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主题语境六 主题阅读训练(一)　肢体语言 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2025·河南省名校联盟高考押题卷)Emotions come in many ways: facial expressions, gestures, tone of voice and so on.Susan Goldin-Meadow sums up how people use gestures with speech in her new book, Thinking With Your Hands.It is a masterly tour through a lifetime’s research. Virtually everyone gestures.Like words, gestures are fixed within cultures and accompany speech as a second channel of information.Subjects watch a film in which a cat runs but they are told to lie and say it jumps.They do so in words, while their hands make a running motion. Gesture isn’t sign language.Sign languages have clearly defined words and grammar, and differ geographically just as spoken ones do.Professor Goldin-Meadow spends a lot of time on home sign — systems of signs typically developed by deaf children in hearing families who aren’t exposed to a conventional sign language.Such children are essentially inventing rough but rich languages out of nothing, with features such as fixed word order and grammatical structures much like those in fully qualified languages. Returning to conventional gesture, the author keeps her focus on child development.Some students who fail at a tricky mathematics problem may gesture to indicate they begin to understand it; they should be taught differently from the ones whose gestures suggest that they are entirely at sea.Children who still use only one word at a time may combine a word and a gesture; this successfully predicts that two-word phrases are just around the corner.And those taught to move their hands about when discussing a moral question from several angles soon start to see the problem from different points of view. The final section of the book offers practical advice.Teachers are encouraged to use gestures and to observe those their students make.Parents are taught to fill in the word a child misses when they gesture rather than adding information.Those who gesture less are more likely to need early intervention.Doctors can be trained to look out for gestures meaning that patients are thinking something they aren’t ready to say. 1.What does the text show in paragraph 2? A.Every country has its own gestures. B.A lie detection is used in many areas. C.Cats are well skilled at using gestures. D.Gestures can reflect human real thoughts. 2.How do the deaf children communicate with family members according to paragraph 3? A.By home sign. B.By sign language. C.By spoken words. D.By written means. 3.Why should a teacher observe the kids’ gestures in class? A.To predict the final outcome. B.To prevent kids from failure. C.To conduct the targeted teaching. D.To see the problems from all sides. 4.Where is the text most probably taken from? A.A guidebook to a language. B.An introduction to a book. C.An essay on the art of gesture. D.A review of sign language. B (2025·保定一模)Politicians, business bosses, and other types of leaders indeed tend to like speaking with their hands, but does the habit influence how others interpret those words? To get to the bottom of it, a team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics conducted a series of experiments on volunteers who viewed videos of people speaking with and without hand movements. After showing the volunteers videos of people speaking under different conditions, the researchers asked them questions about what they had heard.Some conditions involved the speaker stressing different parts of words in a sentence.Other conditions involved the speaker making various types of hand gestures, such as pointing and sweeping movements.The team recorded the volunteers as they viewed the video recordings, questioning the volunteers afterward about what they had seen and heard. Researchers found that the volunteers were more affected by syllables (音节) spoken with the conjunction of hand gestures: In 20 percent of the cases, the viewers were more likely to have heard and interpreted the word spoken with a hand gesture.Interestingly, however, volunteers were 40 percent more likely to hear the wrong sound when a mismatch between the word spoken and the hand gesture occurred. Body language expert Carol Goman said, “Studies have found that speaking with your hands really can change the view of your character.People who communicate through active gesturing tend to be considered warm, agreeable, and energetic, while those who remain still are seen as logical, cold, and analytic.In fact, a 2015 study that studied TED Talks, which posts international talks online, found that the most popular speakers used nearly twice as many gestures as the least popular speakers used.” The research team said that their findings suggest that hand gestures are an important part of in-person communication that have a direct impact on what the listener hears.Furthermore, they suggest that our responses to hand gestures may be something we learn as we grow up. 5.What’s the researchers’ purpose of doing the experiments? A.To examine the volunteers’ interpreting skills. B.Test the effect hand gestures have on speaking. C.To record the volunteers’ questions for the speaker. D.To confirm the influence hand movements have on leaders. 