of ground insects in Puerto Rico has fallen by 98% over the last 35 years. A growing body of research shows that insects are declining about twice as fast as vertebrates.
The researchers predict that all insect species could be gone in a century in these industrialized countries. 38. What does the underlined word “plummet” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?
A. Reduce.
B. Increase.
C. Disappear.
D. Raise.
39. We can learn from Paragraph 2 and 3 that ______________.
A. we can make a big profit by pollinating by hand B. insects have no impact on industrial development C. pollinating by hand can replace pollinating by insects
D. insects account for the largest composition in the entire animal kingdom 40. What’s the author’s attitude towards the phenomenon mentioned in the news?
A. Unclear.
B. Concerned.
C. Suspicious.
D. Critical.
41. The author helps readers better understand his idea mainly by __________.
A. using research results
B. making comparisons D. telling personal stories
C. giving some examples 8、（2024北京密云一模）
C
A team of engineers at Harvard University has been inspired by Nature to create the first robotic fly. The mechanical fly has become a platform for a series of new high-tech systems. Designed to do what a fly does naturally, the tiny machine is the size of a fat housefly. Its mini wings allow it to stay in the air and perform controlled flight tasks.
\components (元件) , \project for over a decade. A few years ago. his team got the go-ahead to start piecing together the components. \added difficulty with a project like this is that actually none of those components are off the shelf and so we have to develop them all on our own, \
They engineered a series of systems to start and drive the robotic fly. \moves the wings has a number of interdependencies on the individual components, each of which individually has to perform well. but then has to be matched well to everything it's connected to, \
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into a set of power, computation, sensing and control systems. Wood says the success of the project proves that the flying robot with these tiny components can be built and manufactured.
While this first robotic flyer is linked to a small, off-board power source, the goal is eventually to equip it with a built-in power source, so that it might someday perform data-gathering work at rescue sites, in farmers' fields or on the battlefield. \
Wood says the design offers a new way to study flight mechanics and control at insect-scale. Yet, the power, sensing and computation technologies on board could have much broader applications. %using them to answer open scientific questions, you know, to study biology in ways that would be difficult with the animals, but using these robots instead, \questions that are really what drives us on a day-to-day basis.\
38. The difficulty the team of engineers met with while making the robotic fly was that A. they had no ready-made components C. they had no model in their mind
B. they did not have sufficient time
.
D. they could no assemble the components
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39. It can be inferred from paragraphs 3 and 4 that the robotic fly A. consists of a flight device and a control system B. can collect information from many sources C. can just fly in limited areas at the present time D. has been put into wide application
40. Which of the following can be learned from the passage?
A. The robotic flyer is designed to learn about insects. B. Wood's design can replace animals in some experiments. C. There used to be few ways to study how insects fly. D. Animals are not allowed in biological experiments. 41. Which of the following might be the best title of the passage?
A. Father of Robotic Fly
B. Inspiration from Engineering Science
C. Harvard Breaks Through in Insect Study D. Robotic Fly Imitates Real Life Insect 9、（2024北京平谷一模）
C
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Why is poverty so difficult to overcome? Why are poorer people less likely to invest in their own learning and ability development, but more likely to be addicted to television and video games?
In the past, a poor person was normally considered to have bad character or have no ambition. Banerjee corrects such views and explains the economics behind the poor. Poor people tend to live with more worries in their lives, he said, so they need tools such as televisions, cell phones, junk food and video games to relieve worries more than others. But investment in learning often takes a long time to get rewards, while the poor are often impatient due to economic reasons, and their life in the meantime is getting more worrisome and boring.
That goes for health. Banerjee and his wife find that the poor spend the same amount of money and time, or even more on health and medical care than the middle class group, but they tend to get bad effects. The reason is that the poor often lack the essential medical and healthy knowledge and they tend to get medical treatment when the disease has worsened to a certain stage. Besides, they tend to trust the doctors who “give strong medicine” because they believe such doctors are the “good” ones. But in fact, “strong medicine” always leads to resistance to drugs and overtreatment. This kind of attitude, which emphasizes treatment rather than early prevention, has brought many poor people more economic stress and physical damage, and even has affected the education of their next generation. According to the study, children in poorer physical condition tend to spend less time in school and have lower incomes after graduation, so poverty gets “inherited”.
