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小马公开课 400-663-1986

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小马公开课 400-663-1986


注意注意再注意！1.细节类题目2.句子简化题3.插入句子题4.修辞目的题



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细节类题目事实信息题——细节题否定事实信息题——排除题



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细节类题目的一般解题步骤1.读题2.定位3.转移4.转化



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细节类题目的一般解题步骤1.读题定位更准规避干扰选项



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例题： According to paragraph 2, which of the following principles of ecosystems can be learned by studying a pond?

○Ecosystem properties change more slowly than individuals in the system.

○The stability of an ecosystem tends to change as individuals are replaced.

○Individual organisms are stable from one year to the next.

○A change in the members of an organism does not affect an ecosystem’s properties.



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Paragraph 2: An ecologist who studies a pond today may well find it relatively unchanged in a year’s time. Individual fish may be replaced, but the number of fish will tend to be the same from one year to the next. We can say that the properties of an ecosystem are more stable than the individual organisms that compose the ecosystem.



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例题： Paragraph 1 suggests that one reason Egyptian art is viewed less favorably than other art is that Egyptian art lacks

○ a realistic sense of human body proportion

○ a focus on distinctive forms of varying sizes

○ the originality of European art

○ the capacity to show the human body in motion



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In fact, a lack of understanding the purposes of Egyptian art has often led it to be compared unfavorably with the art of other cultures: Why did the Egyptians not develop sculpture in which the body turned and twisted through space like classical Greek statuary?



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例题： According to paragraph 2, all of the following are reasons why Americans migrated westward EXCEPT

the desire to move from one place to the next

the hope of improving their socioeconomic status

the opportunity to change jobs

the need to escape religious or political crises



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Paragraph 2: Why were these hundreds of thousands of settlers—most of them farmers, some of them artisans—drawn away from the cleared fields and established cities and villages of the East? Certain characteristics of American society help to explain this remarkable migration. The European ancestors of some Americans had for centuries lived rooted to the same village or piece of land until some religious, political, or economic crisis uprooted them and drove them across the Atlantic. Many of those who experienced this sharp break thereafter lacked the ties that had bound them and their ancestors to a single place. Moreover, European society was relatively stratified; occupation and social status were inherited. In American society, however, the class structure was less rigid; some people changed occupations easily and believed it was their duty to improve their social and economic position. As a result, many Americans were an inveterately restless, rootless, and ambitious people. Therefore, these social traits helped to produce the nomadic and daring settlers who kept pushing westward beyond the fringes of settlement. In addition, there were other immigrants who migrated west in search of new homes, material success, and better lives.



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The European ancestors of some Americans had for centuries lived rooted to the same village or piece of land until some religious, political, or economic crisis uprooted them and drove them across the Atlantic.

D选项： the need to escape religious or political crises



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In American society, however, the class structure was less rigid; some people changed occupations easily and believed it was their duty to improve their social and economic position. As a result, many Americans were an inveterately restless, rootless, and ambitious people.

the desire to move from one place to the next

the hope of improving their socioeconomic status

the opportunity to change jobs



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例题：According to paragraph 6, each of the following methods has been used in attempts to control Spanina EXCEPT

flooding plants

cutting plants down repeatedly

applying herbicides

introducing predatory insects



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Paragraph 6: Efforts to control Spartina outside its natural environment have included burning, flooding, shading plants with black canvas or plastic, smothering the plants with dredged materials or clay, applying herbicide, and mowing repeatedly. Little success has been reported in New Zealand and England; Washington State’s management program has tried many of these methods and is presently using the herbicide glyphosphate to control its spread. Work has begun to determine the feasibility of using insects as biological controls, but effective biological controls are considered years away. Even with a massive effort, it is doubtful that complete eradication of Spartina from nonnative habitats is possible, for it has become an integral part of these shorelines and estuaries during the last 100 to 200 years.

1.flooding plants；2.cutting plants down repeatedly；3.applying herbicides；4.introducing predatory insects



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例题：According to paragraph 6, each of the following methods has been used in attempts to control Spanina EXCEPT

flooding plants

cutting plants down repeatedly

applying herbicides

introducing predatory insects



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Efforts to control Spartina outside its natural environment have included burning, flooding, shading plants with black canvas or plastic, smothering the plants with dredged materials or clay, applying herbicide, and mowing repeatedly

Work has begun to determine the feasibility of using insects as biological controls, but effective biological controls are considered years away.



