Question

【題目】According to scientists’ research, the month in which babies are born could affect them in some ways.

Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius (Jan. 21st—Feb. 19th) may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn. Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother’s exposure to sunlight in pregnancy (懷孕). Sunlight helps lead to the production of vitamin D in the body. The lack (缺乏) of vitamin D in the first months of life may have a bad effect on health.

Vitamin D is called the “sunshine vitamin”. It has a good effect on health. A study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December. Similar studies in the US showed that people born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring.

Professor Russell Foster said the conclusions were surprising and interesting. He added, “These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun. But it is true that we are affected by our season of birth.”

【1】A child’s season of birth can affect all the following things EXCEPT ________ according to the first two paragraphs.

A. his health B. his height

C. his length of life D. his quality of being clever

【2】What does the underlined word “exposure” mean in Chinese?

A. 偏愛 B. 抗拒 C. 過敏 D. 暴露

【3】What can we know about vitamin D according to the passage?

A. It comes from sunlight. B. It helps people live longer.

C. Sunlight prevents its production. D. It does harm to people’s health.

【4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Women should get enough sunlight in pregnancy.

B. Children born under Aquarius are cleverer than those born in autumn.

C. People born in May will live longer than those born in October.

D. Professor Russell Foster is interested in star signs and believes in them.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】B

【4】A

【解析】你是幾月出生的？你知道出生月份會對孩子有很多的影響嗎？這篇短文給我們講述了春季出生的孩子在健康、壽命以及聰明品質(zhì)等方面都不如其他季節(jié)出生的孩子，并分析了原因。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段中Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius (Jan. 21st—Feb. 19th) may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn.的這幾句話我們可以知道，嬰兒出生的月份可能會影響他的健康、聰明品質(zhì)以及壽命。由此可知文章中沒有提到的是B身高，故選B。

【2】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)劃線單詞所在的上下文意Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother’s exposure to sunlight in pregnancy (懷孕). Sunlight helps lead to the production of vitamin D in the body. The lack (缺乏) of vitamin D in the first months of life may have a bad effect on health.可知，這幾句話介紹了陽光的重要性，它有助于我們的身體產(chǎn)生維生素D，而缺乏維生素D會影響健康。所以懷孕的媽媽應該多曬太陽，即“暴露在陽光下”，因此我們可以猜測exposure的意思是“暴露”，故選D。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第三段中Vitamin D is called the “sunshine vitamin”. It has a good effect on health. A study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December可知，維生素D影響人的壽命，故B是對的。根據(jù)短文第二段中Sunlight helps lead to the production of vitamin D in the body. 可知A和C是錯誤的；D選項與文意相反。

【4】推理判斷題。根據(jù)短文第二段中Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother’s exposure to sunlight in pregnancy (懷孕). Sunlight helps lead to the production of vitamin D in the body. The lack (缺乏) of vitamin D in the first months of life may have a bad effect on health.可知，陽光有助于人體產(chǎn)生維生素D，而維生素D對人的健康是有很大影響的。由于懷孕的媽媽曬太陽少，從而會對嬰兒的健康、壽命、聰明品質(zhì)等有很大的影響，因此懷孕的媽媽應該多曬太陽，故A正確。根據(jù)Children born under Aquarius (Jan. 21st—Feb. 19th) may be less clever than those born in other seasons、A study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December.、I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun.可知其他三個選項都不符合文意。