题文
Most people think of zoos as safe heavens for animals, where problems such as difficulty finding food and avoiding predators (食肉动物) don’t exist. Therefore, animals in zoos should live to a ripe old age.But that may not be true for the largest land animals on earth. Scientists have known that elephants in zoos often suffer from poor health. They develop diseases and they are even unable to have babies.
To learn more about how captivity (圈养) affects elephants, a team of international scientists compared the lifespans (寿命) of the zoo-born elephants with the lifespans of thousands of wild elephants. They also compared some Asian elephants living in zoos with some Asian elephants which work in logging camp (伐木场), over almost the same time period.
The team found that elephants born in zoos lived an average of 16.9 years, but elephants that died of natural causes lived an average of 56 years. Asian elephants followed a similar pattern. In zoos, they lived 18.9 years, while those in the logging camp lived 41.7 years.
Scientists don’t yet know why wild elephants seem to live so much better than their zoo-raised counterparts (同类). Georgia Mason, a biologist at the University of Guelph in Canada, who led the study, thinks stress and obesity (肥胖) may be to blame. Zoo elephants don’t get the same kind of exercise they would in the wild. Elephants’ social lives are also much different in zoos than in the wild, where they live in large family groups.
小题1:Most people believe that________.A．animals in zoos should live a longer lifeB．zoos are not good for animals to live inC．zoos are not suitable for large animalsD．captivity can affect animals in many ways小题2:The purpose of the international scientists is_________.A．to compare the lifespans of different animalsB．to find out how captivity affects elephantsC．to learn the lifespans of male and female elephantsD．to compare the lifespans of elephants in different places小题3:Which elephants live the longest according to the study?A．Elephants born in zoos.B．Elephants that live in the wild.C．Elephants that work in logging camps.D．Female Asian elephants in logging camps.小题4:We can infer from the passage that_________.A．elephants in zoos suffer less stress than those in the wildB．elephants in zoos live an easy lifeC．social lives are not important to elephantsD．zoo life can be stressful to elephants小题5:What are the advantages to elephants in the wild according to the passage?A．They face fewer problems.B．They can find food more easily.C．They live in large social groups.D．They are freer to move. 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:A
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
解析
小题1:细节再现题。从文中第一段的最后一句可以找到答案。
小题2:细节再现题。从文中第三段的第1句中可以找到答案。
小题3:推理判断题。从文中第三段和第四段的信息可知，野外生长的大象寿命最长。
小题4:推理判断题。从文中最后一段可知压力和肥胖是造成大象寿命短的主要原因。
小题5:细节再现题。从文中第五段的最后一句可以找到答案。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Most people think of.....”主要考查你对 [人生感悟类阅读 ]考点的理解。人生感悟类阅读
人生感悟类阅读的概念：
生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。
生活感悟类阅读解题指导：
一、文章特点：
生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。
二、解题技巧：
针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：
1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。
2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。
3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。
