2017年高考英语考试仿真卷8(江西省含答案).docVIP

2017年高考英语考试仿真卷8(江西省含答案) C （2017江西临川二中高三一次联考） You know that squeak(吱吱声) you hear from your pet mouse or the pest mouse? It turns out that it is not really a squeak, but a sweet song by male mice to attract females. This is the conclusion reached by biologist Dustin Penn and his team at the Veterinary University of Vienna. The scientists who have been conducting a series of studies on house mice for a number of years, began by recording the high-pitched(声调高的) sounds male mice made the moment they sensed a female mouse around. What they discovered when they played them back to females was that the ladies could tell between those made by their brothers and the ones made by unrelated males. Just like human, they tended to ignore the ones made by their brothers. The researchers then took the experiment one step further and analyzed the squeaks. To their surprise they discovered that while the squeaks sounded similar, they each had a different “tune”. The biggest surprise of all was that the mice could even learn tunes from each other. However, not all scientists agree with this finding. Some like Kurt Hammer, a scientist at the German Primate Center believe that the test sample was too small to make such a conclusion. The researcher?s next plan to test if the females care about the quality of the “song”. In some bird species, males that can sing the most complex tunes seem to get the most attention. So why do we care whether mice can sing or not? Clearly, since they are being used as laboratory testers, it will help us make advances in human speech disorders like the ones found in people suffering from autism(自闭症). 29. According to Dustin Pen, the squeak made by a male mouse is _______. A. a hungry signal B. a sad cry C. a terrible noise D. a pleasant sound 【解析】细节理解题。根据第一段中的but a sweet song sung by male mice to attract females 可知，雄鼠发出的是愉悦的声音。 【答案】D 30. The underlined word “them” in Paragraph 2 refers to _______. A. the male mice B. the female mice C. the squeaks made b