Human facial expressions differ from those of...

Human facial expressions differ from those of animals in the degree ________ they can be controlled on purpose.

A. with which            B. to which            C. of which            D. for which

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Human beings are different from animals _________ they have languages.

A. where　　　　　　 B. in that

C. in which　　　　　 D. for which

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The hand, the eyes, and the brain work together to make human beings different from other animals. No other animals have all three parts to work together. No animals can do what human beings can do. Humans can do many things and feel many things with the hand. The hand can hold onto things and make things because the thumb(大拇指) works with the fingers. This fifth finger is strong. Most animals don’t have thumbs. The thumb can press against the other fingers. Without a thumb to press against the fingers, it is difficult to hold onto anything. The thumb and fingers can also fit the flat surface of a box and the curved (不平的) surface of a pencil. We can feel that something is hot or cold, soft or hard, smooth or rough. The hand, with thumb and fingers, is one of the best tools we have. Most animals see a flat picture. Their eyes can only see how high and how wide something is. Some animals see a different picture with each eye. Some don’t see in colour. Humans see one picture with both eyes working together. We can see how high and how wide something is. We can also see how far in front of or in back of something a thing is. The brain tells other parts of the body how to work. Some of the things the body does are automatic; that is, we don’t have to think about them. For example, we don’t have to think to make our heart beat or our stomach work. The brain tells the eyes and hands how to make useful and beautiful things. That is how human beings become tool makers and artists. That is how human can have richer and better lives than other animals.

1.Human beings are different from other animals because ___________.

A. human beings have the hands, the eyes, and the brain working all the time

B. other animals also have hands, the eyes, and the brain

C. human beings work together with other animals

D. the hands, the eyes, and the brain of the human can work together

2.According to the passage, when you say you hold onto something, you mean______

A. you have it in your hand and keep it there by putting your fingers firmly round it

B. you have it in your arms and keep it there by putting your fingers firmly round it

C. you feel it with your hands

D. you press the fingers of your right hand against those of your left hand

3.The author tells us that no animals can do what humans can do. He gives quite a few facts to support the idea. One of them is that ___________.

A. most animals don’t see in colour

B. the humans see a thing with both eyes working together

C. only humans can see and how high and how wide a thing is

D. some animals can see only one picture

4.___________ is automatic.

A. Breathing　　 　　 B. Driving a car

C. Making a chair　　 D. Playing football

5.People who make beautiful things are usually called ___________.

A. toolmakers　　　　 B. artists

C. scientists　　 D. drivers

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The changes of the plants and animals in an area ________ from differences in climate and the　　　　　　　 nature of the country.

A. rise            B. raise                C. arouse                D. arise

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From birth to death, the word kick has been given an important part in expressing human experience. The proud and happy mother feels the first signs of life kicking inside her body. And that same life------many years later------ comes to its end in a widely-used expression, to kick the bucket( 吊桶) .  The expression to kick the bucket is almost 200 years old.  One belief is that it started when an English stableman(马夫) killed himself by hanging  while standing on a bucket. He put a rope around his neck and tied it to a beam(梁柱) in the ceiling, and then kicked the bucket away from under him.

Another old expression that comes from England is to kick over the traces. Traces were the chains（链子） that held at horse or mule to a wagon(货运马车)or plow. Sometimes, an animal refused to obey and kicked over the traces.

Kick around is an expression that is heard often in American English. A person who is kicked around is someone who is treated badly. Usually he is not really being kicked by somebody's foot. He is just not being treated with the respect that all of us want. A person who has kicked around for most of his life is someone who has spent his life moving from place to place. In this case, kicking around means moving often from one place to another. Kick around has another meaning when you use it with the word idea. When you kick around an idea, you are giving that idea some thought.

There is no physical action when you kick a person upstairs, although the pain can be as strong .You kick a person upstairs by removing him from an important job and giving him a job that sounds more important, but really is not.

Still another meaning of the word kick is to free oneself of a bad habit, such as smoking cigarettes. Health campaigns urge smokers to kick the habit.

1.It is clear that the author wants to help readers _____________.

