A wise man was visiting the Ganges, a river which flows through northern India, to take a bath. He found a group of family members on the   26  , shouting angrily at each other. He___27    his disciples(弟子), smiled and asked, “Why do people shout in    28   at each other ?” The disciples   29    for a while and one of them said, “ Because we   30__   our calm, we shout.” “But, why should you shout    31   the other person is just next to you ? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a(n)   32   manner,” asked the wise man. Some disciples gave some other answers, but none   33   the other disciples. Finally the wise man explained, “When two people are angry at each other, there is a distance between their   ___34   . To cover that distance they must shout to be able to  35   each other. The angrier they are, the louder they will have to shout to __36    that great distance. What   37__    when two people fall in love ? They don’t shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very  38   . The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small.”
The wise man  39    , “When they love each other even more, they do not   __40   , but only whisper and they get even closer to each other. Finally they   41 need not whisper. They only look at each other and that’s   42  . That’s how close people are when they love each other.”
He looked at his disciples and said, “So, when you   43  , do not let your hearts get distant. Do not say words that distance each other more.   44   there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to  45  . You may end up becoming enemies, for instance.”

【小题1】
A.roofB.platformC.bankD.street
【小题2】
A.referred toB.attended toC.shouted toD.turned to
【小题3】
A.angerB.excitementC.disappointmentD.surprise
【小题4】
A.thoughtB.relaxedC.listenedD.waited
【小题5】
A.controlB.disturbC.loseD.enjoy
【小题6】
A.as long asB.in caseC.whenD.unless
【小题7】
A.softB.impressiveC.weakD.responsible
【小题8】
A.encouragedB.satisfiedC.entertainedD.bothered
【小题9】
A.directionsB.bodiesC.goalsD.hearts
【小题10】
A.hurtB.attackC.understandD.hear
【小题11】
A.keepB.measureC.coverD.shorten
【小题12】
A.mattersB.happensC.worksD.succeeds
【小题13】
A.closeB.hugeC.specialD.open
【小题14】
A.doubtedB.continuedC.repliedD.promised
【小题15】
A.passB.cryC.careD.speak
【小题16】
A.sometimesB.stillC.evenD.ever
【小题17】
A.nothingB.allC.oneD.something
【小题18】
A.argueB.apologizeC.criticizeD.explain
【小题19】
A.Worse stillB.ThereforeC.Or elseD.Besides
【小题20】
A.beatB.followC.walkD.return

People often hear each others' voices without ever seeing the faces they belong to. "Nowadays we are talking away on the phone without meeting people," says Seung-Jae Moon. And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her. Seung-Jae Moon, a linguist of Korea found that, under certain conditions, they're actually right.
Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying. He recorded 16 Koreans, half men and half women, reading the same passage, and took a full-body photo and head shot of each speaker. Then he played the tapes for 361 Koreans and 173 Americans who did not speak Korean and asked his subjects to match up voice and picture. The Korean participants viewing full-body photos were quite perceptive. A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men. With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors. That disconnection reveals conflicting ideas of physical and vocal beauty. Moon asked people to pick a favorite face and voice. Seventy percent of the Koreans picked one voice, but there was no agreement on a face. Americans didn' t agree on either count. And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.
Moon hopes to use software to break voices into components like pitch and hoarseness to narrow down which elements trigger certain mental pictures. "If we can map which characteristics of the voice triggers what kind of linage, and it doesn't matter whether that image is the right or wrong one of the actual speaker, then we can create an image through voice,' he says. That capacity could help to create computer-synthesized voices tailored to conjure up specific associations — audio books for children that inspire motherly visages, or warning alerts that bring to mind a stern police officer.
【小题1】People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker.

A.understandB.recognizeC.likeD.surprise
【小题2】Moon decided to do the experiment to ______.
A.see how close mental pictures match up with reality
B.how people speak
C.see if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying
D.both A and C
【小题3】He asked ______ Korean women to speak and recorded their voices.
A.12B.16 C.8D.10
【小题4】______ were more perceptive in recognizing full-body photos.
A.The KoreansB.The American women
C.The Korean womenD.The Americans
【小题5】______ percent of Koreans and Americans matched their favorite face with their favorite voice.
A.Less than 65B.Less than 35C.Over 65D.About 20

根据短文内容,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。                      

Trust has been considered as the basis of any relationship, including friendship. No relationship can last long with a lack of trust. Not many of your friends will have real faith in you as you would like to believe.  1.   . Sometimes, it takes years, even a complete lifetime, to trust someone. However, how do we know if our friends have faith in us?

