高中英语外刊阅读语法填空October 15

1、高中英语外刊阅读语法填空october 151我们在与人交谈时，为什么很难保持眼神接触？it turns out we're not just awkward, our brains 1(actual) can't handle the tasks of thinking of the rightwords and focusing on a face at 2same time.the effect becomes more noticeable when someone is trying to come up with less familiar words, 3is t

2、hought touse the same mental resources as sustaining eye contact.scientists from tokyo university in japan put this to the test in 2016 by 4(have) 26 volunteers play wordassociation games while staring at computer-generated faces.when making eye contact, the participants found 5harder to come up wit

3、h links between words."although eye contact and verbal processing appear 6(independence), people frequently avert(避 开)theireyes from interlocutors (对话者) during conversation/' wrote the researchers."this suggests that there is interference（干扰）between these processes."the volunteers

4、 7（test） while looking at bothanimations of faces making eye contact and animations of faces looking away. they were also asked to think of links between easily associated words and words where there are a lot of competing associations.for example, thinking of a verb for 'knife' is relativel

5、y easy, because you can't do much more than cut or stab with one. coming up with 8associated verb for 'folder'（文件夫）isharder, considering you could open, close, or fill them.the volunteers took longer to think of words when they were making eye contact, but only when difficult word associ

6、ations were involved. the researchers suspect the hesitation 9（indicate） the brain is handling too muchinformation at once.in 2015, italian psychologist giovanni caputo demonstrated （证明）that staring into someone else's eyes for just 10 minutes induced （诱发） an altered state of consciousness. part

7、icipants saw hallucinations （幺7 < ） of monsters, their relatives, and even their own faces.it seems that a process 10（call） neural adaptationis the cause, where our brains gradually alter their response to a stimulus that doesn't change - so when you put your hand on a table, you immediately

8、feel itz but that feeling lessens （减弱）as you keep your hand there.and in the meantime, if someone looks away while they're talking to youz they might not be being rude - they could just have an overloaded cognitive system （认知 系统）.keys：1 actually 2 the 3 which 4 having 5 it 6 independent7 were te

9、sted 8 an 9 indicates 10 called2比萨斜塔为何能经历4次大地震而不倒？the secret behind the leaning tower of pisa surviving four earthquakesnew research has revealed how the iconic leaning towerof pisa has managed 1（stay） standing - and intact - in theface of four strong earthquakes and a precarious（不稳定的）lean of five d

10、egrees.the vulnerability（脆弱性）of the unesco world heritage site 2（confuse） engineers and scientists for millennia.moderate seismic activity was expected to 3（significant）damage the 58m tall tower, or even result in collapse but, incredibly, this has not happened.a research group of 16 engineers at th

11、e university of bristol has now discovered that the 4（consider） heightand stiffness（冈，度，硬度）of the tower, combined with the softness of the foundation soil, ensure it doesn't resonate （共鸣） with earthquake ground motion.this phenomenon is 5（know） as dynamicsoil-structure interaction （dssi）（动态相互作用）

12、and the tower now holds the auspicious （吉祥的）title of world record holder in b55i effects.''interestingly, the very same soil 6 caused theleaning instability and brought the tower to the verge（边缘）of collapse, can be credited for helping it survive these seismic （地震 6勺）events/1 said professor

13、mylonakis, head of the earthquake and geotechnical engineering research group at theuniversity of bristol.the tower continues to attract visitors keen to marvel at this remarkable architectural feat. 7(construct) on thetower began in 1173 and continued for about 200 years due to the onset of a serie

14、s of wars.multiple efforts to maintain the historic structure have occurred over the years. in the 1920s, the foundations were injected with cement grouting with the intention of stabilising the tower, while in 1990, a decision 8(make) tocompletely close the site to visitors due to fears it was at r

15、isk of toppling.it was the first time the tower 9(close) in 800years. it reopened again in 2001 and remains one of italy s most popular tourist 10(attraction).keys：1 to stay 2 has confused 3 significantly 4 considerable5 known 6 that 7 construction 8 was made9 had been closed 10 attractions3全球每年300万

16、人因吸烟过早死亡smoking down, but tobacco use still a major cause of death, disease - whofewer people are smoking worldwide, especially women, but only one country in eight is on track to meet a target of reducing tobacco use 1（significant） by 2025, the worldhealth organization （who） said on thursday.three

17、million people die prematurely（过早地）each year due to tobacco use that causes cardiovascular （心血管的） diseases such as heart attacks and stroke, the world's leading killers, it said, marking world no tobacco day. they include 890,0002 （death） through second-hand smokeexposure.the who clinched（缔结）a l

18、andmark treaty （标志性公约） in 2005, now ratified （批准生效）by 180 countries, that calls for a ban on tobacco advertising and sponsorship （赞助）z and taxes 3（discourage） use."the worldwide prevalence（流行率）of tobacco smoking has decreased from 27 percent in 2000 to 20 percent in 2016, so progress has been m

19、ade," douglas bettcher, director of the who's prevention of noncommunicable (非传染性)diseases department, told a news briefing.launching the who's global report on trends in prevalence of tobacco smoking, he said that industrialized countries are making 4(fast) progress than developingcoun

20、tries.progress in kicking the habit is uneven, with the america the only region set to meet the target of a 30 percent reduction in tobacco use by 2025 5(compare) to 2010, for both menand women, the who said.overall, tobacco kills more than 7 million a year and many people know that it increases the risk of cancer, the who said.but many tobacco users in china and india are 6(aware) of their increased risk of developing heartdisease and stroke, 7(make) it urgent to step upawareness c