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细节类题目的一般解题步骤3.转移有代词或表承接上文的连接词读一句，对一下选项



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例题：According to paragraph 3, scholars explained chips in the painted figures of animals by proposing that

○Upper Paleolithic artists used marks to record the animals they had seen

○the paintings were inspired by the need to increase the supply of animals for hunting

○the artists had removed rough spots on the cave walls

○Upper Paleolithic people used the paintings to increase their luck at hunting



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Paragraph 3: The subjects of the paintings are mostly animals. The paintings rest on bare walls, with no backdrops or environmental trappings. Perhaps, like many contemporary peoples, Upper Paleolithic men and women believed that the drawing of a human image could cause death or injury, and if that were indeed their belief, it might explain why human figures are rarely depicted in cave art. Another explanation for the focus on animals might be that these people sought to improve their luck at hunting. This theory is suggested by evidence of chips in the painted figures, perhaps made by spears thrown at the drawings. But if improving their hunting luck was the chief motivation for the paintings, it is difficult to explain why only a few show signs of having been speared. Perhaps the paintings were inspired by the need to increase the supply of animals. Cave art seems to have reached a peak toward the end of the Upper Paleolithic period, when the herds of game were decreasing.



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例题：According to paragraph 2, why are Egyptian statues portrayed frontality?

○ To create a psychological effect of distance and isolation

○ To allow them to fulfill their important role in ceremonies of Egyptian life

○ To provide a contrast to statues with a decorative function

○ To suggest the rigid, unchanging Egyptian philosophical attitudes



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Paragraph 2: The majority of three-dimensional representations, whether standing, seated, or kneeling, exhibit what is called frontality: they face straight ahead, neither twisting nor turning. When such statues are viewed in isolation, out of their original context and without knowledge of their function, it is easy to criticize them for their rigid attitudes that remained unchanged for three thousand years. Frontality is, however, directly related to the functions of Egyptian statuary and the contexts in which the statues were set up. Statues were created not for their decorative effect but to play a primary role in the cults of the gods, the king, and the dead.



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句子简化题Which of the following best expresses the essential information in the highlighted sentence? Incorrect answer choices change the meaning in important ways or leave out essential information.

理解句意+抓取主干



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错误选项特征1.出现原句未提及的信息，或与原句信息相反；2.逻辑颠倒：因果倒置、让步转折倒置3.只包含次要信息



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错误一The amount of air exchanged is even lower in REM than NREM because, although breathing is more rapid in REM, it is also more irregular, with brief episodes of shallow breathing or absence of breathing.

A. Because breathing is more shallow and irregular in REM than in NREM, less air is exchanged in REMB. Breathing in NREM is less effective than breathing in REM because of irregular episodes of rapid breathing during NREM.C. Because breathing is more rapid in NREM sleep than in REM sleep, breathing often becomes shallow.



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错误二Estimates indicate that the aquifer contains enough water to fill Lake Huron, but unfortunately, under the semiarid climatic conditions that presently exist in the region, rates of addition to the aquifer are minimal, amounting to about half a centimeter a year.

○Despite the current impressive size of the Ogallala aquifer, the region’s climate keeps the rates of water addition very small.

○Although the aquifer has been adding water at the rate of only half a centimeter a year, it will eventually accumulate enough water of fill Lake Huron.



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错误三It is significant that the earliest living things that built communities on these islands are examples of symbiosis, a phenomenon that depends upon the close cooperation of two or more forms of life and a principle that is very important in island communities.

○Symbiosis-the close cooperation of pairs or small groups of living organisms-is especially important in these island environments.

○The first organisms on these islands worked together closely in a relationship known as symbiosis, which is particularly important on islands.



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特别注意！原句： Some scholars expand on this idea by emphasizing a corresponding need for arable land to feed growing numbers of people: construction of small dams, reservoirs, terraces, and field houses indicates that farmers were intensifying their efforts during the 1200s.

As densities increased, domestic architecture became larger, culminating in crowded pueblos.



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A. Some scholars even claim that the intensification of farmers' various efforts during the 1200s led to further population growth and the consequent need for more arable land B. Evidence of intensifying agriculture in the 1200s indicates a need to feed a larger population and so extends the argument that a growing population was the cause of the move to pueblos

C. During the 1200s, farmers met the demand for more arable land, but they also succeeded in cultivating existing land more intensively with the help of agricultural construction projectsD. Some scholars feel strongly that the construction of small dams, reservoirs, terraces and field houses in the thirteenth century is independent evidence for growth in the number of people.



