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Passage1 体裁 题材 词数 难度系数 建议阅读时间 实际阅读时间 正确率 议论文 生活 158 ★★★☆☆ 4分钟 What makes your hair go curly? Most people are born with straight hair, but why are there people born with curly hair? It may look like a simple（简单） question that we can easily answer, but the answer is not as simple as it is. The color and shape of your hair are determined（决定） by your genes （基因 Whether you have straight hair or curly hair comes from your parents’ genes. “If both your parents give you the curly version（版本） of the gene, you will be born with curly hair,” Barry Starr, a geneticist（遗传学者） at Stanford University, told Popular Science. If both your parents give you the straight version, you will have the straight hair. And if one gives you curly genes and the other give you straight gene, you could have either curly hair or straight hair. 1. According to the passage, how many kinds of hair people may have? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4 2. The color and shape of one’s hair are determined by _________? A. your mother’s gene …….. B. your father’s gene C. your grandparents’gene……….. D. your parents’ gene 3. If your parents provide you with curly gene, your hair will be _________? A. straight .B. soft C. stiff D. curly 4. What is the meaning of the underlined word “shape” in the second paragraph? A.长短 B.形状 C.粗细 D.多少 5. Which of the following statement is not true? A. Some people may have curly hair and some people may have straight hair. B. Your hair is determined by your parents’ gene. C. Your color and shape cann’t be changed when you are born. D. Your parents both have straight hair, you may have curly hair. 【难点点拨】 1. “the answer is not as simple as it is.”句中not as simple as意为“不如…简单”。 形容词的统计比较：当两个比较对象程度相同时，用“as+形容词/副词原级+as”的结构，意为“和…一样”。 eg. Tom is as tall as his brother. 汤姆和他的哥哥一样高。 Lucy is as beautiful as me. 露西和我一样漂亮。 “not as/so+形容词/副词原级+as”意为“不如…” eg. He did not come as/so ea