             2.    . With whom will you share things that you don’t want everyone to know? It would be with a close friend, whom you trust as much as you trust yourself. While a few of your friends may be fiercely protective of their privacy and may not tell their secrets to anyone, those who do, surely find you trustworthy and reliable.

         Whom do you look up to for advice when you need it the most? It has to be either your parents or your friends.   3.    . This is a shining example of trust. You only seek advice from people you hold in high regard and find dependable. The friends who trust you will never forget to include you in the important decisions of their life.

         Arguments and heated discussions are a part of every relationship, and this is also true for friendship.     4.      . While some people find it difficult to forgive and forget, your friends will never have problems moving on. It is because they trust you and believe that you will never cause any pain to them on purpose.

         There are times in life when you find yourself a lonely soldier.     5.     . Your friends will never let you down and will strongly stand for you when you need encouragement. You can determine that they trust you and believe in your beliefs, if they side with you when you need them the most. People can be extraordinarily jealous(猜疑的) sometimes.

A.You know they will never pass on a wrong suggestion.

B.In fact, winning trust is, by far, the most challenging aspect of relationships.

C.Two people cannot have identical reactions to a situation and different opinions do exist.

D.No matter how close you are to your friends, you cannot take that comfort level for granted.

E.If your friends share their secrets, there’s a good possibility that they have much faith in you.

F.However, people who are fortunate to have been blessed with true friends are never alone in any battle.

 

One day when Isaac Newton was reading a book under an apple tree on the farm, an apple fell down and hit him on the head. For most people that would be the end of the story, but not for Newton. Why did the apple fall out of the tree? Does everything fall? What makes things fall? Can anything stop things from falling? Are the sun, moon, and stars falling? Why don’t they ever hit the ground?

So many questions. Newton spent many years answering these questions by thinking and doing experiments. He made up the law of gravity. According to this law everything pulls everything else to itself by a force called gravity. How strong that force is depends on how heavy the things are and how close together.

Newton’s law of gravity not only explained how things fall on earth, but now planets move around the sun and how moons move around planets. A friend of his, Edmund Halley, decided to try Newton’s theory on comets. People had been studying comets for hundreds of years without figuring them out, so he decided to study their reports and compare them to Newton’s theory.

Up till then people had thought that comets just came and went, and that nobody could know when or why. But Newton’s law of gravity gave rules that Halley could use to study the records of comets. He found some reports of a big bright comet that he was sure was the same one, coming back every 75 years. He predicted when it would come back next.

If anybody still didn’t believe Newton, then the appearance of Halley’s Comet just when Halley had predicted it using Newton’s ideas was enough to convince them. Halley’s Comet has come a few times since then, always right on schedule. You’ll be able to see it on its next trip near the sun and earth when you’re old enough to be a grandparent.

71.The passage starts with a story _____________.

A.because it was such a funny one

B.because Newton liked to eat apples

C.to show how much Newton liked reading

D/to show what started Newton’s discovering gravity

72.According to the author, Newton was especially different from others in that ____________.

A.he liked reading under apple trees

B.he liked to find out how things worked

C.he was very quiet and patient

D.he was so much interested in science

73.Newton’s law of gravity can tell us that _____________.

A.gravity has no relationship with the weight of things.\

B.how things fall on earth

C.it is not of help to the study of comets

D.it can explain everything in the world

74.The underlined word “ convince” in the last paragraph probably means “______________”

A. make… believe                B. make… doubt

C. make… understand             D. make… interested

75. Which of the following is TRUE about Edmund Halley?

A. He discovered a big bright comet.

B. He helped Newton to create his theory.

C. He predicted when the same comet would come back.

D. He studied the same comet for 75 years.

 

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