概要： A. a scientist who makes a great discovery in physics B. a scientist who makes a special achievement in DNA C. a woman who devoted herself to world peace D. a black man who is working hard to give his four children a good education 41. Why did Nobel decide to invent dynamite？ A. Because his brother was killed in an explosion. B. Because dynamite was a safer form of explosive. C. Because his father worked with explosives. D. Because dynamite could make explos
高二英语阅读理解专练06,标签：高二英语学习指导大全,高二学习方法,http://www.kgf8.comB. a scientist who makes a special achievement in DNA
C. a woman who devoted herself to world peace
D. a black man who is working hard to give his four children a good education
41. Why did Nobel decide to invent dynamite？
A. Because his brother was killed in an explosion.
B. Because dynamite was a safer form of explosive.
C. Because his father worked with explosives.
D. Because dynamite could make explosives safer to handle and use.
42. What words describe Alfred Nobel best？
A. Selfish and clever.
B. Generous and wise.
C. Great and old.
D. Rich and powerful.
43. Six Nobel prizes are given out each year EXCEPT _______.
A. in 1902 B. in 1973
C. in 1971 D. in 1969 www.kgf8.com
C
Speakers of different languages not only describe the world differently but think about it differently too， according to a new study.
Researchers used a cartoon cat Sylvester to study how language was reflected in the gestures people made. Dr. Sotaro Kita of the University of Bristol‘s Department of Experimental Psychology（心理学）showed the cartoon to a group of native English， Japanese and Turkish speakers and then watched their gestures as they described the actions they had seen. He found speakers of the three different languages used different gestures to describe the same event， which appeared to reflect the way the structure of their languages expressed that event. For example， when describing a scene where the cat swings on a rope， the English speakers used gestures showing an arc trajectory（弧形轨迹） and the Japanese and Turkish speakers tended to use straight gestures showing the motion but not the arc.
Dr. Kita suggests this is because Japanese and Turkish have no proper verb to express the English meaning “to swing”。While English speakers use the arc gesture as their language can readily express the change of location and the arc-shaped trajectory， Japanese and Turkish speakers cannot as easily express the idea of movement with an arc trajectory so they used the straight gesture.
Dr. Kita said，“My research suggests that speakers of different languages cause different spatial （空间的） images of the same event in a way that matches the expressive possibilities of their own languages.” In other words， language influences spatial thinking at the moment of speaking.
44. Researchers watched the gestures the people made because they wanted to know _______.
A. how the structure of language changed
B. how language was reflected
C. whether they could express the same idea
D. whether they could describe what they had seen
45. Dr. Kita made a conclusion that _______， after watching the gestures of speakers of the three
different languages： English， Japanese and Turkish.
A. English was obviously better than Japanese and Turkish
B. Japanese and Turkish people could not express the meaning of “swing”
C. every language had its own special way to describe things
D. no word in Japanese and Turkish could express some ideas of English
46. What is the main idea of this passage？
A. How people use different gestures to express the same event.
B. Language influences the way people think.
C. Differences between languages.
D. Differences between gestures.
47. What is the most probable meaning of the underlined word “readily” （in paragraph 3）？
A. Specially. B. Without difficulty.
C. With interest. D. Willingly. www.kgf8.com
D
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