题目内容
【题目】Fish e from prehistoric sea creatures.
【答案】见解析
【解析】evolved
【题目】Today we have chat rooms, text messaging, e-mailing...but we seem __________ the art of communicating face-to-face.
A. losing
B. to be losing
C. to be lost
D. having lost
【题目】He is a newcomer in the team，but I have the __________ that I’ve seen that man before.
A. function B. impression
C. comprehension D. association
【题目】
I thought it was going to rain. __________ the contrary, it cleared up.
【题目】She can __________ __________ __________ by looking at the lines on your hand.
她可凭着手纹替你算命。
I think sunshine and fresh air are b__________ to your health.
【题目】Though some bodies and the wreck of the missing plane QZ8501 have been confirmed，the Indonesian authorities are _____ to make public the detailed information of the passengers aboard.
A. relative B. remarkable
C. relevant D. reluctant
The little daughter has an __________ (想象的) friend, which is hard to believe for adults.
【题目】"A photograph that one has taken of oneself, typically with a smart phone or webcam and uploaded to a social media website" is the definition of "selfie" in the Oxford English Dictionary. In fact, it wasn't even in the dictionary until August of last year. It earned its place there because people are now so obsessed with (对……痴迷) selfies ─ we take them when we try on a new hat, play with our pets or when we meet a friend whom we haven't seen in a while.
But is there any scientific explanation for this obsession? Well, you should probably ask James Kilner, a neuroscientist(神经系统科学家) at University College London.
Through our lifetime we become experts at recognizing and interpreting other people's faces and facial expressions. In contrast, according to Kilner, we have a very poor understanding of our own faces since we have little experience of looking at them ─ we just feel them most of the time.
This has been proved in previous studies, according to the BBC.
Kilner found that most people chose the more attractive picture. This suggests that we tend to think of ourselves as better-looking than we actually are. To further test how we actually perceive our own faces, Kilner carried out another study. He showed people different versions of their own portrait ─ the original, one that had been edited to look less attractive and one that was made more attractive ─ and asked them to pick the version which they thought looked most like them. They chose the more attractive version.
But what does it say about settles? Well, isn't that obvious? Selfies give us the power to create a photograph ─ by taking it from various angles, with different poses, using filters (滤色镜) and so on ─ that better matches our expectations with our actual faces.
"You suddenly have control in a way that you don't have in non-virtual(非虚拟的) interactions," Kilner told the Canada-based CTV News. Selfies allow you "to keep taking pictures until you manage to take one you're happy with" , he explained.
【1】What is the passage mainly about?
A. The definition and fun of taking selfies.
B. A study of why people love taking selfies.
C. How taking selfies influences people's daily lives.
D. How to interpret people's facial expressions in their selfies.
【2】The underlined word "perceive" in Paragraph 5 can be replaced by "______".
A. interpret B. beautify C. choose D. explain
【3】What did Kilner discover from his researches?
A. People interpret others' facial expressions worse than their own.
B. People tend to spend more time looking at their faces than at others'.
C. People tend to believe they look more attractive than they actually are.
D. People who like taking selfies know more about their facial expressions.
【4】According to Kilner, people like taking selfies probably because they think ______.
A. it is a good chance to learn more about their actual faces
B. it is a way to respond to others' facial expressions correctly
C. it enables them to interact with their friends in social media
D. it allows them to satisfy their expectations with their appearances
阅读快车系列答案阅读快车系列答案阅读快车系列答案