题目内容
Hoping he would not disturb his sleeping father, Bob stole in, ____ and waited for him to wake up
A.didn’t speak B.not to speak C.not speak D.not spoke
A
解析:
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It seems hard to watch someone yawn and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force.
Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids don’t develop this deeply rooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the children are developing rightly. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the ways that people communicate and connect.
"Emotional infection seems to be a born thing that connects us together," said Molly Helt, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut. "Yawning may be part of that." Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic son to clear his ears on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He never did.
"The fact that autistic kids don’t do it might mean they’re really missing out on that emotional connection with people around them," she said. "The biggest thing people try to figure out after birth is how we become humans and understand that humans have minds that are different from others’," she added. "Autistic people never seem to understand that."
Like infectious laughter and crying, scientists have found that yawning is a shared experience that promotes social connection. Helt said it could fight stress after a period of being nervous and spread a feeling of calm through a group.
【小题1】What does the new study suggest, according to the first two paragraphs?
| A.It is easy to stop yawning when you see others yawn. |
| B.Yawning has some mysterious force which is related to God. |
| C.Children follow others in yawning just after they are born. |
| D.Yawning is a form of communication. |
| A.emotions are infectious, but yawning is not |
| B.yawning helps clear ears on planes |
| C.humans differ from animals because they communicate with others |
| D.yawning is a kind of emotional connection among humans |
| A.It is natural to yawn back if people around you yawn. |
| B.Some kids are too young to yawn after others. |
| C.Yawning can be used to test children’s development. |
| D.Kids with autism yawn easily when others yawn. |
| A.it is bad manners to yawn on some social occasions |
| B.yawning can make people feel relaxed |
| C.yawning is different from infectious laughter and crying in theory |
| D.the more you yawn, the happier you will be |
Franz Schubert was a well-known musician in the world. But he lived a very hard life and often went hungry. One day, being very hungry, he went into a small restaurant in Vienna, hoping he might meet some friends there. He looked around and saw nobody he could borrow any money from. Then his eyes fell on a paper on one of the tables. In it was a little poem. He took the paper with the poem. After he composed a piece of music for the poem, he took his work to the owner of the restaurant. He only received a dish of beef and potato for it. thirty years after his death, this manuscript(手稿) by Schubert was sold for 40 00c francs. it was his famous berceuse(摇篮曲).
【小题1】Schubert often
| A.had his meal in restaurants |
| B.looked for his friends there |
| C.ate beef and potato there |
| D.had not enough food to eat |
| A.the owner might give him some food |
| B.he could eat the food without money |
| C.some friends of his might be there and lend him some money |
| D.he could write his famous berceuse there |
| A.where Schubert composed his famous berceuse |
| B.why Schubert composed his famous berceuse |
| C.whether it was hard for Schubert to make a living |
| D.who bought his famous berceuse for 40 000 francs |
| A.the hard life of Schubert |
| B.Schubert and restaurant owner |
| C.Franz Schubert in a hotel |
| D.Franz Schubert and his berceuse |