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请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。
You might think body language is universal. After all, we"re the same species, right? But basics like what is considered a polite greeting and definitions of "personal space" vary widely from culture to culture. Americans, for instance, are considered rather reserved in the way they greet friends, and they define personal space more broadly than most other cultures. Knowing how another culture"s basic body language differs from yours may be of use next time you travel internationally.
Mind how you meet and greet. Americans and Canadians, male and female, tend to greet each other with a nice firm handshake. In Asian countries, the polite form of greeting is to bow, and the lower you bow, the deeper respect you have for the person you are bowing to. InSpain, Portugal, Italy and Eastern Europe, men kiss each other on the cheek.
Be careful about eye contact. In America, intermittent(断断续续的) eye contact is preferable in a conversation--unless it"s someone you care deeply for. In Middle Eastern countries, intense prolonged(持久的) eye contact is the norm, and the person you"re speaking with will move very close to you to maintain it. The Japanese, on the other hand, consider it an invasion of privacy, and rarely look another person in the eye.
Americans, in general, smile when they meet or greet someone. Koreans, however, think it"s rude for adults to smile in public--to them, smiling in public is a sign of embarrassment.
Don"t point. Most Americans think nothing of pointing at an object or another person. Native Americans consider it extremely rude to point with a finger, and instead they point with their chin. It"s also rude to point with a finger in China; the polite alternative is to use the whole hand, palm facing up.
Give the right amount of space. In Asian cultures, particularly China, the concept of personal space (generally defined in America as a three-to-four-foot circle for casual and business acquaintances) is nearly nonexistent. Strangers regularly touch bodies when standing in line for, say, movie tickets. People in Scandinavian countries, on the other hand, need more personal space than we do.
Title: How to (71)_______ Body Language in Different Cultures
Items | In America | In some Asian countries |
Meeting and greeting | Both male and female have a (72)_______ to greet each other with a nice firm handshake. | It’s polite for people to bow when they meet and greet. |
Eye contact | People (73)_______ to make an intermittent eye contact in a conversation. | Considering intense prolonged eye contact unacceptable, Japanese won’t look another person in the eye. |
Smiling | It’s normal for Americans to smile when they meet and greet. | In Korean, people seldom smile in public because it represents (74)_______. |
Pointing | Most Americans often point at an object or another person (76)_______ native Americans. | Chinese always try to (75)_______ pointing with a finger because it’s a rude manner. |
Personal space | Americans (77)_______ to keep a three-to-four-foot distance when they are with casual and business acquaintances. | It’s almost (78)_______ in China. |
(79)_______ | People behave great differently in different culture and knowing the differences of body language may be (80)_______ when you travel abroad. |
答案
75. avoid 76. except 77. tend 78. nonexistent
79. Conclusion 80. useful
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试题【任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题l分, 满分l0分)请认真阅读下列短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意: 每个空格只填1个单词】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
第一节:完形填空(共15小题;每小题1.5分,满分22.5分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选取出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Nick sat in my classroom after school, five years ago, wanting help on a research paper that stood between him and graduation. An 1 student at the school, he felt much worried about his assignment.
Many 2 find themselves in the same position: A child feels lost with 3 and turns to you for help . Not wanting the child to 4 , some parents step in and take over. I could easily tell the 5 between a parent’s writing style and the sudent’s style on homework.
Parents often have purposes, but the result can be harmful. They’re cheating their kids out of the very 6 they want them to get Allowing children to master a skill 7 lifelong gains.
Some ways to help without hurting:
Be a model learner. If your child sees you _8_ papers, magazines or literature, he’ll be _9 motivated to learn.
Ask _10_ needs to be done, and look over completed assignments. This shows that you __11 them to do the work and consider it important enough to review.
If you’re _12 that he or she is falling behind , talk with the teacher about it ___13 doing the work yourself.
Nick made it through fine. I didn’t write her paper. Nor did his mother, instead, we guided him together. At_ 14_ , we are very happy to see him collect his diploma. But _15__ was prouder than Nick. He knew what he had done.
