文章大意：本文是小故事。文章主要讲述了亚伯拉罕·林肯小时候的诚实守信的故事。
1.We know from the text that Abe ________.
A.charged less for the woman
B.tricked the woman on purpose
C.was careful and responsible
D.was confident of his calculations
答案：C 推理判断题。charged less for the woman少收那位妇女的钱;tricked the woman on purpose故意糊弄了那位妇女;was careful and responsible认真而且有责任心;was confident of his calculations对他的计算很有信心。根据文章中叙述的两个故事以及文中的最后一段推断选C。
2.From the underlined sentence, we can see that the author ________.
A.speak highly of Abraham Lincoln
B.learns how to succeed in the political field
C.comes to understand the importance of honesty
D.hopes to give readers some personal suggestions
答案：A 推理判断题。speak highly of Abraham Lincoln高度赞扬林肯; learns how to succeed in the political field学会了如何在政治领域成功;comes to understand the importance of honesty渐渐理解了诚实的重要性;hopes to give readers some personal suggestions希望给读者提出自己的建议。通读全文，根据该画线句前的I think my young readers will begin to see that the name so often given, in later times to President Lincoln, of “Honest Old Abe, ”was well deserved可推断作者是对林肯行为的高度赞扬。故选A。
3.What does the author mainly intend to tell us?
A.Better late than never.
B.Honesty is the best policy.
C.A good name is better than gold.
D.Where there is a will there is a way.
答案：B 推理判断题。Better late than never再晚不嫌迟; Honesty is the best policy诚实是最好的策略; A good name is better than gold好名声比金子更重要; Where there is a will there is a way有志者事竟成。根据文章叙述的两个故事和最后一段作者对林肯行为的高度赞扬，作者应该是想告诉我们：诚实是最好的策略。故选B。
【2016高考训练题】阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中，选出最佳选项。Babies don’t learn to talk just from hearing sounds. They are lip-readers too. It happens during the stage when a baby’s babbling (咿呀声) gradually changes from unclear voices into that first “mama” or “dada” . The baby in order to do like you has to figure out how to shape their lips to make that particular sound they are hearing, according to developmental psychologist David Lewkowicz of Florida Atlantic University, who led the study.
Apparently it doesn’t take them too long to absorb the movements that match basic sounds. By their first birthdays, babies start changing back to look you in the eye again. It offers more evidence that quality face-time with babies is very important for speech development more than, say, turning on the latest baby DVD.
But Lewkowicz went a step further. He and his student Amy Hansen-Tift tested nearly 180 babies, groups of them at ages 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 months. How? They showed videos of a woman speaking in English or Spanish to babies of English speakers. They found that when the speaker used English, the 4-month-olds gazed mostly into her eyes. The 6-months-olds spent equal amounts of time looking at the eyes and the mouth. The 8-and 10-month-olds studied mostly the mouth. At 12 months, attention started changing back toward the speaker’s eyes.
But what happened when these babies accustomed to English heard Spanish? The 12-month-olds studied the mouth longer, just like younger babies. They needed the extra information to recognize the unfamiliar sounds. That fits with research into bilingualism (双语)that shows babies’ brains adjust themselves to distinguishing the sounds of their native language over other languages in the first year of life.
The continued lip-reading shows the 1-year-olds clearly still are fit for learning. Babies are so hard to study that this is “a fairly heroic data set”, says Duke University cognitive neuroscientist Greg Appelbaum, who found the research so fascinating that he wants to know more.
1. According to the first paragraph, babies______. A. might get its voice “mama” by lip-reading B. learn to talk just from hearing the sounds C. like to figure out how to shape their lips D. communicate with parents through gestures
2. What is necessary in developing babies’ speech according to Lewkowicz? A. Playing baby DVD nearby. B. Teaching babies to read English. C. Speaking with babies face to face. D. Speaking different languages in front of babies.
3. Which of the following shows the right change of babies’ eye gaze according to the text?
Eye gaze
8 12 Month
A.Eye gaze
8 12 Month
C.Eye gaze
4 8 12 Month
B.Eye gaze
4 8 12 Month
D.
4. What would be the best title of the text?
A. Babies Have Different Methods to Talk
B. Babies Try Lip-reading in Learning to Talk
C. Babies Are Suitable to Learn Two Languages
D. Babies Can Easily Accept Foreign Language
参考答案1—4、ACAB
