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【54题详解】
考查动词辨析。A. pushed推；B. challenged挑战；C. absorbed 吸引；D. relaxed 放松。句意：母亲试着解释她为何如此沉迷写信。由上文可知，母亲喜欢用信表达自己的情感。所以 absorb “吸引”符合句意。故C选项切题。 【55题详解】
考查动词辨析。A. unites团结；B. draws勾画 （轮廓）；C. cheers欢呼；D. associates 使相关。句意：信无可替代地把人与人连在一起。由下文“ It can make them cry, it can make them laugh and it makes the world seem very small”可知，信让人笑，让人哭，让世界变小。所以信起到了纽带的作用，无可替代地把人与人连在一起。故A选项切题。
第三部分 阅读理解 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
请认真阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
“Facts” That Are False
The $100 bill is the biggest bill in circulation. Although the federal government stopped printing them in 1945, currency notes of $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 are still legal tender. Most of them have been snatched up by private collectors. Between December 18, 1934, and January 9,1935, the government put out $100,000 notes. However, they were only for transactions between Federal Reserve banks and never went out to the general public.
The Sahara is the world’s largest desert. Technically, Antarctica is. The U.S. Geological Survey defines a desert as “dry land with a rainfall of usually less than ten inches per year that supports only sparse vegetation and a limited population of people and animals.” Antarctica averages only six inches of rain a year (mostly as snow) and is almost 5.5 million square miles. The Sahara is only 3.3 million square miles. The green paste served with your sushi is wasabi. Wasabi is expensive and difficult to grow. Since it’s in the same family, most restaurants and food companies use horseradish (with food coloring) instead. Real wasabi is more complex and sweeter than what you get in a typical Japanese restaurant. _______________________________________ The ostriches would suffocate (窒息) if they did. If an enemy is approaching, a frightened ostrich will lay its head and neck flat against the ground as a camouflage (伪装) ploy. Some human onlookers have assumed that the birds’ light-colored heads were actually in the sand.
56. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage? A. As other bigger bills are out of print, the $100 bill is still the biggest one.
B. Antarctica with very little rainfall is considered as the largest desert. C. Horseradish can be substituted with wasabi for the similar taste and color. D. An ostrich often uses its head as a weapon to fight against its enemy. 57. Which of the following is the best fit for the blank? A. Ostriches can breathe in the sand. B. Ostriches have very smart brains. C. Ostriches bury their heads in the sand.
D. The ostrich’s head is the lightest in the world. 【答案】56. B 57. C 【解析】 【分析】
这是一篇说明文。短文介绍了四个虚假的\事实\。 【56题详解】
细节理解题。由The Sahara is the world’s largest desert中的“The U.S. Geological Survey defines a desert as “dry land with a rainfall of usually less than ten inches per year that supports only sparse vegetation and a limited population of people and animals.” Antarctica averages only six inches of rain a year (mostly as snow) and is almost 5.5 million square miles. The Sahara is only 3.3 million square miles”可知，美国地质调查局将沙漠定义为“干旱的土地，每年的降雨量通常不到10英寸，只能维持稀疏的植被和有限的人口和动物的生存。”南极洲平均每年只有6英寸的降雨量（大部分是雪），将近550万平方英里。撒哈拉只有330万平方英里。所以南极洲降雨量很少，被认为是最大的沙漠。故B选项正确。 【57题详解】
推理判断题。由“The ostriches would suffocate (窒息) if they did. If an enemy is approaching, a frightened ostrich will lay its head and neck flat against the ground as a camouflage (伪装) ploy. Some human onlookers have assumed that the birds’ light-colored heads were actually in the sand.”可知，如果它们这样做会窒息的。为了躲避危险，鸵鸟会躺在地下隐蔽起来，只把头伸出来。这种习
性后来被人误认为是鸵鸟在遇到危险时，会把头埋在沙土里。所以本段主要在说，鸵鸟把头埋在沙子里是虚假的事实。故本段的标题为“鸵鸟把头埋在沙子里”，也是空白处要填的内容。故C选项正确。
【点睛】根据短文的段落的内容是解决推理判断题的重要解题方法。短文通常会以挖空的形式，让读者判断所挖空的具体内容，如果所挖的空处于句中或者句末，这时我们需要根据上下文的语境来判断具体的内容，如果所挖的空处于句首，这时我们就需要根据整段的内容来判断句首所挖空的内容既段落的标题。
由“The ostriches would suffocate (窒息) if they did. If an enemy is approaching, a frightened ostrich will lay its head and neck flat against the ground as a camouflage (伪装) ploy. Some human onlookers have assumed that the birds’ light-colored heads were actually in the sand.”可知，如果它们这样做会窒息的。为了躲避危险，鸵鸟会躺在地下隐蔽起来，只把头伸出来。这种习性后来被人误认为是鸵鸟在遇到危险时，会把头埋在沙土里。所以本段主要在说，鸵鸟把头埋在沙子里是虚假的事实。故本段的标题为“鸵鸟把头埋在沙子里”，也是空白处要填的内容。故C选项为小题2的正确选项。
B
“Be afraid. Be very afraid,” says a character in The Fly, a horror film about a man who turns into an enormous insect. It captures the unease and disgust people often feel for the kingdom of cockroaches, Zika-carrying mosquitoes and creepy crawlies of all kinds. However, ecologists increasingly see the insect world as something to be frightened for, not frightened of. In the past two years, scores of scientific studies have suggested that trillions of murmuring, droning, honeybees, butterflies and beetles are dying off. “If all mankind were to disappear”, wrote E.O.Wilson, a respectable entomologist, “the world would regenerate… If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
Most of the studies describe declines of 50% and more over decades in different measures of insect health. The immediate reaction is shock. Insects enable plants to reproduce, through pollination (授粉), and are food for other animals, so a collapse in their numbers would be catastrophic.