12.If you have a cat,you already know that a cat isn't a dog that doesn't have to be walked.If you're about to bring a cat into your family,you need to understand that basic fact.The common wisdom is that dogs are friendlier than cats.
In recent years,scientists who have done DNA studies have offered a better way to understand cats.Unlike other animals that people feed,cats domesticated themselves,and,in a way,trained humans.Cats decided to live close to humans because doing so benefited the cats themselves.
Studies show that cats have lived with humans for about 12,000years,since people first settled down and started farming.When people started storing grain,mice arrived and started eating the grain.Clever cats figured out that the mice settlements where people stored grain were easy for hunting,so they started hanging around.Cats did what they needed to do to get the people to let them stay,but they kept up their independence.Over time,cats allowed humans to get a bit closer to them.Later,the farmers did befriend the cats.Certainly,it didn't do them any harm because they could see that the cats were really helping them out by eating mice.
Today,about a third of American families have cats.In most of those homes,the cats are still more interested in pleasing themselves than in pleasing their human families.A dog may do anything it can to make you happy,but kitty will teach you to make kitty happy.
33.Compared with dogs,cats areA.
A.colder
B.friendlier
C.more warm-hearted
D.more frightening
34.According to the text,why do cats decide to stay close to humans?D
A.To keep up their independence.
B.To protect grain from mice.
C To rely on humans for food.
D.To be useful to themselves.
35.What may be the best title for the text?D
A.A common point between dogs and cats.
B.The reasons why people like dogs.
C.A disadvantage of raising cats.
D.The basic fact about cats.
分析 本文介紹了一些貓的基本知識,比如貓更不近人情,喜歡獨立,只考慮自己等.
解答 33.A.細節(jié)理解題.由第一段The common wisdom is that dogs are friendlier than cats,狗比貓更友好,可知貓比較冷酷,故選A.
34.D.細節(jié)理解題.由第二段Cats decided to live close to humans because doing so benefited the cats themselves,貓決定和人類生活在一起,因為這樣做會讓貓自己受益.故選D.
35.D.主旨歸納題.本文介紹了一些貓的基本知識,比如貓更不近人情,喜歡獨立,只考慮自己等.故選D.
點評 本篇閱讀較為簡單.文章內(nèi)容,所出題目以及選項也較短,因此考生只要閱讀詳略結(jié)合,細心理解,就能快速得出正確答案.