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兆麟中学高一下学期第十次英语周测
出题人:高一外语组 时间:40分钟
Ⅰ.阅读理解
What about your emotions? How do they help you to understand what you are reading?
In Jane Yolan's Owl Moon, a girl explores with her father on a snowy night.She longs for this special night.And she's amazed when she sees an owl.Have you felt longing before? Amazement? Well, if you have, it helps you have a sense of agreement.When we can put ourselves inside a story, we can understand it better.Our brain tells us,“Oh, this girl's experience is a bit like mine.” And boom! We can relate to her.But this skill is not born in us.So young kids have to learn it.
Pictures and images help young readers to understand and recognise feelings.Readers feel joy when seeing the smiling faces of friends.They feel fear when turning the page to find a scary monster.They are just pictures,but the feelings are real.This skill, to understand the thinking and feeling of others, is what researchers call “theory of mind”.
For example, think about the faces of people and animals in stories.The big bad wolf's scary teeth.The “o” shape of a surprised character's mouth.Or big, wide eyes like the girl in Owl Moon. By noticing the faces,readers can start to figure out what it feels like to be that character.And that helps to figure out how people feel and think in real life.
But most young readers don't go into deep, scary woods.And some may not go to the beach or play basketball.In the book Yo!Yes?, two kids meet and play ball.The kids start the story on opposite pages.But as the story goes on,they get closer until they are together.Some young readers might not play basketball, but they can read the clues on the page to figure out how the kids are feeling.And some readers might not like the game, but they can feel excited for the characters because of how the characters look and move.
1.What can we learn from the second paragraph?
A.Owl Moon talks about the exploration of the Moon.
B.The feeling of “amazement” is a sense of agreement.
C.Readers are b