贵州省八校联盟2017届高三第二次联考试卷
英语
命题学校：遵义四中
本试卷分为第I卷(选择题)和第II卷(非选择题)两部分，满分120分，考试用时100分钟。 注意事项：
1. 答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上相应的位置准
确填写自己的姓名、准考证号，并将条形码粘贴在指定位置。
2．选择题选出答案后，用2B铅笔将答题卡上
对应题目的答案标号按要求涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。非选择题用签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。
第Ⅰ卷
第一部分 阅读理解 （共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 第一节 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
A
As any plane passenger will confirm, a crying baby is almost impossible to ignore, no matter how hard you try.
Now scientists believe they may have worked out why. A baby’s cry pulls at the heartstrings(扣人心弦) in a way while other cries don’t, researchers found.
Researchers found that a baby’s cry can trigger unique emotional responses in the brain, making it impossible for us to ignore them---whether we are parents or not. Other types of cries, including calls of animals in great pain, fail to get the same response---suggesting the brain is programmed to respond specifically to a baby’s cry.
A team of Oxford University scientists scanned the brains of 28 men and women as they listened to a variety of calls and cries. After 100 milliseconds two parts of the brain that respond to emotion lit up. Their response to a baby’s cry was particularly strong. The response was seen in both men and women—even if they had no children.
Researcher Dr Christine Parsons said, “You might read that men should just notice a baby and step over it and not see it, but it’s not true. There is a special processing in men and women, which makes sense from an evolutionary(演变的) view that both men and women would
be responding to these cries.” The study was in people who were not parents, yet they are all responding at 100ms to these particular cries, so this might be a fundamental response present in all of us regardless of parental status.
Researcher Katie Young said it may take a bit longer for someone to recognize their own child’s cries because they need to do more “fine-grained analysis”. The team had previously found that our reactions speed up when we hear a baby crying. Adults performed better on computer games when they heard the sound of a baby crying than after they heard recordings of adults crying.
1. A baby’s cry is difficult to ignore because it _____.
A. keeps on crying B. cries harder than adults
C. causes people great pain D. makes people feel strong emotions
2. The underlined word “trigger” in Paragraph 2 probably means “_____”
A. remove B. avoid C. cause