《综合英语3》复习题 .pdf

《综合英语3》复习题 综合英语 3 复习题 I. Cloze. Choose the one that is most suitable. We all know whether we are left-handed or right-handed; hardly any of us know whether we are left-faced. Yet according to professor Karl Smith of the University of Wisconsin we are all almost 1. one or the other. Right-faced people are more 2. than left-faced people, and there is a striking association between left- facedness and 3. talent. Beethoven was left-faced. 4. were Brahms, Schubert, Wagner and Tchaikovsky. So 5. the vast majority of well-known living 6. of all kinds of music. The idea of facedness 7. from many gears of computerized study of people’s lip, tongue and jaw movements 8. they were talking. Smith and his colleagues 9. that in most people one side of the face was more active than the other. (The right side in right- faced people). There are other signs of facedness, some of which can be 10. in static pictures; in right-faced people the right-side of the face is less 11. between jaw and brow; the right eyebrow 12. to be higher; dimples and wrinkles are less marked than 13. the left. From a study of more than 500 people Smith found that the proportion of right-faced people 14. about nine in 10 among Americans to two in three among Acapulco Mexicans. The fact that 15. twins were always both right-faced or left-faced suggests a genetic origin for facedness. The connection between left-facedness and musical ability emerged by chance from a study of 16. in different occupational groups. “Talentedmusical artists-singers and instrumentalists who perform classical, operatic, country and jazz music are almost without exception 17. ”, Smith says in his report in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Smith’s findings fit in with theories that the right hemisphere of the brain (which controls the left side of the face) is 18.