II  语言知识及应用(共两节,满分35分)

第一节  完形填空(共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)

阅读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后从21-30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中,选出最佳选项,并将答案填涂在答题卡上。

Azure Warrenfeltz, a 4-year-old girl, is fluent in Japanese and Spanish. She also can   21   bits of French, German, Arabic and Italian, and she soon hopes to learn some Mandarin Chinese.

In today's globalized world, Azure is one of many young American children whose parents insist her   22   include foreign languages.

"It's such a   23   environment now, you never know what you might need," says Azure's mother, Julie Warrenfeltz, who started schooling her daughter in foreign languages when she was 6 weeks old. "She couldn't   24   a violin, she couldn't stand upright, but I wanted her to do   25  ."

Not only is learning a foreign language easier for children than it is for   26  , but children who are exposed to other languages also do better in school. They are more   27   to diversity, says Fran??ois Thibaut, who runs The Language Workshop for Children, which has nine schools around the East Coast.

Language study for children is based on immersion (沉浸), he says. Kids sing songs and play games to help develop language comprehension skills. When children start learning languages at birth, they have the   28   to learn many languages at once without getting   29   — because, as the brain develops, so too does the ability to separate one   30   from another.

21. A. learn                   B. hear             C. understand                 D. teach

22. A. school                 B. field            C. teacher                    D. education

23. A. global                  B. big              C. small                      D. dirty

24. A. play                    B. hold            C. learn                      D. make

25. A. something              B. anything       C. everything                         D. nothing

26. A. parents                 B. teachers        C. adults                             D. experts

27. A. blind                  B. open          C. deaf                              D. strange

28. A. capacity                B. desire          C. possibility                         D. dream

29. A. bored                  B. interested       C. involved                   D. confused

30. A. world                  B. parent          C. language                          D. sound

  Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and,sure enough,someone was looking right at you!

Parapsychologists(灵学家)say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them.To research whether such a“sixth sense”really exists,Robert Baker,a psychologist(心理学家)at the University of Kentucky,performed two experiments.

    In the first one.Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes.The subjects(受试者)were eating,drinking,reading,studying,watching TV,or working at a computer.Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods.Later,when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.

       For the second experiment,Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two-way mirror in a laboratory setting.The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t.Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t.Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were started at than if they had just guessed.

       Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at.If

people doubt the outcome of his two experiments,said Baker,“I suggest they repeat the

experiments and see for themselves.”

64.The purpose of the two experiments is to        

       A.prove why humans have a sixth sense

       B.explain when people can have a sixth sense

       C.show how people act while being watched in the lab

       D.study whether humans can sense when they are stared at

65.In the first experiment,the subjects       

       A.were not told that they would be stared at

       B.lost their sense when they were stared at

       C.were not sure when they would be stared at

       D.were uncomfortable when they were stared at

66.What can be learned from the passage?

       A.People are born with a sixth sense.

       B.People have a sixth sense in public places.

       C.The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea.  

       D.The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments.

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