What type of writing is this…——2014 高考英语第 23 题答案解析

【考点】O3：广告布告类阅读；P2：文中细节；P4：逻辑推理．菁优网版权所有
【分析】本文是有关第六届剑桥科技节的通知，通知要求5至14岁的学生可以报
名参加，参赛作品可以是一张画、一篇文章、一张照片或一首诗，作品要能够
鼓励人们探险世界．将在4月21日给优秀作品颁奖．

【解答】ACC
21．A．细节理解题．根据文章第一段2，3行The challenge invites, even dares
school students between the ages of 5 and 14 to create artwork or a piece of writing
that shows their curiosity how it inspires them to explore their
world.可知，这个活动主要的参加对象是学校里的学生．故A正确．
22．C．细节理解题．根据文章第三段Students who enter the Curiosity Challenge
and are selected as winners will be honor at a special ceremony during the CSF on
Sunday, April 21st.
可知，进入挑战赛并获奖的同学将在4月21日的颁奖典礼上接受颁奖．故C正确
．

【答案】C

【解析】推理判断题．本文主要介绍了The Cambridge Science Festival Curiosity
Challenge剑桥科技节的很多信息，根据短文的内容及The program guidelines and
other related information are available at:
http://cambridgesciencefestival.org.如果想了解更多的信息可以登陆这个网址．可
推知这是一个通知，属于应用文中的通知．也就是让别人知道这件重大活动的
情况．故C正确．
【点评】本文是广告布告类阅读，关键是找出原文的根据，认真核查题意原文
的异同，对于不能直接找到根据的小题注意根据相关信息，进行推理分析．
　
B
Passenger pigeons（旅鸽）once flew over much of the United States in
unbelievable numbers. Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described
flocks（群）so large that they darkened the sky for hours.
It was calculated that when its population reach its highest point, there were
more than 3 billion passenger pigeons – a number equal to 24 to 40 percent of the
total bird population in the United States, making it perhaps the most abundant birds
in the world. Even as late as 1870 when their numbers had already become smaller, a
flock believed to be 1 mile wide and 320 miles (about 515 kilometers) long was seen
near Cincinnati.
Sadly, the abundance of passenger pigeons may have been their undoing. Where

the birds were abundant, people believed there was an ever-lasting supply and killed
them by the thousands. Commercial hunters attracted them to small clearings with
grain, waited until pigeons had settled to feed, then threw large nets over them, taking
hundreds at a time. The birds were shipped to large cities and sold in restaurants.
By the closing decades of the 19th century, the hardwood forests where
passenger pigeons nested had been damaged by Americans’ need for wood, which
scattered（驱散）the flocks and forced the birds to go farther north, where cold
temperatures and spring storms contributed to their decline. Soon the great flocks
were gone, never to be seen again.
In 1897, the state of Michigan passed a law prohibiting the killing of passenger
pigeons, but by then, no sizable flocks had been seen in the state for 10 years. The last
confirmed wild pigeon in the United States was shot by a boy in Pike County, Ohio,
in 1900. For a time, a few birds survived under human care. The last of them, known
affectionately as Martha, died at the Cincinnati Zoological Garden in September 1,
1914.