题目
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Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying. He recorded 16 Koreans, half men and half women, reading the same passage, and took a full-body photo and head shot of each speaker. Then he played the tapes for 361 Koreans and 173 Americans who did not speak Korean and asked his subjects to match up voice and picture. The Korean participants viewing full-body photos were quite perceptive. A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men. With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors. That disconnection reveals conflicting ideas of physical and vocal beauty. Moon asked people to pick a favorite face and voice. Seventy percent of the Koreans picked one voice, but there was no agreement on a face. Americans didn" t agree on either count. And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.
Moon hopes to use software to break voices into components like pitch and hoarseness to narrow down which elements trigger certain mental pictures. "If we can map which characteristics of the voice triggers what kind of linage, and it doesn"t matter whether that image is the right or wrong one of the actual speaker, then we can create an image through voice," he says. That capacity could help to create computer-synthesized voices tailored to conjure up specific associations — audio books for children that inspire motherly visages, or warning alerts that bring to mind a stern police officer.
小题1:People often think that they would ______ the speaker when they saw the speaker.
A.understand | B.recognize | C.like | D.surprise |
A.see how close mental pictures match up with reality |
B.how people speak |
C.see if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying |
D.both A and C |
A.12 | B.16 | C.8 | D.10 |
A.The Koreans | B.The American women |
C.The Korean women | D.The Americans |
A.Less than 65 | B.Less than 35 | C.Over 65 | D.About 20 |
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:B
解析
试题分析:本文主要讲述了韩国人进行的一个实验,来检测人们能否把声音和真人相匹配。
小题1:B 细节题。根据文章3,4行And from business conference calls to chat lines, people often imagine they would recognize the speaker if they saw him or her.说明人们认为他们可以辨认出来对方。故B正确。
小题2:D 细节题。根据文章6,7行Moon decided to see just how close those mental pictures match up with reality and if there was any relation to how people speak rather than what they are saying.说明作者做这个实验的目的正是为了验证AC两项的内容,故D正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据A majority linked 6 of the 8 women to the correct voice and did so for 5 of the 8 men.说明他一共叫了8个女性来辨认,故C正确。
小题4:A 推理题。根据With the Korean group shown only faces, accuracy plummeted, but more than 20 percent of the subjects selected the same incorrect picture. The Americans showed no accuracy in matching the foreign voices to photos, but they too were consistent in their errors.说明在这一方面韩国人表现的笔美国人要好。故A正确。
小题5:B 细节题。根据And over 65 percent of both Koreans and Americans did not match their favorite face with their favorite voice.说明超过百分之65的人没有匹配成功,那么少于百分之35的人匹配成功了。故B项说法正确。
点评:本文主要讲述了韩国人进行的一个实验,来检测人们能否把声音和真人相匹配。此类文章的最大的障碍是词汇以及考生对阅读内容的不熟悉,需要考生在阅读的时候有足够的耐心。要养成在上下文串联中猜测词义的能力,根据上下文中出现的同义词,近义词,反义词,以及词义的解释来理解生词。同时要抓住文章的中心,不要受其他信息的影响。要根据题目及选项以及文章的上下文串联合理的判断推理。
核心考点
试题【People often hear each others" voices without ever seeing the faces they belong 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Since April 28, Coles Bay"s population of 175 and its tourist shoppers have been using reusable paper or cloth bags to carry their shopping.
Ben Keamey, a local businessman who supports the bag ban, said it would cut the amount of waste and prevent damage to native wildlife that try to eat the plastic.
"Most businesses here come from the tourism and that"s all based on the environment, so people were pretty supportive," he said.
Every year Australians use more than six billion plastic bags. More than half of these come from the supermarket. Since it takes years for the bags to biodegrade(生物递减分解), tens of millions end up polluting the environment. They kill about 100,000 sea-birds and animals, which mistake bags for food, every year.
Only in the past few months have major Australian supermarkets begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. Environmental groups are pushing for a plastic bag fee like that in Ireland. There, since plastic bags cost 10 pence (about 1 yuan) each, their use has been cut by 90 per cent.
Pollution caused by plastic bags is a big headache for countries all over the world. As early as 1999, Beijing said that only plastic bags of certain thickness could be used. This was to encourage them to be used again and again, since an average of six million plastic bags are used there every there every single day.
小题1:Which might be the best title for this passage?
