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1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2019年广州二模英语试题AThe country is India. A large dinner party is being given in an up-country station by a colonial official and his wife. The guests are army and government officers and their wives, and an American naturalist.At one side of the long table, a spirited discussion springs up b
2、etween a young girl and an army officer. The girl insists women have long outgrown the jumping- on- a- chair -at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era, and that they are not as anxious as their grandmothers were. The officer says they are, arguing women havent the actual nerve control of men.“A womans reaction i
3、n any crisis, the officer says, “is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of control than a woman has.The American scientist does not join in the argument but sits and watches the faces of the other guests. As he stares, he sees a slight, though strange look of anxiety
4、come over the face of the hostess. With a small gesture she summons the servant standing behind her chair. She whispers to him. The servants eyes widen. He turns quickly and leaves the room. No one else sees this, nor the servant when he puts a bowl of milk on the balcony outside the glass doors.The
5、 American understands. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing. It is bait for a snake. He realizes there is a cobra in the room. The Americans eyes move across the room but he sees nothing. He realizes the snake can only be in one place-under the table.His first reaction is to jump back and w
6、arn the others. But he knows any sudden movement will frighten the cobra and it will strike. He speaks quickly, the quality of his voice so arresting that it quietens everyone. I want to know just what control everyone at this table has. I will count three hundred-thats five minutes-and not one of y
7、ou is to move a single muscle. Now! Ready!The 20 people sit like stone images while he counts. He is saying. two hundred and eighty.when, out of the corner of his eye, he sees the snake emerge and make for the bowl of milk. Four or five screams ring out as he jumps to slam shut the balcony doors.The
8、re is your proof! the host says. A man has just shown us real control.Just a minute, the American says, turning to his hostess, How did you know that cobra was in the room?A faint smile comes across the womans face as she replies. Because it was lying across my foot.21.What is the argument between t
9、he army officer and the young girl about?A. Whether women are afraid of mice. B. Whether men are calmer than women.C. Whether men are cleverer than women.D. Whether women would make suitable soldiers.22.Why is the servant asked to put out some milk?A. To play a trick.B. To serve the guests.C. To att
10、ract the snake. D. To feed the hostesss pet.23.Why does the scientist suggest the guests play a game?A. He doesnt want anyone to panic. B. He intends to test the officers theory.C. He sees there was a snake in the room.D. He wants to entertain the other guests.24.What does the author imply through t
11、he hostesss final statement?A. The army officers opinion is wrong.B. The hostess understood the Americans intention.C. The American was surprised by the snakes presence.D. The hostess has had previous experience dealing with snakes.25.What caused musicals to move in a new direction during the 1930s?
12、A. The development of new musical instruments.B. The audiences demand for more realistic art forms.C. The rising popularity of other types of entertainment.D. The greater acceptance of black performers by white audiences.26.In which period did musical theatre become more complex and dramatic?专心-专注-专
13、业A. Pre-1900.B. 1900-1929.C. 1940-1949.D. 1950-1959.27.What can be reasonably inferred about the musical West Side Story?A. It told its story in a new way. B. It was based on a true story.C. It was a non-Broadway show. D. It was not very successful at first.CIn 1874Francis Galton, a British professo
14、r, analyzed a sample of English scientists and found the vast majority to be first-born sons. This led him to theorize that first-born children enjoyed a special level of attention from their parents that allowed them to advance intellectually. Half a century later Alfred Adler, an Austrian psycholo
15、gist, made a similar argument relating to personality.First-born children, he suggested, were more diligent, while the later-born were more outgoing and emotionally stable. Many subsequent studies have explored these ideas, but their findings have been varied-some supporting and some rejecting the o
16、riginal conclusions.The main problem with the previous studies is that they were too small-often limited to a few dozen individuals. This would be true even if the statistical methods needed to analyze the data were simple, but they are not. Distinguishing birth-order effects from those caused by fa
17、mily size complicates matters, meaning still bigger samples must be analyzed to obtain meaningful results.To overcome the limitation of these earlier studies, German social scientist Dr. Helmet Schmukle and his colleagues analyzed three huge sets of data from America, Britain and Germany.These data
18、sets, though collected for other purposes, included personality and intelligence tests on 20,186 people at different stages of their lives. The American tests were on individuals aged between 29 and 35. The British tests were conducted on 50-year-olds. The German tests ran the whole span of adult li
19、fe, from 18 to 98.Birth order, they found, had no effect on personality: first-borns were no more, nor less, likely than their younger siblings to be hardworking, outgoing or anxious. But it did affect intelligence. In a family with two children, the first child was more intelligent than the second
20、60% of the time, rather than the 50% that would be expected by chance. On average, this translated to a difference of 1.5 IQ points between first and second siblings. That figure agrees with previous studies, and thus looks confirmed.It is, nevertheless, quite a small difference-and whether it is en
21、ough to account for Galtons original observation is unclear. In any event, it is certainly not deterministic. Galton was the youngest of nine.28.Alfred Adler concluded that first-born children were_.A. more stable B. more sociableC. more intelligentD. more hardworking29.What does the underlined “the
22、y”in paragraph 2refer to?A. The data.B. The analyses.C. The previous studies.D. The statistical methods.30.Why was Schmukles study considered superior to previous research?A. It involved a wider age range. B. It had a much larger sample size.C. It included a larger number of countries.D. It was cond
23、ucted over a longer period of time.31.Why does the author mention Galtons family background in the last paragraph?A. To confirm Galtons difficult upbringing.B. To suggest Galtons theory may not be correct.C. To compare his experience with Galtons parents.D. To explain why Galton was interested in bi
24、rth order.DPhotography has opened our eyes to a multitude of beauties, things we literally could not have seen before the invention of the frozen image. It has greatly expanded our notion of what is beautiful, what is aesthetically(审美上)pleasing. Items formerly considered trivial, and not worth an ar
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