细节理解题。根据第四段最后一句“Lina loved that the island, hidden in a heavily-wooded side stream of the river, was a secret between the three friends -her, Celia, and Marie.”可知小岛隐藏在一条树木繁茂的河边，故可知小岛是被浓密的森林包围着。故选C。 【5题详解】
细节理解题。第五段倒数第三句“Celia took Marie's side, as she always did.”可知西莉亚一如既往地站在玛丽一边。这使得Lina很生气，故选D。 【6题详解】
细节理解题。根据第六段倒数第二句“She just hoped she didn't become as forgotten as the island.”可知Lina一想到自己可能会像这个岛一样被遗忘，没有人来救她，这不禁使她有了一阵寒意，故选C。 【7题详解】
细节理解题。根据最后一段倒数第二句“Luckily a strong arm reached into the water and pulled her out.She smiled weakly at Marie's dad”可知Lina感到一只强壮的手臂伸进水里把她拉了出来，这正是Marie的父亲，故选A。
C
Tourism is often about seeking deeper emotional and personal connections with the world around us. Not all travel experiences, however, need to take place in the real world. With the evolution of virtual reality(VR) technology, tourism will increasingly become a combination of physical and virtual worlds. VR may even remove the need to travel entirely.
But can a VR experience really equal a real world one? Many experts believe it can. Studies have shown that our brains have an inbuilt VR-like mechanism that enables us to live imagined experiences. Much of our waking life is spent thinking about either the past or the future. This is known as\mind wandering\During these events we' re not paying attention to the current world around us. Instead, we' re recalling memories, or creating and processing imagined futures.
When engaged in mind wandering, our brains process these mental images using the same pathways used to receive inputs from the real world. So, the imagined past or future can create emotions and feelings similar to how we react to everyday life. VR can create these same feelings.
While critics might argue that a virtual experience will never match reality, there are several ways VR tourism could make a positive contribution. Firstly it could help protect sensitive locations from over-tourism. In recent years famous sites such as Maya Bay in Thailand, and Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temples have had to limit the number of visitors because of their negative
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impact. These places are now producing their own VR experiences that will allow tourists to pass through virtual models of the sites.
Virtual reality may also allow people back in time, to experience historical events, visit ancient cities, and even to walk among dinosaurs.
Finally, in a world where many people suffer from stress and depression due to overwork, virtual tourism may provide a cheap and convenient way for people to take brief holidays to otherwise unreachable destinations and recharge their batteries, without ever leaving their homes.
It sounds like science fiction but it's already happening. As virtual technology improves and as people continue to demand new and interesting experiences, expect more virtual tourism, both in combination with the real world and instead of it. 8. What is driving the development of virtual tourism? A. Companies seeking to make more money. B. Improvements in virtual reality technology. C. People's demand for more shared experiences. D. People's deeper understanding of the physical world. 9. Which of the following best describes \A. The brain processes which help people think VR is real. B. The way the brain processes inputs from the real world. C. Brain activities focusing on past or future events. D. Experiences coming from a person's imagination.
10. What does the underlined word \A. Science fiction. B. Virtual technology. C. Virtual tourism. D. The real world.
11. What is the purpose of the passage? A. To describe the advantages of VR tourism. B. To give suggestions for reducing over-tourism. C. To encourage people to develop VR technology.
D. To argue VR tourism will replace the real world travel.
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【答案】8. B 9. C 10. D 11. A 【解析】
这是一篇说明文。旅游能让人们与周围的世界建立深层的情感联系。如今人们可以通过VR技术体现旅游。介绍了这项技术的原理，以及这项技术的运用，不仅可以体验各地的景点还可以体验历史事件。这项技术使人们在忙碌之余足不出户就可以放松身心。 【8题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第一段第三句 With the evolution of virtual reality (VR) technology, tourism will increasingly become a combination of physical and virtual worlds. VR may even remove the need to travel entirely. 可知随着虚拟现实技术的发展，旅游业越来越成为现实世界与虚拟世界的结合体，虚拟现实甚至可以完全消除旅行的需要，因此虚拟现实技术的发展促进了虚拟旅游业的发展。故选B。 【9题详解】
细节理解题。根据文章第二段第四句 Much of our waking life is spent thinking about either the past or the future. This is known as \可知，我们清醒时的大部分时间花在了思考过去或者未来上。故可以推出，“心灵漫游”是专注于过去或未来事件的大脑活动。故选C。 【10题详解】
推理判断题。根据文章最后一段最后一句 As virtual technology improves and as people continue to demand new and interesting experiences, expect more virtual tourism, both in combination with the real world and instead of it. 可知，随着虚拟技术的进步，以及人们对新奇有趣体验的需求，虚拟旅游将会越来越多，它不仅会与现实世界相结合，还会取代现实世界。both 与 and 后的内容并列，因此 it 指代的是 the real world，现实世界。故选D。 【11题详解】
主旨大意题。文章主要介绍了虚拟旅游的功能和积极影响。根据文章第四段第一句 While critics might argue that a virtual experience will never match reality, there are several ways VR tourism could make a positive contribution. 可知，虚拟旅游可以做出积极的贡献。故A项正确。B项，“建议减少过度旅行”。文章未提及。故B项错误。C项，“鼓励人们发展虚拟现实技术”。太过宽泛，文章主要侧重讲虚拟旅游。故C项错误。D项，“证明虚拟旅游将会取代现实旅游”。这不是这篇文章的目的。故D项错误。故正确答案为A。
D
Both honeybees and ants are social insects that live in groups called colonies. They survive by means of their collective intelligence. Their decision-making power is distributed throughout
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the group; that is, no one ant or bee makes decisions for the group. Instead, they work together. As Deborah M. Gordon, a biologist at Stanford University, says,\Ants aren't smart. Ant colonies are.\
The same is true for bee colonies. Although bees and ants are quite different physically they have a lot in common in terms of their social behavior. Specifically, honeybees and ants have similar roles within the colony, both have communication systems, and both have the capacity for learning.
Ants communicate by using chemicals called pheromones, which can alert others to danger or to a food source. For example, when worker ants find a promising source, they let the rest of the colony know how to find it by leaving a trail of pheromones on the way back to the colony. The other ants pick up the message using their sense of smell. Bees, on the other hand, use movement to communicate with each other. Worker bees send messages to each other by means of a \Different speeds and movements send different messages. For example, when worker bees called scouts go out to find a new home for the colony, they return and do a dance for the other worker bees that indicates the location of the new home and how suitable it is. The faster the scouts dance, the better the new location is.
Honeybees and ants are both capable of learning. One Chinese study found that bees can be trained to learn and remember a route to a food source. The researchers also found that bees can be taught to recognize hidden objects and use the concepts of \accomplish certain tasks. Ants take this one step further. Recent American research has shown that ants not only have the ability to learn, but also can teach their foraging skills to other younger ants.
They observed that older ants accompany young ants in search of food and teach them the route and how to avoid obstacles.
As we can see, the social behavior of honeybees and ants is quite similar. Both coordinate complex actions and accomplish crucial survival tasks by cooperating in groups consisting of many individuals. Unintelligent as they may be as individuals, as groups they often show amazing brilliance as they go about their everyday activities. 12. What do ants and bees have in common? A. They live in similar-sized colonies. B. They make use of collective intelligence.
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