2017届北京市高考英语一轮复习综合练习：11 （含解析）_高考复习指南

2017届北京市高考英语一轮复习综合练习：11 （含解析）

　　56．We know from the text that

　　A．the author’s grandfather got his glasses back from the director of the orphanage

　　B．the author’s grandfather found that his glasses were at home at last

　　C．the author’s grandfather’s burden of supporting his family was very heavy

　　D．the author’s grandfather worked as a carpenter in a school in Chicago

　　57．From the text we can infer that the author’s grandfather was very

　　after hearing what the director of the orphanage had said.

　　A．surprised B．disappointed C．pitiful D．proud

　　58．The underlined word “miraculous” （Paragraph 7） can be replaced by

　　A．practical B．wonderful C．necessary D．important

　　59．What would be the best title for the text?

　　A．The Perfect Mistake B．An Ordinary Carpenter

　　C．A Careless Old Man D．A Pair of Glasses

　　Washoe, a female chimpanzee （黑猩猩） believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. The chimp died on Tuesday night, according to Roger and Deborah Fouts, co-founders of The Chimpanzee and Human Communications Institute in Washington, where she lived.

　　Washoe was born in 1965 in Africa, where she was captured by the Air Force and taken to the US for research use in the space program. In 1966, she left the program and began living with two scientists, Allen and Beatrix Gardner, who led a project to teach the chimp American Sign Language （ASL） in Washoe, Nevada, for which it was named. Washoe had been living on Central Washington University’s Ellensburg Campus since 1980. She had a vocabulary of about 250 words. Also, Washoe taught sign language to three younger chimps: Tatu, 31, Loulis, 29, and Dar, 31.