2016英语必考点逐个击破快速提分：考点妙解13 推理判断_高考复习指南

2016英语必考点逐个击破快速提分：考点妙解13 推理判断

　　A. too much sand

　　B. more sand than before

　　C. nothing except sand

　　D. something else besides sand

　　答案: D

　　指导：首先理解画线句子中的more．．．than(与……相比多于，不只是)，然后根据本段其他句子进行推断。划线部分在本段是topic sentence，其他的句子是supporting sentence. 如果不明白主题句，可从支撑句中去推断，反之也是如此。

　　4. It can be learned from the text that in a desert_______.

　　A. there is no rainfall throughout the year

　　B. life exists in rough conditions

　　C. all sand dunes are a few feet high

　　D. rocks are worn away only by wind and heat

　　答案：

　　Passage 4 (典型例题

　　Do you want to live another 100 years or more? Some experts say that scientific advances will one day enable humans to last tens of years beyond what is now seen as the natural limit of the human life span.

　　"I think we are knocking at the door of immortality (永生) ,' said Michael Zey, a Montclair State University business professor and author of two books on the future. "I think by 2075 we will see it and that's a conservative estimate(保守的估计)."

　　At the conference in San Francisco, Donald Louria, a professor at New Jersey Medical School in Newark said advances in using genes as well as nanotechnology(纳米技术)make it likely that humans will live in the future beyond what has been possible in the past. "There is a great push so that people can live from 120 to 180 years, "he said. "Some have suggested that there is no limit and that people could live to 200 or 300 or 500 years. '