浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习专题训练阅读理解（10）_高考复习指南

浙江省2016高考英语二轮复习专题训练阅读理解（10）

　　D．Because people who do well in Chinese study do well in music.

　　The underlined word “intoned” in the fourth paragraph can be replaced by the word “____”．

　　A．created

　　B．spelled C．seemed

　　D．pronouncedhat would be the best title for this passage?

　　A．Mandarin Speakers Are Smarter than English Speakers

　　B．Skilled Ear for Music May Help Language Study

　　C．Pitch Plays a Central Role in Chinese Learning

　　D．Schools Need to Develop Music Programs

　　Today, there’s hardly an aspect of our life that isn’t being upended by the tons of information available on the hundreds of millions of sites crowding the Internet, not to mention its ability to keep us in constant touch with each other via electronic mail. “If the automobile and aerospace technology had exploded at the same pace as computer and information technology,” says Microsoft, “a new car would cost about $ 2 and go 600 miles on a small quantity of gas. And you could buy a Boeing 747 for the cost of a pizza.”

　　Probably the biggest payoff, however, is the billions of dollars the Internet is saving companies in producing goods and serving for the needs of their customers. Nothing like it has been seen since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, when power-driven machines began producing more in a day than men could turn out in nearly a year. “We view the growth of the Internet and e-commerce as a global trend,” says Merrill Lynch, “along the lines of printing press, the telephone, the computer, and electricity.”