广东省湛江市2024-2025学年高一上学期期末调研考试英语试卷（图片版，无答案）

8.What does Song Jing do as a"book doctor"
A.Repairs old books.
B.Writes historical books.
C.Appreciates cultural heritage.
D.Collects information about historical events.
9.What can we learn about Yongle Dadian from paragraph 2
A.It is not in good shape.
B.It is a music book of Ming Dynasty.
C.Its restoration work has been finished.
D.It takes about six months to repair the books.
10.Which of the following words best describe Song Jing
A.Patient and outgoing.
B.Devoted and skillful.
C.Generous and curious.
D.Smart and warm-hearted.
11.What does Song think of her job according to the last paragraph
A、Hard.
B.Boring.
C.Well-paid.
D.Meaningful.
D
When leamning a foreign language,most people fall back on traditional ways:reading,
writing,listening and repeating.But Brian Mathias'research team found out that if you
gesture()with your arms while studying,you can remember the vocabulary better,even
months later.
As Mathias describes,they had 22 German-speaking adults learn a total of 90 invented
words over four days.While the test subjects first heard the new vocabulary,they were shown a
video of a person making a gesture that matched the meaning of the word.When the word was
repeated,the subjects performed the gesture themselves.Five months later,they were asked to
translate the vocabulary they had learned into German.At the same time,they had equipment
attached to their heads that sent weak distracting signals to their primary motor cortex(
)-the brain area that controls voluntary arm movements.Those who performed better on
the task showed a higher level of activity in their motor cortex.The researchers concluded that
the motor cortex contributed to the translation of the vocabulary learned with gestures.The
effect did not occur when the subjects were only presented with matching pictures instead of
gestures.
Another research group led by Leipzig had young adults and eight-year-old children listen
to new vocabulary for five days,paired with matching pictures or videos of gestures.After two
months,the two methods were still equally effective.But after six months,the adults benefited
more from the gestures than the pictures,while the children were helped equally by both.
But it is not only the motor cortex itself that promotes learning.The meaning expressed by
the gesture also figures in,"I think we underuse gesture in our classrooms,"Goldin-Meadow
says."Good teachers and good listeners use it,but not always in a systematic way.Others don't
necessarily bring it into the class-and it could be used more often and more effectively."
12.What do we know according to Brian Mathias'research
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