单选题Why is a woman better at learning foreign languages than a man?A The area of the left side of a woman’s brain for language learning develops better than that of a man’s.B The right side of a woman’s brain for language develops better than that of a man
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单选题
Why is a woman better at learning foreign languages than a man?
A
The area of the left side of a woman’s brain for language learning develops better than that of a man’s.
B
The right side of a woman’s brain for language develops better than that of a man’s.
C
The area of the left side of a woman’s brain for feelings develops better than that of a man’s.
D
The area of the right side of a woman’s brain fit for seeing in the dark develops better than that of a man’s.
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正确答案：
D
解析：
由题干中关键词learning foreign languages对原文进行定位。根据文章可知人类左半脑发展数学、言语、阅读等，“In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. (男女左右半脑不同区域发展情况不同。)，而后对此进行举例“In boys, for example, it is the area for mathematics；and in girls it is the area for language learning that develops better”（男孩数学区域发展较好，女孩语言区域发展较好)。这里需要注意例子中比较级的使用。由此可知，女孩子左半脑掌管语言的区域要比男孩子的发展的好。所以A项是正确答案。
【录音原文】
Do you believe that men and women think differently? Many people say no. They say men and women are born with exactly the same abilities to think and learn. They think social life affects their ways of thinking.
In the past ten years, many scientists have studied the differences between men and women and they all got the same conclusion：men and women are different because their brains are different and this makes men and women see the world in different ways. Boys, for example, are generally better than girls at mathematical ideas involving objects and their relationships. Boys also are generally faster in response than girls of hand and eye movements in ball games. Girls, on the other hand, generally start speaking earlier and can see better in the dark and are better at learning foreign language than boys.
What makes men and women better at one thing or another? The answer is the brain. The brain has two sides. The nerves on the left side are for mathematics, speech, reading, etc, while those on the right side are for artistic creation and other senses. In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. In boys, for example, it is the area for mathematics；and in girls it is the area for language learning that develops better. Another interesting difference is that the two sides of a man’s brain are interconnected by a smaller number of nerves than in the case of a woman, so the flow of information between them is more limited Scientists think this affects some of our abilities.
由题干中关键词learning foreign languages对原文进行定位。根据文章可知人类左半脑发展数学、言语、阅读等，“In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. (男女左右半脑不同区域发展情况不同。)，而后对此进行举例“In boys, for example, it is the area for mathematics；and in girls it is the area for language learning that develops better”（男孩数学区域发展较好，女孩语言区域发展较好)。这里需要注意例子中比较级的使用。由此可知，女孩子左半脑掌管语言的区域要比男孩子的发展的好。所以A项是正确答案。
【录音原文】
Do you believe that men and women think differently? Many people say no. They say men and women are born with exactly the same abilities to think and learn. They think social life affects their ways of thinking.
In the past ten years, many scientists have studied the differences between men and women and they all got the same conclusion：men and women are different because their brains are different and this makes men and women see the world in different ways. Boys, for example, are generally better than girls at mathematical ideas involving objects and their relationships. Boys also are generally faster in response than girls of hand and eye movements in ball games. Girls, on the other hand, generally start speaking earlier and can see better in the dark and are better at learning foreign language than boys.
What makes men and women better at one thing or another? The answer is the brain. The brain has two sides. The nerves on the left side are for mathematics, speech, reading, etc, while those on the right side are for artistic creation and other senses. In men and women, different areas in each side of the brain develop differently. In boys, for example, it is the area for mathematics；and in girls it is the area for language learning that develops better. Another interesting difference is that the two sides of a man’s brain are interconnected by a smaller number of nerves than in the case of a woman, so the flow of information between them is more limited Scientists think this affects some of our abilities.
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第1题：
Russian really is hard for lcarners, and a casual comparison might serve the conclusion that big, prestigious languages like Russian are complex. Just look, after all, at their rich, technical vocabularies, and the complex industrial societies that they serve.
But linguists who have compared languages systematically are struck by the opposite conclusion.
This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary,Consider Berik, spoken in a few villages in eastern Papua. It may not have a word for“supernova”, but it drips with complex rules: a mandatory verb ending tells what time of day the action occurred, and another indicates the size of the direet object. Of
course these things can be said in English, but Berik requires them. Remote socictics may be materially simplc;“primitive”", their languages are not.
