题目内容
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is so ________that most of us can not understand it.
A.controversial B.abstract
C.appropriate D.universal
B
【解析】
试题分析:考查形容词:A.controversial有争议的B.abstract抽象的, C.appropriate适当的, D.universal普遍的,句意:爱因斯坦的相对论是如此的抽象,以至于大部分人几乎不能理解。选B。
考点:考查形容词
点评:本题考查了形容词的辨析,这些形容词要么比较长,要么比较冷僻,也是考生容易忘记的形容词,要加强记忆,还有要结合句意进行判断。要关注一些意思相近的形容词固定词组的辨析与识记,在语境中运用理解。
People with bigger brains ftend to score higher on standardized tests of intelligence, according to new study findings.
However, the study author Dr Michael A.McDaniel of the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond emphasized that these findings represent a general trend, and people with small heads should not automatically believe they are less intelligent. For instance, Albert Einstein’s brain was “not particularly large”, McDaniel noted. “There’s some relationship between brain size and intelligence on the average, but there’s plenty of room for exceptions,” he said.
Interest in the relationship between brain size and intelligence grew in the1830s, when German anatomist(解剖学家) Frederich Tiedmann wrote that he believed there was “an unquestionable connection between the size of the brain and the mental energy displayed by the individual man”. Since that statement, scientists have conducted numerous studies to determine if Tiedmann’s assertion was, in fact, correct. Most studies have looked into the link between head size and intelligence. More recently, however, researchers have published additional studies on brain size and intelligence, measured using MRI scan(核磁共振成像扫描).
For his study, McDaniel analyzed more than 20 studies that looked into the relationship between brain size and intelligence in a total of 1,530 people. The studies showed that on the average, people with larger brain volume tended to be more intelligent. The relationship between brain volume and intelligence was stronger in women than men, and in adults than in children. McDaniel notes in the journal Intelligence.
McDaniel is not sure why the relationship was stronger for adults and women. “Other research has shown that women, on the average, tend to have smaller brains than men, but score just as well—if not higher—in tests of intelligence,” he said.
McDaniel insisted that the relationship between brain size and intelligence is not a “perfect” one. “One can certainly find lots of examples of smaller-sized people who are highly intelligent,” he said, “But, on the average, the relationship holds.”
【小题1】. What does the text mainly talk about?
A.MRI scans are applied to intelligence. |
B.On the average, a bigger brain means higher IQ. |
C.Dr McDaniel did well in his intelligence study. |
D.Scientists are interested in Tiedmann’s idea. |
A.Albert Einstein was intelligent |
B.the result of intelligence test was false |
C.being hard working is more important than intelligence |
D.brain size doesn’t necessarily decide the level of intelligence |
A. experiment B. statement C proof D. demand
【小题4】 After Frederich Tiedmann wrote his article, .
A.many scientists agreed with him |
B.numerous studies have failed to prove his idea |
C.MRI scan became popularly used |
D.lots of researchers were interested in the connections between head size and intelligence |
A.proves Tiedmann’s idea was completely true |
B.shows women are smarter than men |
C.involves many studies and a lot of people |
D.explains why people with smaller brains are clever |
We like to consider ourselves the superior race, and we are. It’s true that we are getting to know more and more, and we actually live in “the information age”. Our human vanity(虚荣心) makes us believe that we really have to know everything! Surprisingly, we do not have this ability. The question “what is happening in the Bermuda Triangle” is the very proof.
Where is the Bermuda Triangle located? The mysterious triangle is believed to be situated between Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico, where too many unusual events have happened.
On December the 5th 1945, five U.S. military planes took off from Florida on a clear day only to disappear over Bermuda. Furthermore, some other disappearances took place; in 1947, an American C54 plane simply disappeared at 100 miles from Bermuda; at 80 miles, a Star Tiger plane disappeared in 1948.
Even Columbus had trouble in Bermuda. Some of his journals were about the strange happenings there: “the waters are changing their colors” and “compasses are going wild”.
Maybe it’s why it is called the Devil’s triangle or the Atlantic cemetery.
Many hypotheses were stated in order to explain the strange events. In spite of these attempts, the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle remains unsolved.
Some people get to say that maybe aliens are involved in it. Other imaginative scientists relate the happenings in Bermuda to Einstein’s theory, saying that the missing ships and planes are translated to another dimension of space and time and taken into another world.
Maybe we will just have to wait to go to Heaven and ask the One who made it. The answer will surely be a satisfying one!
【小题1】The writer may probably think that______.
A.humans have to and can know everything strange |
B.the missing ships are taken into another world |
C.humans can know more in “the information age” |
D.God created the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle |
A.an American C54 plane disappeared |
B.there were some strange happenings |
C.the compasses were lost |
D.a cemetery was found |
A.guesses | B.reports | C.places | D.stories |
A.tell some stories about the Bermuda Triangle |
B.warn people not to travel to the Bermuda Triangle |
C.laugh at man’s vanity to know everything |
D.prove man does not have the ability to know all |