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studied works (作品) of art made at different times from 15,000 B.C. to the 1950s. Most of the people shown in
these works are right-handed, so the scientists guessed that right-handedness has always been common through
history. Today, only about 10% to 15% of the world"s population is left-handed.
Why are there more right-handed people than left-handed ones? Scientists now know that a person"s two
hands each have their own jobs. For most people, the left hand is used to find things or hold things. The right
hand is used to work with things. This is because of the different work of the two sides of the brain (大脑).
The right side of the brain, which makes a person"s hands and eyes work together, controls the left hand. The
leftside of the brain, which controls the right hand, is the centre for thinking and doing problems. These findings
show that more artists should be left-handed, and studies have found that left-handedness is twice as common
among artists than among people in other jobs.
No one really knows what makes a person become right-handed instead of left-handed. Scientists have
found that almost 40% of the people become left-handed because their main brain is damaged (损害) when they
are born. However, this doesn"t happen to everyone, so scientists guess there must be another reason (原因),
why people become left-handed. One idea is that people usually get right-handed from their parents. If a person
does not receive the gene (基因) for right-handedness, he/she may become either right or left-handed according
to the chance (偶然性) and the people they work or live with.
Though right-handedness is more common than lefthandedness, people no longer think left-handed people
are strange or unusual. A long time ago, left-handed children were made to use their right hands like other
children, but today they don"t have to.
B. the words of art ended in the 1950s
C. most people shown in the works of art are right-handed
D. most people shown in the works of art are left-handed
B. More than a half.
C. About 40 %.
D. The passage doesn"t tell us.
B. It"s used to work with things.
C. It"s used to make a person"s eyes work together.
D. It"s the centre for thinking and doing problems.
B. Left-handedness is cleverer than right-handedness.
C. Today children are not made to use their right hands only.
D. Scientists think there must be some reason why people become left-handed.
B. Left-handed People
C. Which Hand
D. Different Brain, Different Hands
答案
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试题【阅读理解。 Most people around the world are right-handed. This also seems to be 】；主要考察你对教育文化类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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Shaun can"t do this without 1 because he is only six years old. He"s the 2 person ever to study at Rochester
University in New York. Shaun began 3 at two and by the age of five he had read many books and was able
to finish writing his 4 book. "I love learning", says Shaun. "My hero is the scientist Albert Einstein 5 he
never combed (梳理) his hair or wore socks."
Shaun"s mother first realized that her son was 6 when he kept crying at playschool because he was bored
with the children"s games. She started teaching him at home 7 finding that local schools were not prepared for
children who 8 at Shaun"s speed. Now Shaun is studying geography at 9 and using the Internet to finish his
high school studies.
However, some scientists warn that too much study can stop a child from developing normally. "I don"t care
how clever the kid is, six-year-olds have to 10 with their friends," says Dr. Brain Wood. Mrs. Rogers
disagreed that all her son"s time was taken up by school work. "He loves the violin and has many outdoor 11 ,
such as camping, fishing and swimming, just like 12 boys of his age."
