2019届二轮复习-阅读理解说明文类型(10篇)训练之一((20页word版答案含有解析).doc

2019届二轮复习 阅读理解说明文类型10篇训练之一 [一] You cant walk into the office without Rihannas voice singing “work work work work work work” in your head.And that one line from Lady Gagas Bad Romance still makes you want to scream.These are commonly known as earworm songs—those sticky tunes that continue to play in your head.A recent study finds that more than 90% of adults report hearing earworm songs on a weekly basis. Fortunately，most people report earworm songs as pleasant.But others find them annoying or even maddening.“Some people are troubled by them to the point that it disturbs life，” says Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis，a professor at the University of Arkansas who has studied earworm songs. Margulis says earworm songs tend to have some predictable characteristics.For one thing，they tend to small parts of a song—not the whole track.And “the songs youve heard recently also have the most possibility to get stuck in your memory，” she says. But sometimes something strange and unpredictable can also start a track paying in your head.“Once I was at the doctors office and saw a poster of a man who I thought looked like Gaston—a character from Beauty and the Beast，” Margulis recalls.A couple minutes passed，and she realized she couldnt get Be Our Guest，the song in the movie，out of her head，even though she hadnt thought of the tune in years.In that instance，she was able to identify her earworms trigger：the Gaston-looking man in the poster.“But the connections can be really unclear，” she says. Margulis points out that，in all of human history，recorded music is a very new phenomenon.She says some have inferred that earworm songs are also new—the unintended consequence of being able to hear the same song played everywhere in the same way over and over again.So far，the convincing explanation for why human beings experience earworm songs remains a mystery.But there are some well-established ways to cast off the earworm songs. “Finding a mentally demanding task and pu