16.Frederic Mishkin,who's been a professor at Columbia Business School for almost 30years,is good at solving problems and expressing ideas.Whether he's standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation,his hands are always waving and pointing.When he was in graduate school,one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professor's office.
It turns out,however,that Mishkin's professor had it exactly wrong.Gesture doesn't prevent but promotes clear thought and speech.Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we talk form a kind of second language,adding information that's absent from our words.It's learning's secret code:Gesture reveals what we know.It reveals what we don't know.What's more,the agreement (or lack of agreement) between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readiness to learn.
Many~f the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow,a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago."We change our minds by moving our hands,"writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work.Particularly significant are what she calls"mismatches"between oral expression and physical gestures.A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one,for example,but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate,which is correct.Such differences indicate that we're moving from one level of understanding to another.The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem we're working on; we can't yet absorb these concepts into language,but we can capture them in movement.
Goldin-Meadow's more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to
learn,but that it actually helps to bring learning about.It does so in two ways.First,it elicits (~) helpful behavior from others around us.Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction.Parents and teachers apparently receive the signal that children are ready to learn,and they act on it by offering a greater variety of problem-solving techniques.The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning,bringing new knowledge into consciousness and aiding the understanding of new concepts.A 2007study by Susan Wagner Cook,an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Iowa,reported that third-graders who were asked to gesture while learning algebra
 were nearly three times more likely to remember what they'd learned than classmates who did not gesture.
72.According to Paragraph 1,F(xiàn)rederic Mishkin was asked to sit on his hands becauseC
A.he could litter express his ideas that way
B.he always pointed his finger at his professor
C.his professor did not like his gesturing
D.his gestures prevented his professor from thinking
73.How is gesturing important in acquiring knowledge?A
A.It draws tasteful responses from others and increases learning speed.
B.It promotes second language learning and quickens thinking.
C.It provides significant clues for solving academic problems.
D.It reduces students'reliance on teachers'instruction.
74.What can be inferred from the passage about gesture-speech mismatches?B
A~They can stimulate our creativity.
B.Instructors should make full use of them.
C.Teachers can hardly explain new concepts without them.
D.They serve as a stepping stone to solving real life problems.
75.What could be the best title of the passage?D
A.Hand Motions,a Second Language      B.Gesturing:Signal of Understanding
C.New Uses of Gesturing                 D.The Secret Code of Learning.

分析 本文主要介紹了手勢(shì)在學(xué)習(xí)中的作用.Frederic Mishkin,是哥倫比亞大學(xué)商學(xué)院近30年的教授,善于解決問題和表達(dá)思想.無論他是站在演講廳前,還是在進(jìn)行一次隨意的談話,他的手總是揮舞著,指著. 下文具體介紹了手勢(shì)是如何在學(xué)習(xí)中發(fā)揮作用的.

解答 72 C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第一段one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturing that he made the young economist sit on his hands一個(gè)教授很惱火他持續(xù)不斷的手勢(shì),因此讓他坐在他的手上.意思與C項(xiàng)吻合,故答案是C.
73 A 細(xì)節(jié)理解題:根據(jù)第四段Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction戈丁草甸發(fā)現(xiàn),成人通過調(diào)整他們的教學(xué)方式對(duì)孩子的語言姿勢(shì)錯(cuò)配做出反應(yīng);The act of gesturing itself also seems to quicken learning手勢(shì)的動(dòng)作本身似乎也加快學(xué)習(xí).故答案是A.
74 B 推測(cè)理解題:根據(jù)第四段Goldin-Meadow has found that adults respond to children's speech-gesture mismatches by adjusting their way of instruction戈丁草甸發(fā)現(xiàn),成人通過調(diào)整他們的教學(xué)方式對(duì)孩子的語言姿勢(shì)錯(cuò)配做出反應(yīng).即教師應(yīng)該充分利用這些手勢(shì).故答案是B.
75 D 大意歸納題:根據(jù)第二段It's learning's secret code:Gesture reveals what we know.It reveals what we don't know這是學(xué)習(xí)的秘密代碼:手勢(shì)揭示我們所知道的,它揭示了我們不知道的.通讀全文得知本文具體介紹了手勢(shì)是如何在學(xué)習(xí)中發(fā)揮作用的.故答案是D.

點(diǎn)評(píng) 本文篇幅長(zhǎng),詞匯復(fù)雜,句子較長(zhǎng),因此難度較大.結(jié)合本文,對(duì)考生閱讀理解提出以下要求:1.不但要求掌握所讀材料的主旨大意、中心思想,而且要求掌握文章中的詳細(xì)事實(shí)與細(xì)節(jié). 2.不但要求對(duì)于具體事實(shí)情節(jié)的理解,而且要求對(duì)其抽象含義的理解,既要理解字面意思,又要理解其深層含義,包括作者的態(tài)度、觀點(diǎn)、意圖等. 3.既要求理解文章中某句、某段的含義及全文的邏輯關(guān)系,又要求根據(jù)其含義及邏輯關(guān)系進(jìn)行判斷和推理. 4.既要求考生能夠運(yùn)用材料中的信息去理解、分析問題;又要求考生能運(yùn)用中學(xué)生應(yīng)有的生活常識(shí)去分析、理解問題.

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When it arrived,she already had a (45)Aprepared to plant it.She planted it at the back of her yard.It grew well,with beautiful green leaves all over it,(46)Dthere were no blooms.Day after day she continued to water it,feed it,and she even talked to it trying to make it bloom.However,it was (47)B.
One morning weeks later,when standing before the vine,she felt very(48)Cthat her plant had not bloomed.She was giving thought to (49)Bit down and planting something else in its place.
It was at this point that her neighbor,whose (50)Djoined hers,called over to her."Thank you so much!You can't imagine how much I have (51)Athe blooms of that vine you planted."The young woman walked (52)Athe gate into her neighbor's yard,and sure enough,she saw that on the other side of the wall the vine was (53)Cwith blooms.
There were indeed the most beautiful blooms she had(54)Bseen.The vine had grown through the crevices(縫隙) and it had not flowered on (55)Cside of the wall,but it had flowered on the other side.
Sometimes one may not see the good result of his effort,but that doesn't mean it isn't successful.

41.A.lookB.careC.searchD.pay
42.A.learnedB.heardC.orderedD.borrowed
43.A.seenB.smeltC.soldD.picked
44.A.finallyB.carefullyC.suddenlyD.immediately
45.A.placeB.boxC.cupD.room
46.A.a(chǎn)ndB.soC.orD.but
47.A.endlessB.uselessC.successfulD.hopeful
48.A.excitedB.nervousC.sadD.frightened
49.A.puttingB.cuttingC.turningD.taking
50.A.balconyB.kitchenC.bedroomD.yard
51.A.enjoyedB.dreamedC.expectedD.hated
52.A.throughB.a(chǎn)crossC.a(chǎn)boveD.below
53.A.satisfiedB.connectedC.filledD.pleased
54.A.neverB.everC.seldomD.usually
55.A.itsB.hisC.herD.their.

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