When it comes to finance, Banerjee’s research has found that the poor often need to borrow little and short-term loans while paying extremely high interest rates. It is also because the poor tend to take higher financial risks — they often have unstable incomes and are unable to get working capital from banks, so they rely more on these high-interest loans. And these small loans put a brake on their savings against risks.
How could the poor step into the middle class? Maybe starting a business is a way out. But for the extremely poor, it’s impossible to get the capital they need to start a business. In most cases, a more practical option is getting a job in government agencies because comparatively speaking, government jobs are very stable, which give the poor the opportunities to be hired for the long term, to increase the range of their thinking and thus enabling families to move from poverty to the middle class.
Banerjee’s research provides a new perspective for governments to understand poverty, so that policies can be tailored to decrease poverty and ultimately eliminate(消除) it. 38. How do the poor deal with the issue of health?
A. They spend less money in preventing disease. B. They focus more on the diseases than early prevention. C. They usually think it essential to resist strong medicine.
D. They are willing to get free medical treatment from the government. 39. From the underlined sentence, we can learn that 13 / 23
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A. poverty is produced by the poor B. poverty is passed down by their parents C. poverty has some bad effects on the poor
D. poverty causes people to bear more economic stress 40. Banerjee considers it difficult to overcome poverty because A. the poor have bad character or have no ambition B. the poor prefer to invest in business rather than work C. the government hasn’t taken proper and effective measure D. the poor were troubled by their lives, health and finance 41. What can we learn from the passage?
A. The poor have attached importance to education. B. The government can’t provide the jobs for the poor. C. All the poor need to start a business for their survival.
D. Banerjee?s research is helpful for the government to rid of poverty. 10、（2024北京人大附一模）
C
Researchers continue to show the power behind our sense of smell. Recent studies have found, among other things, that the smell of foods like pizza can cause uncontrollable anger in drivers on roads.
The review explains that smell is unique in its effects on the brain. According to Conrad King, the researcher who carried out the review, \acts on the systems concerned with feelings. This is why the smell of baking bread can destroy the best intentions of a dieter.\
Smell, which dictates the unbelievable complexity of food tastes, has always been the least understood of our senses. Our noses are able to detect up to 10,000 distinct smells. Our ability to smell and taste this extremely large range of smells is controlled by something like 1,000 genes (基因), which make up an amazing 3% of the human genome. Researchers Richard Axel and Linda Buck were together awarded a Nobel Prize in 2004 for their ground-breaking research on the nature of this extraordinary sense. These two scientists were the first to describe the family of 1,000 olfactory (嗅 觉) genes and to explain how our olfactory system works.
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According to one study in the research review, smelling fresh pizza or even the packaging of fast foods can be enough to make drivers feel impatient with other road users. They are then more likely to speed and experience uncontrollable anger on roads. The most reasonable explanation is that these can all make drivers feel hungry, and therefore desperate to satisfy their appetites.
In contrast, the smells of peppermint and cinnamon were shown to improve concentration levels as well as reduce drivers’ impatience. Similarly, the smells of lemon and coffee appeared to promote clear thinking and mental focus. However, the way genes regulate smell differs from person to person. A study by researchers in Israel has identified at least 50 olfactory genes which are switched on in some people and not in others. They believe this may explain why some of us love some smells and tastes while others hate them. The Israel researchers say their study shows that nearly every human being shows a different pattern of active and inactive smell-detecting receptors. 38. What did Richard Axel and Linda Buck find out? A. The category of food smells. B. The logical part of human brain. C. The nature of human olfactory system. D. The relationship between food and feelings. 39. Which of the following can help people concentrate? A. Bread. B. Fruits. C. Coffee. D. Fast food. 40. What do we know from the last paragraph? A. Some people can recognize up to 50 smells. B. Every person has a different pattern of genes. C. Different people are sensitive to different smells. D. There are still some olfactory genes to be found out. 41. What is the passage mainly about? A. Logic and behaviour. B. Smell and its influence. C. Sense ability and food tastes. D. Olfactory genes and its system. 11、（2024北京石景山一模）
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