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核心素养测评 二
必修1 Unit 2 English around the world
(限时35分钟)
Ⅰ. 阅读理解
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Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that sign languages are unique—a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to know how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy(争议): whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with, or whether it is a learned behavior. The present interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C. , the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people. When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school let him teach a course in signing. But Stokoe noticed something strange: among themselves, students signed differently from his classroom teacher.
Stokoe had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement
of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stokoe believed the “hand talk”his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was 1955. Stokoe’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).
It is 37 years later. Stokoe—now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture—is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that sign languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They thought language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. “What I said, ” Stokoe explains, “is that language is not mouth stuff—it’s brain stuff. ” 1. The study of sign language is thought to be ______. A. a new way to look at the learning of language
B. a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
C. an approach to make the grammatical structure of a language simple D. a try to clear misunderstanding about the use of language
【解析】选B。推理判断题。根据第一段的They offer a new way. . . or whether it is a learned behavior. 可知, 手语提供了一种新方法, 用以
探索大脑如何产生和理解语言, 并为一个长期以来的科学争端——语言(连同语法)究竟是我们与生俱来的, 还是一种我们后天学会的行为——提出了新的解释。故手语是对语言的性质的传统观点的挑战, 所以选B 。
2. The present growing interest in sign language was caused by ______. A. a famous scholar in the study of the human brain B. a leading specialist in the study of liberal arts C. an English teacher in a university for the deaf D. some senior experts in American Sign Language
【解析】选C。细节理解题。根据第一段的The present interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D. C. , the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people. 以及第二段的When Bill Stokoe went to Gallaudet to teach English可知, 现在对手语的兴趣是由Bill Stokoe, 一位教英语的老师激发的。故选C。
3. Most educators were against Stokoe’s idea because they thought ______.
A. sign language was not extensively used even by deaf people B. sign language was too artificial to be widely accepted C. a language should be easy to use and understand D. a language could only lie in the form of speech sounds
【解析】选D。推理判断题。根据最后一段的They thought language
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