高二英语上册阶段测试题

　　For these reasons, I believe that lawmakers need to legislate (立法) against spam. Spammers should be fined, and perhaps sent to prison if they continue to disturb people. E-mail is a tool which helps people all over the world to communicate conveniently, but spam is destroying this convenience.

　　64. According to the text, what is the major cause of the flooding spam?

　　A. Companies rely on e-mail for communications.

　　B. More people in the world communicate by e-mail.

　　C. More advertisers begin to promote sales through spam.

　　D. Many computer viruses contain spam e-mail.

　　65. According to Paragraph 3, who is the final victim of spam?

　　A. The business      B. The advertiser     C. The consumer    D. The employee

　　66. What is the purpose of the text?

　　A. To inform  B. To educate  C. To instruct     D. To persuade

　　（D）

　　People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions - and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

　　Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

　　"We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

　　According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

　　The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

　　It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than Westerners did. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

　　In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

　　67. The discovery shows that Westerners         .

　　A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

　　B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

　　C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

　　D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions

　　68. What does the underlined word "they" in Paragraph 6 refer to?

　　A. The researchers of the study.        B. The participants in the study.

　　C. The errors made during the study.    D. The data collected from the study.

　　69. In comparison with Westerners, Easterners are likely to         .

　　A. do translation more successfully     B. examine the eyes more attentively

　　C. study the mouth more frequently     D. read facial expressions more correctly

　　70. What can be the best title for the passage?

　　A. The Eye as the Window to the Soul

　　B. Effective Methods to Develop Social Skills

　　C. Cultural Differences in Reading Emotions

　　D. How to Increase Cross-cultural Understanding

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　　请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填上一个最恰当的单词。每空一个单词。请将答案写在答题纸上相应题号的横线上。

　　For thousands of years the most important two buildings in any British village have been the church and the pub. In fact，until a place has a church and a pub，it isn’t really considered a community worthy of a name. Traditionally，the church and the pub are at the heart of any village or town, since it is where people gather to give and receive news. In fact, the word ‘pub’ is short for public house’.

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