Once a baby cries, the parents will go to see what happened as soon as possible. According to a new study, a baby’s cry can make adults react very quickly, even if they are not related(相关的).

Oxford University researchers used a game called Whack-a-mole for the study. The game needs people to hit one buttons(按钮). The players must react as quickly as they can to hit the button that lights up at random(随机的). It is a game that requires speed and accuracy(准确度).

The study included 40 men and women volunteers aged 19 to 59. Some of them had sons or daughters but none had a baby at the time. They played whack-a-mole after listening to different sounds, including babies’ crying, the crying of adults in trouble and birds’ song that sounds like babies’ crying.

The volunteer’ scores  were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies. Men and women had similar scores. The results showed that a crying baby gets special attention.

“Few sounds make people react quite like the cry of a baby,” said Morten Kringelbach of Oxford’s psychiatry department, who led the study.

He added that a baby’s cry can increase adults’ heart rate and blood pressure. This is understandable, because in the course of human evolution(进化), taking care of babies has always been an important job for adults. When a baby is hungry or feeling bored or unwell, it will cry. As a result, human brains and bodies develop a special reaction to a baby’s cry.

1.According to the passage, how many volunteers took part in the study?

A.80               B.40               C.19               D.59

2.In the passage, the underlined word react means__________.

A.表演             B.打击             C.反应             D.演示

3.The game “whack-a-mole” shows__________.

A.a baby’s cry can get special attention from adults

B.men and women have different reaction speed and accuracy

C.adults without babies react more quickly to a baby’s cry

D.women react to a baby’s cry more quickly than men

4.According to the passage, a baby’s cry__________.

A.can get the same attention from adults as the birds’ song

B.is the noisiest sound

C.can increase adults’ heart rate and blood pressure

D.is good for its health

5.From the last paragraph, we learn that_________.

A.taking care of the younger babies was the most important thing in the past

B.human brains and bodies have developed to take care of babies

C.baby cries are a good way make adults react quickly

D.baby cries have developed a lot during the course of human evolution

 

Some animals in the world are very small.and the others are very big.Giraffes are one of the tallest and most interesting animals.Male giraffes are usually about six meters tall.Half of the giraffe’s height conies from its neck.which is longer than its legs.

      A giraffe has big brown eyes which are protected by very thick lashes (睫毛).Since it lives in parts of Africa which are usually dry with a great deal of dust,the lashes are an important source of protection.It can also cover its nostrils(鼻孔) in order to protect its nose.It has brown spots on tan skin and this coloring helps protect the giraffe.The giraffe also has tⅥo short horns on its head.

    Like the camel.the giraffe can go a long way without drinking water.One source of water is the leaves which the giraffe eats from trees.Since it is so tail.the giraffe can reach the tender(嫩的)leaves at the top of a tree.

    Giraffes usually live in small herds and often feed with other animals.A baby giraffe is two meters tall at birth.It can stand up by itself within a few minutes and run well in about two days.

    Giraffes have two ways of serf-protection.If something frightens an adult giraffe,it can run away at about fifty kilometers per hour or stay to fight with its strong legs.

1.What animal does this passage talk about?

___________________________________________________________________________

      2.How long is a male giraffe’s neck?

___________________________________________________________________________

      3.Why are giraffes’ lashes an important source of protection?

___________________________________________________________________________

      4.How soon can a baby giraffe run well after its birth?

___________________________________________________________________________

      5.What can it do when something frightens an adult giraffe?

__________________________________________________________________________

违法和不良信息举报电话:027-86699610 举报邮箱:58377363@163.com

精英家教网