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The baby is just one day old and
has not yet left hospital. She is quiet but alert
(
警
觉
). Twenty
centimeters from her face researchers have placed
a white card with two black
spots on
it. She stares at it carefully. A researcher
removes the card and
replaces it by
another, this time with the spots
differen
tly spaced. As the cards change
from one to the
other, her gaze
(
凝视
) starts to lose
i
ts focus
—
until
a third, with three black spots,
is
presented.
Her
gaze
returns:
she
looks
at
it
for
twice
as
long
as
she
did
at
the
previous
card.
Can
she
tell
that
the
number
two
is
different
from
three,
just
24
hours
after
coming into the world?
Or do
newborns simply prefer more to fewer? The same
experiment, but with three spots
shown
before
two,
shows
the
same
return
of
interest
when
the
number
of
spots
changes.
Perhaps it is just the newness? When
slightly older babies were shown cards with
pictures
of
objects
(a
comb,
a
key,
an
orange
and
so
on),
changing
the
number
of
objects
had
an
effect
separate
from
changing
the
objects
themselves.
Could
it
be
the
pattern
that
two
things
make,
as
opposed
to
three?
No
again.
Babies
paid
more
attention
to
squares
moving
randomly
on
a
screen
when
their
number
changed
from
two
to
three,
or
three
to
two.
The
effect even crosses betw
een
senses. Babies who were repeatedly shown two spots
became more
excited when they then
heard three drumbeats than when they heard just
two; likewise
(
同样
地
) when the
researchers started with drumbeats and moved to
spots.
21. The experiment described in
Paragraph 1 is related to the baby's ______.
A. sense of hearing B.
sense of sight
C. sense of touch
D. sense of smell
22. Babies are
sensitive to the change in ______.
A. the size of cards B. the colour of
pictures
C. the shape of patterns
D. the number of objects
23. Why did
the researchers test the babies with
dru
mbeats?
A. To reduce
the difficulty of the experiment.
B.
To see how ba
bies recognize sounds.
C. To carry their experiment
further.
D. To keep the
bab
ies' interest.
24. Where
does this text probably come from?
A. Science fiction. B. Children's
literature.
C. An advertisement.
D. A science report.
B
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It happened to me
recently. I was telling someone how much I had
enjoyed reading Barack
Obama's
Dreams From My Father
and
how it had changed my views of our President. A
friend I
was talking to agreed with me
that it was, in his words, “a brilliantly
(精彩地
) written
book
”
. However,
he then went on to talk about Mr. Obama in a way
which suggested he had no
idea of his
background at all. I sensed that I was talking to
a book liar.
And
it
seems
that
my
friend
is
not
the
only
one.
Approximately
two
thirds
of
people
have
lied
about
readi
ng
a
book
which
they
haven't.
In
the
World
Book
Day's
“Report
on
Guilty
Secrets”,
Dreams
From
My
Father
is
at
number
9.
The
report
lists
ten
books,
and
various authors, which people have lied
about reading, and as I'm not one to lie too often
(I'd hate to be ca
ught out),
I'll admit here and now that I haven't read the
entire top ten.
But I am
pleased to say that, unlike 42 percent of people,
I have read the book at number
one,
George Orwell's
1984
. I
think it's really brilliant.
The
World Book Day report also has some other
interest
ing information in it. It says
that many people lie about having read
Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoevsky (I
haven't read him, but haven't lied
about it either) and Herman Melville.
Asked
why
they
lied,
th
e
most
common
reason
was
to
“impress”
someone
they
were
speaking to. This could be tricky if
the conversation became more in-depth!
But
when
asked
which
authors
they
actually
enjoy,
people
named
J.
K.
Rowling,
John
Grisham, Sophie Kinsella (ah, the big
sellers, in other words). Forty-two percent of
people
asked
admitted
they
turned
to
the
back
of
the
book
to
read
the
end
before
finishing
the
story
(I'll
come
clean:
I
do
this
and
am
astonished
that
58
percent
said
they
had
never
don
e so).
25. How did the author find his friend
a book liar?
A. By judging
hi
s manner of speaking. B. By
looking into his background.
C. By
mentioning a famous name. D. By discussing
the book itself.
26
. Which
of the following is a “guilty secret” according to
the World Book Day report?
A. Charles Dickens is very low on the top-ten
list.
B. 42% of people pretended to
have read
1984
.
C. The author admitted having read 9 books.
D.
Dreams From My
Father
is hardly read.
27.
By lying about reading, a person hopes to ______.
A. control the conversation
B. appear knowle
dgeable
C. learn about the book D. make more
friends
28. What is the author's
attitude to 58% of readers?
A.
Favorable. B. Uncaring. C.
Doubtful. D. Friendly.
C
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