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In their experiment, 5 healthy 6-month-old infants from middle-class families viewed slides showing eight pairs of white male faces and eight pairs of white female faces. Each pair, displayed for 10 seconds, consisted of one attractive and one unattractive face, as previously judged by a group of male and female college students. An experimenter viewed the young participants on a video monitor and recorded the direction and duration of each infant’s gaze.
The 35 boys and 25 girls looked longer at both male and female faces judged as attractive, the researchers found.
Their second study of 6-month-old involved 15 boys and 25 girls, mostly white, who saw eight pairs of slides showing an attractive and an unattractive black female, as previously judged by both white and black college students. Again, the babies looked much longer at attractive faces.
Finally, 19 boys and 20 girls, all 6 months old and almost all of them white, viewed eight pairs of slides showing the faces of 3-month-old boys and girls previously rated as attractive or unattractive by college students. Attractive baby faces drew signficantly longer looks, the psychologists report.
Further studies must explore whether infants take attractive faces as “best examples” of a face, the investigators claim Langlois and a coworker recently reported that attractive faces may possess features that approximate the mathematical average of all faces in particular population.
1.What was found in the first study?
A.Male infants looked longer only at female ones.
B.Females looked more attractive than males.
C.Sixty 6monthold babies looked longer at the attractive faces, male or female.
D.White female faces drew more attention than those of black ones.
2.In the last paragraph, the writer implies that .
A.Langlois and her partners will stop their experiments they accomplished a lot
B.Langlois and her partners will focus on the other fields of infants
C.Langlois and her partners have achieved success in studying the infants’ mind
D.Langlois and her partners have found a more interesting field
3.What can be inferred from the passage?
A.All babies, white or black, tend to share with the college students the preference for attractive faces.
B.White babies prefer white faces to black ones.
C.Babies tend to get interested in the attractive faces of the opposite sex.
D.Beauty has something to do with a person’s age, race and sex
4.The title that best expresses the main idea is .
A.Psychology of Infants B.Beauty in Variety C.Beauty and Race D.Beauty in Infants
答案
解析
2. 文章最后一段指出:这些研究者坚持认为,进一步的研究应该探索这些婴儿是否把吸引入的面孔作为最典型的面孔。由此可推断出:Langlois及其同事发现了一个更有趣的领域,故选D。
3. 文章第四段指出:40个婴儿对漂亮面孔的反应与大学生相同,都会对漂亮的脸看较长的时间,由此可推知A为正确答案。B和C在文中未提到;文章首句提到“...infants treat attractive face as distinctive regardless of the sex,age and race of the stimulus faces”,由此可排除D。
4. 文章介绍了Langlois和其同事们的三次实验,内容是让一些六个月的婴儿观察漂亮与不漂亮的脸,结果发现他们与大学生一样,都会在漂亮面孔前注视的时间长一些,而漂亮面孔各有其特点,故B为最佳题目。
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试题【Even with little exposure to cultural standards of beauty, “infants treat attrac】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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This trip didn’t include any five-star hotels or shopping funs. Eighteen-year-old Jamie Fiel from Keller, Texas, 17-year-old Arsen Ewing from Canyon, California, and 16-year-old Tyler Robinson from Lincoln, Massachusetts, didn’t expect fancy treatment. They signed up for the experience of a lifetime, which included hard work, often uncomfortable accommodations, and encounters with some of nature’s most dangerous animals and environments.
Jamie, Arsen, and Tyler were among hundreds of high school kids nominated by their science teachers to take this trip. Earthwatch Institute sponsored (赞助) this adventure. Each year, Earthwatch employs thousands of volunteers worldwide to help with scientific research projects.
The group went all around the world to get a close look at the most pressing environmental issues of our time. Their assignments were as varied as their locations, and included measuring and attending pink flamingos in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley, and tracking giant sea turtles in Costa Rica.
As they worked with the Earthwatch scientists, Jamie, Arsen, and Tyler began to understand that we are at a critical moment in the life of our planet. Time for change is running out. As the teens went from country to country and witnessed different environmental dangers and challenges, they understood that solutions to important environmental issues start with the power of one person"s actions. They realized that each of them can make a difference.
小题1:These teenagers went on the journey around the world _____.
A.to experience the most serous environmental problems on the earth |
B.to bring the kindness of America to the other parts of the world |
C.to go on sightseeing around the world |
D.to call on more teenagers to join Earthwatch Institute |
A.They had to pay for their journey on their own expense. |
B.They often had to move from one hotel to another. |
C.They had to take great pains to collect environmental information. |
D.They received a warm welcome every time they arrived at a new place. |
A.an international university that takes in students from all over the world |
B.a TV station that makes programmes on the beautiful scenery of the earth |
C.a travel agency that organizes adventure trips specially for school children |
D.an organization that brings science to life for people concerned about earth’s environment |
A.It was high time that people protected the environment. |
B.Long journey was not suitable for school children. |
C.It should take the whole world to help the children. |
D.Environmental problems can be solved if school children take part. |
— Teaching Your K-12 Students to Type in 20 Minutes a Day
Typing is fast becoming an important skill in our world. Making this skill available to your students is very important. Just 20 minutes of the following activities per day will give your students the finger strength and keyboard knowledge they need to be ready to include typing in their learning programs.
Step 1 Knitting (编织): You can try various styles until you find the one that best suits your students’ abilities. Finger knitting is a great way to start! It helps students focus on finger strength. Knitting with needles is a little more challenging but will suit some older students. The more practice the fingers get the stronger they will become.
Step 2 Key board games: It helps your students become familiar with the keyboard. Students as young as four years old can practice finger placement, letter sounds and names using the keyboard of computers.
