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【題目】 Hi, I’m Neil Harbisso. I come from a place where the sky is always grey, where flowers are always grey, and where television is still in black and white.

I actually come from a world where color doesn’t exist. I was born with achromatopsia. I was born completely color-blind. So I’ve never seen color, and don’t know what it looks like. But since the age of 21, I can hear color thanks to a magic electronic eye called “eyeborg”: a color sensor between my eyes connected to a chip(芯片) installed at the back of my head that transforms color frequencies into sound frequencies that I hear through my bone.

I’ve had the electronic eye permanently attached to my head and I’ve been listening to colors nonstop since 2004. So I find it completely normal now to hear colors all the time.

Since I started to hear color, my life has changed significantly. Art galleries have become concert halls. I can hear a Picasso. And supermarkets have become like night clubs. I love how they sound.

My sense of beauty has changed. Someone might look very beautiful but sound terrible, and someone might sound very harmonious but look awful. So I find it really exciting to create sound portraits(畫像) of people. Instead of drawing the shape of someone’s face I write down the different notes I hear when I look at them, and then I send them an mp3 of their face. Each face sounds different. I can even give face concerts now, concerts where I play the audience’s faces. The good thing about doing this is that if the concert doesn’t sound good, it’s their fault.

I also found out that things I thought were colorless are not colorless at all. Cities are not grey. Lisbon is yellow turquoise(寶石綠); London is very golden red…and humans are not black and white. Human skins range from light shades of orange to very dark shades of orange. We are all orange.

If we extend our senses, we will consequently extend our knowledge.

【1】We can infer from the article that people with achromatopsia ____________.

A.suffer from blindness

B.have a good sense of colors

C.are not able to see colors

D.like to go to concert halls and supermarkets

【2】What does the author mean by saying “Art galleries have become concert halls”?

A.Art galleries have been changed into various sounds.

B.Works at the art galleries are created by great musicians.

C.Art galleries are filled with noisy people.

D.The author now likes art galleries as much as concert halls.

【3】Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A.Neil developed a rare disease in his childhood.

B.The eyeborg produces sounds based on shades of colors.

C.Neil will use the eyeborg for the rest of his life.

D.In Neil’s mind, all people are orange.

【4】What is the best title for the passage?

A.Eyeborg – a real life saver.B.I listen to color.

C.Sense the world.D.Art galleries turned into concert halls.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】

這是一篇記敘文。記敘了從小患有色盲的作者，利用顏色傳感器來聽自己看不見的顏色，從而形成了作者與眾不同的美感。作者認(rèn)為如果我們擴(kuò)展我們的感官，我們將因此擴(kuò)展我們的知識(shí)。

【1】推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段中I actually come from a world where color doesn’t exist. I was born with achromatopsia. I was born completely color-blind.（我來自一個(gè)沒有顏色的世界。我生來患有色盲。我生來就是色盲。）我們可以從這篇文章中推斷，患有色盲的人是看不見顏色的。故選C。

【2】詞句猜測(cè)題。結(jié)合上文Since I started to hear color, my life has changed significantly.（自從我開始聽到顏色，我的生活發(fā)生了巨大的變化。）以及下文I can hear a Picasso.（我能聽見畢加索的聲音。）可知作者說“藝術(shù)畫廊變成了音樂廳”意思是對(duì)作者來說，藝術(shù)畫廊已經(jīng)變成了各種各樣的聲音。故選A。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段中I actually come from a world where color doesn’t exist. I was born with achromatopsia. I was born completely color-blind.（我來自一個(gè)沒有顏色的世界。我生來患有色盲。我生來就是色盲。）可知A選項(xiàng)“尼爾小時(shí)候得了一種罕見的疾病�！卞e(cuò)誤。故選A。

【4】主旨大意題。結(jié)合文章第三段I’ve had the electronic eye permanently attached to my head and I’ve been listening to colors nonstop since 2004. So I find it completely normal now to hear colors all the time.（我把電子眼固定在頭上，從2004年開始我就不停地聽彩色音樂。所以我發(fā)現(xiàn)現(xiàn)在一直聽到顏色是完全正常的。）以及文章主要內(nèi)容為生來是色盲的作者講述自己聽顏色的事情，故B選項(xiàng)“我聽顏色”符合文章標(biāo)題。故選B。