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Passage One （预测阅读话题：互联网时代受争议的热点）

California has a new program called the Digital Textbook Initiative. "Starting this fall with high school math and science, we will be the first state in the nation to provide schools with a state-approved list of digital textbooks." That was Governor in June, talking about his effort to get schools to use materials available free online. He listed reasons why he thinks digital textbooks make sense.

California approves traditional textbooks in six-year cycles. Digital ones can offer the latest information. They lighten the load of school bags. They save paper and trees, and make learning more fun and interactive. And above all, he said, they help schools with their finances.

The state has had to make severe cuts in school spending because of deep financial problems. More than six million students attend California public schools.

Earlier this year, California invited content developers to offer digital math and science materials for high schools. These had to meet at least 90% of the state's learning requirements. Specially trained teachers examined 16 textbooks and approved ten of them.

Six of the ten were published by the CK 12 Foundation, a non-profit group that had been developing digital science and math books for about two years. The foundation paid teachers and other education professionals to write and edit them. The money came from a group financed by the Khosla Family.

California cannot require schools to use the digital textbooks. Individual school districts will have to decide for themselves.

Susan Martimo, a California Department of Education official, says she does not expect widespread use right away. Her best guess is that some schools with a lot of technology will be the first to use them, but only in addition to their traditional books.

School administrators point out that the texts may be free online, but students need a way to access them. Not everyone has a computer or electronic reader. Schools could print out copies, but that would not help the environment. Also, there is the cost to train teachers to use digital textbooks effectively.

1. We learn from the passage that the Digital Textbook Initiative _______.
[A] will probably take effect in six years
[B] covers all the high school subjects
[C] has been approved by all states
[D] is advocated by California state governor

2. The main reason for promoting digital textbooks is to _______.
[A] help schools save money
[B] benefit the environment
[C] provide interesting materials
[D] reduce students' heavy burden

3. What does the author say about CK 12 Foundation?
[A] It approved and produced 16 digital textbooks.
[B] It paid teachers to write digital textbooks.
[C] It is financed by California state government.
[D] It makes money through developing digital textbooks.

4. According to Susan Martimo, digital textbooks _______.
[A] are not likely to have a widespread use
[B] will soon replace traditional ones
[C] will first be adopted by well-equipped schools
[D] are certain to be approved by school districts

5. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
[A] Schools are reluctant to print out copies.
[B] The use of digital textbooks is not really free.
[C] Students need to pay for computers.
[D] Training teachers to use the textbooks is not efficient.

1.
答案：D
解析：
本题为推断题。根据题干关键词Digital Textbook Initiative定位到文章第一段。最后两句提到州长为了让学校使用免费网上资料而作出努力，并列出了他认为电子课本有意义的原因。由此可知，电子课本计划受到州长的支持，故答案应选D。

2.
答案：A
解析：
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词reason，promoting digital textbooks定位到第一段末句和第二段。第二段末尾的above all，道明了最主要的原因，即它们对学习财政有帮助。由此可知，答案应选A。

3.
答案：B
解析：
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词CK 12 Foundation定位到第五段。根据倒数第二句话The foundation paid teachers and other education professionals to write and edit them.可知答案应选B。

4.
答案：C
解析：
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词Susan Martimo定位到倒数第二段。根据最后一句话Her best guess is that some schools with a lot of technology will be the first to use them, but only in addition to their traditional books.可知答案应选C。

5.
答案：B
解析：
本题为推断题。根据题干信息定位到最后一段。最后一段提到，网上的书可能是免费的，但并不是每个学生都有电脑或电子阅读器。而培训教师有效地使用电子课本也得花钱。由此可知电子课本的使用并不是真正的免费。答案选B。

Passage Two（预测话题：医疗）

A team of researchers in California has developed a way to predict what kinds of objects people are looking at by scanning what's happening in their brains.

When you look at something, your eyes send a signal about that object to your brain. Different regions of the brain process the information your eyes send. Cells in your brain called neurons (神经元) are responsible for this processing.

Like cells anywhere else in your body, active neurons use oxygen. Blood brings oxygen to the neurons, and the more active a neuron is, the more oxygen it will consume. The more active a region of the brain, the more active its neurons, and in turn, the more blood will travel to that region. And by using a technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (功能性核磁共振成像), or fMRI, scientists can visualize (使显现) which parts of the brain receive more oxygen-rich blood—and therefore, which parts are working to process information.

An fMRI machine is a device that scans the brain and measures changes in blood flow to the brain. The technology shows researchers how brain activity changes when a person thinks, looks at something, or carries out an activity like speaking or reading. By highlighting the areas of the brain at work when a person looks at different images, fMRI may help scientists determine specific patterns of brain activity associated with different kinds of images.

The California researchers tested brain activity by having two volunteers view hundreds of pictures of everyday objects, like people, animals, and fruits. The scientists used an fMRI machine to record the volunteers' brain activity with each photograph they looked at. Different objects caused different regions of the volunteers' brains to light up on the scan, indicating activity. The scientists used this information to build a model to predict how the brain might respond to any image the eyes see.

In a second test, the scientists asked the volunteers to look at 120 new pictures. Like before, their brains were scanned every time they looked at a new image. This time, the scientists used their model to match the fMRI scans to the image. For example, if a scan in the second test showed the same pattern of brain activity that was strongly related to pictures of apples in the first test, their model would have predicted the volunteers were looking at apples.

6. What is responsible for processing a signal sent by people's eyes?
[A] Oxygen-rich blood.
[B] Neurons in the brain.
[C] A small region of the brain.
[D] The central part of the brain.

7. What do we learn from the third paragraph?
[A] Cells in your brain use more oxygen than cells elsewhere.
[B] It is impossible to discover which parts of the brain process information.
[C] The more oxygen a neuron consumes, the more blood it needs.
[D] fMRI helps scientists to discover how the brain develops intelligently.

8. What does the author mean "By highlighting the areas of the brain at work" (Line 3-4, Para. 4)?
[A] Scientists who are working give light to the parts of the brain.
[B] Scientists us fMRI to make the parts of the brain work.
[C] Scientists stop the parts of the brain from processing information.
[D] fMRI marks the parts of the brain that are processing information.

9. What did the researchers experiment on according to the passage?
[A] fMRI machines.
[B] Thousands of pictures.
[C] Animals, objects, and fruits.
[D] Two volunteers.

10. The best title for the passage would be _______.
[A] Your Thoughts Can Be Scanned
[B] A Technological Dream
[C] The Recent Development in Science and Technology
[D] A Device that Can Help You Calculate

6.
答案：B
解析：
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词responsible for processing定位到文章第二段末句Cells in your brain called neurons (神经元) are responsible for this processing.由此可知答案选B。

7.
答案：C
解析：
本题为推断题。根据题干信息定位到第三段。第二句提到神经元越活跃，消耗的氧气越多。由此可知，答案应选C。

8.
答案：D
解析：
本题为语义题。根据题干信息定位到第四段末句。该句指的是人在看不同影像是，通过突显出正在工作的大脑区域，fMRI可以帮助科学家确定与不同影像有关的特点大脑活动形态。由此可知答案选D。

9.
答案：D
解析：
本题为细节题。根据题干关键词experiment定位到倒数第二段。首句提到研究人员通过让两名志愿者观看多幅照片来测试大脑活动。由此可知，答案选D。

10.
答案：A
解析：
本题为主旨题。文章首段介绍加利福尼亚的研究人员找到一种方法，能通过扫描大脑的活动知道人们在看什么东西。接下来的几段是介绍这一方法的原理和试验过程。由此可知答案选A“你的思维可以被扫描”最合适。 

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