Test 4 -【星级训练】2023-2024学年高一英语阅读理解&完形填空增强训练（上海专版）（含解析版、原卷版、印刷版）

1 - 2023 阅读理解+完形填空 增强训练 高一年级 精选中高难度语篇 上海四校、八校、一二模考题 分年级分层训练 培优生专用 2 Test 4 Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A A.coordinate B.glaring C.materialize D.proportions E.utilize F.abuse G. susceptible H.collective I.contend J.novel K.speculate Nine out of every ten humans are right-handed, an imbalance that researchers for decades have attempted to explain, without definitive success. One of the ideas considered is the fighting hypothesis, which suggests that left-handedness provides an advantage in combat, albeit with an overall hit to physical health that keeps lefties rare in the population. Indeed, males — who historically have competed most strongly for resources and mates — are left-handed at slightly higher rates than females. Moreover, studies suggest that lefties tend to outperform right-handed people in fighting sports as well as in sports that require hand-eye 1 like tennis, baseball, and volleyball. This is likely because players are unaccustomed to competing against lefties as they are rarer. However, a big problem with the fighting hypothesis is that its predicted health disadvantage hasn’t 2 in large studies. On the whole, left-handed people don’t seem to suffer from more health problems than right-handed people, nor do they live shorter lives. Left vs. Right Noticing this 3 issue, a trio of scientists based out of Lund University in Sweden and Chester University in the United Kingdom proposed an update to the fighting hypothesis that comports better with current data. In an article published in the journal Symmetry, Matz Larsson, Astrid Schepman, and Paul Rodway 4 that right-handed humans actually had a greater fighting advantage over much of our species’ history, which is why they’ve become far more numerous. “When left-handers became rarer, they gained a surprise advantage and the 5 of left- and right-handers in a population stabilized,