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Life-casting, can we call it art?1-5 段落matching1.D 对应：painters have always used technical back-up------studio assistants to do the boring bits, cameras lucida and obscure.... Boring bits 无聊的二进制back-up=help.2. In the 19th century, life-casting was to sculpture what photography was to painting; and both were viewed as cheating short-cuts by the senior arts.......for many life-casting was an insult to the sculptor’s creative gesture=figure’s mask3.G 对应：Barthes proclaimed the death of the author the liberation of the text from authorial intention, and the consequent empowerment of the readerThe liberation of the text=author matters in art4.H 对应：what counts is the surviving object and our living response to it. The tests are simple: does it interest the eye, excite the brain, move the mind to refection, and involve the heart; is an apparent level of skill involved? 其实就是对art 的评价5.F the initial impact is on the eye, in the contradiction between unexpected size and extreme verisimilitude. The initial impact =depiction of earlier work6-11判断题6.Art changes over time, what is art changes, too.=the definition of art7.Their virtues-of speed and unwavering realism-also implied their limitations; they left little for no room for the imagination.8.NG9.10.while apparently lesser crafts involve great skills, thought, preparation, choice and ----depending how we define it---imagination.=requires lots of skills.11.Each new art movement implies a reassessment of what has gone before; what is done now alters what was done before. In some cases, this is merely self-serving, with the new art using the old to justify itself implies a reassessment=reacquaint12-13选择题12.对应在F段: the initial impact is on the eye, in the contradiction between unexpected size and extreme verisimilitude (逼真的事物)= size and realism13.’’Multitasking Debate14-18(段落信息Matching)14.F段Selecting a response to one of these things will delay by some tenths of ability to respond to the Others. This called the ‘response selection bottleneck’ theory, first proposed in 195215......studies how aging affects our cognitive abilities16.’if you show an image and play a sound at the same time , one task is postponed’Show an image and Play a sound=visual and audio elementsSimultaneously=at the same time17. To demonstrate this, Marois devised an experiment to locate it18. He has written papers with titles like ‘Virtually perfect time-sharing in dual task performance’dual task=multitasking 说其优点=favor19-21（选择题）19.they have to press a key with their index finger different colored circles require presses from different fingers20.21.22-26（TFNG）22.The largest dual-task delays occur when the two tasks are presented simultaneously; progressively shorten as the interval between presenting the tasks lengthens23.Aircraft engines in one picture have disappeared in the other and they will fail to spot the differences24.NG25.NG26.It is not all bad news for over 55s,though. Kramer also found that older people can benefit from practice.Save endangered language拯救濒危语言27-32 heading27.A 1990 survey in Australia found that 70 of the 90 surviving aboriginal languages were no longer used regularly by all age groups28.The wider the portfolio of languages you study, the more likely you are t o get the right answer.29.1.teach young relative their native tongue;2 Ford foundation reinvigorate a master-appointment program.3create a multimedia archive(档案)30. Twenty years ago in New Zeal-and, Maori speakers set up language nests,’31.one factor that always seems to occur in the demise of a language is that the speakers begin to have collective doubts about the usefulness of language loyalty 都是一些消极的词汇32.The first step in saving dying languages is to persuade the world’s majorities to allow the minorities among them to speak with their own voices=solution of ....33-38( 人物信息matching)33.对应在D段It’s too early to call this language revitalization. In California the death rate of elderly speakers will always be greater than the recruitment rate of young speakers.现象：年轻speakers出现的速度小于老年speakers死去的速度--------But at least we prolong the survival of the language prolong=extend34.对应在E段A similar approach was tried in Hawaii, with some success -----the number of native speakers has stabilized .....35.对应在A段MK sent a shudder through the discipline of linguistic, with his prediction that half the 6000 or so languages spoken in the world would cease to be uttered within a century cease to ....停止36.对应在A段eight languages on which he had fieldwork had since passed into extinction.37.对应在C段A similar foundation in England......raised just $8,000=funding.38.对应在C段But t here isn’t any such effort organized in the profession. It is only recently that it has become fashionable enough to work on endangered languages39-40(选择)39.The Ford Foundation has also edged into the arena. Its contributions helped to reinvigorate a master apprentice program.....Fluent speakers receive$3,000 to tech a younger relative.....40.The first step in saving dying languages is to persuade the world’s majorities to allow the minorities among them to speak with their own voices.Tolerant to minority language speakers=allow minorities to speak with their......Roller Coaster 过山车1-4填空1-2 The traditional lifting mechanism is a long length of chain running up the hill under the track. The chain is fastened in a loop.Long line of-_____-=long length of______Be connected firmly to______= be fastened3-4 .....which is wound around a gear at the top of the hill and another on e at the bottom of the hill Is turned by a simple motor.At the bottom of the hill=under the hill turned by a simple motor=powered by ______5-10(summary)5.the direct ancestors of roller coasters were monumental ice slides----long steep wooden slides covered in ice, some as high as 70 feet.Be wrapped up by______=be covered in6.a few entrepreneurial Frenchmen imported the ice slide idea to FranceModified to______=imported _____to France7.The warmer climate of France tended to melt the ice=the temperature8.eventually adding wheels to the sleds = _____was installed9.it was originally used to transport coal from the top of Mount Pisgah to the bottom of Mount Jefferson.Transport=send10.A steam engine would haul passengers to the top of the mountainAllowed riders to slide downward back again11-14(TFNG)11.The most expensive ----------文中只提到了tallest and fastest12.The French continued to expand on this idea, coming up with mor e complex track layouts, with multiple cars and all sorts of twists and turns----------------innovation13. Because of its immediate popularity , it soon became strictly a passenger train ,.14.All over the America 对应在F段：Depression gave a crushing blow to amusement parks all over AmericaMammoth kill 猛犸象之死15-20(summary)15.定位B段：Now new findings offer support to one of these controversial hypothesis human hunting drove this megafaunal menagerie to extinction16.定位B段：The overkill model emerged in the 1960s, when it was put forth by Paul S.Martin of the university of Arizona.17.定位E段：Macphee does not have empirical evidence for the hyper-disease, and it won’t be easy to come by: Hyper lethal disease would kill far too quickly to leave its signature on the bones themselves。