1、课时质量评价(二十)选择性必修第一册UNIT 4BODY LANGUAGE 阅读题组强化练. 阅读理解ACamps for Grades 68Camps for Curious Minds are going virtual! Get ready for handson experiences this summer from the comfort of your home. Group sizes are kept small and led by two virtual counsellors so that these athome experiences are interactiv
2、e and engaging.Art and Animation (动画制作)When: July 2731 (14 pm.), August 1014 (14 pm.)Cost: $275/$250 PacSci membersCreate and animate a story using different artistic media and styles. Campers will explore physical media to create their art and then choose from a variety of animation styles to trans
3、late it into a digital animation.Chef UniversityWhen: July 610 (9 am.12 pm.), August 37 (14 pm.)Cost: $225/$200 PacSci membersGet started learning basic cooking skills such as cutting, sauting, emulsifying and baking, and about the scientific processes behind some of the most common food phenomena.A
4、nthrozoologyWhen: June 29July 3 (9 am.12 pm.), July 2731 (14 pm.), August 2428 (9 am.12 pm.)Cost: $225/$200 PacSci membersBe an anthrozoologist for the week, bring your curiosities to life as we discover the relationships between humans and animals! Uncover the worlds of wildlife conservation, veter
5、inary sciences and zoology. Deepen curiosity about our natural world by creating global solutions to human and wildlife interactions.Ready, Set, ActionWhen: June 2226 (9 am.12 pm.), July 2024 (14 pm.), August 1721 (9 am.12 pm.)Cost: $225/$200 PacSci membersWere spending so much of our time in front
6、of screens, so lets use them to make something awesome! In just one week, well learn all about moviemaking, storyboards, and set design. Well explore the possibilities of using videoconference software to create unique and creative short films.【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了几项68年级的夏令营活动。1. What does a virtua
7、l counsellor do?A. Keep you safe at home.B. Involve you in a virtual world.C. Teach you how to edit software.D. Make your home comfortable to live in.B细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Group sizes are kept small and led by two virtual counsellors so that these athome experiences are interactive and engaging.”可知,虚拟顾问就是帮
8、助你参与到虚拟世界中。故选B。2. If you want to learn about cooking in a camp, which time is the most suitable?A. June 2226 (9 am.12 pm.)B. July 610 (9 am.12 pm.)C. June 29July 3 (9 am.12 pm.)D. August 1014 (14 pm.)B细节理解题。根据Chef University部分中的When: July 610 (9 am.12 pm.), August 37 (14 pm.)可知,如果你想在夏令营中学习做饭,B项的时间最合
9、适,故选B。3. Which camp will you sign up for if you are devoted to animal protection?A. Art and Animation.B. Chef University.C. Anthrozoology.D. Ready, Set, Action.C细节理解题。根据Anthrozoology部分中的描述可知,如果你致力于动物保护,你会报名参加Anthrozoology。故选C。B(2021山东青岛二模)To stay healthy and fit, Chinese students do group exercises
10、every day at school. Most of you probably do the same set of exercises. But some school exercises have grown popular online due to their local and innovative designs.Singing in Sichuan dialects with energetic movements and unique maskchanging is not just a Sichuan Opera performance. Its the routine
11、exercise for students of Mianyang Foreign Languages Experimental School in Sichuan Province.“Sichuan Opera is a local opera, and it is now facing a gap in inheritance (传承). Therefore, we cooperated with Mianyang Intangible Cultural Heritage Centre to create a simple and easytolearn Sichuan Opera exe
12、rcise,” said Shen Junhua, who is in charge of organising the schools exercise between classes.According to Shen, this new type of exercise has been practised since 2017 and has been popular among students. When students enroll (入学), they will spend several weeks practising it. At present, almost all
13、 of the students and teachers have mastered it.“In fact, we had hardly heard of Sichuan Opera before teachers taught us how to do the Sichuan Opera exercise,” said Li Yangwenwen, 14, an eighth grade student who also joined the schools Sichuan Opera club out of interest. “Its very different from norm
