阅读理解 (本题共计4小题,总分37.5分)2.(10分)Nowadays there seems to be an app for everything. And mobile apps have been a part of our life. The following apps are part of the most popular apps.Ctrip can be the best helper when you feel it hard to buy the train or airline tickets. You can buy tickets anywhere anytime.Ximalaya Reading has millions of books including poems, short stories, novels and even fairy tales for children. What’s special about it is that you can use it to download book recording that can be listened to. It has more than 1 million valuable resources.Baby Bus is a very good friend for children under three years old. Kids can learn to speak, understand numbers and draw pictures with the help of this app.Word Hero may help learn more English words while you’re playing games, so if you have problems remembering the new words when you learn English, use it!21.Ctrip is a useful app for____ .A. playing games B. learning EnglishC. memorizing words D. booking tickets22.You can NOT know about ____ from Ximalaya Reading.A. poems B. novels C. news D. tales23.To remember words in a fun way, ___ is a good choice.A. Ctrip B. Word Hero C. Baby Bus D. Ximalaya Reading24.According to the information above, ______.A. we can buy tickets from Ctrip only in the daytimeB. Peter, a 2-year-old boy, can learn to draw pictures with the help of Baby BusC. we can’t use Ximalaya Reading to download book recordingD. Word Hero helps us practice spoken English.3.(10分)Why do men die earlier than women? The latest research makes it known that the reason could be that men's hearts go into rapid decline(衰退) when they reach middle age.The latest study of the effects of aging on the heart has found that women's longevity(长寿) may be linked to the fact that their hearts do not lose their pumping power with age. "We have found that the power of the male heart falls by 20--25 percent between 18 and 70 years of age,” said the head of the study, David Goldspink of Liverpool John Moores University in the UK."Within the heart there are millions of cells that enable it to beat. Between the age of 20 and 70,one-third of those cells die and are not replaced in men,” said Goldspink. "This is part of the aging process."What surprises scientists is that the female heart sees very little loss of these cells. A healthy 70-year-old woman's heart could perform almost as well as a 20-year-old one's. "This gender(性别) difference might just explain why women live longer than men,” said Goldspink.They studied more than 250 healthy men and women between the ages of 18 and 80,focusing on healthy persons to remove the confusing influence of disease. The team has yet to find why aging takes a greater loss on the male heart, said Goldspink.The good news is that men can improve the health of their heart with regular exercise. Goldspink stressed that women also need regular exercise to prevent their leg muscles becoming smaller and weaker as they age.25. The text mainly talks about ______.A. men's heart cells B. women's aging processC. the gender difference D. hearts and long life26. According to the text, the UK scientists have known that ______.A. the female heart loses few of the cells with ageB. women can replace the cells that enable the heart to beatC. women have more cells than men when they are bornD. women never lose their pumping power with age27. If you want to live longer, you should ______.A. enable your heart to beat much faster B. find out the reason for agingC. exercise regularly to keep your heart healthy D. prevent your cells from being lost28. We can know from the passage that ______.A. the reason why aging takes a greater loss on the male heart has been found outB. scientists are on the way to finding out why the male heart loses more of the cellsC. the team has done something to prevent the male from suffering the greater lossD. women over 70 could lose more heart cells than those at the age of 204.(10分)Once an Englishman named Jack Brown went to Russia for a holiday. He stayed there for several months and then came home again. Some of his friends visited him a few days after he got back. “I had a very dangerous trip while I was in Russia,” Jack said to them. “I wanted to see a friend of mine in the country and the bad weather made me very late. So I was still traveling through a forest in a sleigh (雪橇) when the sun went down. It was a long way from my friend’s house when about twenty wolves began to follow my sleigh. It was very dark in the forest. There was thick snow on the ground. It was cold, and there were no houses for miles and miles. First I heard the wolves. The noise was terrible! The horses heard them, too. They were frightened and began running faster. Then I saw long, gray forms among the trees, and soon the wolves were near us. They were running very fast, and they didn’t seem to get tired like the horses.”“What did you do?” one of Jack’s friends asked.“When the wolves got very near,” Jack answered, “I put up my gun and shot the first wolf. The sleigh was moving about, but I hit the animal and killed it. Then all the other wolves stopped and ate it, so our sleigh got away from them for a few minutes.”“Then they finished their meal, and I heard them coming again. The moon was shining brightly on the snow now, and after a few minutes I saw them running among the trees once more. They came nearer again, and then I shot another of them, and the others stopped once more to eat it.”“The same thing happened again and again, and my horses became more and more tired and ran slower and slower until, after about two hours, only one wolf was still alive and following us.”“Wasn’t it too fat to run?” one of his friends asked.29. Jack told his friends what happened to him when he was ______.A. in Russia one winter evening B. in England one winter eveningC. in America one winter morning D. in Russia one winter morning30. In the sentence: “They finished their meal”, “meal” here means “______”.A. the food Jack had brought with him B. the wolf which had been killed by JackC. the meal prepared by Jack’s friend D. the dead animals on the way31. According to what Jack said, the last wolf _____.A. had eaten all the other wolvesB. ran much faster than the other wolvesC. was the strongest of allD. was very fat and didn't ran fast enough32. From what Jack’s friend said we know that ______.A. all the wolves had been shot by JackB. the last wolf was too fat to runC. Jack was telling the truthD. the friend did not believe what Jack had said5.(7.5分)Tu Youyou, born in December, 1930, is a Chinese scientist and educator. She is best known for discovering artemisinin (青蒿素) used to treat malaria (疟疾), which has saved millions of lives. For her work, Tu received the 2015 Nobel Prize in Medicine.Scientists worldwide had tried over 240, 000 medicines to treat malaria without success. In 1969, Tu Youyou, then 39 years old, decided to turn to traditional Chinese herbs(草药) for possible solutions. She looked into the Chinese medical classics(医学典故) in history, visiting traditional Chinese doctors all over the country on her own. She gathered her findings in a notebook, in which she recorded 640 methods of treating malaria. She and her team also experimented with over 2, 000 traditional Chinese herbs.During this time, her husband was forced to work in the countryside, and their young daughter had to take care of herself in Beijing.Years of research all came down to one type of herb named qinghao. The animal tests showed it was completely effective in mice and monkeys, So Tu volunteered to be the first human subject. “As head of this research group, I had the responsibility”, she said. It was safe with her; so she continued to try it out with more human patients.In 2007, her office was in an old apartment building in Beijing. Before 2011, Tu Youyou had been described as “almost completely forgotten by people”. Yet, in 2015, the Nobel Prize committee said her discoveries had given the world powerful new ways to fight against a powerful disease which affected hundreds of millions of people every year. In improving human health and reducing suffering, Mrs. Tu’s contribution is beyond words.33.How did Tu Youyou find qinghao as a treatment?A. By testing it on children. B. By researching for years.C. By reading foreign books. C. By asking malaria patients.34.What does the underlined word “effective” mean in Paragraph 4?A. Successful. B. Useless. C. Unclear. D. Normal35.What can we infer(推断)from the last paragraph about Mrs. Tu?A. She couldn’t afford an apartment in Beijing.B. She didn’t want her findings to be known.C. She didn’t care much for fame (名声) while researching.D. She wasn’t able to describe her findings clearly