1.A.average B. excellent C. open-minded D. absent-minded
2.A.children B. teachers C. parents D. researchers
3.A.school B. homework C. research D. classroom
4.A.study B. graduate C. succeed D. fail
5.A.difference B. similarity C. comparison D. distance
6.A.homework B. purpose C. education D. school
7.A.results in B. comes from C. makes up D. takes over
8.A.writing B. reading C. collecting D. making
9.A.not B. more C. no longer D. much
10.A.who B. what C. why D. how
11.A.teach B. allow C. expect D. force
12.A.sure B anxious C. worried D. happy
13.A.rather than B. instead of C. except for D. as well as
14.A.classroom B. home C. graduation D. presentation
15.A.everyone B. someone C. anyone D. no one
第三部分:阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
请认真阅读下列短文,从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Your Genes, Your Future
How would you feel if someone gave you an envelope with a description of every one of your genes? Supposing this information could tell you what illnesses you were likely to get, or even what illness you might die of, would you open the envelope?
It"s a difficult question to answer. But the fact is that scientists have already begun to discover how certain genes influence us. And in the next decade, they will learn a lot more.
We have known for a long time that many of our physical characteristics are inherited. For example, our eye colour and certain diseases are decided by our genes. As long as you have a good diet, scientists can predict your height by looking at your parents" heights. And we now know that the need to wear glasses has a genetic cause. Our eating habits also appear to be decided by our genes!
With other characteristics, things are not so clear. Certainly, scientists have now shown that some traits are strongly influenced by our genes. Do you prefer getting up early or late? To a great extent, it"s your genes that decide, Do you enjoy dangerous sports such as car racing? There is a gene that influences how much excitement we need.
But with most psychological characteristics, scientists are learning that both our genes and our environment affect us. This is true of things such as how violent we are, and how well we get on with other people. So, even though scientists may soon be able to describe our genes in detail, it does not mean they will be able to predict our future with any real success.
Nonetheless, the fact is that scientists will be able to "read" our genes in the near future. This will create new problems. To give a few examples, insurance companies may not want to insure people whose genes predict certain illnesses. Employers may not want to employ people who have a gene for violence. One thing is already clear -- with these new developments, life is going to become even more complicated!
56. Which characteristics is mostly likely to be inherited?
A. Eye colour. B. Interest. C. Future. D. Ability.
57. What kind of problem will these new developments create?
A. You may die of a certain illness described in the envelope.
B. There will be an increased number of violent people.
C. People may take part in dangerous sports such as car racing.
D. Insurance companies may refuse to insure people with a gene for certain disease.
58. Why won’t scientists be able to tell us a lot about our future?
A. Because we’re affected not only by our genes but also by our environment.
B. Because scientists will not able to read our genes in the near future.
C. Because life in the future will be more complicated.
D. Because scientists can’t describe our genes in detail.
第二节完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每小题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Years ago a John Hopkin’s professor gave a group of graduate students this task: Go to the slums(平民窟). 31 200 boys, between the ages of 12 and 16, and 32 their background and environment. Then predict their 33 for the future.
The students, after 34 social statistics, talking to the boys, and collecting much data, 35 that 90 percent of the boy would spend some time in 36 .
Twenty-five years later another group of graduate students was 37 the job of testing the 38 . They went back to the same area. Some of the boys— 39 men—were still there,a few had died,some had moved away, 40 they got in touch with 180 of the 41 200. They found that only four of the group had ever been sent to prison.
42 was it that these men,who had lived in a breeding place of crime,had such a 43 good record? The researchers were continually told,“Well,there was a teacher…”
They pressed 44 ,and found that in 75 percent of the 45 it was the same woman. The researchers went to this teacher,now living in a home for retired 46 . How had she had this remarkable influence 47 that group of children? Could she give them any reason why these boys 48 have remembered her?
“No,”she said.“No I really couldn’t.”And then, 49 back over the years,she said musingly,more to herself than to her 50 ,“I loved those boys…”
31.A.Take B.Elect C.Appoint D.Mention
32.A.learn B.inform C.study D.describe
33.A.careers B.statuses C.promises D.chances
34.A.checking B.closing C.storing D.trying
35.A.drew B.concluded C.decided D.confirmed
36.A.hospital B.prison C.camp D.court
37.A.offered B.provided C.given D.served
38.A.result B.accuracy C.effect D.prediction
39.A.by then B.so far C.as usual D.soon after
40.A.and B.so C.but D.then
41.A.exact B.considerable C.mere D.original
42.A.What B.When C.Why D.Where
43.A.surprisingly B.relatively C.similarly D.undoubtedly
44.A.deeper B.further C.higher D.wider
45.A.cases B.samples C.affairs D.examples
46.A.workers B.teachers C.professors D.guards
47.A.against B.versus C.over D.through
48.A.would B.should C.might D.could
49.A.calling B.going C.thinking D.remembering
50.A.students B.relatives C.roommates D.questioners
C
Susan Sontag(1933—2004) was one of the most noticeable figures in the world of literature. For more than 40 years she made it morally necessary to know everything—to read every book worth reading, to see every movie worth seeing. When she was still in her early 30s,publishing essays in such important magazines as Partisan Review,she appeared as the symbol of American culture life,trying hard to follow every new development in literature,film and art. With great effort and serious judgment,Sontag walked at the latest edges of world culture.
