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大题提分练6 阅读理解之主旨大意题(二)
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A (2019·金华十校二模) 体裁：记叙文 主题语境：社会生活 难度：★★★☆☆
“What are you？” they ask. “Guess，” I say. Some suggest I have Japanese eyes. Others think I'm Filipino, may be Indian. Few guess the truth: I am Mexican American. But it's not like I've ever worn that name alone. I'm part of a younger generation of Americans whose identity is shaped neither by where we came from nor where we ended up.
My parents know the California immigrant experience first-hand. They grew up picking fruit in the San Joaquin Valley, knowing what it was to be poor, but also knowing what it was to be Mexican. Wanting a better life for their children, they went to college and got professional jobs. By the time I was born, they were fully accepted into the middle class. I grew up in the racially mixed zones of Sacramento, and when my parents talked of their years in the fields it was hard to connect those stories to where we found ourselves now.
By the time I reached my teens, difference had announced itself. We were all struggling for a sense of individuality, looking everywhere but where we came from. Identity became goods. Wearing certain clothes and liking certain kinds of music created social categories.
I became a junkman, sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoon, I took
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language classes at the local Buddhist temple.
I grew up American to a fault, rarely considering my own people's culture and humanity. I left Sacramento and moved to San Francisco's Mission District to put myself together again. There I first saw my people living in a separate community that had its own language, one I'd never learned. My brown face led people to ask me for directions in Spanish. I could only respond with a universally understood shrug.
“This is what I am，” I said to myself, looking at a street full of newly arrived immigrants.No, that wasn't quite it. I corrected myself: “This is where I come from.”
Is it tragic that I grew up far from my mother culture, discovering it so late in life? I prefer to think that my American upbringing has taught me to apply insights from many different cultures to my everyday life. I am a product not just of Mexico or the US but of the world as a whole.
【语篇解读】 作为美国少数民族裔中的一支重要力量美国墨西哥裔一直在寻找着自己独特的身份认同感。本文以作者的成长过程为例，讲述了作者从不断地学习不同文化和找寻自己的本族文化的经历中成熟起来。
好词积累 ①identity n. 身份； ②tragic adj. 悲剧的；悲惨的； ③insight n. 领悟；洞悉
1．Where does the writer grow up? A. In Sacramento. B. In a Mexico town.
C. In the San Joaquin Valley.
D. In San Francisco's Mission District.
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答案与解析 A 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“I grew up in the racially mixed zones of Sacramento”可知，作者在Sacramento长大，故A项正确。
2．What did the writer learn from his American upbringing? A. To promote mother culture. B. To adapt to new surroundings. C. To clearly express individuality. D. To learn from different cultures.
答案与解析 D 细节理解题。根据最后一段中的“I prefer to think that my American upbringing has taught me to apply insights from many different cultures to my everyday life.”可知，作者认为他在美国的成长经历让他学会把不同文化应用到日常生活中，故D项正确。
3．What can we infer from the article?
A. The writer liked to play sports. B. The writer wanted to learn Spanish.
C. The writer was interested in different cultures. D. The writer did not like living in San Francisco.
答案与解析 C 推理判断题。根据第四段中的“sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoon”可知，作者对不同文化感兴趣。故C项正确。
4．What is this article mainly about? A. The growing pains of immigrants. B. The culture differences in America. C. The writer exploration of his identity.
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D. The problems of immigrants in America.
答案与解析 C 全文大意题。根据第一段中的“I'm part of a younger generation of Americans whose identity is shaped neither by where we came from nor where we ended up.”； 第三段中的“We were all struggling for a sense of individuality, looking everywhere but where we came from.”及倒数第二段中的“This is where I come from.”可知，本文主要讲述了作者在成长中不断找寻自己的身份认同感，探寻着自己从哪儿来的问题。故C项正确。
B (2019·淮北宿州二模) 体裁：说明文 主题语境：人与植物 难度：★★★☆☆
Gardeners such as Prince Charles who claim that talking to plants encourages them to grow have long been seen as a little silly. But scientists have discovered evidence which suggests the Royal may actually be right and they could be listening to him. Biologists at Tel Aviv University in Israel have found that flowers can act as a plant's “ears” to help them detect the sound of approaching insects.
When the researchers played recordings of flying bees to evening primrose flowers, within three minutes the sugar concentrations in the nectar (花蜜) of its flowers increased. The fluid, produced to attract pollinating (授粉) insects, was on average 20 percent higher in flowers exposed to the buzz compared to those left in silence or exposed to higher pitched sounds. Professor Lilach Hadany, who led the study, said: “Our results document for the first time that plants can rapidly respond to pollinator sounds in an ecologically relevant way.”
However, Prof Hadany said a plant's ability to respond to pollinators may be weakened in city environments or beside a busy road. While plants require water, sunlight and the right temperature
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