Systematically so: a study in 2010 of thousands of tongucs found that smaller languages have more Berik-style grammatical bits and pieces attached to words. By contrast, bigger ones tend to be like English or Mandarin, in which words change their form lttle ifat all. No one knows why, but a likely culprit is the very scale and ubiquity of such widely travelled languages.
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will- Stalin-style- ignore some of the niceties where they can. If those newcomers have children, the children will often learn a slightly simpler version of the language from their parents.
But a new study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has found that it is not entirely foreigners and their sloppy ways that are to blame for languages becoming simpler. Merely being bigger was enough. The researchers, Limor Raviv, Antje Meyer and Shiri Lev-Ari, asked 12 groups of four strangers and 12 groups of eight to invent languages to describe a group of moving shapes on the screen. They were told that the goal was to rack up points for communicating successfully over 16 rounds. (They“talked" by keyboard and were forbidden to use their native language, Dutch.)
Over time both big and small groups got better at making themselves understood,but the bigger ones did so by crcating more systematic languages as they interacted,with fewer idiosyncrasies. The rescarchers suppose that this is because the members of the larger groups had fewer interactions with each other member, this put pressureon them to come up with clear patterns. Smaller groups could afford quirkierlanguages, because their members got to“know”cach other better.
Ncither the more systematic nor the more idiosyncratic languages were“better",given group size: the small and large groups communicated equally well. But the work provides evidence that an idiosyncratic language is best suited to a small group with rich shared history, As the language spreads, it nceds to become more
predictablc.
Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built- and lost. As groups grow, the need for systematic rules becomes greater, unlearnable in-group-speak with random variation won't do. But languages develop more rules than they need; as they are learned by foreign speakers joining the group. some of these get stripped away. This can explain why pairs of closely related languages - Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English- differ in grammatical complexity. In each couple, the former language is both smaller and more isolated. Systematicity is required for growth. Lost complexity is the cost of foreigners learming your language. It is the price of success.
What is the main finding of the study conducted by Max Plank Institute?A. Bigger groups of speakers tend to make the language system simpler.
B. It is the foreign people learning that language makes it become simpler.
C. The small groups got better at communicating with each other at the end.
D. Members in bigger groups have more chances to interact with each other.答案：A解析：细节理解题。由第六段第一句可知“大组通过交流创造出了更系统的、更具有普遍性的语言，不完全归咎于外来学习者。”故A项正确，B项错误。由第六段第二句可知“大组的成员各个成员之间交流较少",故D项错误。由第七段第一句可知“就不同小组规模而言，两者都能良好沟通。"故C项错误。所以答案选A。 -
第2题：
Russian really is hard for lcarners, and a casual comparison might serve the conclusion that big, prestigious languages like Russian are complex. Just look, after all, at their rich, technical vocabularies, and the complex industrial societies that they serve.
But linguists who have compared languages systematically are struck by the opposite conclusion.
This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary,Consider Berik, spoken in a few villages in eastern Papua. It may not have a word for“supernova”, but it drips with complex rules: a mandatory verb ending tells what time of day the action occurred, and another indicates the size of the direet object. Of
course these things can be said in English, but Berik requires them. Remote socictics may be materially simplc;“primitive”", their languages are not.
Systematically so: a study in 2010 of thousands of tongucs found that smaller languages have more Berik-style grammatical bits and pieces attached to words. By contrast, bigger ones tend to be like English or Mandarin, in which words change their form lttle ifat all. No one knows why, but a likely culprit is the very scale and ubiquity of such widely travelled languages.
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will- Stalin-style- ignore some of the niceties where they can. If those newcomers have children, the children will often learn a slightly simpler version of the language from their parents.
But a new study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has found that it is not entirely foreigners and their sloppy ways that are to blame for languages becoming simpler. Merely being bigger was enough. The researchers, Limor Raviv, Antje Meyer and Shiri Lev-Ari, asked 12 groups of four strangers and 12 groups of eight to invent languages to describe a group of moving shapes on the screen. They were told that the goal was to rack up points for communicating successfully over 16 rounds. (They“talked" by keyboard and were forbidden to use their native language, Dutch.)
Over time both big and small groups got better at making themselves understood,but the bigger ones did so by crcating more systematic languages as they interacted,with fewer idiosyncrasies. The rescarchers suppose that this is because the members of the larger groups had fewer interactions with each other member, this put pressureon them to come up with clear patterns. Smaller groups could afford quirkierlanguages, because their members got to“know”cach other better.