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插入句子题解题步骤1.精确的理解待插入的句子2.根据指示词推断句子前后可能出现的信息3.逐个位置对应推断4.验证答案



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插入后请注意1.插入位置后面是否能够承接2.插入位置后面的代词是否改变指代对象



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Paragraph 2: Continued sedimentation—the process of deposits’ settling on the sea bottom—buries the organic matter and subjects it to higher temperatures and pressures, which convert the organic matter to oil and gas. █As muddy sediments are pressed together, the gas and small droplets of oil may be squeezed out of the mud and may move into sandy layers nearby. █Over long periods of time (millions of years), accumulations of gas and oil can collect in the sandy layers. █Both oil and gas are less dense than water, so they generally tend to rise upward through water-saturated rock and sediment. █

Unless something acts to halt this migration, these natural resources will eventually reach the surface.



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Paragraph 1: It has long been accepted that the Americas were colonized by a migration of peoples from Asia, slowly traveling across a land bridge called Beringia (now the Bering Strait between northeastern Asia and Alaska) during the last Ice Age. ■The first water craft theory about the migration was that around 11,000-12,000 years ago there was an ice-free corridor stretching from eastern Beringia to the areas of North America south of the great northern glaciers. It was the midcontinental corridor between two massive ice sheets-the Laurentide to the west-that enabled the southward migration. ■But belief in this ice-free corridor began to crumble when paleoecologist Glen MacDonald demonstrated that some of the most important radiocarbon dates used to support the existence of an ice-free corridor were incorrect. ■He persuasively argued that such an ice-free corridor did not exist until much later, when the continental ice began its final retreat. ■Moreover, other evidence suggests that even if an ice-free corridor did exist, it would have lacked the resources needed for human colonization.



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Paragraph 5: Above the tree line there is a zone that is generally called alpine tundra. █Immediately adjacent to the timberline, the tundra consists of a fairly complete cover of low-lying shrubs, herbs, and grasses, while higher up the number and diversity of species decrease until there is much bare ground with occasional mosses and lichens and some prostrate cushion plants. █Some plants can even survive in favorable microhabitats above the snow line. The highest plants in the world occur at around 6,100 meters on Makalu in the Himalayas. █At this great height, rocks, warmed by the sun, melt small snowdrifts. █This explains how, for example, alpine cushion plants have been found growing at an altitude of 6,180 meters.



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Paragraph 3: █Watt‘s steam engine soon showed what it could do. █It liberated industry from dependence on running water. █The engine eliminated water in the mines by driving efficient pumps, which made possible deeper and deeper mining. █The ready availability of coal inspired William Murdoch during the 1790s to develop the first new form of nighttime illumination to be discovered in a millennium and a half. The factories did not have to go to the streams when power could come to the factories．



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修辞目的题1.不一定是例子2.观点位置不一定在前面3.选择与原文为同意替换的选项



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注意一例题：Why does the author use the phrase Note the word "net" in the passage?

○To emphasize the impact of seepage on water levels

○To point out that seepage is calculated differently from river flows and atmospheric exchanges

○To compare the different methods of calculating seepage

○To emphasize the difficulty of obtaining specific values for seepage inputs and outputs



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Note the word "net": measuring the actual amounts of groundwater seepage into the lake and out of the lake is a much more complicated matter than merely inferring their difference.

To emphasize the difficulty of obtaining specific values for seepage inputs and outputs



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例题： In paragraph1, why does the author mention “the pressure of the overlying rock”? To show how water can be forced deep under Earth’s surfaceTo show why groundwater is more plentiful than surface freshwaterTo correct a commonly made error about the location of groundwaterTo explain why most groundwater lies near Earth’s surface



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There is more than 50 times as much freshwater stored underground than in all the freshwater rivers and lakes of Earth. At greater depths within Earth, the pressure of the overlying rock causes pores and cracks to close, reducing the space that water can occupy, and almost complete closure occurs at a depth of about 10 kilometers. The greatest water storage, therefore, lies near the surface.



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关键就是替换！例题： In paragraph 2, what is the author’s purpose in presenting the information about the decision by Meyer and Mendeleyev to leave gaps in the periodic table?

