高二英语阅读小卷附答案.doc

此文档收集于网络，仅供学习与交流，如有侵权请联系网站删除AIt seems hard to watch someone yawn（打哈欠） and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force. Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids dont develop this deeply rooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the children are developing rightly. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the ways that people communicate and connect. Emotional infection seems to be a born thing that connects us together, said Molly Helt, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut. Yawning may be part of that. Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic son to clear his ears on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He never did. The fact that autistic kids dont do it might mean theyre really missing out on that emotional connection with people around them, she said. The biggest thing people try to figure out after birth is how we become humans and understand that humans have minds that are different from others, she added. Autistic people never seem to understand that. Like infectious （有感染力的）laughter and crying, scientists have found that yawning is a shared experience that promotes social connection. Helt said it could fight stress after a period of being nervous and spread a feeling of calm through a group.28. What does the new study suggest, according to the first two paragraphs? A. Yawning is a form of communication. B. It is easy to stop yawning when you see others yawn.C. Children follow others in yawning just after they are born. D. Yawning has some mysterious force which is related to God.29. According to Molly Helt, _. A. humans differ from animals because they communicate with others B. yawning is a kind of emotional connection among humansC. emotions are infectious, but yawning is notD. yawning helps clear ears on planes30. Which of the following is NOT true about yawning? A. It is natural to yawn back if people around you yawn.B. Some kids are too young to yawn after others.C. Yawning can be used to test childrens development.D. Kids with autism yawn easily when others yawn. 31. The author implies in the last paragraph that _.A. yawning is different from infectious laughter and crying in theoryB. it is bad manners to yawn on some social occasionsC. the more you yawn, the happier you will be D. yawning can make people feel relaxed BFor anyone who is determined to be a fashion designer, it is not enough to have succeeded in college. The real test is whether they can survive, and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can be as important as talent and creativity.Fashion is a hard business. There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant and extremely fast speed to prepare for the next seasons collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to make attractive advertisements of the latest fashion in newspapers and magazines. It also requires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy. “We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is.” says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martins School of Art in London. “And we point out that drive and determination are absolutely necessary.”This may seem far removed from the popular opinions of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses. That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college wont be slow in introducing students to commercial realities. “We dont walk our foot on the blossoming(绽放的)flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the restrictions of price, producing ability, marketing and so on.”Almost all fashion design is done to a belief. It is not a form of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and creativity. Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a producer or a fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer. Even those students who are most modern in their own taste of clothes may need to adapt to producing designs which are right for the mainstream of market. They also have to be able to work at both the expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding.57. Which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage?A. Talent in fashion. B. Good marks at college. C. Ability to create new designs. D. Business skills in fashion industry.58. What can we infer from the second paragraph?A. Fashion designers are highly motivated and really determined.B. Good preparations for the next season can reduce stress.C. Consumers appetite for new ideas keeps changing.D. Advertisement business is very competitive.59. How does St. Martins School of Art train her students of fashion?A. To expose students to the real fashion industry in the second year.B. To warn the new students not to design freely with imagination.C. To demand students to make pretty dresses for companies.D. To offer commercial courses for the new students.来源:Zxxk.Com60. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 3 refer to?A. Lydia Kemenys opinion.B. The competitive business world.C. The warning to the young designers.D. The real situation in fashion industry.CAn eagle（鹰）made her nest at the top of a high tree while a cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk, and at the same time a wild pig, with her young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot. The cat then decided to make all serve her in her wise way. To carry out her design, she climbed to the nest of the eagle, saying, Destruction is preparing for you and for me too, unfortunately. The wild pig, whom you see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the tree, so she may on its fall seize our families as food for her young.Having thus frightened the eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the pig, saying, Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out to find food, the eagle is prepared to jump upon one of your little pigs. Having filled these fears into the pig, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree. When night came she went out silently and obtained food for herself and her children, but pretending to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day. Meanwhile, the eagle, full of fear of the pig, sat still on the branches, and the pig, terrified by the eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave. Thus they both, along with their families, starved from hunger, and afforded good food for the cat and her children.21. What was the eagle afraid of? A. Her home would be destroyed.B. Her children would get lost. C. She would be taken as the cats food.D. Her family would be eaten by the wild pig.22. What was the pig frightened of?A. The eagle would kill her young child.B. The eagle would cheat her away.C. The cat was telling the true story.D. She could not find enough food.23. How did the cat get what she wanted? A. By running here and there.B. By cheating both the eagle and the pig. C. By waiting and catching the chance.D. By fighting against the eagle and the pig.24. Which of the following might be the best title of the above passage? A. Believe it or not.B. Animal stories. C. How one can be successful.D. Dont be afraid.DThere is nowadays in schools a great movement that places major emphasis on higher order skills, these being those skills that encourage the ability to reason. This group of skills involves recalling information, basic concept formation, critical thinking, and creative idea formation. Formerly viewed as the tools of mathematics, these skills are now recognized as necessary to abilities across the curriculum. Higher order thinking skills are now recognized as important for those who will enter the twenty-first century work force. Preparing young learners for their future requires that teachers employ a great deal of inventiveness and creativity in designing lessons that meet the dual challenge of providing the basics as in reading, language arts, and mathematics, and developing the ability to reason. This unit uses detective fiction to address both of these challenges, and the activities that lie here are designed to draw the learner along a path that moves him from the simple skills, such as recalling information, to the more difficult area of creative thinking. Activities may be modified, simplified, lengthened, or deleted to meet the needs of the intellectual diversity found in most classrooms. For this unit I have chosen three separate series of childrens detective fiction. The easiest to read are the Private Eyes club mysteries, written and illustrated by Crosby Bonsall. This series centers on the activities of four neighborhood boys who along with their cat Mildred keep the area they live in free of crime. Each title is centered on one issue and the list of titles is expanding. The reading levels range from about 1.6 to 2.0 and the print is large and well organized on the page. Snitch, Wizard, Skinny, and Tubby are funny and engaging, and are represented in lively color illust