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| 阅读短文，选择正确答案。 | |||
| Matt Mason has seen the future-and it"s fun. Mason likes thinking about how machines can make our lives easier by doing the work we hate, such as cleaning. He shows a hard floor cleaning system (系统) that"s built into the wall: it will blow dirt to a part of the room where it will be collected by a vacuum (吸尘器). Then the system will drop some cleaner on the floor and an arm will mop (用拖把擦) it up. "This may trouble you," says Kara, an expert in Mason"s company. "But you can program it to come on at 3 a. m., and it will just wet-mop the floor for you."  When it comes to the kitchen, Bruce Beihoff, another expert at Whirlpool, is sure that in a few years, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax. "More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly," he says. "A new system will be built in the house which can recycle energy (能量) lost from your kitchen to make the whole home warm." "The fridge will be the center of the home," says Daniel Lee, a market expert. The fridge will have a touch screen (触摸屏幕) where you can watch TV, surf the Internet, check your e-mail, keep a shopping list and order vegetables. "Your fridge is the first place you go in the morning and the last place at night," says Lee. Ever wonder why a 1.9-meter man and a 1.6-meter woman have to cook meals on counters (工作台) of the same height. "The height was decided over 50 years ago, according to the height of ordinary women," says Jane Langmuir, an expert of cooking machines. "But times have changed. We have made a new counter where you press a button and it moves to whatever height you want." At the same time, Ted Selker at MIT"s Counter lab has made the Dishmaker which lets you make dishes and bowls out of plastics at home. After each meal, the dishes are changed straight back into plastics. | |||
| 1. How many inventions are mentioned in the passage? | |||
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| A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six. | |||
| 2. In future, if you want to clean your house, you will _______. | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. have a recycling system built in the wall B. get up early to start your cleaning system C. use your fridge to give orders to a cleaner D. leave the work to a kind of cleaning machine | |||
| 3. What is future kitchen work like? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. Terrific and relaxing. B. Easy and interesting. C. Enjoyable and exciting. D. Funny and amazing. | |||
| 4. From the passage, we know _______. | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. people will have more and more time enjoying themselves B. future kitchens can provide all the energy for our life every day C. the fridge can be found in the center of a future house D. people must be expert at computers to use these inventions | |||
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| In the new century, "smart clothes" are used not only for covering your body, but for many other kinds of uses. 1.______ A German clothing maker has invented the "mp3 blue jacket". This kind of jacket can be used as both an MP3 player and mobile phone. An English company has developed a cloth keyboard that can be put onto your pants. 2.______ If it gets dirty, the keyboard can be washed and even ironed. As the technology improves, smart clothes will get much smarter. Researchers are developing clothes that can show your body temperature and heat you up before you feel cold. 3.______ They can tell the doctor when you are in danger. This technology can also provide important information about your environment. 4.______ Jackets with GPS (全球定位系统) technology can keep you from getting lost. People have begun to love the idea. Probably smart clothes will one day be common on Paris streets-and even in your own home. A. Shirts can warn you of high pollution levels. B. Some kinds of smart clothes have come into the market. C. You can control your computer with it easily anywhere. D. Other smart clothes to wear are special medical ones. | |||
| 5. What is the best title of the passage? | |||
| [ ] | |||
| A. Smart Clothes in the Market B. Smart Clothes on Paris Streets C. Smart Clothes for New Century D. Smart Clothes with Keyboard | |||
| 阅读下面短文，用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。 | |||
| Since 1946, one of the most important inventions has been the computer. It has been changing all our lives. The first computer 1._______ (build) in 1946. It 2._______ (be) as large as a room and very difficult and slow 3._______ (use). But since the invention of silicon chip (硅片), computers 4._______ (become) smaller, easier and faster to operate. Some computers are as small as TV sets. Some can even be made smaller than a book. And computers 5._______ (get) smaller and smaller all the time. Who knows the computers of tomorrow 6.________ (be) like? There 7._______ (be) several resons (原因) why the computer is useful to us. First, a lot of information can 8._______ (put) into computers. Second, the computer 9._______ (work) very quickly-thousands of times faster than a man and it will not be tired. Third, modern computers can be built into other kinds of machines like radio, cars and planes. So today people can spend less time 10._______ (do) more work with a computer. | |||
| 综合填空。根据短文内容及首字母提示在空白处填上适当的单词，使短文意思完整。 | |||
| Airplanes are the newest kind of transportation. From early times, people tried to f 1 through the sky like birds. About 100 years a 2 , someone took the first ride on an airplane. This ride lasted for less than one m 3 . These first planes were very s 4 , too. Only one o 5 two people could fly in them at one time. Today these p 6 are very big and fast. H 7 of people can travel in them at one time. W 8 them, people can get f 9 one side of the United States to the other in less than one day. Traveling is very d 10 from the way it was 100 years ago. 1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________ 6.________ 7.________ 8.________ 9.________ 10.________ |