题目内容
It is believed that this book is _______ worth reading than that one.
A. more B. better C. quite D. most
B
【解析】考查副词辨析。根据句中的than可知，本题考的是形容词或副词的比较级，排除C、D，而more在比较级中，要么表示“多”的意思，要么就是与形容词连用构成比较级，故也可排除。句意：据说这本书比那本书更值得看。故选B。
考点：考查副词辨析
Personal computers and the Internet give people new choices about how to spend their time.
Some may use this freedom to share less time with certain friends or family members, but new technology will also let them stay in closer touch with those they care most about. I know this from personal experience.
E-mail makes it easy to work at home, which is where I now spend most weekends and evenings. My working hours aren’t necessarily much shorter than they once were but I spend fewer of them at the office. This lets me share more time with my young daughter than I might have if she’d been born before electronic mail became such a practical tool.
The Internet also makes it easy to share thoughts with a group of friends. Say you do something fun, see a great movie perhaps-and there are four or five friends who might want to hear about it. If you call each one, you may tire of telling the story.
With E-mail, you just write one note about your experience, at your convenience, and address (="tell)" it to all the friends you think might be interested. They can read your message when they have time, and read only as much as they want to. They can reply at their convenience, and you can read what they have to say at your convenience.
E-mail is also an inexpensive way stay in close touch with people who live far away. More than a few parents use E-mail to keep in touch, even daily touch, with their children off at college.
We just have to keep in mind that computers and the Internet offer another way of staying in touch. They don’t take the place of any of the old ways.
【小题1】We can infer that passage is to ________.
| A．explain how to use the Internet |
| B．describe the writer’s joy of keeping up with the latest technology |
| C．tell the merits(价值) and usefulness of the Internet |
| D．introduce the reader to basic knowledge about personal computers and the Internet |
| A．spend less time working |
| B．have more free time with his child |
| C．work at home on weekends |
| D．work at a speed comfortable to him |
| A．reach a group of people at one time conveniently |
| B．keep one’s communication as personal as possible |
| C．pass on much more information than the latter |
| D．get in touch with one’s friends faster than the latter |
| A．Computer: New Technological Advances |
| B．Internet: New Tool to Maintain Good Friendship |
| C．Computers Have Made Life Easier |
| D．Internet: a Convenient Tool for Communication |
It has been cold and windy recently. If only it ______sunny and clear now!
| A．is | B．should be |
| C．were | D．being |
It’s natural to greet friends with a smile and a wave. ___【小题1】____ But what happens if your face and body send mixed messages? Would someone be more likely to believe the look on your face or the way you hold your body?
Scientists have recently tackled these questions. They found that when a person is looking at your face, she might not believe what she sees of your body language doesn’t match the feeling that your face shows. ___【小题2】____ Previously, they had found that the tone of a person’s voice can be more important than the words that are spoken. For example, most people tend not to believe a person who says in a flat voice, “I’m so excited.”
When it came to emotions conveyed by facial expressions and body language, most scientists suspected that the face was more important. To test if this was true, psychologists from the Netherlands and Boston showed people a number of pictures of isolated(孤立的） faces and isolated bodies(with faces blurred out （模糊的))that showed anger or fear. 【小题3】____
An angry face had low eyebrows and tight lips. A scared face had high eyebrow and a slightly open mouth. 【小题4】___ A scared body had arms forward and shoulders square, as if ready to defend.
These results told the researchers that mixed signals can confuse people. Even when people pay attention to the face, body language subtly(微妙地） influences which emotion they read.
___ 【小题5】____And if you want to be understood, it helps to avoid sending mixed messages.
| A．Scientists feel new to study the mixed message that confuses people. |
| B．When you do this, your face and body work together to show your friends that you’re happy to see them. |
| C． Studying such mixed messages is nothing new for scientists.． |
| D．They also showed pictures in which angry or scared faces were paired with angry or scared bodies |
F．So, your body language is important for telling people how you feel.
G．An angry body had arms back and shoulders at an angle, as if ready to fight.