2019学年度人教版选修八Unit 4PygmalionPeriod 5Using Language 阅读学案(5页word版)
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and other environmental advantages that whites enjoy, and that, as a result, they do not develop the same responses that whites do.

  Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes and that the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.

【语篇概述】本文主要讨论了人的个性和智力是先天形成的还是受环境影响的。

5. This passage is mainly concerned with_______.

A. relation between personality and behavior

B. relation between behavior and environment

C. different accounts of patterns of human behavior

D. different theories of the formation of human behavior

【解析】选D。主旨大意题。文章第一段第一句指出作者要讨论的问题, 第二段开始从两个方面解释该问题, 最后一段是总结段。由最后一段的总结来看, 文章并没有指出人的行为是受环境的影响还是先天形成的, 只是讨论了这个问题。

6. The underlined word"proponents"in Paragraph 2 means_______.

A. creators  B. advisors  C. advocates  D. judges

【解析】选C。词义猜测题。根据文章内容, 我们可以判断proponents应该指人, 指这两种理论的支持者, 只有advocates"拥护者"符合这种推测。

7. In Paragraph 5, the author mainly writes about_______.

A. the considerable influence of the two theories

B. differences between the blacks and whites

C. racial discrimination in the United States

D. different responses to intelligence tests

【解析】选A。段落大意题。第五段第一句Socially and politically, the consequences of these two theories are far-reaching. 很明显是个中心句, 下面的论据是为了证明这两个理论的相当大的影响。

He was once a joke in French political circles. But now, Emmanuel Macron has had the last laugh. On May 7, 2017 local time, Macron won France's presidential election. At the age of 39, he will be the country's youngest president.

Macron has never held elected office and is not a member of any of France's major political parties. Without the backing of an established political party, Macron was seen by his opponents as inexperienced. However, he managed to make a success out of his campaign, defeating Marine Le Pen, former leader of France's National Front party.

Part of Macron's charm is"his atypical rise", according to CNN. He once worked as an investment banker, before eventually becoming a government minister. His private life has attracted attention, too. His wife, Brigitte Trogneux, is 24 years older than him.

Unlike Le Pen, who calls for France to leave the European Union(EU), Macron is a firm defender of the EU. His success is a relief to those who feared that France would leave the EU after the shock of Brexit last June.

He will also focus on France's relationship with other countries in general. In fact, Macron seems to have a big interest in China. He told French media Radio France