A．know English has a long history

B．understand the development of English

C．enjoy the interest of English idioms（习语）

D．learn English expressions with Kick

2.What does the idiom "kick over the traces" in "All kids seem to want to kick over the traces and do what they like to" means ____________.

A．disobey the commands                   B．obey the traditions

C． ride a horse or mule                    D．punish animals strictly

3.Mr. Smith always kicked his sons around with no excuse, in other words, his sons___________

A．expressed their ideas freely               B．were looked after well

C．moved their family often                  D．were treated badly

4.How many different kinds of meanings are talked about on;'kick around' in the text?

A．One.             B．Two.              C．Three.            D．Four.

5.Though Tom got raised to a better position by his boss, he had no power, we can say __________

A．the boss kicked Tom upstairs               B．Tom kicked the bucket

C．Tom kicked the bad habit                  D．Tom kicked around an idea

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People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

“We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions,” Jack said. “Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth.”

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. “The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions,” Jack said. “Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less.”

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1.The discovery shows that Westerners 　　　　　 .

A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

2.What were the people asked to do in the study?

A. To make a face at each other.　　 B. To get their faces impressive.

C. To classify some face pictures.　　 D. To observe the researchers’ faces.

3.What does the underlined word “they” in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A. The participants in the study.　　 B. The researchers of the study.

C. The errors made during the study.　　 D. The data collected from the study.

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People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions — and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scan evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggests that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1.What were the people asked to do in the study?

A．To make a face at each other.

B．To get their faces impressive.

C．To classify (分类) some face pictures.

D．To observe the researchers' faces

2.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

A．The participants in the study.               B．The researchers of the study.

C．The errors made during the study.           D．The data collected from the study.

3.In comparison(比较) with Westerners, Easterners are likely to ________.

A．do translation more successfully

B．study the mouth more frequently

C．examine the eyes more attentively

D．read facial expressions more correctly

4.What can be the best title for the passage?

A．The Eye as the Window to the Soul

B．Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

C．Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

D．How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

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People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions--and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect the mouth."

According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Whites and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

1.The discovery shows that Westerners __

2.What were the people asked to do in the study?

3.What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

4.In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to __

5.What can be the best title for the passage?

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Some of Man's closest relatives in the animal kingdom are under serious threat because of human activity, according to a recently published report.

Almost one in three of all apes and monkeys are now considered to be in danger of dying out and disappearing from our planet, if action is not taken soon.

The report, which was produced for the World Conservation Union (WCU), shows that 114 of the world's 394 kinds could be lost forever, and the main reason they are threatened is the continuing loss of forests where most of these animals live. In addition, illegal wildlife trade, climate change and commercial（商业的）hunting for meat are also endangering them.

What's more, the problem is getting worse. The number of species on the organization’s Red List has increased by 3 to 25 since 2005.

Russell Mittermeier, the main researcher of the WCU report, said, "You could fit(安置) all the surviving members of these 25 species in a single football stadium. So the problem is obviously urgent."

The scientists, who drew up the Red List, believe that the situation is now so bad that if action is not taken immediately, it will result in primate(灵长目动物) species dying out - something which has not happened in over a century.

The loss of habitat caused by the clearing of forests for wood, farmland and fuel continues to be the main reason for the decreasing number of primates, according to the report, and the problem was most severe in Asia.

The loss of forest trees is also responsible for 20 percent of all greenhouse gases - more than all the cars, trucks, trains and airplanes in the world combined.

1.What is the main subject of the report discussed in the text?

A．Climate change.                        B．Loss of animal habitat.

C．Animal protection.                      D．Endangered animals

2.How many animals were on the Red List in 2005?

A．22               B．19               C．25.               D．28.

3.The spokesman refers to 'a football stadium' in paragraph 5 to stress that ______.

A．the animals enjoy playing sports

B．these animals should be placed there for protection

C．there are not many of these animals left

D．the report was announced there

4.What is the main cause of the greenhouse gas problem according to the text?

A．Airplanes.                             B．Loss of trees.

C．Factory pollution.                       D．Road vehicles.

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Life in the city is quite different from _____ in the countyside.

A. it                            B. that        C. one               D. those

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