wildest(2020年高考英语江苏卷阅读理解D讲解)

一、原文翻译

1.I was in the middle of the Amazon (亚马逊) with my wife, who was there as a medical researcher.

我在亚马逊的中间(亚马逊)和我的妻子,他是作为一个医学研究人员。

2.We flew on a small plane to a faraway village.

我们乘一架小飞机飞往一个遥远的村庄。

3.We did not speak the local language, did not know the customs, and more often than not, did not entirely recognize the food.

我们不会说当地的语言，不了解当地的习俗，而且往往不完全认识当地的食物。

4.We could not have felt more foreign.

我们感到无比陌生。

5.We were raised on books and computers, highways and cell phones, but now we were living in a village without running water or electricity It was easy for us to go to sleep at the end of the day feeling a little misunderstood.

我们是在书、电脑、高速公路和手机的环境中长大的，但现在我们生活在一个没有自来水和电力的村庄，一天结束时，我们很容易感到有点被误解。

6.Then one perfect Amazonian evening, with monkeys calling from beyond the village green, we played soccer.

然后，在一个完美的亚马逊河流域的夜晚，我们踢起了足球。

7.I am not good at soccer, but that evening it was wonderful.

我不擅长足球，但那天晚上踢得很好。

8.Everyone knew the rules.

每个人都知道规则。

9.We all spoke the same language of passes and shots.

我们都说着同样的传球和投篮语言。

10.We understood one another perfectly.

我们彼此非常了解。

11.As darkness came over the field and the match ended, the goal keeper, Juan, walked over to me and said in a matter-of-fact way, "In your home, do you have a moon too?"

当夜幕降临，比赛结束时，守门员胡安走到我面前，用一种平淡的方式问我:“在你家里，你也有月亮吗?”

12.I was surprised.

我很惊讶。

13.After I explained to Juan that yes, we did have a moon and yes, it was very similar to his, I felt a sort of awe (敬畏) at the possibilities that existed in his world.

之后我向胡安解释说,是的,我们确实有一个月亮和是的,非常类似于他,我感到一种敬畏(敬畏)的可能性存在于他的世界。

14.In Juan's world, each village could have its own moon.

在胡安的世界里，每个村庄都有自己的月亮。

15.In Juan's world.

在胡安的世界。

16.the unknown and undiscovered was vast and marvelous.

未知和未被发现的事物是巨大而神奇的。

17.Anything was possible.

任何事情都是可能的。

18.In our society, we know that Earth has only one moon.

在我们的社会中，我们知道地球只有一个月球。

19.We have looked at our planet from every angle and found all of the wildest things left to find.

我们从各个角度观察了我们的星球，发现了所有剩下的最奇异的东西。

20.I can, from my computer at home, pull up satellite images of Juan's village.

我可以从家里的电脑上调出胡安所在村庄的卫星图像。

21.There are no more continents and no more moons to search for, little left to discover.

没有更多的大陆，没有更多的卫星需要寻找，没有什么可以发现。

22.At least it seems that way.

至少看起来是这样的。

23.Yet, as I thought about Juan's question, I was not sure how much more we could really rule out.

然而，当我思考胡安的问题时，我不确定我们还能排除多少可能性。

24.I am, in part, an ant biologist, so my thoughts turned to what we know about insect life and I knew that much in the world of insects remains unknown.

在某种程度上，我是一名蚂蚁生物学家，所以我的想法转向了我们对昆虫生命的了解，我知道昆虫世界里还有很多未知的东西。

25.How much, though?

多少吗?

26.How ignorant (无知的) are we?

我们是多么无知(无知的)?

27.The question of what we know and do not know constantly bothered me.

我们知道什么，不知道什么，这个问题一直困扰着我。

28.I began collecting newspaper articles about new species, new monkey, new spider…, and on and on they appear.

我开始收集报纸上关于新物种、新猴子、新蜘蛛的文章，它们不断出现。

29.My drawer quickly filled.

我的抽屉很快就满了。

30.I began a second drawer for more general discoveries: new cave system discovered with dozens of nameless species, four hundred species of bacteria found in the human stomach.

我开始了第二个更普遍的发现:新的洞穴系统中发现了几十个无名物种，在人类胃里发现了400种细菌。

31.The second drawer began to fill and as it did I wondered whether there were bigger discoveries out there, not just species, but life that depends on things thought to be useless, life even without DNA.