Step 3 Clay modeling: Many children develop the ability to be quick and skilful with their hands through creating clay models. The creative nature of this activity keeps children engaged for long periods of time. It helps keep fingers strong and supple.
Step 4 Lego (拼装玩具) building: Little fingers become strong when children pull apart little Lego time and time again. Because of the fun nature of this activity it helps build and does a lot to reinforce the ability to arrange things into an order — another important aspect in typing.
Choose an age-appropriate, interactive and engaging typing program. All students are different and with firm finger skills typing can be easily learned in 20 minutes a day with the use of a mixture of these different approaches.
小题1:All the following steps can make one’s fingers stronger EXCEPT ____.
A.Step4 | B.Step3 | C.Step2 | D.Step1 |
A.little Lego |
B.the fun nature |
C.the strength of fingers |
D.Lego building |
A.Activities listed in the text suit students of all ages. |
B.Different students have different results after following the activities listed. |
C.Only one activity can be used in a typing program for specific students. |
D.Firm finger skills are important for learning to type. |
With t he drought (干旱) continuing, the country is set to be forced to use purified (净化的) waste water for drinking, even though there is great opposition to the measure.
Queensland has become the first state to introduce the policy after a warning from its premier .
"I think in the end, because of the drought, all of Australia is going to end up drinking recycled purified water," said Peter Beattie.
"These are difficult decisions, but you either drink water or you die. There"s no choice. It"s liquid gold, it"s a matter of life and death."
Beattie said Australia"s second largest state would become the first to use recycled water for drinking.
Water is recycled in Britain and parts of northern Europe along with the US and Israel.
But Australians have never liked the idea.
To try to change the way Australians think, Prime Minister John Howard and Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull have adhered to Queensland"s move.
"I am very strongly for recycling and Mr. Beattie is right and I agree with him completely," Howard said.
“Australian cities, all now facing water shortages because of the worst drought on record, must start to use recycled water.” added Turnbull, "All of our big cities have to widen the range of water sources to include sources which are not dependent on rainfall."
小题1:What is the text mainly about?
A.Continuing drought forces Australians to drink recycled sewage |
B.Australians face the choice of life and death |
C.Premier Beattie is worried about his people’s health |
D.We should avoid drinking recycled water to keep healthy |
A.Nobody disagrees to the idea of drinking recycled purified water |
B.Australia"s second largest state has become the first state to introduce the policy |
C.No other countries but Australia decide to drink recycled water |
D.The drought is the worst one in the droughts recorded in Australian history. |
A.Australians have never like drinking purified waste water |
B.Australians should develop more water sources to live through the hard time |
C.Australians can’t depend upon rainwater , which is not suitable for drinking . |
D.Australian government has no ability to solve the problem of water shortage |
A.disliked | B.gone against | C.supported | D.doubted |
A.he gives orders to drink purified waste water |
B.It is painful for him to see his people drink recycled sewage |
C.If the decision is made, people won’t survive the drought |
D.It’s up to you to either make a life or death decision |
Now I am sure that you know which schools are considered the best in the country. So I will tell you about which states I believe are the best to live in.
California is a nice state. Northern California specifically has very good weather. Los Angeles in southern California is another story though. Life in LA is full of excitement and fast, and sometimes—dangerous. As for me, I enjoyed the history and culture. The weather is not as perfect as California, but it is still quite nice. My favorite area of America is the Mid-west. Middle America, I think, is home to the true American sense of values. In addition, there are many good universities there.
Also, you need to think about your likes and dislikes and then research the various states. You like sunshine and hate snow? Then you probably won’t like the Midwest or even the Northeast. Open space, nature and peace and quiet? Then you should stay away from America’s larger cities. Are you interested in government? Then Washington D.C. is the only place for you. Whatever you decided put some thought into it. The place you live could be the difference between a great study abroad experience and a state of great suffering on earth.
小题1:From the first paragraph we can conclude that in the U.S.A. __________.
all colleges and universities lie in big cities
all colleges and universities lie in beautiful places
famous colleges and universities lie in nice places
famous colleges and universities may not lie in nice places
小题2:What should be considered first if you want to study in the U.S.A.?
A. The climate. B. The scenery. C. The study condition. D. The living condition.
小题3:If you study in Middle America, you can probably _______.
find the best universities
feel the real character of the nation
meet the most famous professors there
face more difficulty
小题4:From the last paragraph of this passage we can get to know that ________.
Washington is the largest city in the U.S.A.
Washington is the political center of the U.S.A.
you can’t find sunshine in the Midwest
you can’t find any universities out of big cities in the U.S.A.
They will study hotel management in Bavarian Hotel Management School for a year and then take up two-year practice in Germany. Upon graduation, they will also get diplomas (文凭) recognized internationally. During their two-year practice, they earn no less than 1 200 Deutsche Marks (德国马克) a month.
The program, organized by a company in Wuhan, aims at providing the city’s high school graduates with new job chances.
Applicants (申请者) must first pass an exam given by the German side and pay 180 000 yuan covering the three year’s study and living expenses in Germany. In spite of this, the program still attracted a lot of high school graduates and their parents. And applicants came in a continuous stream.
“The change for my child to go to college is small. What’s more, it’s not easy to find a job. We find the work-study program an equally good way out for him,” a parent said, “We don’t worry much about the high costs because the total income from the two-year-long practice will be quite enough to clear them.”
小题1:This text is mainly about _________.
A.a hotel management school in Bavarian, Germany |
B.students from Wuhan studying in Germany |
C.students going abroad on work-study program |
D.new job chances offered in Germany |
A.Wasteful. | B.Wise. | C.Sorry. | D.Worried. |
A.to go to college at home |
B.to pay for the cost |
C.to pass the test given by the Germans |
D.to get a job when they return home |
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