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【题目】阅读下面的短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项。
If you can speak English,you know a lot of English words. You can read,speak and understand. But there is another kind of language you need to know——the language of the body,a part of what is called non-verbal communication. All over the world,people “talk” with their eyes. When Japanese people meet,they put their hands together. What do American and British do?
Americans are more informal than the British. They like to be friendly. They use first name,they ask questions and they talk easily about themselves. When they sit down,they like to relax in their chairs and make themselves comfortable.
British people are more quiet. They take more time to make friends. They like to know you before they ask you home.
When British and American people meet someone for the first time,they shake hands. They do not usually shake hands with people they know well. Women sometimes kiss their women friends,and men kiss women friends (on one cheek only).When a man meets a man friend,he just smiles,and says “Hello”. Men do not kiss each other. Even fathers and sons do not often kiss each other.
(1)Body language is ________.
A.the system of human expression newly invented recently
B.the system of human expression by means of words
C.the system of human expression by sign,movements,etc.
D.a common system of human expression with words and signs
(2)People use body language________.
A.in Asia
B.in America
C.in Britain
D.all over the world
(3)When an American man meets a woman friend,he________ .
A.kisses her
B.just smiles
C.says “Hello”
D.shakes hands
(4)British people are ________.
A.as quiet as Americans
B.more formal than Americans
C.less friendly than Americans
D.more informal than Americans

【答案】
(1)C
(2)D
(3)A
(4)B
【解析】本文是一篇说明文,讲述有关身势语。
(1)考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“the language of body,a part of what is called non-verbal communication”可知,选项C中的sign,movements即是the language of body。故选C。
(2)考查细节理解。根据第一段中的“All over the world,people'talk'with their eyes”可知答案选D。
(3)考查细节理解。根据最后一段中“...and men kiss women friends....”可知答案选A。
(4)考查推理判断。根据第二段中的“Americans are more informal than the British”可推出答案选B。

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Lucien Rudaux, a French artist, was the first to use his artistic ability and his knowledge of astronomy in art. His paintings show a mixture of skilled observations, brilliant imagination and careful attention. As a result, many of his works have come surprisingly close to actual conditions on distant planets. His painting of Mars included moonlike craters(火山口) that were first photographed by the astronauts in 1965. His 1930 painting of a dust storm looks remarkably like a photograph of a storm taken by the astronauts in 1976.
The artist-astronomers, including Rudaux, made people interested in outer space by painting what turned out to be exact portraits of the planets.
(1)The passage tells us ________.
A.the surprising exactness of space artists
B.the popular success of Lucien Rudaux
C.the imaginations of great artists
D.the likeness between the Moon and Mars
(2)According to the passage, artist-astronomers spent their lives ________.
A.exploring the planets
B.studying paintings
C.painting the planets
D.producing spaceships
(3)The works of Lucien Rudaux are a mixture of _________.
A.astronomy and mathematics
B.astronomy and painting
C.photograph and art
D.fact and imagination
(4)In 1965,the astronauts photographed _________.
A.a spaceship
B.a planet
C.craters on the Moon
D.a painting

【题目】The African elephant, the largest land animal remaining on earth , is of great importance to African ecosystem (生态系统).Unlike other animals, the African elephant is to a great extent the builder of its environment. As a big plant-eater, it largely shapes the forest-and- savanna(大草原) surroundings in which it lives, therefore setting the terms of existence for millions of other animals that live in its habitat(栖息地).

It is the elephant’s great desire for food that makes it a disturber of the environment and an important builder of its habitat. In its continuous search for the 300 pounds of plants it must have every day, it kills small trees and underbushes, and pulls branches off big trees. This results in numerous open spaces in both deep tropical forests and in the woodlands that cover part of the African savannas. In these open spaces are numerous plants in various stages of growth that attract a variety of other plant-eaters.

Take the rain forests for example. In their natural state, the spreading branches overhead shut out sunlight and prevent the growth of plants on the forest floor. By pulling down trees and eating plants, elephants make open spaces, allowing new plants to grow on the forest floor. In such situations, the forests become suitable for large hoofed plant-eaters to move around and for small plant-eaters to get their food as well.

What worries scientists now is that the African elephant has become an endangered species. If the elephant disappears, scientists say, many other animals will also disappear from vast areas of forest and savanna, greatly changing and worsening the whole ecosystem.

1What is the passage mainly about?

A. Disappearance of African elephants.

B. Forests and savannas as habitats for African elephants.

C. The effect of African elephants’ search for food.

D. The eating habit of African elephants.

2What does the underlined phrase “setting the terms” most probably mean?

A. Fixing the time. B. Worsening the state.

C. Improving the quality. D. Deciding the conditions.

3What do we know about the open spaces in the passage?

A. They result from the destruction of rain forests.

B. They provide food mainly for African elephants.

C. They are home to many endangered animals.

D. They are attractive to plant-eating animals of different kinds.

4The passage is developed mainly by .

A. showing the effect and then explaining the causes

B. pointing out similarities and differences

C. describing the changes in space order

D. giving examples

【题目】We are naturally drawn to friends and colleagues with familiar voices, scientists have found. People prefer those who have a similar accent, intonation and tone of voice to themselves, they discovered.

Previous research has focused on how male or female a voice sounds. Men with deeper voices and women with slightly higher voices were thought to sound more attractive, because they suggest a bigger or a smaller body.

But the new study, published by a linguistics expert in Canada, suggests there is a more complex mechanism (机制) at play. Dr Molly Babel, from the University of British Columbia in Canada, said, “The voice is an amazingly flexible tool that we use to construct our identity. Very few things in our voices are changeless, so we felt that our preferences had to be about more than a person’s shape and size.”

She recorded 30 volunteers’ voices and asked each to rate the others’ attractiveness on a range from one to nine. Each participant was from western America, with similar accents. The people we assessed were all in the same dialect group, but they showed that dialect to different degrees.

“We seem to like people who sound like we sound, and we like people who fit within what we know,” Dr Babel said. She also found that breathy voices in women—typified by the famous American actress Marilyn Monroe-were seen as more attractive.

The breathy tone, caused by younger and thinner vocal cords (声带), implied youthfulness and health. A creaky (咯吱作响的) voice, suggesting a person has a cold, is tired or smokes, was seen as unattractive. The participants preferred men who spoke with a shorter average word length and deeper voices.

1The main purpose of the text is to .

A. compare male voices with female voices

B. inform readers of the new findings of voices

C. argue against women’s voices of speaking

D. encourage men to use deeper voices to speak

2Dr Molly Babel mentions Marilyn Monroe in order to .

A. explain a breathy voice

B. introduce a creaky voice

C. challenge previous research

D. promote her reputation

3In terms of voice preferences, the new findings stress .

A. body size and shape

B. shorter word length

C. thicker vocal cords

D. the same social groups

4Whose voice may be unattractive according to the text?

A. A young lady with a thin voice.

B. An old lady with a silvery voice.

C. A deep-voiced man with a dry throat.

D. A little man with a quiet and gentle voice.

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