1、【 精品教育资源文库 】 Body language . 阅读理解 A (2018 福州市高三毕业班适应性练习 ) In this day and age, it may seem that getting two people with different views together to discuss them is a recipe for disaster. Just think about what would happen if you sat down and had an open and honest conversation with someone with com
2、pletely opposing views. Could it bring you closer together? However, the Human Library organization is counting on it. At a Human Library, people volunteer to become “books” and make their experiences open and available. “R eaders” are encouraged to ask them questions freely, and theyll get honest a
3、nswers in return. There are no judgments, and no questions that are off limits. You wont find unpleasant comments, and you wont lose faith in humanity. At the Human Library, you actually feel better about the world you live in. You might even make a new friend! “The human books consist of people who
4、 have been discriminated by society ， ” said Ronni Abergel, the Human Library organizations founder, who has set out to build space for conversations that can challenge prejudices through dialogue. “The most pleasantly surprising thing about it is how close all the human books become to one another，
5、 ” he said. Human Libraries help to remind us there really is more, what unites us than divides us. And as events now spread throughout 82 countries, with the Human Libraries even set to launch soon in Pakistan and Jordan, you can tell that is a shared feeling. “We can spend billions and billions on
6、 trying to build up homeland security and our safety, but real safety comes from having positive relations to other groups in your community， ” said Abergel. “Real safety is not going to come from building walls. Its going to come from reaching out and getting to know each other.” 【文章大意】 本文是一篇说明文，主
7、要介绍了 Human Library 组织的发展、主旨和活动。 【难句分析】 “The human books consist of people who have been discriminated by society， ”said Ronni Abergel, the Human Library organizations founder, who has set out to build space for conversations that can challenge prejudices through dialogue.(第五段第一句 ) 分析：该句为主从复合句。句中 “wh
8、o has set out to build space for conversations that can challenge prejudices through dialogue” 为 who 引导的非限制性定语从句，补充说明先行词 Ronni Abergel；在该定语从句中， “that can challenge prejudices through dialogue” 为 that 引导的定语从句，修饰先行词 conversations。 译文： Ronni Abergel 说： “ 真人书是由被社会歧视的人组成的。 ”Abergel 是 Human Library 组织的创始人
9、，他已经开始为能通过对话来挑战偏见的交谈建立空间。 1. What does the first paragraph imply? A Heated discussions are often carried out among people. B Open dialogue cant always lead to close relations. C People with opposing views are not honest enough. 【 精品教育资源文库 】 D We tend to have open dialogue with people around us. 答案与
10、解析： B考查推理判断。根据第一段第一句 “In this day and age ， it may seem that getting two people with different views together to discuss them is a recipe for disaster.” 可知，让两个 持有不同观点的人来讨论他们的观点似乎是一种灾难。据此可以判断，开放交谈并不总是能让关系亲密，故 B 项正确。 2 What will readers get at a Human Library? A A fair judgment. B Unpleasant comments.
11、 C An available experience. D Regaining confidence. 答案与解析 ： D考查细节理解。根据第四段第二句 “At the Human Library, you actually feel better about the world you live in.” 可知 ， 在真人图书馆 ， 你会感觉到你所生活的世界更加美好 ， 从而恢复自信。故 D 项正确。 3 Which of the following can replace the underlined “launch” in Para. 6 in meaning? A Accelerate
12、. B Substitute. C Succeed. D Start. 答案与解析： D考查词义猜测。根据第六段第二句中的 “And as event s now spread throughout 82 countries, with the Human Libraries even set to launch soon in Pakistan and Jordan” 可知，随着该活动在 82 个国家开展， Human Library 甚至将很快在巴基斯坦和约旦启动。据此可以判断，画线词意为 “ 开始，启动 ” ，故 D 项正确。 4 What did Abergel advise peop
13、le to do to get real safety? A Strengthen bonds between people. B Join other groups in the community. C Pull down walls between communities. D Spend less money on homeland security. 答案与解析： A 考查细节理解。根据第七段最后 Abergel所说的话 “Real safety is not going to come from building walls. Its going to come from reac
14、hing out and getting to know each other” 可知， Abergel 认为，真正的安全不是来自建筑城墙，而是来自伸出援手和相互了解，故 A 项正确。 B (2018 江西赣中南五校高三第一次联合考试 ) Before I studied psychology, I used to think that people would laugh when funny things occurred. While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological fa
15、ctors that make people laugh other than the funny part of a joke. When someone laughs at a joke, there will usually be more than one reason that makes him laugh and the more reasons there are, the more powerful the joke will be. I was attending a standup comedy show in Egypt, and when the man starte
16、d to make fun of pedestrians crossing streets, everyone laughed their heads off. The main reason why those people strongly laughed was that almost all of them felt angry towards pedestrians who crossed streets carelessly. The joke wasnt only funny, but it also made the audience feel that they were r
17、ight about being angry at those pedestrians. That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psychological support they got. The better a joke makes a person feel, and the more it includes other psychological factors, the more
18、the person will like it. For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you werent jealous of him.(第三段最后一句 ) 【 精品教育资源文库 】 In short, we dont laugh only when w
19、e hear something funny; we also laugh when we experience some kind of happiness that results from the other psychological factors involved in the joke. I strongly discourage you from making fun of anyone or belittling someone to make someone else laugh. All I want to explain is that if your joke sup
20、ports a persons emotions, he will certainly like it a lot. 【文章大意】 本文主要分析了人们笑的原因。 【难句分析】 For example, if you envy one of your friends, and someone tells a joke that is funny and, at the same time, makes your friend seem stupid, then you will probably laugh at it louder than if you werent jealous of h
21、im. 分析：本句是一个复合句。第一个 if 引导条件状语从句； that 引导定语从句，在从句中作主语，修饰先行词 a joke；第二个 if 引导虚拟条件句。 译文：譬如，如果你妒忌你的一个朋友，有人讲了一个有趣同时让你朋友看起来傻乎乎的笑话，那么你有可能比你不妒忌他时笑得更大声。 5. What did the author find out about studying psychology? A Only good jokes make people laugh. B Many factors lead to peoples laughing. C Funny things can
22、make people laugh. D Laughter can make people healthy. 答案与解析： B考查细节理解。根据第一段第二句 “While I was right about that, I discovered there are lots of other psychological factors that make people laugh other than the funny part of joke.” 可知，作者在学了心理学之后发现，笑不仅仅是因为事情好笑，还有很多其他的心理因素的促成和影响，故选 B。 6. Why did the audie
23、nce laugh loud at the pedestrians? A They played a trick on the pedestrians. B The pedestrians behaved in a funny way. C They could feel the pedestrians happiness. D Their emotion was approved of by the show. 答案与解析： D考查推理判断。根据第二段最后一句 “That is, people were laughing both because of the funny joke and because of the happiness experienced as a result of the psycholog