A.Deadly Plastic Bags | B.The End of Plastic Bags |
C.How to Reuse Plastic Bags | D.The Present Situation of Plastic Bags |
A.cause the environmental pollution | B.are not easy to be reused |
C.are not as good as cloth bags | D.are not strong enough |
A.Plastic bags kill many animals in Australia each year. |
B.Most Australian supermarkets have begun cutting on their use of plastic bags. |
C.People at Coles Bay think poor environment may affect their tourism. |
D.You have to pay for the plastic bags if you go shopping in Ireland. |
A.people take serious actions to deal with the plastic bag problem |
B.people begin to realise the harm of using plastic bags |
C.Australia is the first country in solving the plastic bag problem |
D.Australians are aware of the importance of protecting the small town |
A.To forbid to use them by law. |
B.to charge fee for plastic bags. |
C.To make them thick enough to be reuseable. |
D.To make them environmentally friendly. |
It"s true that studying abroad can help students develop themselves. Language skills will improve and it may be easier to find jobs.
But there are problems that should be considered(考虑). Language is the first. Students must spend a lot of time learning another language and getting used to a different culture.
Students must also learn to live without parents" care and deal with all kinds of things they haven"t had to do before, like looking after themselves. There are reports about Chinese students abroad sinking into an ocean of difficulties and giving up easily. When they have to take care of themselves, it is hard for students to study well.
Finally, studying abroad brings a heavy burden(负担) to the family. For most Chinese parents, the cost of studying abroad is very high. But is it worth it?
We know that there are many famous people who succeed in great things through their hard work in China. Liu Xiang is a good example. Once an American teacher invited him there but he refused. He kept training hard with his Chinese teacher. He surprised the world when he won a gold medal(金牌) at the Athens Olympics. So when you wonder which country is better to study in, consider whether studying abroad is the right choice(选择).
小题1:From the passage, we learn that many Chinese students dream about studying abroad to __________.
A.taste a new life | B.make a lot of money |
C.learn about the world | D.learn to look after themselves |
A.places | B.time | C.money | D.language |
A.Chinese teachers are better than American ones |
B.studying abroad is not the right choice |
C.people can also be successful in China if they work hard |
D.Liu Xiang was a gold medal winner |
A.Studying abroad will cost students" families a lot of money. |
B.Studying abroad will make it easy for students to learn well. |
C.Studying abroad will help students to improve language skills. |
D.Studying abroad will bring students a lot of difficulties in their life. |
Scientist at India’s Bhabha Atomic Research Center discovered that mice injected with caffeine (咖啡因)remained alive after high doses(剂量)of normally lethal radiation.
Although the study was limited to animals, Kachadillilli George, head of the research team, believes the findings could have implications (something suggested ) for humans .
“It does suggest that coffee might have some beneficial effects in protecting against radiation,” he told New Scientist magazine late last month.
George and his team injected 471 mice with caffeine and left them uncovered to 7.5 grays of gamma radiation(伽玛射线),enough to kill most mice. But 25 days later 70 percent of the mice that had received 80 milligrams(毫克)of caffeine per kilogram of body weight were still alive.
On the contrary all 196 mice that had been left uncovered to the same radiation but had not been given any caffeine died.
小题1:George and his team drew the conclusion from .
A.the magazine | B.their invention | C.the experiment | D.their experience |
A.both mice and humans | B.only mice |
C.only humans | D.neither humans nor mice |
A.these mice had been given only 80 milligrams of caffeine |
B.these mice hadn’t been injected with caffeine |
C.these mice were very big and strong |
D.these mice hadn’t been given enough caffeine |
A.Human and Mice | B.New Radiation Defense—Coffee |
C.Deadly Radiation—Gamma Radiation | D.Mice Died of Caffeine |
A.causing death | B.lively | C.exciting | D.rich |
小题1:In the writer’s opinion, the most effective way in learning English is ____.
A.to practise speaking, writing and feeling it |
B.to forget your own native language |
C.to translate everything into his own language |
D.to memorize the English words and grammatical rules |
A.help you to study English well | B.stop you mastering English |
C.make English easy to learn | D.help you notice mistakes |
A.to get a knowledge of English by touching |
B.to be able to read and write English |
C.to translate English into your own by imagining |
D.to be able to experience the rich sensation of the language |
There are 39 independent(独立的) colleges at Oxford, attracting students and learned men from across the world. There are over 100 libraries for the students and learned men to use. At University of Oxford, they also provide a number of money for the best students. Of course, if you want to study here, first you have to reach a certain level of English language.
College life at Oxford is very exciting but busy. The groups of college provide a friendly and welcoming home for students while the college are strict with students about their studies. Many Chinese students are studying here. The number of Chinese students at the university has grown quickly over the past 10 years.
根据短文内容,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。(共3小题,每小题1.5分,满分4.5分)
小题1:What do you have to do first if you want to ask fir studying at Oxford? You have to________.
A.be independent |
B.pass a certain level test of English language |
C.study English hard |
D.be the best students |
A.excitement; much school work to do |
B.excitement; no school work to do |
C.attraction; no school work to do |
D.attraction; a little school work to do |
A.The College Life |
B.The Famous Learners at Oxford |
C.The Chinese Students at Oxford |
D.The University of Oxford |
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