14、al exercises. After practising it, we found it very beautiful and became interested in it. Now, almost all of the students look forward to our daily exercise time and feel excited to do it.”“By combining opera with daily exercise, the daily class activity allows students to perceive and understand S
15、ichuan Operas culture,” Shen said. “After years of continuous effort to spread the seeds of traditional culture, the younger generation is finally catching on.”【语篇解读】本文是一篇新闻报道。文章介绍了为保持身体健康,中国学生每天都会进行团体锻炼,一些学校的锻炼由于其本地特色和创新性在网上受到欢迎,这其中包括四川省一所学校的川剧表演操。4. What do students in Shens school do during the g
16、roup exercise?A. They do normal exercises.B. They sing pop songs in Sichuan dialects.C. They do maskchanging in a Sichuan Opera performance.D. They combine group exercise with Sichuan Opera.D细节理解题。根据第三段的内容可知,在团体锻炼中,学生们将团体锻炼与川剧结合起来。故选D。5. Why do they adopt the new type of exercise?A. To attract new s
17、tudents to the school.B. To inherit local culture.C. To create an easytolearn exercise.D. To make the schools group exercise popular.B推理判断题。根据第三段的内容可知,川剧是一种地方戏剧,现在它的传承面临着断代的困境,由此可知, 他们采用这种新型锻炼方式是为了传承当地文化。故选B。6. How do teachers and students react to the group exercise?A. Calm.B. Indifferent.C. Enthus
18、iastic.D. Uninterested.C推理判断题。根据第四段的内容可知,这种新型锻炼方法自2017年以来一直在进行着,并在学生中很受欢迎。当学生入学时,他们将花费数周的时间进行练习。目前,几乎所有的学生和老师都已经掌握了它。由此可知,师生对新型锻炼方法充满了热情。故选C。7. What can we learn from the last paragraph?A. Shens continuous effort is highly praised.B. The younger generation will have a stronger body.C. The students c
19、an better understand their local culture.D. Students help to spread the seeds of traditional culture to younger generations.C推理判断题。根据最后一段的内容可知, 经过多年的不懈努力来传播传统文化的种子,年轻一代终于开始感知和理解传统文化。由此可知,我们可以从最后一段中了解到学生可以更好地理解他们当地的文化。故选C。C(2021山东德州模拟)Is that person really glad to see me? Or is he just being polite?
20、Some people struggle to tell an artificial smile from a truly happy one. And computers have found this task even more difficult. Recently, researchers have trained a programme to detect when a smile is genuine.Visual computing researchers at the University of Bradford in the UK started with a softwa
21、re for analysing a changing facial expression. This programme can examine a video clip of a human head and identify specific details around the eyes, cheeks and mouth. Then the programme tracks the details relative to each other as the face smiles.Next, the scientists had their programme evaluate tw
22、o sets of video clips. In one subjects performed posed smiles. In the other, they watched a film that inspired genuine displays of emotion. The programme calculated the differences among the subjects faces during the two clips. And it turns out that ones mouth, cheeks and eyes move differently when
23、pretending to smile.In particular, the muscles around the eyes shift 10 percent more for a real smile than they do for a fake one. These results are in the journal Advanced Engineering Informatics. “A genuine smile is indeed in the eyes. The computer aids analysis of the exact weight distribution of
24、 human smiles across the face,” Hassan Ugail and Ahmad Aldahoud say.The researchers suggest their work could improve a computers ability to analyse facial expressions and thus to interact more smoothly with humans. But their real accomplishment is in proving Tyra Banks right: “You have to smile with
25、 your eyes.”【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。有些人很难区分敷衍的微笑和真正快乐的微笑,而计算机对此进行区分更加困难。研究人员研发出了一个程序来检测一个微笑何时是发自内心的。本文详细介绍了研究人员采用的实验方法以及结论。8. Whats the purpose of the programme?A. To tell different smiles.B. To detect human heads.C. To examine human faces.D. To record facial expressions.A细节理解题。根据第一段中的“Recently, researchers
26、have trained a programme to detect when a smile is genuine.”可知,这个项目的目的是检测什么时候笑是发自内心的,也就是说要区分不同的笑。故选A。9. What did the researchers do in the programme?A. They performed posed smiles.B. They analysed different video clips.C. They improved a computers ability.D. They evaluated a special kind of software
27、.B细节理解题。根据第三段中的“Next,the scientists had their programme evaluate two sets of video clips.”可知,在这个项目中,研究人员让他们的程序评估两组视频剪辑。因此,研究人员接下来分析这两种不同的视频剪辑结果。故选B。10. What result have the researchers found from the programme?A. Smiling with eyes is the most important.B. Eyes reflect whether a smile is real or not.
