Question

【题目】短文填空。从下面方框分钟选出10个单词，用它们的适当形式填入短文空格内，使短文意思正确、通顺（每词限用一次）。

complete cross develop fair include others

pleasant recently regard silence those well

Dogs are friendly and they love humans to be with them. Your dog will always wait for you by the door, face smiling, mouth open and tail wagging, ready to play with you, his best friend in the world.

It seems that there’s a good reason why dogs 【1】 as man’s best friend. Scientists have found that dogs are the only animals 【2】 can read emotion (情感) in faces much like humans. The finding suggests that like an understanding friend, dogs can see you are happy, sad, 【3】 or angry. When you’re feeling blue, your dog will remain by your side 【4】 comforting you. When you’re happy and excited, your dog will leap around you and share in your joy.

When humans look at a new face, their eyes usually look 【5】 the left, falling on the right hand side of the person’s face first. A possible reason for this is that the right side of the human face is 【6】 at expressing feelings.

Scientists have now shown that pet dogs also have “left gaze bias (左视偏好)”, but only when looking at human faces. No 【7】 animal has been known to do like this before. Dr. Kun Guo with his team showed 17 dogs the pictures of human, dog and monkey faces as well as something else. The dogs’ eyes and heads show a strong left gaze bias when the animals see human faces. But this did not happen when they were shown other pictures, 【8】 those of dogs.

Guo guess that over thousands of years living with humans, dogs may 【9】 the left gaze bias as a way to guess our emotions.

“【10】 studies show that the right side of our faces can show feelings better than the left. If true, then it makes sense to see the right side of a face first.”

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】are regarded

【2】that

【3】pleased

【4】silently

【5】across

【6】better

【7】other

【8】including

【9】have developed

【10】Recent

【解析】试题分析：这篇科普文分析了人类的好朋友狗阅读人的面部表情的能力，通过分析具有这种能力的原因，发现狗发展了左视偏好作为一种猜测人类情绪的方式。

【1】句意：狗之所以被认为是人类最好的朋友，似乎有一个很好的理由。be regarded as被当做，固定短语。从句主语dogs是复数人称，系词需用are。根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填are regarded。

【2】句意：科学家们发现狗是唯一能像人一样阅读面部表情的动物。本句结构复杂，主体是宾语从句，宾语从句又含定语从句，animals后面的句子做它的定语。先行词animals有only，引导词需用that。根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填that。

【3】句意：这一发现表明，像一个理解你的朋友，狗可以看到你是快乐、悲伤、高兴，还有愤怒。or或者，表并列；根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填pleased。

【4】句意：当你感到忧伤时，你的狗会默默地陪在你身边安慰你。remain留下，动词需用副词修饰；根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填silently。

【5】句意：当人们看一张新面孔时，他们的眼睛通常看向左边。look across眺望；根据下文falling on the right hand side of the person’s face first.，结合句意结构和上下文提示，可知是由左往右看了一圈，across有“横过”的意思，故填across。

【6】句意：一个可能的原因是，人脸的右侧更善于表达情感。系词is后接表语形容词。根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知那右侧和左侧做了对比，故填better。

【7】句意：以前没有其他动物知道这样做。no没有；animal动物，名词需用形容词修饰。other其他的，表示不确定的人或物；本文是拿狗和别的动物比较，根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填other。

【8】句意：但当他们展示其他图片，包括狗的照片时，这并没有发生。including包括在内的；根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填including。

【9】句意：狗可能已经发展了左视偏好作为一种猜测我们的情绪的方式。“have+过去分词”是现在完成时结构；根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填have developed。

【10】句意：最近的研究表明，我们的脸的右侧可以显示出比左边更好的感觉。studies研究，名词需用形容词修饰；根据句意结构和上下文提示，可知填Recent。