閱讀理解-----Passage ***

　　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 passed．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 else wishes to represent the idea or develop it further, he/she must consult the original artists, who will normally be rewarded financially for its use．Back in the 17th century, IP rights were primarily carried out to protect newly developed manufacturing processes against stealing, but today, intellectual property rights, are also enjoyed by those who create music, art and literature．

　　In recent years, IP rights have been the focus of a great deal of discussion because of a technology which looks set to weaken them altogether: the Internet．Many years ago, if you wanted a recording of a song, you would have to purchase it from a music store; if a novel, from a book store．In those 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 use to ____

　　__．

　　A．those creating music, art and literature

　　B．novelists

　　C．engineers and inventors

　　D．those not receiving financial reward for their work

　　69．What do we know about the Internet according to the passage?

　　A．It makes IP rights harder to protect．

　　B．It sells songs and films．

　　C．It does not affect the way we understand IP rights． D．It prevents the production of artwork．

　　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 Present and the Future of IP

　　D．IP Rights and Our Attitudes答案

　　68.C

　　69.A

　　70.C

　　71.D

　　-----A

　　Robinson Diaz lives in a small cottage high in the Andes Mountains of South America. Diaz is a “cable racer”, and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school. To do this, he first walks for an hour up to a place the locals call Los Pinos, right at the edge of the 400-foot deep gorge(峽谷) of the Negro valley. Here, one end of a thick metal cable has been fixed to a wooden post. The cable stretches right across the deep valley to the other side, a kilometer away.

　　A metal hook is fixed to the cable, with leather straps hanging from it. Diaz fastens the straps around his shoulders and waist, does a quick safety check and then, without hesitating, throws himself off the edge of the mountain. Attached to the cable by only the metal hook, he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air. Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds, instead of the two hours it would take him to walk down through the rain forest and climb up the steep muddy slopes on the other side.

　　As Diaz begins his trip, Diana Rios, a 23-year-old elementary teacher, is waiting on. The other side of the gorge for the moment when he will come racing through the mist towards her at 100 mph. She will then return with him, hanging on to him as he goes back along the cable. Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. "At first I wanted to cry," she says, clutching her hook as the metal cable starts to rattle(喀噠作響) violently at Diaz’s approach. “But I soon got used to it.” She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous(危險(xiǎn)) crossing on her own.

　　For the inhabitants(居民) of Los Pinos, the wire cable is a lifeline. For more than 50 years, it has served the community as a form of transport to and from the rest of the world. Everything that comes arrives via the cable-bricks and wood for building, sacks of rice and corn. Pregnant mothers, who must get to the nearest clinic, cross the wire during the darkness of the night, returning with their newborn babies. It is dangerous, but they have no choice.

　　This time Robinson Diaz makes a perfect landing on Diana’s side of the gorge. For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. “What I’m really scared of is snakes,” he says. “This is nothing in comparison.” Then Dianna straps herself into her harness and hooks herself up to the wire behind Diaz, holding on to him tightly. He turns, flashes her a smile, releases the brake and kicks away. Within seconds, teacher and cable-racer have disappeared back into the mist.

　　1. Robinson Diaz has a difficult task every morning because he has to________.

　　A. climb a long way up a mountain

　　B. get to the edge of a valley

　　C. help someone get to work

　　D. walk through a dangerous area

　　答案解析：答案為C。本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。由第一段 “… and every morning he faces the difficult task of taking the local teacher to her school.”可知，答案為C。

　　2. In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that Diaz is________.

　　A. confident about what he is doing

　　B. unaware of the danger he faces

　　C. careless about his own safety

　　D. uncertain of what he is doing

　　答案解析：答案為A。本題為推理題。由第二段對(duì)Diaz的動(dòng)作描寫“a quick safety check” 、“without hesitating”、 “he rapidly picks up speed and soon he is racing through the air” 和“Crossing the valley by wire takes him 30 seconds”等表現(xiàn)出他的動(dòng)作迅速、敏捷、熟練，體現(xiàn)出他非常自信。故答案為A。

　　3. Diana Rios found out how she would travel to work________.

　　A. when she was a student

　　B. when she saw the cable

　　C. after she had met Diaz

　　D. after she took the job

　　答案解析：答案為C。本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。由第三段 “Diana had no idea when she took the teaching job that just getting to work in the village school would be dangerous. …She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous crossing on her own.”可知，答案為C。

