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一、短文题的大纲要求：
1、能听懂英语讲课
2、并能听懂题材熟悉
3、句子结构比较简单
4、基本没有生词
5、语速为每分钟～词的简短新闻、报道和讲座
6、掌握其中心大意
7、抓住要点和有关细节
8、领会讲话者的观点和态度
9、文章可以一遍听懂
10、理解的准确率应不低于％
D. In a restaurant.
D. Both A and B.
D. She likes the cafeteria.
D. In a supermarket.
The elephant is the only animal in the world with a trunk. It uses its trunk in many ways. It pulls leaves off trees with its trunk and then put them into its mouth. It can even use its trunk to pull up trees when it wants to make a path through the jungle. It also uses its trunk to get water. The trunk can hold a lot of water, as an elephant needs to drink more than three hundred pints of water every day.When an elephant is angry, its tusks can be very dangerous. The tusks of an elephant are really its front teeth. People pay a lot of money for the ivory of an elephant's tusks. In Africa men have hunted elephants for their tusks. The ivory from the tusks is made into many beautiful things.
It has been easy for men to train elephants in Asia. They use elephants to carry heavy things for long distances.
Many people say that the kings of Siam used to give white elephants to people they did not like. These white elephants were scattered and they could not be made to work. They could not be killed or given away. A person who owned a white elephant had to pay a lot of money to keep it properly. After a certain time, he usually became very poor. Nowadays people in England call a useless thing "a white elephant".
D. A useless pet.
D. Indiana.
D. Once a day.
Good morning, students. I hope you have been able to read the two books about speech and hearing problems that I put in the library. Today's lecture deals with the presence of the unusually large deaf population that existed on the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard for about three centuries. From the settlement of the island in the 1640's to the twentieth century, the people there, who were descended from only twenty-five or thirty original families, married mainly other residents of the island. They formed a highly inbred group, producing an excellent example of the genetic patterns for the inheritance of deafness. Indeed in the late eighteen hundreds one out of every twenty-five people in one village on the island was born deaf, and the island as a whole had a deafness rate at least seventeen times greater than that of the rest of the United States. Even Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone and a prominent researcher into hearing loss, visited Martha's Vineyard to study the population. But because the principles of genetics and inheritance were still unknown he was not able to explain the patterns of deafness and why a deaf parent did not always have deaf children. In the twentieth century, the local population has mixed with people off the island and the rate of deafness has fallen.
B. Alexander Graham Bell visited there.
C. A large number of its residents were deaf.
D. Each family living there had many children.
B. Have a vacation.
C. Study deafness among the families.
D. Examine deafness in members of his family.
B. Many deaf people have regained their hearing.
C. Most of the original population has left the island.
D. The island has become famous for its research facilities.
原文重现：短文中的四个选项有一个会在原文中间被重新念一遍，最先听到的就是正确的
同义解释：有一个选项会在原文中间被重新念一遍，但是语序被打乱，词汇发生变化
中心思想：文章最后考作者态度、文章主题思想等