28、C. Ones mouth,cheeks and eyes always move the same.D. Muscles move more frequently when people do a fake smile.B推理判断题。根据第四段中的“In particular, the muscles around the eyes shift 10 percent more for a real smile than they do for a fake one. These results are in the journal Advanced Engineering Informati
29、cs.”以及“A genuine smile is indeed in the eyes.”可推知,眼睛能反映一个微笑是不是发自内心的。故选B。11. In which section of a newspaper may this text appear?A. Entertainment.B. Health.C. Inventions.D. Science.D文章出处题。本文的中心句是第一段中的“Recently, researchers have trained a programme to detect when a smile is genuine.”,并且后面几个段落都介绍了这个项目
30、的研究方法与结果。所以,本文应是一篇科学研究类文章。故选D。DGesturing with hands while speaking is a common human behaviour, but no one knows why we do it. Now, a group of researchers reports that gesturing adds emphasis to speech but not in the way researchers had thought.Gesturing while speaking, or “talking with your hands”,
31、 is common around the world. Many communications researchers believe that gesturing is either done to stress important points, or to explain specific ideas, which you can think of as the “drawing in the air”. But there are other possibilities. For example, it could be that gesturing, by changing the
32、 size and shape of the chest, lungs and vocal muscles, affects the sound of a persons speech.Researchers decided to test whether this idea was true, or just so much hand waving. The team had volunteers move their dominant hand (优势手) as if they were cutting wood, while continuously saying “a” as in “
33、cinema”. They were instructed to keep the “a” sound as steady as they could. Despite that instruction, when the team played audio recordings to other people, they found the listeners could hear the speakers gestures. When the listeners were asked to move their arms to the rhythm, their movements mat
34、ched perfectly with those of the original speaker.Because of the way the human body is constructed, hand movements influence torso (躯干) and throat muscles. Gestures are tightly tied to amplitude (振幅). Rather than just using your chest muscles to produce air flow for speech, moving your arms while yo
35、u speak can add voice emphasis. And you can hear someones motions, even when theyre trying not to let you.“Some language researchers dont like this idea, because they want language to be all about communicating the contents of your mind, rather than the state of your body. But we think that gestures
36、 are allowing the voice signal to carry additional information about bodily tension and motion. Its information of another kind,” says UConn psychologist and director of the Centre for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action James Dixon, one of the authors of the paper.【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。手势能够影响说话人
37、的声音并通过声音传递给听者。12. What does the underlined word “emphasis” in Paragraph 1 mean?A. A little humour.B. Some description.C. Extra explanation.D. Special importance.D词义猜测题。根据第二段中“Many communications researchers believe that gesturing is either done to stress important points”可知,画线词义为“重点”。故选D。13. What do
38、es the study mainly research?A. Gestures effects on voice.B. The ways to make gestures.C. The skills of drawing in the air.D. Different gestures around the world. A细节理解题。根据第二段中的例子可知,这个研究主要证明手势语能够影响人的声音。故选A。14. Why can listeners “hear” speakers gesture?A. Because gestures go with different amplitude.
39、B. Because speakers and listeners are too familiar.C. Because volunteers have the same dominant hands.D. Because speakers give secret instructions in their speech.A细节理解题。根据第五段中“Gestures are tightly tied to amplitude (振幅)”可知,不同的手势语有不同的振幅,因而听到的人能够通过振幅判断出说话者的手势。故选A。15. Some language researchers disagre
40、e with the study because they think A. the body states can communicate thoughts B. language is the only way to express oneselfC. the voice can carry body moving informationD. listeners can hear someones motions if they likeB推理判断题。根据最后一段中“Some language researchers dont like this idea, because they wa
41、nt language to be all about communicating the contents of your mind”可知,有的研究者不认为除语言之外还有东西能够表达思想。故选B。. 七选五Will COVID19 Kill the Handshake?The handshake might date back to the 14th century, when knights and soldiers would extend their unclenched (松开的) right hands towards each other in greeting to show
42、that they were carrying no weapons. 1 Or rather, its tendency for picking up and holding onto germs from polluted surfaces, or from our own eyes or noses when we have certain illnesses. Those germs can then be transferred into the hands of the people we greet, while we can pick up their germs. We th
43、en will probably touch our own eyes or noses or mouths, potentially sickening ourselves and restarting the cycle.Now that a novel coronavirus is spreading fast, our hands are being cast in a new, doubtful light. 2 And lately, the Internet has been full of suggestions for socially acceptable ways to
44、greet each other that dont involve passing germs along unintentionally from one person to the next. 3 In fact, the tradition of shaking hands isnt the only greeting to take a fresh look. A Maori tribe in New Zealand put the brakes on hongi, the traditional nosetonose hello. 4 Maybe people will stop
45、making fun of the Hollywood air kiss, though its not a huge improvement healthwise.COVID19 is a real threat, and we shouldnt take the warning lightly. We may, indeed, need to keep our hands to ourselves for the time being. But were not ready to send handshakes into the dustbin of history. Humans lon
46、g for making a physical connection with friends. For now, perhaps, a regretful smile and nod might work as a shared acknowledgment. 5 A. Could we hug each other or nod?B. Could this be the end of the handshake?C. As we all know, shaking hands has become a habit.D. After all, our friendly intentions were not to infect or be infected by others.E. These days, it would seem, the potential weapon isnt a knife, but the hand itself.F. Were being drilled in handwashing techniques as if we were all secondgraders.G. The French have been advised to abandon the familiar kiss on the cheek greeting.15EFBGD