What is the best title for th…——2017 高考英语第 31 题答案解析

【考点】O1：人物故事类. 菁优网版权所有
【分析】本文主要写了飞行汽车的数据性能，发展的状况，政府的态度，可以
预言飞行车离现实越来越近了.
【解答】ACBD
28. A 细节理解题. 根据句子The Transition, which flew at 1,400 feet for eight
minutes last month, can reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115 in the air.
It flies using a 23-gallon tank of gas and bums 5 gallons per hour in the air. On the
ground, it gets 35 miles per gallon.
可以看出列出的都是Transition的基本数据，所以答案选A.
29. C 推理判断题. 根据句子But don’t expect it to show up in too many driveways.
It’s expected to cost $279,000.
但不要指望它出现在太多的车道，它的预计成本$279,000. 由此可以推断出
Transition 太昂贵了，很少有人买得起，所以答案选C.
30. B 推理判断题. 根据句子The government has already permitted the company to
use special materials to make it easier for the vehicle to fly.
政府已经允许该公司使用特殊材料，使车辆更容易飞行.
可以推断出政府对于制造这种车是赞许的，favourable "赞许的".

【答案】D

【解析】标题大意题.
根据文章第一段第一句可知新的飞行汽车已经完成了第一次飞行，使该公司更
接近其在明年出售飞行汽车的目标.
以及最后一段说一个车主需要通过一个测试，完成20个小时的飞行时间，由此
可见Flying Car Closer to Reality符合本文的主旨，所以答案选D.
【点评】本文主要测试考生在阅读基础上的逻辑推理能力，要求考生根据文章
所述事件的逻辑关系，对未说明的趋势或结局作出合理的推断；或根据作者所
阐述的观点理论，对文章未涉及的现象、事例给以解释.
考生首先要仔细阅读短文，完整了解信息，准确把握作者观点.
　
D
When a leafy plant is under attack, it doesn’t sit quietly. Back in 1983, two
scientists, Jack Schultz and Ian Baldwin, reported that young maple trees getting
bitten by insects send out a particular smell that neighboring plants can get. These
chemicals come from the injured parts of the plant and seem to be an alarm. What the
plants pump through the air is a mixture of chemicals known as volatile organic
compounds, VOCs for short.
Scientists have found that all kinds of plants give out VOCs when being
attacked. It’s a plant’s way of crying out. But is anyone listening? Apparently.
Because we can watch the neighbours react.
Some plants pump out smelly chemicals to keep insects away. But others do
double duty. They pump out perfumes designed to attract different insects who are
natural enemies to the attackers. Once they arrive, the tables are turned. The attacker
who was lunching now becomes lunch.
In study after study, it appears that these chemical conversations help the
neighbors. The damage is usually more serious on the first plant, but the neighbors,
relatively speaking, stay safer because they heard the alarm and knew what to do.
Does this mean that plants talk to each other? Scientists don’t know. Maybe the
first plant just made a cry of pain or was sending a message to its own branches, and
so, in effect, was talking to itself. Perhaps the neighbors just happened to “overhear”

the cry. So information was exchanged, but it wasn’t a true, intentional back and
forth.
Charles Darwin, over 150 years ago, imagined a world far busier, noisier and
more intimate (亲密的) than the world we can see and hear. Our senses are weak.
There’s a whole lot going on.