高二英语M8 Unit 4 Films and film events测试题

　　Twenty-three blind people participated in the study. All had been sightless for at least 20 years. Fourteen of them had lost their vision before age 11. The rest went blind after age 16. The experiment also included 10 people who could see but were wearing blindfolds.

　　In one task, volunteers had to pick the direction of a sound coming from about 3 meters away. When the sound was in front of them or slightly off center in front, both groups performed equally well.

　　When sounds came from the side or the back, however, the blind group performed much better than the blindfolded group. The participants who had been blind since childhood did slightly better than those who lost their sight later.

　　Recognizing the locations of distant sounds can be a matter of life-or-death for blind people, say the researchers. Crossing the street, for instance, is much harder when you can’t see the cars coming.

　　Still, the researchers were surprised by how well the blind participants did, especially those who went blind after age 16. In another experiment, the scientists also found that parts of the brain that normally deal with visual information became active in locating sound in the people who were blind by age 11. These brain parts didn’t show sound-location activity in the other group of blind people or in the sighted people. The scientists now want to learn more about the workings of brains of “late-onset” blind people.

　　53.The recent study shows blind people are better at telling .

　　A.the sources of loud sounds

　　B.the locations of distant sounds

　　C.the direction of sharp sounds

　　D.the distance of a sound in front of them

　　54.Which would be a proper title for the passage?

　　A.A research on Blind People

　　B.Where is That Noise Coming From

　　C.Hearing Better in the Dark

　　D.What If Living Without Your Eyes?

　　55.Which of the following statement is true?

　　A. The researchers are quite sure about the workings of brains of “late-onset” blind people.

　　B. People who were blind before age 11 are better at crossing the street than those after 16.

　　C. Parts of the brain of those who went blind by age 11 became active in locating sound.

　　D. The blind folded performed better at locating sounds in front.

　　56.If people were asked to tell the direction of a sound from the side, who would perform best?

　　A. Those who are blind. B. Those who have gone blind since children.

　　C. Those who went blind at age 16. D. Those who are blindfolded.

　　D

　　Accidents are caused; they don’t just happen. The reason may be easy to see: an overloaded tray, a shelf out of reach, a patch of ice on the road. But more often than not there is a chain of events leading up to the misfortune-frustration, tiredness or just bad temper-that show what the accident really is, a sort of attack on oneself.

　　Road accidents, for example, happen frequently after a family quarrel, and we all know people who are accident-prone, so often at odds with themselves and the world that they seem to cause accidents for themselves and others.

　　By definition, an accident is something you cannot predict or avoid, and the idea which used to be current, that the majority of road accidents are caused by a minority of criminally careless drivers, is not supported by insurance statistics. These show that most accidents involve ordinary motorists in a moment of carelessness or thoughtlessness.

　　It is not always clear, either, what sort of conditions make people more likely to have an accident. For instance, the law requires all factories to take safety actions and most companies have safety committees to make sure the regulations are observed, but still, every day in Britain, some fifty thousand men and women are absent from work due to an accident. These accidents are largely the result of human error or misjudgment-noise and fatigue, boredom or worry are possible factors which contribute to this. Doctors who work in factories have found that those who drink too much, usually people who have a high anxiety level, run three times the normal risk of accidents at work.

　　57.This passage might be taken from .

　　A.a text book B.a science story

　　C.a popular magazine D.a report of a businessman

　　58.“Accident-prone” here (in Paragraph 2) means .

　　A.likely to have accidents B.injured in accidents

　　C.likely to die in accidents D.responsible for road accidents

　　59.The passage suggests that .

　　A.accidents mostly result from slippery roads

　　B.accidents are usually caused by psychological factors

　　C.doctors run three times the normal risk of accidents in factories

　　D.about 50,000 people lost their lives at work in Britain every day

　　60.Which of the following is NOT discussed as a factor of accidents in this passage?

　　A.Mood B.Carelessness C.Tiredness D.Weather

　　61.What do you think would be the best title for the passage?

　　A.Accidents and Anxiety B.How accidents Are Caused

　　C.Human Factors in Accidents D.How to Prevent Accidents

　　E

　　Dreams: Making Them Work for Us

　　Several nights a week Joseph woke up screaming from the same terrible dream. Joseph could never recall his whole dream, though. He only remembered that someone was running after him. Joseph was trying to get away, but in his dream he could not move. He continued having this nightmare for months. He was so tired in the morning that it was hard for him to go to work.

　　Milton Kramer, a psychiatrist and dreamer researcher, found that people wake up feeling very discouraged after they have a bad dream, while after having a good dream, people feel more optimistic. Clearly, dreams can have harmful or beneficial effects. As a result, Kramer believes that we need to learn how to change our bad dreams.

　　Before we can begin to change a nightmare, however, we first have to remember what happened in our dream. Actually, there are many ways to do this. We can keep a journal or diary of what we do when we are awake. Then, before going to sleep, we can review our day. As we begin to fall asleep, we should remind ourselves that we want to remember our dreams. When we wake up, we should lie still while we try to remember our dream. We should also try to remember an important word or picture from the dream. This image makes the rest of the dream easier to remember. Finally, if we have trouble remembering dreams, we can try sleeping later. The longer we sleep, the longer and clearer our dreams will be.

　　Dr. Rosalind Cartwright is a dream researcher, too. She has developed another dream treatment for changing dreams. According to Dr. Cartwright, dream treatment involves four simple steps. The first step is to recognize when you care having a bad dream that will make you feel helpless or upset the next morning. The second step is to identify what it is about the dream that will make you feel bad-for example, weak instead of strong, or out of control instead of in control. Next, stop and bad dream. You do not have to continue your bad dream, because you are in charge. The last step is to change the negative part of the dream. Sometimes you may have to wake yourself up and change the dream before you return to sleep. Other times it is possible to change the dream while you are still asleep.

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