How does the writer recommend…——2017 高考英语第 46 题答案解析

【考点】O3：广告布告类阅读．菁优网版权所有
【分析】 本文是一篇广告布告类阅读，文章主要介绍了CHRONOLOGICA这本书，它是
一本历史书，是一个穿越时空的奇妙的旅程的书，从罗马的建立介绍到互联网的创建．
【解答】CB
56．C 细节理解题．根据CHRONOLOGICA部分中的内容：CHRONOLOGICA is a
fascinating journey through time，from the foundation of Rome to the creation of the
internet．可知CHRONOLOGICA这本书是一个穿越时空的奇妙的旅程，从罗马的建立到
互联网的创建．再根据While CHRONOLOGICA tells the stories of famous people in history
such as Thomas Edison and Alexander the Great，可知CHRONOLOGICA这本书讲述了历
史上Thomas Edison和Alexander the Great等名人的故事．由此可知，CHRONOLOGICA
这本书是一本历史书．故选C．

【答案】B

【解析】理解选择题．根据CHRONOLOGICA部分中的内容 ：While CHRONOLOGICA tells
the stories of famous people in history such as Thomas Edison and Alexander the Great，this

book also gives ab account of the lives of lesser﹣known individuals including the exploeer
Mungo Park and sculptor Gutzon Borglum．可知CHRONOLOGICA这本书讲述了历史上
Thomas Edison和Alexander the Great等名人的故事．这本书也介绍了一些鲜为人知的人
物，包括Mungo Park和雕塑家Gutzon Borglum．由此可知，笔者通过引入这本书的一些
内容来向读者介绍的．故选B．
【点评】本文考察学生的理解推断能力以及细心程度，只要抓住文章的关键词，采用寻
读的方法查找细节，就能找到正确答案．
28． （6分）Before birth，babies can tell the difference between loud sounds and voices．They can
even distinguish their mother's voice from that of a female stranger．But when it comes to
embryonic learning（胎教） ，birds could rule the roost．As recently reported in The Auk：
Ornithological Adrances，some mother birds may teach their young to sing even before they
hatch（孵化） ．New﹣born chicks can then imitate their mom's call within a few days of
enering the world．
This educational method was first observed in 2012 by Sonia Kieindorfer，a biologist at
Flinders University in South Australia，and her colleagues．Female Australian superb fairy
wrens were found to repeat one sound over and over again while hatching their eggs，When the
eggs were hatched，the baby birds made the similar chirp to their mothers﹣a sound that served
as their regular"feed me!"call．
To find out if the special quality was more widespread in birds，the researchers sought the red
﹣backed fairy wren，another species of Australian songbird．First they collected sound data
from 67 nests in four sites in Queenslang before and after hatching，Then they identified
begging calls by analyzing the order and number of notes．A computer analysis blindly
compared calls produced by mothers and chicks，ranking them by similarity．
It turns out that baby red﹣backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their moms．And the
more frequently mothers had called to their eggs，the more similar were the babies'begging
calls．In addition，the team set up a separate experiment that suggested that the baby birds that
most closely imitated their mom's voice were rewarded with the most food．
This observation hints that effective embryonic learning could signal neurological（神经系统
的）strengths of children to parents．An evolutionary inference can then be drawn．"As a
parent，do you invest in quality children，or do you invest in children that are in need？

"Kleindorfer asks．"Our results suggest that they might be going for quality．"