Ncither the more systematic nor the more idiosyncratic languages were“better",given group size: the small and large groups communicated equally well. But the work provides evidence that an idiosyncratic language is best suited to a small group with rich shared history, As the language spreads, it nceds to become more
predictablc.
Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built- and lost. As groups grow, the need for systematic rules becomes greater, unlearnable in-group-speak with random variation won't do. But languages develop more rules than they need; as they are learned by foreign speakers joining the group. some of these get stripped away. This can explain why pairs of closely related languages - Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English- differ in grammatical complexity. In each couple, the former language is both smaller and more isolated. Systematicity is required for growth. Lost complexity is the cost of foreigners learming your language. It is the price of success.
What is the author's main purpose of writing this article?
A. To explain why bigger languages have simpler grammar.
B. To inform readers the evolvement process of languages.
C. To introduce the systematic and idiosyncratic languages.
D. To compare the differences between Berik and English.答案：A解析：主旨大意题。全文用俄语学习引出话题，通过对比Berik语和其他大语种以及荷兰的MaxPlanck心理语言学研究院的研究，旨在说明“为什么说的人越多的语言，语法反而越简单?"所以答案选A。 -
第3题：
She has a great capacity for learning languages.A: capability
B: possibility
C: space
D:power答案：A解析：句意：她在学习语言上能力很强。四个选项中：capacity意为“能力”。capability意为“能力”; possibility意为“可能性”; space意为“空间”。power意为“权力”。和A项意义相近，故选A项。 -
第4题：
Why is listening important in learning English?
Listening is important mainly for two reasons. First, we cannot develop speaking skills unless we also develop listening skills. To have a successful conversation, students must understand what is said to them. Later the ability to understand spoken English may become very important. Second, listening to spoken English is an important way of acquiring the language, while in our situation the students do not hear English spoken around them, so it is important for us to give our students as much opportunity as possible to listen to spoken English.
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第5题：
（）is the study of second and foreign language teaching and learning.
Applied linguistics
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第6题：
单选题Our department（）courses in several foreign languages.Aaccepts
Bconsiders
Coffers
Dtakes
正确答案： C解析： 暂无解析 -
第7题：
单选题The author’s statement regarding how artists use the languages of art implies that _____.Aartists are better equipped than art historians to provide detailed evaluations of other artist’s work
Bmany artists have an unusually quick, intuitive understanding of language
Cartists can produce works of art even if they cannot analyze their methods of doing so
Dartists of the past, such as Giotto, were better educated about artistic issues than were artists of the author’s time
正确答案： B解析：
文章最后一句：艺术的语言是既明显又神秘，艺术家可以并不需要知道它的语法和语义就运用，就像我们使用语言一样。但其他人很少知道。由此可知，艺术家是比那些艺术历史学家更懂得如何去欣赏其他艺术作品。 -
第8题：
单选题More and more Chinese are learning foreign languages, ______English.Apreviously
Bpredominantly
Cpractically
Dpermanently
正确答案： A解析： -
第9题：
多选题Identify three reasons that explain why assigning more than one managed serve achieve better performance than running one managed server with more resources?（）AThread management inside the JVM process might be less effective than context switching between processes on the OS level. It is better to combine both these technologies to achieve full saturation of resources.
BCurrent CPUs are multicore units. So starting managed servers in the amount of physical cores and pinning them 1:1 to cores will always get the best performance.
CBy a combination of prioritization of processes on the OS level and Work Manager in WLS, one could tune the whole environment more precisely.
DAssigning more than one managed server to hardware will never bring better performance.
EMore instances means more connections to databases, so one could serve more concurrent calls on the database level. This is primarily why this approach will give better performance numbers.
FDepending on the profile of the application, having more JVMs with smaller heaps will lead to more predictable response times than fewer JVMs with a large heap.
正确答案： F,A解析： 暂无解析 -
第10题：
问答题Why do we say assessment has great backwash effects on foreign language teaching and learning?正确答案： Both positive and negative backwash effects. Assessment can provide teachers with feedback for lesson planning and remedial work. Students can also get information about their learning and progress, therefore have a sense of achievement. Through assessment they get to know their problems and areas for further study and improvement. However, inappropriate assessment can cause worries, discourage weak students, emphasis on grades instead of on abilities and competence, etc.解析： 暂无解析 -
第11题：
问答题Your class has recently had a discussion about learning a foreign language. For homework, your teacher has asked you to write a composition of no fewer than 120 words, giving your opinion about the following statement: The best way to learn a foreign language is to study it in the country where it is spoken. Please write your composition on the Answer Sheet.正确答案：
The Best Way to Learn a Foreign LanguageWe have had a discussion about whether the best way to learn a foreign language is to study it in the country where it is spoken in class recently. Some of my classmates believe that to study the language in the country where it is spoken is the best way to learn a foreign language. And some think going abroad is not necessary the best way to learn a foreign language. In my opinion, the best way to learn a foreign language is to study it in an environment of that language. And it does not matter whether we go to the country where it is spoken or not yet.
