阅读理解。 Once a baby cries, the parents will go to see what happened as soon as
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soon as possible. According to a new study, a baby"s cry can make adults react(反应) very quickly, even if they are not related.Oxford University researchers used the classic game whack-a-mole for the study. Whack-a-mole(打鼹鼠游戏) requires people to hit one of nine buttons (按钮). The players must react as quickly as they
can to whichever of the buttons lights up at random(随机). It is a game that requires speed and accuracy (准确度 ).
The study included 40 men and women volunteers aged 19 to 59. Some of them had sons or daughters but none had a baby at the time. They played whack-a-mole after listening to different sounds, including
babies crying, the crying of adults in trouble and birdsong played at a similar pitch to the babies" cries.
The volunteers" scores were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies. Men and women had
similar scores overall. The results showed that a crying baby gets special attention.
"Few sounds make people react quite like the cry of a baby," said Morten Kringelbach of Oxford"s
psychiatry(精神病学) department, who led the study. "For example, it"s almost impossible to ignore(忽视,不理) crying babies on planes. This is true even though there are so many other noises around."
He added that a baby"s cry can increase adults" heart rate and blood pressure. This is understandable,
because in the course of human evolution (进化), taking care of babies has always been an important job
for adults. When a baby is hungry or feeling bored or unwell, it will cry. As a result, human brains and
bodies develop a special reaction to a baby"s cry.
B. The youngest volunteer was 19 and the oldest was 59.
C. Some volunteers had babies at that time in the study.
D. The vol
unteers were affected by the sound of a baby"s cry.B. men and women have different reaction speed and accuracy
C. adults without babies react less quickly to a baby"s cry
D. women react to a baby"s cry more quickly than men
B. one of nine buttons
C. nine buttons
D. ten buttons
B. is the noisiest sound there is
C. can increase adults" heart rate and blood pressure
D. is good for its health
B. human brains and bodies have developed to take care of babies
C. baby cries are a good way make adults react quickly
D. baby cries have developed a lot during the course of human evolution
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举一反三
Text messaging or "texting" is becoming very p_____(1). But scientists have p_____(2) that texting can give us
problems with our h_____(3). Be careful! Too much texting can cause RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) in our thumbs
(大拇指) and wrists(腕关节). We spoke to a doctor called Harriet Wilson, who treats many patients with RSI. She
says if we spend more than 10-15 minutes texting each time, we could have p_____(4) in the future.
Dr. Harjeet Deepa, who treats RSI patients, said that the y_____(5) patient she had treated was a 5-year-old girl.
She had s_____(6) bad RSI in her hands that she couldn"t hold a pencil.
As mobile phones d_____(7), they are getting smaller with buttons c_____(8) together. Texting with a smaller
phone is worse than using a larger phone with b_____(9) buttons. Using computers and playing video games can
cause the same problem. So more and more people could find t_____(10) with RSI.
Many university students and teenagers have RSI. If we don"t do anything about this, too many young people
could grow up in terrible pain.
But many students may not d 5 well in an open classroom. For some students, if there are too f 6 rules, they will do little in school. They will not make good use of open education. Because open education is s 7 different from traditional education, these students may have
a problem of getting used to making so many c 8 .For many students it is important to have some rules in the classroom. A few rules will help them. The last point about open education is that some traditional teachers do not like it. Many teachers do not believe in open education.
You now know what open education is. Some of its good points and bad points have been explained. You may have your own opinion about open education. The writer thinks that open education is only a
good idea. It may not work very well in r 9 class or school. The writer believes that most students, but of course not all students, want and need to have some rules. They must be m 10 to study some subjects. Many students are pleased to find subjects that they have to study interesting. They would not study those subjects if they did not have to.
1. a________ 2. e________ 3. h________ 4. a_______ 5. d_______
6. f________ 7. s________ 8. c________ 9. r_______ 10. m_______
People can take photoes through the big windows. It is exciting.
People can have nice food in the space hotel. The food is ready(准备)on the earth. They can have chicken, hamburgers, fruits and vegetables, and so on.
People can be in the space music party. They can play the piano, the trunpet, the drums and the guitar. It’s really interesting. When people are tired, they can be on the bed, or they can stand(站立)to go to bed. It’s very funny.
1. The underlined word "carbins" means "______".
A. space cities
B. space rooms
C. space stores
2. It’s ______ to take photos through the big windows in space.
A. exciting
B. tired
C. funny
3. People can have _______ kinds of sleeping)睡觉)in the space hotel.
A. oneB. two
C. three
4. Paragraph(段落)2 tells us the _______ in the space hotel.
A. food
B. fruits
C. party
attention and interest of your audience. You must be a clear speaker with a good voice which is fully under your _2___. And you must be able to act what you are teaching in order to make its meaning clear.
Watch a good teacher, __3___ you will see that he stands the whole time he is teaching, he walks about using his arms, hands and fingers to help him in his explanations and his face to express feelings. When
you listen to him, you will hear the loudness and the musical note of his voice __4__changing according
to what he is talking about.
The __5__ that a good teacher has some of the talents of a good actor does not mean that he will indeed be able to act well on the stage for there are very important differences between the teacher"s work and
the actor"s. The actor has to __6___ the same words which he has learnt by heart every time he plays a
certain role. What he has to do is to make all these carefully learnt words and actions seem __7__ on the
stage.
The good teacher works in a quite different way. His audience take an active part in his play. They ask
q
uestions when they do not understand something. So the teacher has to suit his act to the __8___ of his audience which is his class. He cannot learn his part by heart, but must ___9___ it as he goes along.
I have known many teachers who were fine actors in class but were __10___ to take part in stage-play
because their brains (大脑) could not keep strictly to what another had written.
( ) 2. A. help
( ) 3. A. and
( ) 4. A. never
( ) 5. A. matter
( ) 6. A. remind
( ) 7. A. correct
( ) 8. A. questions
( ) 9. A. invent
( ) 10. A. unwelcome
B. control
B. but
B. seldom
B. idea
B. remember
B. true
B. needs
B. discover
B. unable
C. mind
C. or
C. sometimes
C. fact
C. reply
C. natural
C. problems
C. improve
C. uncomfortable
D. thoughts
D. so
D. always
D. secret
D. repeat
D. real
D. complaints
D. increase
D. unsuitable
learned-take a test!
Do you have any special methods(方法) you use to help you do better on a test? How well you do is often a matter of how
well prepared you are. Here are some ways to make sure you"re at your best on test days.
Go to bed early. The night before a test is not the time to stay up watching TV. You want to be rested
and wide-awake for test day.
Have a good breakfast. Test day isn"t a morning for donuts(面包圈).Nor is it a time to starve yourself. Eat plenty of low-sugar, high-energy food to keep your brain and body working their best.
Be prepared,
Make sure you have two pencils and anything else you were asked to bring.Watch the numbers. Make sure that the number of the items(项目)on your answer sheet matches the
number of the question.
Look over all the answer choices(选择). Don"t assume(假定)that choice A is correct until you"ve checked the others. You may find a better one. And it is wrong to eliminate(排除)any choice that you can see at once. You"ll have a better chance of finding the right answer.
Check the clock. Make sure you allow yourself enough time to answer every question and go back and
check your answers .Don"t spend too much time on any difficult question .Skip(跳读)it and come back to
it later.
Keep up with your school work all year long That"s how you get the skills you need for taking tests.