【題目】The Today I learned–The New York Times’ fun column always highlights some surprising and interesting facts. In that spirit,The New York Times lists some of the most eye-catching things out of the column and edits them into What I Learned This Year.Following are some facts out of What I Learned in 2016.

The world’s most-used natural resource (apart from water,listed at the second place and air,as the champion) is sand,which consists of extremely small pieces of stone-and it’s disappearing.

A team’s success (at work) is often driven by 3 factors (with the importance from high to low) —its culture,the interpersonal relationship and the IQ or talent of its individuals.

Giraffes have been keeping a secret from most of us for a long time: They’ really four different species,not one. The Greenland Shark lives at least 272 years and it could live as long as 512 years,which makes it the oldest living thing with a backbone（脊椎）on Earth.

More that 70 percent of Americans think Granola Bars (格拉諾拉燕麥棒)are healthy.Interesting,less than 30 percent of nutritionists（營養(yǎng)學(xué)家）agree.

Nearly 80 percent of teenagers say they don’t like to eat cereal porridge（燕麥粥）for breakfast,because they have to clean up the bowls after eating it.

It’s myth that closing unused apps on your smartphone will prolong battery life.And turning off Wi-Fi doesn’t help,either.

Annual percentage of highway death had been going down for the last four decades till it last year recorded the largest increase in 50 years.Blame Snapchat and other smarphone apps.

Death from gun-shooting is as enough as from car accidents in the United Stated and as scarce as from lightning strikes in Japan,which owns the reputation of one of the safest countries.

【1】According to the passage,the world’s most-used natural resource is______.

A. water B. air C. sand D. stone

【2】According to the passage,the most important factor of a team’s success is_____.

A. a team’s culture B. the interpersonal relationship C. individual IQ D. individual talent

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

A. Most people still don’t know that giraffes have four species.

B. The Greenland Shark is the oldest living life on Earth.

C. Cereal porridge is as unhealthy as Granola Bars for teenagers.

D. Closing unused apps on smart phones will prolong battery life.

【4】The underlined word “scarce” in the last paragraph is closest in meaning to ____.

A. enough B. safe C. familiar D. rare

【答案】D選項(xiàng) rare

【解析】試題分析：紐約時報有一個有趣的欄目The Today I learned，報紙從這個欄目中選取了一些最吸引眼球的東西，編輯成為What I Learned This Year。本文節(jié)選了2016年What I Learned This Year中列出的一些事實(shí)。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段The world’s most-used natural resource (apart from water,listed at the second place and air,as the champion)…可知，世界上最常用的自然資源是空氣。故選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段A team’s success (at work) is often driven by 3 factors (with the importance from high to low) —its culture,the interpersonal relationship and the IQ or talent of its individuals.可知，一個團(tuán)隊(duì)成功是由三個因素決定的，按重要性從高到低是：團(tuán)隊(duì)文化；人際關(guān)系和個人天賦。故選A。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段Giraffes have been keeping a secret from most of us for a long time: They’ re really four different species,not one.可知，大部分人不知道長頸鹿有四種。故選A。

【4】詞句猜測題。根據(jù)下文which owns the reputation of one of the safest countries.可知，日本是最安全的國家之一，因此推斷在日本因電擊死亡的人數(shù)不多，因此句意為：在美國槍擊事件的死亡和汽車事故的死亡一樣多，和日本的雷擊一樣少。故畫線詞詞義為：稀少的，與D項(xiàng)rare意義相近。故選D。

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