单选题 In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
单选题 Whether a person is right-handed or left-handed results from ______.
  • A. the education of the parents
  • B. the education of the teacher
  • C. genetic factors
  • D. the example of the friends
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[听力原文] Some people are right-handed and some are left-handed. No one knows the reason why a person becomes right-handed or left-handed. {{U}}It is not true that it is caused by the way in which his parents educate him. In other words, a person is born to be right-handed or left-handed{{/U}}. Moreover, the left-handed and the right-handed "think" differently. Having to use the hand you're not used to can be very upsetting. One day I tried an experiment: changing hands while eating rice with chopsticks. Being a right-hander, I hoped it would not be too hard for me to take the food with my left hand. Soon after I started, I realized I didn't know what I was doing. {{U}}So I moved in front of a big mirror, in order that I could observe my actions clearly{{/U}}. {{U}}Looking at myself in the mirror, I found I looked like a man who had never used chopsticks{{/U}}. I grew more and more nervous and finally I had to give it up. My experience shows, being forced to use the hand one is not used to affects a person's mind. So we should not try to change a left-hander to a right-hander. Some people still think being left-handed is bad, but luckily this idea is changing. [解析] 细节题。短文开头说到没人知道为什么有左撇子和右撇子之分,有人说是由父母的教育方式造成的,这是个错误的观点。换句话说,人一生下来就已经决定是左撇子还是右撇子了,即决定人是左撇子还是右撇子的是自身的基因,C为正确答案。
单选题 As for the speaker's experiment, which statement is INCORRECT?
  • A. He used a pair of chopsticks in the experiment.
  • B. He tried to have a change and eat with the left hand.
  • C. It showed that making a change influences our mind.
  • D. It is the first time that he used chopsticks to eat rice.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。作者说身为右撇子换用左手使用筷子吃饭,结果发现自己像是从来都没有用过筷子吃饭的人一样,只是看起来像而已,并不是说这是他第一次用筷子吃饭,所以选D。
单选题 What's the function of the mirror in the experiment?
  • A. To enable the speaker to dress himself up in the experiment.
  • B. To enable the speaker to record his play in the experiment.
  • C. To enable the speaker to get more lights in the experiment.
  • D. To enable the speaker to watch his actions in the experiment.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。作者表示,实验一开始,由于看不到自己在做什么,所以就对着一面镜子,以便更好地观察自己的举动。D为正确选项。