First of all, a foreign language environment is very important in language learning. If we have a friend who speaks that language we want to learn as his or her mother tongue, it will be effective in language learning through chatting with him or her in that language. Learning a foreign language conversationally can help us improve our listening and comprehensive competences as well as our oral language in the same time.
Second, we can build a foreign language environment even if we are not living in the country where the language is spoken. Making a foreign friend is a good way. Besides, joining a salon of that language and chatting with other foreign language learners in that foreign language and participating in various activities about language learning are all useful in building a foreign language environment. And there are many fairly good language software programs and language learning websites on line, which we can have an access to them easily.
In a word, the best way to learn a foreign language is not definitely to study the language in the country where it is spoken. Instead, it is to build a foreign language environment around us and make great efforts in language learning.解析： 暂无解析 -
第12题：
单选题Why does Seattle have a better survival rate of cardiac arrest than other cities?APeople in Seattle are probably better off than people in many other states.
BSeattle participates in a government-funded medical research network.
CAll medical centers in Seattle are the most high-powered.
DSeattle tracks outcomes of cardiac-arrest cases to judge their performance.
正确答案： D解析：
推理判断题。由题干信息定位至第四、五、六段。这三段分别介绍了西雅图高存活率的原因：tracks outcomes of cardiac-arrest cases，an exceptionally well-organized EMS system，well informed about what to do in the case of such an emergency，故正确答案是D。 -
第13题：
Russian really is hard for lcarners, and a casual comparison might serve the conclusion that big, prestigious languages like Russian are complex. Just look, after all, at their rich, technical vocabularies, and the complex industrial societies that they serve.
But linguists who have compared languages systematically are struck by the opposite conclusion.
This is largely because linguists, unlike laypeople, focus on grammar, not vocabulary,Consider Berik, spoken in a few villages in eastern Papua. It may not have a word for“supernova”, but it drips with complex rules: a mandatory verb ending tells what time of day the action occurred, and another indicates the size of the direet object. Of
course these things can be said in English, but Berik requires them. Remote socictics may be materially simplc;“primitive”", their languages are not.
Systematically so: a study in 2010 of thousands of tongucs found that smaller languages have more Berik-style grammatical bits and pieces attached to words. By contrast, bigger ones tend to be like English or Mandarin, in which words change their form lttle ifat all. No one knows why, but a likely culprit is the very scale and ubiquity of such widely travelled languages.
As a language spreads, more foreigners come to learn it as adults (thanks to conquest and trade, for example). Since languages are more complex than they need to be, many of those adult learners will- Stalin-style- ignore some of the niceties where they can. If those newcomers have children, the children will often learn a slightly simpler version of the language from their parents.
But a new study, conducted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics at Nijmegen in the Netherlands, has found that it is not entirely foreigners and their sloppy ways that are to blame for languages becoming simpler. Merely being bigger was enough. The researchers, Limor Raviv, Antje Meyer and Shiri Lev-Ari, asked 12 groups of four strangers and 12 groups of eight to invent languages to describe a group of moving shapes on the screen. They were told that the goal was to rack up points for communicating successfully over 16 rounds. (They“talked" by keyboard and were forbidden to use their native language, Dutch.)
Over time both big and small groups got better at making themselves understood,but the bigger ones did so by crcating more systematic languages as they interacted,with fewer idiosyncrasies. The rescarchers suppose that this is because the members of the larger groups had fewer interactions with each other member, this put pressureon them to come up with clear patterns. Smaller groups could afford quirkierlanguages, because their members got to“know”cach other better.
Ncither the more systematic nor the more idiosyncratic languages were“better",given group size: the small and large groups communicated equally well. But the work provides evidence that an idiosyncratic language is best suited to a small group with rich shared history, As the language spreads, it nceds to become more
predictablc.
