题目内容
_____ their arms, the soldiers marched away.
A. To swing B.Swinging C. Swing D.Swung
B
阅读快车系列答案They may be small and not able to speak, but babies are proving their amazing cleverness. Scientists began finding infants’ skills are more than they are supposed to be.
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Speaking of music, babies can’t seem to resist it. Not only are their ears turned to the beats, babies can actually dance to the music.
To test babies’ dancing ability, the researchers played recordings of classical music, rhythmic beats and speech to infants, and recorded the results. They also invited professional dancers to analyze how well the babies matched their movements to the music. The babies moved their arms, hands, legs feet and heads in response to the music, much more than to the speech. The finding suggests this dancing ability is innate(与生俱来的) in humans, though the researchers aren’t sure why it becomes weaker later in their life.
Learning Quickly while Sleeping
Babies can learn even while asleep, according to a 2011 study. In experiments with 26 sleeping infants, each just 1 to 2 days old, scientists played a musical tone followed by a puff of air to their eyes 200 times over the course of a half-hour. 124 electrodes(电极) stuck on the head and face of each baby recorded brain activity during the experiments. The babies rapidly learned to foretell a puff of air upon hearing the tone, showing a four-time increase on average in the chances of tightening their eyelids in response to the sound by the end of the experiments.
As newborns spend most of their time asleep, this newfound ability might be crucial to rapidly adapting to the world around them and help to ensure their survival, researchers said.
Judging Characters Well
Judging another person helpful or harmful is crucial when choosing friends. And that ability starts early. Kiley Hamlin of Yale University showed both 6-and 10-month-olds a puppet(木偶) show, in which one character helped another climb a hill. In another scene a third character pushed the climber down. The little ones then got to choose which character they preferred. For both age groups, most babies chose the helper character. This character-judging ability could be baby’s first step in the formation of morals, Hamlin thought.
【小题1】Which of the following subtitles can fill in the underlined blank?
| A．Dancing to Music |
| B．Babies’ Amazing Abilities |
| C．Learning to Dance Quickly |
| D．Born to Dance |
| A．the finding |
| B．the dancing ability |
| C．the response |
| D．the baby |
| A．babies can learn even while asleep |
| B．babies can respond to the world around them |
| C．babies can tighten their eyelids in response to the sound |
| D．babies can communicate with others while asleep |
| A．babies can judge a person helpful or harmful |
| B．babies love to see a puppet show |
| C．babies were born to help others |
| D．babes have learned to help others |
Just because
you are in a wheelchair doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the competitiveness(竞争) —the all-around fun —that playing
sports offers you. More and more wheelchair users are playing sports every day
—some even on a professional level. The following are just a few examples of
the different choices you have.
Wheelchair basketball is a very common wheelchair sport. It was started over
forty years ago as part of a medical recovery(康复) program. Over the years it has
grown rapidly. Today wheelchair basketball is a professional sport that has
more than 180 teams across the United States. In order to play wheelchair
basketball, it is essential to have a lightweight wheelchair. Several different
kinds of sports wheelchairs are on the market today just for sports fans.
Another wheelchair sport, quad rugby(橄榄球), was specifically designed for
people who can’t move their arms or legs and are unable to play wheelchair
basketball. It is a mixture of wheelchair basketball and ice hockey. To play
the game you must have two teams of four players each.
Power soccer is another fun wheelchair sport that can be very fun and exciting.
Players in power soccer must have an electric wheelchair. Two teams have two
30-minute halves to push the soccer ball over the other team’s goal line. The
first team to reach the other team’s goal line most frequently wins.
Based on the sport you choose to take part in, there are several things you can
buy for your wheelchair, including belts, gloves, bags for carrying things,
drink holders and special back supports.
1.In which part of the newspaper will you read this
passage?
|
A．Technology. |
B．Society. |
C．Culture. |
D．Health. |
2.In the
beginning, wheelchair basketball was started for the purpose of ______.
|
A．holding professional games around the US |
B．spreading the sport all over the US |
C．helping patients return to a normal life |
D．making people want to play sports |
3.What is
the main idea of the passage?
|
A．To introduce some possible sports to wheelchair users. |
B．To introduce some products to the wheelchair users. |
C．To encourage wheelchair users to compete with each other. |
D．To talk about the differences between these sports. |