2011考研英语阅读新题型(7选5)模拟题及解析
Directions:You are going to read a list of headings and a text about preparing in the academic community. Choo the most suitable heading from the list A-G for each numbered paragraph (41-45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There is one extra heading which you do not need to u. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
春节来历
Long before Man lived on the Earth, there were fishes, reptiles, birds, incts, and some mammals. Although some of the animals were ancestors of kinds living today, others are now extinct, that is, they have no descendants alive now.
41 Very occasionally the rocks show impression of skin, so that, apart from color, we can build up a reasonably accurate picture of an animal that died millions of years ago. That kind of rock in which the remains are found tells us much about the nature of the original land, often of the plants that grew on it, and even of its climate.
42 Nearly all of the fossils that we know were prerved in rocks formed by water action, and most of the are of animals that lived in or near water. Thus it follows that there must be many kinds of mammals, birds, and incts of which we know noting.蛋清的作用
43 There were also crablike creatures, who bodies were covered with a horny substance. The body gments each had two pairs of legs, one pair for walking on the sandy bottom, the other for swimming. The head was a kind of shield with a pair of compound eyes, often with thousands of lens. They were usually an inch or two long but some were 2 feet.
44 Of the, the ammonites are very interesting and important.They have a shell compod of many chambers , each reprenting a temporary home of the animal. As the young grew larger it grew a new chamber and aled off the previous one. Thousands of the can be en in the rocks on the DortCoast.
45 About 75 million years ago the Age of Reptiles was over and most of the groups died out .The mammals quickly developed, and we can trace the evolution of many familiar ani
mals such as the elephant and hor. Many of the later mammals though now extinct, were known to primitive man and were featured by him in cave paintings and on bone carvings.
风流眼
[A] The shellfish have a long history in the rock and many different kinds are known.
茅山景区
[B] Nevertheless, we know a great deal about many of them becau their bones and shells have been prerved in the rocks as fossils, from them we can tell their size and shape, how they walked, the kind of food they ate.
[C] The first animals with true backbones were the fishes, first known in the rocks of 375 million years ago. About 300 million years ago the amphibians, the animals able to live both on land and in water, appeared. They were giant, sometimes 8 feet long, and many of them lived in the swampy pools in which our coal am, or layer is formed. The amphibians gave ri to the reptiles and for nearly 150 million years the were the principal forms of life on land, in the a, and in the air.
[D] The best index fossils tend to be marine creatures. The animals evolved rapidly and spread over large over large areas of the world.
[E] The earliest animals who remains have been found were all very simple kinds and lived in the a. Later forms are more complex, and among the are the a教与学的关系 lilies, relations of the star fishes, which had long arms and were attached by a long stalk to the a bed, or to rocks.
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[F] When an animal dies, the body, its bones, or shell, may often be carried away by streams into lakes or the a and there get covered up by mud. If the animal lived in the a its body would probably sink and be covered with mud. More and more mud would fall upon it until the bones or shell become embedded and prerved.
[G] Many factors can influence how fossils are prerved in rocks. Remains of an organism may be replaced by minerals, dissolved by an acidic solution to leave only their impression, or simply reduced to a more stable form.
答案详解
41.【解析】[B]从试题前后的语义逻辑关系来看，试题前面的一段话表明的信息是Although some of the animals were ancestors of kinds living today, others are now extinct, that is, they have no descendants alive now(尽管这些动物是某些活到现在的物种的祖先，但有的动物却灭绝了，也就是说它们现在已经没有子孙后代活在这个世界上)。试题的后面的句子表明的信息是 Very occasionally the rocks show impression of skin, so that, apart from color, we can build up a reasonably accurate picture of an animal that died millions of years ago(有时候这些石头可以将它们的外表展现出来，这样，除了颜色我们就可以对那些数百年前死掉的生物形成一个比较准确的印象)。从语义关系里看，前文中说动物灭绝了，暗含的意思是我们不可能得到这些动物的任何信息，而后面的句子说我们可以对这些动物形成准确的印象，因此，前后文形成了明显的对比关系，四个选项中能够表达这种关系的，只有选项[B]。
党员座右铭
本题还可以采用词汇的复现来确定正确答案，从试题后面的句子Very occasionally the rocks show impression of skin来看，rocks的前面使用了定冠词the修饰，这表明rocks在前文中一定出现过，但我们考察第一段时发现，第一段中并没有出现关于rocks的内容，因此可以确定，关于rocks的内容一定出现在要填入的试题中。选项[B] Nevertheless, we know
a great deal about many of them becau their bones and shells have been prerved in the rocks as fossils. From them we can tell their size and shape, how they walked, the kind of food they ate中出现了动物的骨骼被保存在the rocks中，变成化石的论述，由此可以判断选项[B]是正确答案。
