66. The discovery shows that Westerners 　　　　.

　　 A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth

　　 B. consider facial expressions universally reliable

　　 C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways

　　 D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 　

66.选D。最后一段最后一句话。

Passage 5

(10·湖南C篇)

People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions - and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why.

　　　 Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均匀的) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes.

　　　 "We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions," Jack said. "Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略) the mouth."

　　　 According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human communication of emotion is more complex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in cross-cultural situations.

　　　 The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of. expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They compared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies.

　　　 It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. "The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions," Jack said. "Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less."

　　 　In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it comes to communicating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation.

65.选A。关键是primitive“原始的，早期的”的意思。第三段第二句话。

64.选B。根据第一段has claws(爪)on its wings when young,和第三段可知，hoatzin在幼年期是有爪子的，而长大学会飞之后就没有了。

63.选D。考查文章主题大意。纵观全文，文章主要讲的是hoatzin麝雉，这种鸟类的外貌以及生活习性。

66．Why do hoatzins collect together in smaller groups when the rainy season comes?

　　 A．To find more food.

　　 B．To protect themselves better.

　　 C．To keep themselves warm.

　　 D．To produce their young.

答案：

65．What can we infer about primitive birds from the text?

　　 A．They had claws to help them climb.

　　 B．They could fly long distances.

　　 C．They had four wings like hoatzins.

　　 D．They had a head with long feathers on the top.

64．Young hoatzins are different from their parents in that　　　　 ．

　　 A．they look like young cuckoos

　　 B．they have claws on the wings

　　 C．they eat a lot like a cow

　　 D．they live on river banks

63．What is the text mainly about?

　　 A．Hoatzins in dry and rainy seasons.

　　 B．The relatives and enemies of hoatzins.

　　 C．Primitive birds and hoatzins of the Amazon.

　　 D．The appearance and living habits of hoatzins.

70．Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

A．New Railway Standards　　

B．Big Railway Dreams

C．High-speed Bullet Trains

D．International Railway Network

选B. 贯穿全文须知这只是一个梦想

Passage 4

(10·全国ⅠC篇)

Along the river banks of the Amazon and the Orinoco there lives a bird that swims before it can fly, flies like a fat chicken, eats green leaves, has the stomach of a cow and has claws(爪)on its wings when young .They build their homes about 4.6m above the river ,an important feature(特征)for the safety of the young. It is called the hoatzin.

　 　In appearance，the birds of both sexes look very much alike with brown on the back and cream and red on the underside .The head is small, with a large set of feathers on the top, bright red eyes, and blue skin. Its nearest relatives are the common birds, cuckoos. Its most striking feature ,though, is only found in the young.

　　 Baby hoatzins have a claw on the leading edge of each wing and another at the end of each wing tip .Using these four claws ,together with the beak(喙),they can climb about in the bushes, looking very much like primitive birds must have done. When the young hoatzins have learned to fly ,they lose their claws.

During the drier months between December and March hoatzins fly about the forest in groups of 20 to 30 birds, but in April, when the rainy season begins, they collect together in smaller living units of two to seven birds for producing purposes.