第二个抽屉开始填满，我在想是否还有更大的发现，不只是物种，还有生命，它们依赖于被认为无用的东西，甚至没有DNA的生命。

32.I started a third drawer for these big discoveries.

我为这些重大发现设立了第三个抽屉。

33.It fills more slowly, but all the same.

它填充得更慢，但还是一样。

34.it fills.

它填补了。

35.In looking into the stories of biological discovery, I also began to find something else, a collection of scientists, usually brilliant occasionally half-mad, who made the discoveries.

在研究有关生物发现的故事时，我也开始发现一些别的东西，一群科学家，他们通常才华横溢，偶尔半疯，他们做出了这些发现。

36.Those scientists very often see the same things that other scientists see, but they pay more attention to them, and they focus on them to the point of exhaustion (穷尽), and at the risk of the ridicule of their peers.

这些科学家们经常看到其他科学家看到同样的东西,但他们更多关注他们,关注他们的疲惫(穷尽),和同龄人的嘲笑的风险。

37.In looking for the stories of discovery, I found the stories of these people and how their lives changed our view of the world.

在寻找发现的故事中，我发现了这些人的故事以及他们的生活如何改变了我们对世界的看法。

38.We are repeatedly willing to imagine we have found most of what is left to discover.

我们不断地愿意想象，我们已经发现了大部分尚待发现的东西。

39.We used to think that insects were the smallest organisms (生物), and that nothing lived deeper than six hundred meters.

我们过去认为,昆虫是最小的生物(生物),而没有住深度超过六百米。

40.Yet, when something new turns up, more often than not, we do not even know its name.

然而，当新事物出现时，我们往往甚至不知道它的名字。

二、文章导读

本篇讲述作者与妻子在亚马逊从最开始陌生、不适应到与当地人相处中获得启示，开始认识到人类知识的局限性、探索更多未知世界的故事。总体上内容清晰，答案明确，需要注意准确把握重点主旨句。

三、阅读监测

65. How did the author feel on his arrival in the Amazon? （ ）

A. Out of place. B. Full of joy. C. Sleepy. D. Regretful.

66. What made that Amazonian evening wonderful? （ ）

A. He learned more about the local language.

B. They had a nice conversation with each other.

C. They understood each other while playing.

D. He won the soccer game with the goal keeper.

67. Why was the author surprised at Juan's question about the moon? （ ）

A. The question was too straightforward.

B. Juan knew so little about the world.

C. The author didn't know how to answer.

D. The author didn't think Juan was sincere.

68. What was the author's initial purpose of collecting newspaper articles? （ ）

A. To sort out what we have known.

B. To deepen his research into Amazonians.

C. To improve his reputation as a biologist.

D. To learn more about local cultures.

69. How did those brilliant scientists make great discoveries? （ ）

A. They shifted their viewpoints frequently.

B. They followed other scientists closely.

C. They often criticized their fellow scientists.

D. They conducted in-depth and close studies.

70. What could be the most suitable title for the passage? （ ）

A. The Possible and the Impossible

B. The Known and the Unknown

C. The Civilized and the Uncivilized

D. The Ignorant and the Intelligent

四、答案解析

第65题 A 根据第一段内容，作者初到亚马逊时由于语言与习俗不同，每天都感觉自己是“foreign”外来者，不适应当地生活，选A。

第66题 C 根据第三段内容可知，作者并不擅长踢足球，也没有明确表达自己是否输或者赢，但踢足球共同的语言与规则使他与当地人关系更近了，“we understood one another perfectly”，选C。B选项属于过度推理，原文不能找到依据。

第67题 B 根据第四五段内容可知，作者对Juan的世界理解产生了敬畏之情，正因为Juan对外部了解很少，他才会对外界新知识充满好奇、感到未知是广阔而伟大的，在这里“know little”不是贬义而是褒义词，因而选B；其余选项皆不符合题意或有贬义倾向。

第68题 A “collecting newspaper”是在第七段开头，所以向上文第六段结尾找答案，可知困扰我的问题是“what we know and do not know”，因此可知“我”通过收集报纸来探寻哪些是“我”未知的，选A。

第69题 D 根据第八段内容可知，作者认为杰出科学家起先看到的与其他人无异，只是他们更愿意专注钻研这个问题，最终获得成功，选D。

第70题 B 根据全文内容，可知作者通过在亚马逊探索世界的经历想表达人类所认识的知识是很有限的，当人类自以为对世界很了解的时候，其实远没有达到这个层面，需要时刻保持“无知”的状态，才能获得更多的知识与成果，选B。