1、高考资源网（） 您身边的高考专家If you associate modern British fiction with the cool, lonely tones of Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, and US fiction with Jonathan Franzens _1_ inner worlds or John Irvings sentimentality, it seems you have good _2_An analysis of the _3_ texts of Englishlanguage books over the _4_ ce
2、ntury concludes that, since the 1980s, words that _5_ emotional content have become _6_ more common in US books than in British ones.The _7_， by anthropologist (人类学家) Alberto Acerbi of the University of Bristol, UK, and his colleagues, takes advantage of Googles database of more than 5 million digit
3、ally_8_ books from the past several centuries.This resource has _9_ been used to examine the _10_ of literary styles and trends in literary expressions of individualism.Such _11_ of the cultural information made available by new technologies has been _12_ “culturomics” (文化组学)Its _13_ think that thes
4、e approaches can _14_ trends in social opinions and standards of behavior that are _15_ hidden within vast quantities of data.“Language use in books _16_ what people are talking about and thinking about during a _17_ time, so Google Books provides a fascinating _18_ into the past，” says psychologist
5、 Jean Twenge of San Diego State University in California.The _19_ results certainly seem to show that informal descriptions about social mood are reflected in the _20_ (both fiction and nonfiction) of the twentieth century.1A.independentBemotionalCpeaceful Dautonomous2A.reason BwayCexcuseDtruth3A.di
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8、est BbestClatestDpoorest20A.literature BscienceCpoliticsDeconomics答案与解析文章大意：本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了最新研究发现谷歌图书搜索能够反映出不同时期社会观点的行为标准的趋势的变化。1B形容词词义辨析。根据本空后的“or John Irvings sentimentality”可知，此处是说Jonathan Franzen的内心的情感(emotional)世界，故B项正确。2A考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“An analysis.”可知，此处是说你似乎有一个好的理由(reason)，故A项正确。3A考查动词词义辨析。根据
9、下文中的“digitally”可知，此处是说一个关于数字化的(digitize)英语课本的分析，故A项正确。4D考查形容词词义辨析。根据本空后的“since the 1980s”可知，此处是说过去的(past)一个世纪，故D项正确。5C考查动词词义辨析。根据本空后的“emotional content”可知，此处是说带有(carry)感情的词汇，故C项正确。6A考查副词词义辨析。根据本空后的“more common in US books than in British ones”可知，美国书本中带有感情的词汇显著地(significantly)比英国书本中更常见，故A项正确。7B考查名词词义
10、辨析。根据上文中的“An analysis”可知，此处指的是这项研究(study)，故B项正确。8C考查动词词义辨析。本句本空前的内容可知，利用谷歌数据库中数字扫描(scan)过得书本，故C项正确。9D考查副词词义辨析。根据本空后的“been used to examine”可知，这个资源早先被用于，故D项正确。10A考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“of literary styles and trends in literary expressions of individualism.”可知，这个资源早先被用于检测文学风格与趋势在个人主义表达上的演变(evolution)，故A项正确。11
11、B考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“of the cultural information made available by new technologies”可知，此处是说文学信息方面如此的挖掘(mining)，故B项正确。12D考查动词词义辨析。根据本空后的“culturomics”可知，这种新技术被称为(call)文化组学，故D项正确。13C考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“think that these approaches”可知，此处指的是这种新技术的提倡者(advocate)，故C项正确。14B考查动词词义辨析。根据本空后的“trends in social opinions an
12、d standards of behavior”可知，这种新技术的提倡者认为它能发现(discover)社会观点和行为标准的趋势，故B项正确。15D考查副词词义辨析。根据本空后的“hidden within vast quantities of data”可知，此处是说在其他方面(otherwise)隐藏在巨大的数据量之内的社会观点和行为标准的趋势，故D项正确。16B考查动词词义辨析。根据本空后的“what people are talking about and thinking about”可知，书本中的语言能够反映出(reflect)人们的所说所想，故B项正确。17A考查形容词词义辨析。
13、根据本空前的“what people are talking about and thinking about during a”可知，书本中的语言能够反映出人们在一段特别(particular)时间的所说所想，故A项正确。18A考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“into the past”可知，所以谷歌图书搜索提供了一扇回望过去的窗户(window)，故A项正确。19C考查形容词词义辨析。根据本空后的“results certainly seem to show that informal descriptions about social mood”可知，此处是指最新的(latest)研究结果，故C项正确。20A考查名词词义辨析。根据本空后的“(both fiction and nonfiction) of the twentieth century.”可知，最新的研究成果反映了20世纪文学(literature)上的社会情绪，故A项正确。- 7 - 版权所有高考资源网
