高三11-12年度第435期7版测试答案
D1 1-4 CBDB
D2 1-4 BCAB
D3 1-4 BDAC
D4 1-5 GBFCD
D5 1-5 CACDA 6-8 BDA
答案详解：
Paradise threatened (P2)
1. C。由第三段可知，坦桑尼亚政府决定在Lake Natron旁边建立一个工厂，开采这里蕴藏丰富的纯碱，这将对火烈鸟的生存环境造成不良影响，故选C。
2. B。由第五段“On the other, the factory will provide jobs in a region where one in four people are unemployed.”可知B正确。
3. D。由第六段“Under pressure from environmentalists, the Tanzanian government has suggested moving the plant several kilometers away from the lake. However, this won’t solve the problem because there will still be pipes in the lake to pump the soda ash to the factory.”可知D正确。
4. B。第五段提到了“经济发展与保护野生动物之间的矛盾”；倒数第三段提到了我们要平衡“人类需要与自然的需要”，这与选项里a, c正对应，故选B。
Nothing’s better than a book (P5)
1. B。第一段针对人们偏爱传统书籍这一现象推测了一些可能的原因，这是为了引出下文的研究成果，所以选B。
2. C。由第五段“According to Professor Matthias Schlesewsky from Johannes Gutenberg University, although almost all of the participants still claimed that they liked reading a printed book best,”可知C正确。
3. A。由倒数第三段“The iPad screen helped people process information on the page. “We have thus demonstrated (证明) that the subjective (个人的) preference for the printed book is not an indicator of how fast and how well the information is processed,” concludes Schlesewsky.”可知iPad 事实上能够帮助人们处理页面上的信息，帮助人们更有效地阅读，故选A。
4. B。最后两段主要讲的是电子图书的优势，故选C。
They hold me up (P6)
1. B。根据第三段作者父亲常说的谚语“Mile by mile, it’s a trial; yard by yard, it’s very hard; but inch by inch, life’s a cinch” 可知，作者从他父亲身上学到，要脚踏实地，一步一步实现目标，故选B。
2. D。根据倒数第二段“I realized that nothing could ever match the joy I felt as Sharon and I were married”可知，作者感到与他交往很久的女朋友结婚，是最幸福的事情。
3. A。从文章的字里行间可知作者是一个意志力坚强、乐观的人，故选A。
4. C。作者以自身的经历告诉我们：面对挫折要坚强，不能放弃，终会成功，故选C。
