MacArthur, told me they had already hired an announcer.
As I left his office, my frustration boiled over. I asked aloud, “How can a fellow get to be a sports announcer if he can’t get a job in a radio station?” I was waiting for the elevator
when
I
heard
MacArthur calling, “What was that you said about sports? Do you
know
anything
about
football?” Then he stood me before a microphone and asked me to broadcast an imaginary game. The preceding autumn, my team had won a game in the last 20 seconds with a 65-yard run. I did a 15-minute boost to that play, and Peter told me I
would be broadcasting
Saturday’s game!
On my way home, as I have had many times since, I thought of my mother’s words, “If you carry on, one day, something good will happen. It wouldn’t have happened if not for that previous disappointment.” 28. Which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. The author graduated from college in the 1930s.
B. The author’s dream job was a sports announcer.
C. The author was refused by every radio station across the country.
D.
The
author
was
considered unqualified because
of his lack of experience. 29. What does the underlined phrase
“boil
over”
(in
paragraph 5) most probably mean?
A. To pass on some evil emotions.
B. To become
overwhelming.
C.
To
be turned
into
calmness.
D. To break
down.
30. What can be inferred from the passage?
A. The author was given a car by his father after he failed his first-ever job interview.
B.
The
author’s
mom
always advised him to learn from his failures.
C. Peter MacArthur, the
program director of WOC Radio, turned down the author for his lack of flexibility.
D. Peter MacArthur was able to recognize the talent of the author as a sports announcer. 31. What lesson can be drawn
from the author’s experience in the passage?
A. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
B. Practice makes perfect. C. No pain, no gain.
D. The early bird catches the worm.
D
Analogical ability — the ability to see common relations between objects, events or ideas — is a key skill that underlies human
intelligence
and differentiates humans
from
other apes.
While there is considerable evidence that preschoolers can learn
abstract
relations,
it
remains an open question whether infants (婴儿) can as well. In a new Northwestern University study, researchers found that infants are capable of learning the abstract relations of sameness and difference after only a few examples.
“This suggests that a skill key to human intelligence is present very early in human development and that language skills are not necessary for learning abstract relations,” said lead author Alissa Ferry, who conducted the research at Northwestern.
To trace the origins of relational thinking in infants, the researchers
tested
whether
seven- month-old infants could understand the simplest and most basic abstract relation — that of sameness and difference between two things. Infants were shown pairs of items that were either the same — two
Elmo dolls — or different — an Elmo doll and a toy camel — until their looking time declined.
In the test process, the infants looked longer at pairs showing the novel (新奇的) relation, even when the test pairs were composed of new objects. In other words, infants who had learned the same relation looked longer at test pairs showing the different relation during the test. This suggests that the infants had noticed the abstract relation and found when the relation changed.
“We found that infants are capable
of
learning
these
relations,” said Ferry, now doing post-doctoral research at the International School for Advanced
Studies
in
Italy.
“Additionally, infants exhibit the same patterns of learning as older children and adults — relational learning benefits from seeing multiple examples of the relation and is blocked when attention is drawn to the individual objects composing the relation.”
Susan Hespos, a co-author of the study and associate professor of psychology at Northwestern’s
Weinberg
College of Arts and Sciences, said, “We show that infants can
form abstract relations before they learn the words that describe relations, meaning that relational learning in humans does not require language and is a fundamental human skill of its own.”
32. How do the infants show they recognize the sameness or difference between two things?
A.
By
looking
at
the
difference longer.
B.
By
describing
the
difference happily.
C.
By
smiling
at
the
difference.
D. By crying at the difference loudly.
33. What does the underlined word “fundamental” (in the last paragraph) mean?
A. Basic.
B. Evident.
C. Useful.
D.
Complicated.
34. What can we infer from the passage?
A. Apes have analogical ability.
B. Infants have difficulty gaining analogical ability.
C. Scientists have done little research on analogical ability.
D. Infants learn words later than analogical ability.
35. What is the passage mainly about?
山西省太原市第五中学2020届高三英语上学期10月月考试题
