, particularly in the field of biological evolution. Such impacts continue to po a natural hazard to life on Earth. If an impact is large enough, it can disturb the environment of the entire Earth and cau an ecological catastrophe. The best-documented such impact took place 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous period (白垩纪期) of geological history. This break in Earth's history is marked by a mass extinction, when as many as half the species on the planet became extinct. While there are a dozen or more mass extinctions in the geological record, the Cretaceous mass extinction has always intrigued paleontologists (古生物学者) becau it marks the end of the age of the dinosaurs. For tens of millions of years, tho great creatures had flourished. Then, suddenly, they disappeared.