○To illustrate their confidence that the organizing principles of the periodic table would govern the occurrence of all chemical elements

○To indicate that some of their analyses of periodic physical and chemical properties were later found to be wrong

○To support the idea that they were unwilling to place new elements in the periodic table

○To indicate how they handled their disagreement about where to place new elements



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When the German chemist Lothar Meyer and (independently) the Russian Dmitry Mendeleyev first introduced the periodic table in 1869-70, one-third of the naturally occurring chemical elements had not yet been discovered.

Yet both chemists were sufficiently farsighted to leave gaps where their analyses of periodic physical and chemical properties indicated that new elements should be located.

Mendeleyev was bolder than Meyer and even assumed that if a measured atomic mass put an element in the wrong place in the table, the atomic mass was wrong.



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例题： In paragraph 2, what is the author’s purpose in presenting the information about the decision by Meyer and Mendeleyev to leave gaps in the periodic table?

○To illustrate their confidence that the organizing principles of the periodic table would govern the occurrence of all chemical elements

○To indicate that some of their analyses of periodic physical and chemical properties were later found to be wrong

○To support the idea that they were unwilling to place new elements in the periodic table

○To indicate how they handled their disagreement about where to place new elements



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阅读机经串讲地理地质学植物学动物学考古学历史学



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板块漂移 TPO27plate tectonics和 continental driftplate——mantle地幔（ crust地壳、 earth core地核）semiliquid用 Hawaii推测出地壳移动侵蚀 erosion、 erode



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地下水groundwater（ TPO1&TPO28）量非常巨大，可再生 renewableaquifer蓄水层（ reservoir）： fossil aquifer、 not rechargeporosity多孔性、 porous多孔的——储水的能力permeability渗透性、 permeable可渗透的——水流动的能力water table地下水位：随 annual rainfall而改变， springvadose zone渗流区：主要为植物根系供水的区域



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夏威夷的植物 TPO9lichen： symbiosis、 fungus（ fungi）+alga（ algae）、 sporefern + moss： sporeseed-bearing plant 种子植物： angiosperm被子植物、 seed、 blooming plant开花植物共性：通过风传播 spore或 seeddeciduous plant、 herb、 shrub



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生态学和生态系统TPO3&TPO19生态学 ecology、生态系统 ecosystem物种 species演替 succession：演替是指一个群落（ community）被另一个群落所替代的现象community群落——动植物；社区——人climax community； pioneer community



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生物多样性和生态系统diversity多样性；stability稳定性， stable；resistant to change（ lack of change）resilience恢复力、 resilient



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动物的叫声 TPO11&TPO28鸟类： swallow、 robin、warbler、 starlingsignal=communicatebegging、 call、 cheep、 peep



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动物的叫声优点：1.小鸟（nestling、hatchling、youngster）用以吸引parent、parent依靠叫声强度决定喂食、越vigorously越喂食2.吸引异性： induce and synchronize fertility in female3.表明身份与划分领地：provide information on the individual identity of animal缺点：吸引predator（haw、 raccoon）



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体温的保持 TPO15温血动物warm blooded冷血动物 cold bloodedreptile爬行动物amphibian两栖动物mammal哺乳动物冬眠 hibernate



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化石的保存 TPO20vertebrate脊椎动物、 invertebrate无脊椎动物脊椎back bone、 spine灭绝 extinction、 extermination影响因素： scavenger食腐动物、 bacteria细菌、decay腐烂、 erosion侵蚀、 oxygen氧气skeleton： calcium carbonate、 aragonite（不稳定的石头）和calcite（非常稳定的石头）、 silica二氧化硅permineralization矿化、petrifaction石化、 carbonization碳化



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农业TPO7&TPO14&TPO21&TPO23origin of agriculturenomadism游牧、 pastoralism 田园畜牧、 horticulture种植发展过程： hunting&gathering 打猎和采集—— nomad游牧——pastoralism 田园畜牧—— agriculture农业（ horticulture）发展到农业的劣势：methods of storage and irrigation；sedentary；worse state of health原因：人口增长 population growth；气候变化 climatic changepueblo小村庄



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农业农业的发展more land into cultivation（ reclamation）facilitate rural industry（wool & textile）



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Industrial Revolution TPO6&TPO8类似于城市经济的发展population growth； laborhigher literacylocation on a natural trade route& access to the sea political institution（ liberal trade policy） steam engine； cost； transportation；efficiencyrailway



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