2017届高考英语一轮全册复习学案：Unit15《Learning》（北师大版）_高考复习指南

2017届高考英语一轮全册复习学案：Unit15《Learning》（北师大版）

　　A．Young elephants ignore African honeybees.

　　B．Waterfalls can make elephants stay in one place.

　　C．Elephants do not go near trees with bees living in them.

　　D．Farmers do not allow Lucy to conduct tests in their fields.

　　解析：选C　细节理解题。根据第二段第一句可知2002年Lucy和她的队员就发现大象会避开住着蜜蜂的树故C项表述是正确的。B

　　(2016·江西重点中学联考)I've just got to talk about this problem I'm having with my postman. It all began a year ago,

　　birth of his first child. Not wanting to appear rude, I asked him about the baby. The next week, not wanting him to think I had asked out of mere politeness the week before, I asked all about the baby again. Now I can't break the habit. I freeze whenever I see him coming. The words “How's the baby？” come out on their own. It holds me up. It holds him up. So why can't I stop it?

　　The answer is that I want him to like me. Come to think of it, e caretaker of her block of flats: “All he ever does is complain; he talks at me rather than to me, never listens to a word I say, and yet for some reason I'm always really nice to him. I'm worried in case I have a difficulty one day, and he won't lift a finger to help.”

　　What about at work? Richard Lawton, a management trainer, warns: “Those managers who are actually liked by most of their staff are always those to whom being liked is not the primary goal. The qualities that make managers popular are being honest with staff, treating them as human beings and observing common politeness like saying hello in the morning.” To explain the point, Richard mentions the story of the company chairman who desperately wanted to be liked and who, after making one of his managers fired, said with moist