第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上涂黑。

Elizabeth Clay decided to go home and spend the holiday with her parents.The next day she drove her old car home along the road.  36  she found she got a flat(爆胎).The 22-year-old student   37   to stop her car by the side of the road in the winter night and opened the trunk.No  38  tire(轮胎).

    At this time,a car  39  .Paul and Diane told Clay to  40  them to a service station near    their  41  .They arrived to see that it had no suitable tires to  42   with her car.“Follow us home.”said Paul.

    The couple called around to find a tire.No  43  .They decided to let her use their own car.“Here,”Paul said,handing Clay a  44  of keys.“Take our car.We  45  be using it over the holiday.’’

Clay was  46  “But I’m going all the way to South Carolina,and I'll be gone for two weeks,”she  47  them.

    “We know,”Paul said.“We’ll be  48  when you get back.Here’s our number if you need to  49  us.”

    Unable to believe her eyes.Clay watched as the  50  put her l uggage into their car and then  51  her off.Two weeks later,she  52  to find her old car cleaned inside and out with three new tires and the radio  53 

    “Thank you so much,”she said.“How much do I  54  you?“Oh,no,”Paul said,“we don’t  want any money.It’s our  55  .”Clay realized that while it might have been their pleasure,it was now her duty to pass on their“do onto others”spirit.

36.A.Suddenly      B.Finally                 C.Immediately           D.Fortunately

37.A.afforded       B.wanted                C.allowed                  D.managed

    38.A.spare    B.free                     C.full                        D.empty

    39.A.passed          B.stopped                C.paused                   D.started

    40.A.help             B.push                    C.take                        D.follow

    41.A.garage          B.house                  C.shop                      D.hotel

    42.A.agree    B.match                  C.go                         D.deal

    43.A.way             B.message               C.success                   D.luck

    44.A.set               B.number                C.pair                       D.chain

    45.A.can’t            B.shouldn’t             C.mustn’t                  D.won’t

    46.A.satisfied        B.worried               C.astonished              D.disturbed

    47.A.persuaded   B.advised            C.reminded                D.promised

    48.A.happy           B.here                    C.away                     D.busy

49.A.get in touch with                  B.keep in touch with    

C.be in touch with                   D.put in touch witl

    50.A.repairmen       B.cleaners               C.friends                   D.couple

    51.A.sent              B.shook                  C.watched                 D.drove

    52.A.shocked         B.happened             C.returned                 D.came

    53.A.loaded          B.fixed                   C.tied                       D.rebuilt

    54.A.owe             B.lend                    C.give                       D.offer

    55.A.wish             B.job                      C.duty                             D.pleasure

      People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

      Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly

(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

      "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

      According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

      The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

      It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

    In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

64. The discovery shows that Westerners __

    A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

    B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

    C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

    D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

65. What were the people asked to do in the study?

A. To make a face at each other.    B. To get their faces impressive.

C. To classify some face pictures.   D. To observe the researchers' faces.

66. What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A. The participants in the study.

B. The researchers of the study.

C. The errors made during the study.

    D. The data collected from the study.

67. What can be the best title for the passage?

    A. The Eye as the Window to the Soul

B. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

The Gullah people in the southern US have honored their culture for more than 100 years. Living mainly on the Sea Islands and coastal areas of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida, the Gullah people, an African-American group, have a rich culture including their own language. It is a Creole language created by slaves who came to the US from the West Africa in the 1800s. It combines West African languages with English.

For many years efforts have been made to save the Gullah language. One project began in 1979. Its goal was to translate the New Testament part of the Bible into Gullah. Experts say that it was a difficult process because Gullah is not a written language. It is a spoken language only.

A team of Gullah speakers began working on the translation to make the Bible easier to understand for those who spoke Gullah as their main language. The Gullah version is called De Nyew Testament. It is written in English on one side of the page, and next to it, there is a Gullah translation. De Nyew Testament was published by the American Bible Society. The project also received help from the Smmer Institute of Linguistics, Wycliffe Bible Translators, the United Bible Societies and the Penn Centre.

Experts believe that the translated Bible is a major step towards saving the Gullah language and traditions. “This is more than a Bible translation,” says Robert Hodgson, at the American Bible Soceity. “De Nyew Testament raises the Gullah language and culture to a new level.” Ardell Greene is a member of the translation team. She calls the book “a treasure”. She says that the Gullah version of the Bible will be read in churches and will help young people keep the Gullah language alive.

57. What does this passage mainly talk about?

  A. Efforts to save the Gullah language.       B. Different versions of the Bible.

  C. The history of the Gullah people.         D. The culture of the Gullah people.

58. According to the passage, De Nyew Testament can be best seen as _______.

  A. a good version of the Bible              B. something difficult to understand

  C. a spoken form of the Gullah language      D. the effort to save the Gullah language

59. It can be inferred from the passage that ________.

  A. people on the Sea Islands mainly speak Gullah

  B. Gullah is an unusual and endangered language

  C. the Gullah culture is becoming popular across the US

  D. young Americans like to read the Bible

60. Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?

  A. Gullah communities can be found in the southern US.

  B. Gullah is influenced by both English and West African languages.

  C. De Nyew Testament is a complete Bible translation.

  D. Ardell Greene thinks highly of De Nyew Testament.

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