Seriousness was one of Sontag’s lifelong watchwords(格言),but at a time when the barriers between the well-educated and the poor-educated were obvious, she argued for a true openness to the pleasure of pop culture. In“Notes Camp”, the 1964 essay that first made her name,she explained what was then a little—known set of difficult understandings,through which she could not have been more famous.“Notes on Camp”,she wrote,represents“a victory of‘form’ over‘content’,‘beauty’over‘morals’”.
By conviction(信念)she was a sensualist(感觉论者),but by nature she was a moralist(伦理学者),and in the works she published in the 1970s and 1980s,it was the latter side of her that came forward. In“Illness as Metaphor”—published in 1978,after she suffered cancer—she argued against the idea that cancer was somehow a special problem of repressed personalities(被压抑的性格),a concept that effectively blamed the victim for the disease. In fact,re-ex-amining old positions was her lifelong habit.
In America,her story of a 19th century Polish actress who set up a perfect society in California,won the National Book Award in 2000. But it was as a tireless,all-purpose cultural view that she made her lasting fame.
“Sometimes,”she once said,“I feel that,in the end,all I am really defending…is the idea of seriousness,of true seriousness.”And in the end,she made us take it seriously too.
59.The underlined sentence in paragraph l means Sontag ____________.
A.was a symbol of American cultural life
B.developed world literature,film and art
C.published many essays about world culture
D.kept pace with the newest development of world culture
60.She first won her name through____________.
A.her story of a Polish actress
B.her book Illness as Metaphor
C.publishing essays in magazines like Partisan Review
D.her explanation of a set of difficult understandings
61.Susan Sontag’s lasting fame was made upon____________.
A.a tireless,all-purpose cultural view
B.her lifelong watchword: seriousness
C.publishing books on morals
D.enjoying books worth reading and movies worth seeing
62.From the works Susan published in the 1970s and 1980s,we can learn that ____________.
A.she was more a moralist than a sensualist
B.she was more a sensualist than a moralist
C.she believed repressed personalities mainly led to illness
D.she would like to re-examine old positions
第三部分 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A.
Have you ever wondered why different animals or pests have their particular colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Birds, especially seagulls, are very fond of locusts, but birds cannot easily catch locusts because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colour of crops. When crops are green, locusts look green. But when crops are ripe, locusts take on exactly the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are usually easily found and eaten by their enemies. So they have to hide themselves in terror for lives and appear only at night.
If you study the animal life in any part of the world, you will find the main use of colouring is to protect themselves. Bears, wolves and other beasts move quietly through forests. They are usually invisible to the eyes of hunters, because they have the colour much like the barks of trees.
An even more strange act remains to be noticed. A kind of fish living in seas can send out a kind of very black liquid when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over, its enemies cannot find it, and it immediately swims away. Thus, it has existed up to now though it is not powerful at all.
56. This passage mainly talks about ________.
A. the change of colour in locusts
B. the protective coloration of animals and pests
C. how a certain sea fish protects itself
D. animals or pests can dye themselves different colours
57. Locusts are ________ but they are not easily wiped out by their enemies because ________.
A. animals; they are powerful enough B. beasts; they are dangerous to their enemies
C. pests; they take on the same colours as crops D. birds; they fly extraordinarily fast
58. The pests that have different colours from plants usually appear at night because ________.
A. their enemies can easily find them and eat them
B. they have the habit of coming out in darkness
C. it’s easy for them to destroy plants in darkness
D. birds take their rest when night comes
59. Bears and wolves have the same colour as barks of trees because ________.
A. they fear other beasts
B. they like brown or grey colours
C. they enjoy walking through forests quietly
D. the colours help prevent themselves from being noticed
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