　　4. What is Diana's opinion about the journey now?

　　A. She enjoys it.

　　B. She no longer finds it a problem.

　　C. It makes her feel very frightened.

　　D. It would be impossible without Diaz.

　　答案解析：答案為B。本題為細(xì)節(jié)推理題。由第三段 “ ‘At first I wanted to cry,’ she says, … ‘But I soon got used to it.’ She still prefers to go with Diaz, though, rather than making the frightening and hazardous crossing on her own.”可知，Diana剛開始工作的時(shí)候?qū)τ谏习鄷r(shí)艱難的旅途想哭，后來(lái)在Diaz的協(xié)助下，她習(xí)慣了走纜繩去上班，因此她覺(jué)得上班的旅途對(duì)于她來(lái)說(shuō)已經(jīng)不是個(gè)問(wèn)題。故答案為B。

　　5. What does Diaz say about using the cable?

　　A. He does not think there is any risk.

　　B. He is worried about the danger of snakes.

　　C. He is happy that he can help the teacher.

　　D. He does not find it as frightening as other things.

　　答案解析：答案為D。本題為細(xì)節(jié)推理題。由最后一段 “For him, the dangers of this daily journey are insignificant. ‘What I’m really scared of is snakes,’ he says. ‘This is nothing in comparison.’”可知，Diaz真正害怕的是蛇，比較起來(lái)，用纜繩對(duì)于他來(lái)說(shuō)不算什么，因此答案為D “他覺(jué)得使用纜繩沒(méi)有其他的東西那么令人害怕”。

　　較難題目特訓(xùn)：科普知識(shí)類

　　Steven Spielberg's 2002 science-fiction thriller Minority Report produced a world where computers could read minds and predict the future. It seemed fanciful at the time, but fantasy is edging closer to fact.

　　On Jan. 3l, a team of scientist sat the UC Berkeley, led by Robert Knight programmed computers to decode (解碼) brain waves and replay them as words. Five months earlier, another group of Berkeley scientists showed their colleagues short movies and used computers to play back in color what people saw.

　　These experiments are a big advance from 2006, when a French scientist first replayed images from a human mind, a black-and-white checkerboard pattern. The possibilities are great: a disabled person could “speak”； doctors could access the mind of a patient who fainted; you could rewatch your dreams on an iPad.There are, of course, equally dark side, such as the involuntary take out of　information from the brain.

　　In spite of these breakthroughs,Jack Gallant, the neuroscientist who led the first Berkeley team, says current technology for decoding brain activity is still “relatively primitive.” The field is held back by its poor machinery, in particular the fMRI.

　　“Eventually,” says Gallant,“someone will invent a decoding machine you can wear as a hat.” Such an advance into the human mind, he says, might take 30 years.

　　Still, the recent advances at Berkeley offer small answers, which scientists can use to begin unlocking the secrets of　memory and consciousness.

　　7l. What is the best title for the passage?

　　A. New technology can read your mind

　　B. Fantasy is edging closer to fact

　　C. A new discovery in human brain

　　D. The intelligent computers in the future

　　72. What did scientist sat the UC Berkeley do?

　　A. They produced a fanciful world.

　　B. They made computers jump forward like a human.

　　C. They managed to translate brain waves into language.

　　D. They used computers to make short movies.

　　73. Which of the following is impossible for the research?

　　A. It can help a disabled man recover his ability of speech.

　　B. Doctors can read a patient's mind even if he is unconscious.

　　C. People will know what happens in their dreams.

　　D. People's thoughts may be given away.

　　74. What plays a most important role in the development of the technology?

　　A. A computer.　B. An iPad.　 C.A decoding machine.D. A hat.

　　75. It can be inferred from the passage that　 .

　　A. scientists got the inspiration from a movie

　　B. the technology still has a long way to go

　　C. the technology has been put into practice

　　D. scientists have unlocked these crets of memory

　　【參考答案】34.ACACB

　　高考英語(yǔ)沖刺閱讀理解專項(xiàng)-----B

　　Bill Melendez, 91, an Emmy Award-winning animator(動(dòng)畫片制作者)who transformed the two-dimensional drawings of the peanuts comic strip into some of the most beloved cartoon characters on television and film, died Sept. 2 at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif. The cause of death was not reported.

　　Mr. Melendez，who began his career at the Hollywood animation studios of Walt Disney and Warner Bros., found his greatest fame as the animator of A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Great Pumpkin and dozens of other Peanuts presentations.

