Research findings show we spend about two hou...

. Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ____ have done during the day.

A. should          B. would             C. may                   D. must

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Research findings show we spend about two hours dreaming every night, no matter what we ____ have done during the day.

A. should            B. would                C. may              D. must

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_____ he is very busy, he spends at least two hours every day surfing the Internet in order to find out the latest development in science and technology.

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A research shows two-thirds of human conversation is taken up not with discussion of a cultural or political issue, not heated debates about a film or a book, but plain and simple ___ . Language is our greatest treasure and what do we ___ do with it? We gossip(闲聊). About others' behavior and private lives; how to deal with difficult ___ situations involving children, lovers, and colleagues.

So why are we keen on gossiping? Are we just natural ____, of both time and words? Or do we talk a lot about ___ in particular simply to avoid facing up to the really important issues of life? It’s not the case according to Professor Robin Dunbar, who says gossip is one of these really ___ issues.

Dunbar ___ the traditional view that language was developed by the men at the early stage of social development in order to organize their manly bunting activities more effectively. ____. he suggests that language evolved among women. We don't spend two-thirds of our time griping just ___ we can talk, argues Dunbar--- ___ he goes on to say, language evolved specifically to allow us to gossip.

Dunbar arrived at his cheery theory by studying the___ of the higher primates(灵长类动物)like monkeys. By means of grooming leaning the fur by brushing it monkeys form groups with other individuals on whom they can rely for support ___some kind of conflict within the group or ___from outside it.

As we human beings evolve from in a particular branch of the primate family. Dunbar __ that at one time in our history we did much the same. ___together made sense because the bigger the group the greater the ___it provided, on the other hand, the bigger the group, the greater the ___of living close to others. Grooming helped to ease the pressure and calm everybody down.

But as the groups got bigger and bigger, the amount of time spent in grooming activities also had to be ____ to maintain its effectiveness. Clearly, a more ____ kind of grooming was needed, and thus language evolved as a kind of vocal grooming which allowed humans to develop relationship with ever-larger groups by exchanging information over a wider network of individuals than would be possible by one-to-one _____contact.

1.A.claim B.description C.gossip D.language

2.A.occasionally B.habitually C.independently D.originally

3.A.social B.political C.historical D.cultural

4.A.admirers B.masters C.consumers D.wasters

5.A.every tiling B.something C.anything D.nothing

6.A.vital B.sensitive C.ideal D.difficult

7.A.confirms B.rejects C.outlines D.broadens

8.A.Still B.Besides C.Therefore D.Instead

9.A.because B.until C.unless D.as

10.A.for instance B.in addition C.on the contrary D.as a result,

11.A.motivation B.appearance C.emotion D.behavior

12.A.in terms of B.in favor of C.in the wake of D.in the event of

13.A.attack B.contact C.inspection D.assistance

14.A.recalls B.denies C.concludes D.acknowledges

15.A.Communicating B.Grouping C.Migrating D.Swinging

16.A.prospect B.responsibility C.leadership D.protection

17.A.stresses B.benefits C.barriers D.conveniences

18.A.reduced B.extended C.consumed D.wasted

19.A.common B.efficient C.scientific D.thoughtful

20.A.indirect B.daily C.physical D.confidential

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_____ the difference between the two research findings will be one of the worst mistakes you make.

A. Ignore 　 B. Ignoring

C. Ignored D. Having ignored

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______ the difference between the two research findings will be one of the worst mistakes you make.

A. Ignore 　　　　 　　　 B. Ignoring

C. Ignored 　　　　　　　　 D. Having ignored

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Research shows that teenagers ________ talk about their day with family members at the dinner table are less likely to engage in high-risk behavior.

A. what　　　　　　 B. who　　　　　　 C. whom　　　　　　　 D.\

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Research shows that teenagers ________ talk about their day with family members at the dinner table are less likely to engage in high-risk behavior.

A. what          B. who         C. whom           D.\

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Research shows that teenagers ________ talk about their day with family members at the dinner table are less likely to engage in high-risk behavior.

A. what          B. who         C. whom           D.\

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When we know somewhere well，we say we “know it like the back of our hand”. But new research has shown that we don’t actually know as much about our hands as we think we do.

Wider and shorter

Professor Matthew Longo at the University of London and his team did an experiment, covering the left hands of 100 people. Then they asked the people to point to where they thought their fingertips and knuckles (指关节) were. They made some quite big mistakes.

“People think their hand is wider than it actually is,” said Longo. The fingers also seem shorter than they are. This mistake gets worse as you go across the hand from the thumb to the little finger.

Sense of position

“It is connected to our sense of position,” explained Longo. This is our ability to tell where different parts of our bodies are, even when we can’t see them. “It tells us whether a joint is straight, or not” he said. It also tells us whether we are going up or down in an elevator. All this information comes from signs from nerves in real time. It’s like our brain has maps — maps that show the size and shape of our body. “This experiment tried to find those maps,” said Longo.

Strength(强度) of feeling

But these maps make mistakes. These mistakes may be made because of how the brain understands different parts of the skin. “Our brains ‘see’ areas as larger where the skin feels touch strongly,” said Longo. Body parts don’t appear as their true size, but appear bigger or smaller depending on how strongly they feel touch. Our lips, for example, have more nerves than our nose. So brain “sees” lips on its map of the body as being bigger than our nose. The same thing happens for other parts of the body that have lots of nerves.

Longo believes that more research in this area may help us to understand eating problem better, because people suffering from these problems may not know their bodies properly.

1.Which of following statement is TRUE about the experiment according to the article?

A. People think their body parts are larger than they actually are.

B. People made more mistakes about their little fingers length than their thumbs’ length.

C. People’s fingers are actually shorter than they think.

D. People were asked to draw their hands from memory

2.What does the underlined “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. The new experiment.　　 B. The location information.

C. The mistake people made.　　 D. The sizes of fingers and hands.

3.We can learn from the article that ________.

A. the maps of people’s bodies form before they are born

B. the maps of our body are based on information from nerves

C. our sense of position tells how different parts of the body work

D. how we feel about our body shape is only decided by our sense of position

4.We can infer from the article that ________.

A. the hand feels touch more strongly than fingers do

B. our lips have a weaker sense of touch than our nose

C. there are more nerves in the finger than in the hand

D. our sense of position should not be trusted because it is too often incorrect

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