【课堂新坐标】2016-2017学年高中英语人教版选修6单元综合测评3.docVIP

单元综合测评(时间：100分钟；满分：120分)Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分满分30分)阅读下列短文从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出最佳选项。A (2016·湖北黄冈高二模拟)Dolphins live in a dark underwater world. Its often impossible to see each other or anything else around them, overed their secret communication, except for one kind of whistle. It might last less than a second, but this whistle is a big deal. Why? Because these whistles are actually names of dolphins－and every dolphin has one. Scientists call these sounds a “signature whistle.” When other dolphins hear the whistle, in with other dolphins hundreds of yards away. “In coastal areas, dolphins exchange whistles even when theyre a third of a mile apart，” says Greg Campbell，who studies animals. That means dolphins shout out to group members that might be nearly five football fields away. Whats amazing is who names the baby dolphin. Not the mother. Not an auntie dolphin or another group member. Scientists believe the baby dolphin itself comes up with the signature whistle. Like human babies, a baby dolphin plays with sounds throughout its first year. While testing its sound skills, a baby dolphin is doing something amazing. Its creating or figuring out its signature whistle. How or why it chooses its signature whistle is not clear. Studies show that most of the time the signature whistle is nothing like its mothers or group members whistles. When the baby dolphin is about a year old, its signature whistle is set. It repeats it often so the other dolphins learn to recognize it. Deciphering(破译) dolphin names is just the beginning of figuring out what dolphins communicate about. Do they chat about sharks? Discuss the tides? Maybe they even have a name for people. Someday scientists to decipher the rest of dolphins communication.1．Sound is important for dolphins because of ．【解析】　细节理解题。根据第一段的“Dolphins live in a dark underwater world.Its often impossible to see each other or anything else around them可知海豚生活在黑压压的水下什么也看不到这决定了它们得用声音进行交流。【答案】　B2The dolphins signature whistle