　　With producer Lee Mendelson, Mr. Melendez formed a 43-year partnership that has generated more than 70 Peanuts productions, including four feature films. He also animated more than 370 commercials using Peanuts characters and remains the only animator Charles M. Schulz trusted to bring his famous comic strip figures to life.

　　Success was hardly assured when the first Peanuts special, A Charlie Brown Christmas, was broadcast by CBS in 1965. Network executives feared it would be a colossal flop, with no laugh track, a jazz musical score by pianist Vice Guaraldi and religious message.

　　Much to everyone’s surprise, the show was a huge hit and got Emmy and Peabody awards.Cartoonist Robert Smigel called it“the greatest half-hour American TV has ever produced.”

　　In addition to animating every Peanuts film and TV special, Mr. Melendez provided the wordless voice of Snoopy. Before his work on Peanuts, Mr. Melendez drew many of the famous Disney and Warner Bros. animated figures of the 1930s and 40s, including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig. The peanuts characters, with their complicated personalities contained in round, childlike figure, proved unexpectedly challenging.

　　Mr. Melendez won five Emmy Awards for his work on Peanuts. He also won Emmys for creating the first animated cartoons of Jim Davis’Garfield and for animating CS Lewis’The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

　　Melendez was born in 1916 in Hermosillo，Mexico and moved to Douglas, Arizona in 1928, and later to Los Angeles. He began drawing as a child. He studied at what is now the California Institute of the Arts and joined the Disney studio in 1938.

　　1. Who drew the famous“peanuts”comic strip figures?

　　A. Bill Melendez.

　　B. Lee Mendelson.

　　C. Robert Smigel.

　　D. Charles M. Schulz.

　　答案解析：答案為D。本題為細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第三段 “…Mr. Melendez formed.... He also animated more than 370 commercials using Peanuts characters and remains the only animator Charles M. Schulz trusted to bring his famous comic strip figures to life.” 可知，Mr. Melendez利用Peanuts人物創(chuàng)作了370多個(gè)商業(yè)動(dòng)畫片，并且迄今為止，他是Charles M. Schulz唯一信任的將他的著名連環(huán)漫畫形象搬上銀幕的動(dòng)畫片制作者。其中，理解“remains the only animator Charles M. Schulz trusted”是關(guān)鍵，它包含有一個(gè)定語(yǔ)從句，可以改寫為 “remains the only animator that Charles M. Schulz trusted”，因此，“peanuts”連環(huán)漫畫形象是Charles M. Schulz所畫，故答案為D。

　　2. What does the underlined phrase “a colossal flop” mean?

　　A. An immediate success.

　　B. A great failure.

　　C. A huge hit.

　　D. Of great popularity.

　　答案解析：答案為B。本題為詞義猜測(cè)題。第四段提到 “Network executives feared it would be a colossal flop….”，接下來(lái)的第五段首句寫到 “Much to everyone’s surprise, the show was a huge hit and got Emmy and Peabody awards.”由此可知，令每個(gè)人大為吃驚的是，這部片子非常紅火，可以推斷，制片人最初擔(dān)心它會(huì)失敗，因此“a colossal flop“意思為 “失敗”，故答案為B。

　　3. Why did the “peanuts”characters prove extremely difficult to Mr. Melendez?

　　A. Because the characters had complicated personalities.

　　B. Because the Warner Bros. did not like childlike figures in their animations.

　　C. Because the famous animated figures drew by Mr. Melendez in the 30s and 40s were already too successful.

　　D. Because the complicated personalities of the characters were contained in childlike figures.

　　答案解析：答案為D。本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。由倒數(shù)第三段最后一句話 “The peanuts characters, with their complicated personalities contained in round, childlike figure, proved unexpectedly challenging.”可知，答案為D。

　　4. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A. Bill Melendez won five Emmy Awards all together.

　　B. Bill Melendez moved to Douglas when he was 12.

　　C. Bill Melendez provided the voice of Snoopy in Peanuts.

　　D. Bill Melendez died in 2007.

　　答案解析：答案為A。本題為細(xì)節(jié)題。由倒數(shù)第二段 “Mr. Melendez won five Emmy Awards for his work on Peanuts. He also won Emmys for creating the first animated cartoons of Jim Davis’Garfield and for animating CS Lewis’The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.”可知，Mr. Melendez憑借Peanuts這部動(dòng)畫片贏得了五個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，另外還因?yàn)槠渌膭?dòng)畫片作品也贏得了獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)，故A選項(xiàng)不符合文意，因此答案為A。