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单选题 The speaker mainly discusses ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] Culture can be defined as behavior that is learned and transmitted to members of a group. A child learns a particular behavior through observation as well as through positive and negative feedback from his/her family and peers. A minor point to remember is that this feedback can be overt or covert. Much covert feedback involves nonverbal cues that an outsider to that culture would not understand. [分析] 主旨题。 题干要求找出本段讨论的主要内容。原文第一句阐明Culture can be defined as behavior that is learned and transmitted to members of a group即文化可以定义为被群体成员学习并传播的行为,接着以儿童学习某种行为的方式来具体说明第一句的观点。由此可见,选项C“行为作为文化构建”的内容与原文相符,因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 一般段落首句是中心句,点明全段的主要内容,因此注意听中心句的主干部分的内容,可迅速判断本段的主旨大意。
单选题 What are tides caused by?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] Most waves are caused by winds, though earthquakes on the ocean bed can also cause them, and tides are caused by the effect of the gravity of the moon on the earth and also, although to a lesser extent, the sun's gravity. One bulge of water is drawn upon the side of the earth actually facing the moon; another bulge of water is drawn on the earth's far side. [分析] 事实细节的找寻和判断。 题干问潮水形成的原因。根据原文tides are caused by the effect of the gravity of the moon on the earth and also... the sun's gravity可知,C的说法“月亮和太阳的引力引起潮水”与原文相符,因此该项是正确答案。 [解题关键] 1)根据题干中关键词判断听的重点。本题中的关键词是tides和caused by,由此可迅速排除第一句和最后一句;2)绝对化的表达一般是错误的,如A和B中 alone的使用,使全句过于绝对化,因此是错误的。
单选题 According to the speaker, what mistakes do many drivers make?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[听力原文] Many drivers do little more than look over the hood while driving. You must train yourself to fix your eyes so that they can see not only the road ahead of you but objects on each side of you and behind you. Concentration is one of the most important elements in safe driving. The driver's seat is no place for window-shopping, nor it is a place for a tired driver or worried one. Driving an automobile is a full-time job. [分析] 语义推理判断。 题干问许多司机会出什么错误?根据原文The driver's seat... nor it is a place for a tired driver or worried one可推断,若司机疲劳或烦恼焦虑时驾驶会引发事故。因此D说许多司机常犯的错误是疲劳驾车或焦虑驾车是正确的。 [解题关键] 1)有关汽车驾驶的常识有助于正确解题;2)根据各个选项中关键词定位到原文相关处,可帮助听者做出迅速判断。
单选题 What is remarkable about the cowbird?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[听力原文] The cowbird is an unusual American bird, which builds no nest. Instead, a female lays an egg in the nest of another bird and leaves the chicks to be hatched and raised by the adopted parents. Usually, these adopted parents don't seem to notice anything strange about the young cowbird. Even though it may be twice size of their own chicks. [分析] 特定信息的找寻和判断。 根据题干中关键词remarkable可定位到首句The cowbird is an unusual American bird, which builds no nest 由此可知,D说这种鸟不筑巢,与原文相符,是正确答案。 [解题关键] 能够正确找到题干中关键词在原文中的同义替换,有助于迅速定位原文相关句。本题中原文unusual与题干中remarkable是同义替换。
单选题 The speaker indicates that the dramatic critic is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[听力原文] The dramatic critic, on the other hand, has no such advantage. He cannot be selective; he must cover everything that is offered for public scrutiny in the principal playhouse of the city where he works. The column space that seemed, yesterday, so pitifully inadequate to contain his comments on Long Day's Journey Into Night is roughly the same as that which yawns today for his verdict on the latest scrap of milk-fed Kitsch that has chanced to find for itself a numbskull backer with a hundred thousand dollars to lose. [分析] 观点态度题。 首先原文提出He cannot be selective;he must cover everything that is offered for public scrutiny in the principal playhouse of the city where he works即戏剧评论家没有选择的余地,需要就所有该城市主要票房作品作出评论,以飨公众。又根据原文The column space that seemed,yesterday,so pitifully inadequate to column his comments on Long Day's Journey Into Night is roughly the same as that which yawns today for his verdict on the latest scrap of milk-fed Kitsch...,即昨天他们对Long Day's Journey Into Night的评论洋洋洒洒,今天也得为一部俗不可耐的作品长篇大论。综上所述,可推测戏剧评论家们得受其专栏的某些要求的限制。 [解题关键] 能够从某些词语的内涵中探察作者的观点态度。