2014年高考分类题库考点3 阅读理解.pdfVIP

温馨提示： 此题库为 Word 版，请按住 Ctrl ，滑动鼠标滚轴，调节 合适的观看比例，关闭 Word 文档返回原板块。 一、科普知识类 - 1 - 二、广告宣传类 - 36 - 四、人物传记类 - 57 - 五、文化教育类 - 67 - 六、社会生活类 - 100 - 七、环境保护类 - 186 - 八、文学艺术类 - 202 - 考点 3 阅读理解 一、科普知识类 (2014·重庆卷·C)话题:生活　　词数:259w　难度:★★★★ 　　The idea of being able to walk on water has long interested humans greatly.Sadly,biological facts prevent us ever accomplishing such a thing without artificial aid—we simply weigh too much,and all our mass pushes down through our relatively small feet,resulting in a lot of pressure that makes us sink. 　　 However, several types of animals can walk on water.One of the most interesting is the common basiliskBasilicus basilicus,a lizard( 蜥 蜴 )native to Central and South America.It can run across water for a distance of several meters,avoiding getting wet by rapidly hitting the water’s surface with its feet.The lizard will take as many as 20 steps per second to keep moving forward.For humans to do this,we’d need huge feet that we could bring up to our ears in order to create 1 adequate“hitting”. 　　But fortunately there is an alternative: cornflour. By adding enough of this common thickening agent to water (and it does take a lot),you can create a“non-Newtonian”liquid that doesn’t behave like normal water.Now,if the surface of the water is hit hard enough,particles( 粒 子 )in the water group together for a moment to make the surface hard.Move quickly enough and put enough force into each step, and you really can walk across the surface of an adequately thick liquid of cornflour. 　　Fun though all this may sound,it’s still rather messy and better read about in