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2015
年上海高考英语试卷（完形填空）
Section A
Directions: For
each blank in the following passage there are four
words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in
each blank
with the word or phrase that
best fits the context.
If you studied
pictures that ancient people left on rock walls
and you tried to determine their meaning, you
would not detect
interest in romance
among the artists.
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, you would see plenty of animals with
people running after them. Life for ancient
people’s earned to center on hunting
and ga
thering wild foods for meals.
In
modern times, when food is available in grocery
stores, finding love is more
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to
people’s lives. The
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is all
around us. It is easy to prepare a list
of modern stories having to do with love. An
endless number of books and movies qualify
as love stories in popular culture.
Researchers are studying whether love,
a highly valued emotional state, can be
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. They ask,
what is love? Toothpaste
companies want
us to think attraction is all about clean teeth,
but clean teeth go only so far. Scientists wonder
how much the
brain gets involved. You
have probably heard that opposites attract but
that
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attract, too. One thing is certain: The
truth
about love is not yet set in
stone.
First
Impression
To
help
determine
the
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of
attraction,
researchers
paired
164
college
classmates
and
had
them
talk
for
3,
6
or
10
minutes so they could get a sense of
each other’s individuality. Then students were
asked to
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what kind of relationship
they were likely to build with their
partners. After nine weeks, they reported what
happened.
As it turned out, their
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judgements
often held true. Students seemed to
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at an early
stage who would best fit
into their
lives.
The
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Knows
Scientists have also turned to
nonhumans to increase understanding of attraction.
Many animals give off pheromones
—
natural
chemicals that can be detected by, and then can
produce a response in, other animals of the same
species. Pheromones
can signal that an
animal is either ready to fight or is feeling
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to partnerships. In contrast, humans do
not seem to be
as
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as other
animals at detecting such chemicals. Smell,
however, does seem to play a part in human
attraction. Although
we may not be
aware of chemicals like pheromones consciously, we
give and receive loads of information through
smell in
every interaction with other
people.
Face
Value
Being fond of
someone seems to have a number of factors,
including seeing something we find attractive.
Researchers had
people judge faces for
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. The
participants had 0.013 seconds to view each face,
yet somehow they generally considered
the
images
the
same
as
people
who
had
more
time
to
study
the
same
faces.
The
way
we
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attractiveness
seem
to
be
somewhat
automatic.
When shown an attractive
face and then words with good or bad associations,
people responded to
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words faster
after viewing an attractive face.
Seeing something attractive seems to cause happy
thinking.
51. A. Instead
B.
Therefore
C. Moreover
D. Otherwise
52. A. romantic
B. stressful
C. central
D. artificial
53. A. priority
B. proof
C.
possibility
D.
principle
54. A. seated
B. impressed
C. changed
D.
erased