6.What did the researchers find in the experiments? A.Hand movements affected what the listener heard. B.The speaker stressed different parts of words in a sentence. C.People speaking with different hand gestures had different effects. D.The most popular speakers used more gestures than the least popular speakers did. 7.What does the underlined word “conjunction” mean in paragraph 3? A.Assistance. B.Combination. C.Disturbance. D.Interpretation. 8.What may the researchers agree with? A.Gestures can influence others’ view on one’s personality. B.Understanding gestures is a must in every language. C.In-person communication helps interpret gestures. D.Responses to gestures are learning behavior. Ⅱ.阅读七选五 What Does Our Body Language Reveal? Body language is very common in communication.　9　 People tend to judge us far more on our physical appearance, including our mannerisms, than by what comes out of our mouths.To give the right impression, it’s important to understand what we are conveying non-verbally and how our unconscious signals are being received by the people we interact with.  Smiling is a powerful tool in your body language collection.Perhaps you smile a lot in the hope of appearing friendly.　10　 In some Asian cultures, smiling too much is seen as a signal that you’re not a serious person and may lose you some respect.  If you’re trying to hide nervousness you’d better avoid smiling too much, too.Also be aware that nervous people often hug themselves, rub their forehead, and shift their body weight from one foot to another to create a slight rocking motion.　11　  If you’re trying to show that you are listening sympathetically to what someone has to say, try tipping your head slightly and nodding very slightly.This gesture implies you are listening with interest.If you’re talking to someone and a third person joins, turn your body towards them slightly to include them and make them feel valued.　12　 A single nod of the head is also a strong gesture of coolness when listening to another person.  To build trust quickly? Try mirroring.Adopting a similar stance (站姿) to the person you are engaged with indicates your interest and helps develop trust.Use this with caution, though.　13　 Mirroring only works when they don’t realize what you’re doing.  A.Don’t obviously copy your companion. B.Our body language speaks volumes about us. C.Control these habits to appear more composed. D.Our body language barely overshadows our verbal communication. E.Just be aware that it might make you seem less professional at work. F.We tend to position our body and feet toward the person of interest to us. G.By contrast, a failure to angle your body towards them implies “unwelcome”. Ⅲ.完形填空 (2025·乌鲁木齐一模)Peter walked home from school.Salty tears ran down his cheeks.He didn’t know what to do.Grandma saw him and asked why.Peter replied, “I have to give a(n) 　14　 about a family tradition.I know we have lots of beliefs and customs.Can you 　15　 me of one?”  Grandma smiled and nodded her head.She went to a closet and 　16　 to reach the top shelf.Pulling out a small box and 　17　 the dust, she handed it to Peter.Peter opened the box.He 　18　 a wooden hoop with string woven and twisted around.It was in the shape of a circle, like a spider web.Peter wiped away his 　19　 and smiled.  “This is a dream catcher,” said Grandma.“Our people have made these for many years.　20　are symbols of unity and strength.Hang it over your bed and it will 　21　 your bad dreams in the web, and your good dreams will fall through the center.Maybe it will give you 　22　 to do your presentation.”  “Can I take this one to school?” asked Peter.“No,” said Grandma.“This dream catcher is　23　. It means a lot to me.”  Peter felt 　24　 because he wanted to share it with his class.“We could make you one,” said Grandma.They worked together and 　25　 a dream catcher.The next morning he told Grandma his plan — to show his class how to make one.“Great! Let’s 　26　 after your presentation.We will have a 　27　 party,” said Grandma.  Peter did as he had planned.Peter didn’t feel 　28　 or scared at all.He felt proud in his culture and felt pride in himself, too.  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 14.A.presentation B.gift C.example D.instruction 15.A.warn B.remind C.accuse D.persuade 16.A.bent B.crawled C.stretched D.leaned 17.A.sorting out B.taking out C.burning away D.blowing away 18.A.spotted B.marked C.decorated D.matched 19.A.worry B.tears C.dust D.sweat 20.A.Spiders B.Strings C.Twists D.Circles 21.A.copy B.catch C.chase D.abandon 22.A.convenience B.comfort C.courage D.patience 23.A.precious B.expensive C.genuine D.popular 24.A.confused B.anxious C.disappointed D.embarrassed 25.A.made B.kept C.folded D.transformed 26.A.pray B.celebrate C.promise D.leave 27.A.fashionable B.temporary C.mysterious D.traditional 28.A.bored B.surprised C.nervous D.hesitant 6 / 7 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$