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Passage 1

Analytical skills are our ability to 16]understand and solve problems using information we have available. These skills are extremely important for our professional, social, and intellectual lives. What are the best ways to improve them? One way is to expand your world view. Unfortunately, this takes time. Ultimately, it will help you better evaluate Information and analyze different ideas and outcomes. Travelling is a great way to expand your world view, although it can be expensive. 17]An entertaining way of enhancing your analytical skills is to engage them by playing brain games. These are games that challenge you to think deeply and to develop your analytical skills. These games will get you used to thinking in a certain way, as a result, they will help improve your ability to think. However, opinions vary on whether video games are effective. The general consensus is that the best ones avoid mindless violence, and instead focus on strategy and challenge us to solve problems and achieve broad goals. Joining a debate or reading club or group is also a good idea. This provides people with the opportunity to come together and discuss ideas, literature and problems. Groups like these will help you refine your analytical skills and enable you to express yourself better. 18]Any social group that encourages three exchange of ideas and pursuit of knowledge is beneficial. It helps you to actively develop your analytical skills.

Question 16. What kind of ability do analytical skills refer to in the passage?

Question 17. What does the passage say is an entertaining way of enhancing one's analytical skills?

Question 18. What else does the speaker advise people to do to improve their analytical skills?

解析：

本文描述了分析技巧，可通过开头结尾定位16题和18题，17题需要针对问题才能回答准确问题16定位文章开头，给分析技巧下定义，即利用信息理解和解决问题，原文重现。问题17问到提高分析技能的娱乐性技巧是玩脑力游戏。问题18定位文章结尾，重复出现group，idea可以通过高频重复单词，进行选择，任何交换意见追求知识的社会活动都有助于分析能力的发展。

Passage two

Here's an endless amount of scientific data proving that dogs can develop strong bonds with their owners. People aren't kidding when they say they love their dog or their dog loves them, 19]but were rather ignorant about the nature of the relationships that form between dogs. In an effort to understand the matter further, I spoke with doctor mark beck off a researcher and former professor of animal behavior. 20]The doctor's response to the question of whether or not dogs can fall in love, like humans do, was a straight. He went on to say that if love is defined as a long-term commitment, meaning dogs seek one another out, when they're apart, they're happy. When they're reunited, they protect one another, they feed one another, they raise their children together. Then, of course, dogs love each other. Now our furry friends don't really experience romantic love, like in the movies, 20]but they can form deep and lasting bonds with their fellow dogs as well as humans.21]In fact, evidence shows that most dogs stay with one partner their whole lives. In actuality, love between dogs can be even more intimate than human relationships. When they interact, they aren't afraid to smell each other and will express themselves clearly and honestly. Once again, it seems we have a lot to learn from dogs.

Question 19. What does the passage say we don't know much about?

Question 20. What does 人名 say about dogs?

Question 21. What does the speaker say about most dogs?

解析：

本文描述狗狗之间可以建立深厚的情感联系，问题19定位短文开头，but后人们忽略了狗狗之间自然的情感联系。问题20定位博士的观点，证明狗可以和人建立深厚的情感联系，but后重复说明，可以简单理解选出答案。问题21定位文章结尾，in fact后，对应选项的比较狗狗之间可以建立比人与人更深的感情。

Passage three

A piece of history has been found thanks to a boy tripping on a rare 1.2million-year-old animal fossil. In November 2016. Jude Sparks Nowted was on an outing with his family near their New Mexico home when he tripped over what22]he thought was a cow bone. 23]Now, researchers at New Mexico State university are preserving the discovery, which was identified as an ancient elephant like animal. Kyle sparks, father of Jude, said he let his son decide what to do with the fossil. So Jude reached out to Peter Hod, a professor at New Mexico State university who had experienced with the same type of fossil in the past. The next day Hod came out to see the fossil for himself. 24]Hod told ABC News that he was quite excited about the find. It was fortunate that the family didn't try to dig up the fossil because that could destroy the specimen. They did the right thing by calling someone who would know what to do. It's great for the community, because now everybody can appreciate it, he added. Horde and his fellow faculty members dug up the fossil in late May. 25]They hope to return to the site with geologists for an additional search as there could be more fossils near the site. Jude and his family had been invited by the researchers to see the fossil being preserved at the university.

Question 22. What did the boy Jude Sparks think he had discovered?

Question 23. What are the researchers at New Mexico State university doing with the boy’s discovery?

Question 24. What did professor Peter Hod say when interviewed by ABC News?

Question 25. What do the researchers plan to do?

解析：本文描述了科学家发现了化石，文章不容易理解，但可以通过视听一致选出答案。问题22属于细节题，观点词thought后复现原词a cow bone。问题23通过now和discovery定位文章重点信息，科学家研究这个新发现。问题24通过观点词told定位，积极感情色彩excited，视听一致可以直接选出感情色彩相近选项。问题25定位文章结尾研究者计划return to the site，原词复现。