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1、 Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read thetext. Choose the best word(s)each numbered blank andmark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (l Opoints)Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smarthumans are. _1_ theFruit ies who were taught to be smarter than the averageto live shor
2、ter lives. This suggests that bulbs bum longer, thatin not being too bright.Intelligence, it_5_, is a high-priced option. It takes more upkeep, bums moreand is slow the starting line because it depends on learning - a(n)_?_process - instead of instinct. Plenty of other species are able to learn, and
3、one of the things theyve apparently is when to - _value to_9_intelligence? Thats the question behind thisexperiments described by Carl Zimmer in they23there is a(n)46Is there annew research. Instead of casting aglance 10at all the species wevein the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real_l
4、_l_of our own intelligencemight be. This the mind of every animal weve ever met.Research on animal intelligence also makes us wonder what experiments animalswould 13 on humans if they had the chance. Every cat with an owner,is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. We believe that14ran
5、 the labs, they would test us toour memory locations. They would try to decide what intelligence in humans isreally 17 , not merely how much of it there is. 18 they would hope tostudy a(n) 19 question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in?the results are inconclusive.the limits of our
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7、e8. A ghtC inevitableC stop9. A invisible10. A upward11. AC indeniteCD dierentDB inuencesB onC resultsC byD costs12. A outside13. A deliver14. A by chance15. A ifD acrossD applyB carryCB in contrastB unlessB overcomeBC as usualC asDinstanceD lest16. A moderate17. A atC determineCD reachD with18. A A
8、bove all19.ABallC HoweverC equivalentC SoD OtherwiseD hostileD Better stillBJcomprehensiveB In time20.A By accidentSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read thetexts. Answer the questions below each text by choosingSHEET 1. (40 points)A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on- 2 - Text 1Habits
9、are aauto-pilot and relaxing into the unconsciousbut habit rules the unreecting herd, William Wordsworth said in the 19 century. Inthe ever-changing 21st century, even the word habit a negative implication.thing. We reachthem mindlessly, setting our brains onof routine. Not choice,So it seems parado
10、xical to talk about habits in the same context as creativity andinnovation. But brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously developnew habits, we create parallel paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jumpour trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.Rather than dismis
11、sing ourselves as unchangeable creatures of habit, we caninstead direct our own change by consciously developing new habits. Inmore new things we try - the more we step outside our zone - the moreinherently creative we become, both in the and in our personal lives.theBut dont bother trying to kill o
12、 old habits; once those ruts of procedure areinto the brain, theyre there to stay. Instead, the new habits we deliberately pressinto ourselves create parallel pathways that can bypass those old roads.The rst thing neededinnovation is awith wonder, says DawnaMarkova, author of e Open Mind. But we are
13、 taught instead to decide , just asour president calls himself the Decider. She adds, however, that to decide is tokill o all possibilities but one. A good innovational thinker is always exploring themany other possibilities.All of us work through problems in ways of which were unaware, she says.Res
14、earchers in the late 1960s discovered that humans arewith the capacity toapproach challenges in primary ways: analytically, procedurally, relationally (orcollaboratively) and innovatively. At the end of adolescence, however, the brain shutsdown half of that capacity, preserving only those modes of thought that have seemedmost valuable during the rst decade or so ofThe current emphasis on standardized testing highlights analysis and procedure,meaning thatthought. This breaks the major rule in the American belief system - that anyone cando anyt
