I am not suggesting that we can make bread without ingredients. Flour is necessary, as are yeast, salt, water and other ingredients. Vocabulary is part of any language and will have to be learned. Grammatical rules exist in every language and cannot be ignored. But merely combining the appropriate ingredients in the recommended proportions does not result in bread. At best, you only end up with a ball of dough (面团).

　　In order to get bread, you have to apply heat to the dough. And in language learning, that heat comes from the community. Anyone who has learned a second language has experienced that heat. It creeps up your neck when you ask the babysitter, "Have you already been eaten?" when you meant to say, "Have you already eaten?" When you try to say something quite innocent and the whole room bursts into laughter, you are experiencing the heat that turns raw dough into good bread. Remember the old saying, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen?" This is where language learning often breaks down because we find the heat uncomfortable and we stop the baking process. In other words, we can't stand the heat, so we get out of the kitchen.

　　However, the language learner who stays in the kitchen--in the heat until the combined ingredients are thoroughly transformed will enjoy the richness of a quality loaf of bread. He said that he did not "get out of the kitchen" at the critical moment when the oven seemed too hot. The dedicated language learner knows that becoming bilingual cannot be achieved without the heat!

　　24. The passage is mainly about________.

　　A. how we can make baking bread with various Ingredients

　　B. how to become bilingual by communicating with others

　　C. what an important role "heat" plays in learning a language

　　D. what a high quality of bread you may achieve in the kitchen

　　25. You can become a speaker of a language by_______.

　　A. bearing millions of words and expressions in your mind

　　B. using the language to communicate with those around you

　　C. knowing verb conjugations and grammatical rules

　　D. saying something innocent to be laughed at by others

　　26. What is the purpose of illustration of the example--you ask the babysitter, "Have you already been eaten?" when you meant to say, "Have you already eaten?" ?

　　A. To prove that you are sure to make some mistakes when you enter a community.

　　B. To show that you should combine the ingredients in the recommended proportions.

　　C. To prove that you may experience "heat" from the community in language learning.

　　D. To indicate that being bilingual calls for your courage, confidence and perseverance.

　　27. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT the necessity of baking bread and learning language?

　　A. Wonderful skills. B. Various ingredients.

　　C. Appropriate proportions. D. Uncomfortable heat.

C

　　【黑龙江省2018届普通高等学校招生全国统一考试仿真模拟（八）英语试题】Mandara seemed to know something big was about to happen. So she let out a yell, caught hold of her 2-year-old daughter Kibibi and climbed up into a tree. She lives at the National Zoo in Washington D.C..

　　And on Tuesday, August 23rd, witnesses said she seemed to sense the big earthquake that shook much of the East Coast before any humans knew what was going on. And she's not the only one. In the moments before the quake, an orangutan (猩猩) let out a loud call and then climbed to the top of her shelter.

　　"It's very different from their normal call," said Brandie Smith, the zookeeper. "The lemurs (monkey like animals of Madagascar) will sound an alarm if they see or hear something highly unusual."

　　But you can't see or hear an earthquake 15 minutes before it happens, can you? Maybe you can--if you're an animal.

　　"Animals can hear above and below our range of hearing," said Brandie Smith. "That's part of their special abilities. They're more sensitive to the environment, which is how they survive."

　　Primates weren't the only animals that seemed to sense the quake before it happened. One of the elephants made a warning sound and a huge lizard (蜥蜴) ran quickly for cover. The flamingoes (a kind of birds) gathered before the quake and stayed together until the shaking stopped.

　　So what kind of vibrations (震动) were the animals picking up in the moments before the quake? Scientist Susan Hough said earthquakes produce two types of waves--a weak "P" wave and then a much stronger "S" wave. The "P" stands for "primary". And the "S" stands for "secondary". She thinks the "P" wave might be what sets the animals off.

　　Not all the animals behaved unusually before the quake. For example, Smith said the zoo's giant pandas didn't jump up until the shaking actually began. But many of the other animals seemed to know something was coming before it happened. "I'm not surprised at all," Smith said.

　　28. Why did Mandara act strangely one day?

　　A. Because it sensed something unusual would happen.

　　B. Because its daughter Kibibi was injured.

C. Because it heard an orangutan let out a loud call