Taken with previous studies, the new research offers a two-part answer to why grammar rules are built- and lost. As groups grow, the need for systematic rules becomes greater, unlearnable in-group-speak with random variation won't do. But languages develop more rules than they need; as they are learned by foreign speakers joining the group. some of these get stripped away. This can explain why pairs of closely related languages - Tajik and Persian, Icelandic and Swedish, Frisian and English- differ in grammatical complexity. In each couple, the former language is both smaller and more isolated. Systematicity is required for growth. Lost complexity is the cost of foreigners learming your language. It is the price of success.
Which of the following statements about the more systematic. and more idiosyncratic language is correct?A. When a language becomes more widely-spoken, it becomes more idiosyncratic,
B. A more systematic language works better than a more idiosyncratic language.
C. A more systematic language facilitates communication a large population.
D. People develop more rules than it is needed when learning a new language.答案：C解析：推理判断题。由文章最后一句可知“语言的成长需要系统性。丧失掉复杂性是外来者学习语言的代价，也是语言传播成功的代价。”故C项正确“更加系统化的语言在人口众多的环境下更能促进交流”。所以答案选C。 -
第14题：
According to the letter, why is bus travel better than air travel?A.Airline schedules are not reliable
B.Bus travel is less dangerous
C.Airplane seats are not comfortable
D.Buses run more frequently答案：A解析：第二段第三句指出，坐飞机旅行的不便包括办理登机手续和航班延误。 -
第15题：
The facilities of the older hotel__________.A.is as good or better than the new hotel
B.are as good or better than the new hotel
C.is as good as or better than that of the new hotel
D.are as good as or better than those of the new hotel答案：D解析：【考情点拨】考查主谓一致和比较级的用法。【应试指导】句意：那家旧些的旅馆的设施和新旅馆的设施一样好，或旧旅馆的设施比新旅馆的设施更好。主语facilities为复数，首先排除A、C两项。B项的比较对象不妥当，D项为比较级正确形式。 -
第16题：
Why do we say assessment has great backwash effects on foreign language teaching and learning?
Both positive and negative backwash effects. Assessment can provide teachers with feedback for lesson planning and remedial work. Students can also get information about their learning and progress, therefore have a sense of achievement. Through assessment they get to know their problems and areas for further study and improvement. However, inappropriate assessment can cause worries, discourage weak students, emphasis on grades instead of on abilities and competence, etc.
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第17题：
Why does RSTP have a better convergence time than 802.1D？（）
- A、it is newer
- B、it has smaller timers
- C、it has less overhead
- D、it is not timer-based
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第18题：
单选题Why does RSTP have a better convergence time than 802.1D？（）Ait is newer
Bit has smaller timers
Cit has less overhead
Dit is not timer-based
正确答案： C解析： 暂无解析 -
第19题：
单选题His inability to learn foreign languages was a(n（）to his career.Aobjection
Bdefect
Cobstacle
Ddepression
正确答案： C解析： 暂无解析 -
第20题：
单选题AShe thinks she needs more acting experience.
BShe is excited about learning new acting skills.
CShe thinks she is not very skilled at acting.
DShe thinks she is better at acting than directing.
正确答案： C解析：
录音中，女士说到“我在高中时上过表演课程，但是我一到台上就很糟糕”，所以本题选C。 -
第21题：
单选题The experience of foreign countries is worth learning from and taking for reference.Alearning and reference
Bour learning and our reference
Cour learning from and taking for reference
Dour learning and make reference to
正确答案： D解析：
固定搭配题。句意：外国的经验值得我们学习和借鉴。be worth (doing) sth.意为“值得去做”。在本句中的something应该是”我们学习和借鉴“，所以答案为选项C。 -
第22题：
单选题Why does the woman compare human memory to a hard disc drive?ABecause both can be wiped out by accidents.
BBecause both can be trained to work better.
CBecause both can be expanded.
正确答案： B解析： 对话中提到like a hard disc drive, our memories can become infected or even wiped out by accidents，意为：像硬盘驱动器一样，我们的记忆也会被感染，甚至也会因意外事故被抹掉，因此A项为正确答案。 -
第23题：
单选题According to the letter, why is bus travel better than air travel?AAirline schedules are not reliable.
BBus travel is less dangerous.
CAirplane seats are not comfortable.
DBuses run more frequently.
正确答案： A解析：
从第2段第3句without all the check-in hassles and flight delays可知坐飞机旅行要办理登机手续，还要忍受航班延误，故选A。