Question

【題目】

Straight or arched, thick or thin-eyebrows come in many shapes and sizes. But what are eyebrows even for? They don’t keep us warm like our hair, or help us breathe like our nose. So why do we have them at all?

Researchers from the University of York in the UK believe that eyebrows helped us to communicat e better when we were still evolving(進化).

Early humans had large brow ridges (眉骨). This helped them show strength. Later, as the human face evolved to become smaller and flatter, our

eyebrows allowed us to express complex emotions, as well as better understand others’ emotions, the Guardian reported. A quick flash of the eyebrows, for example, is a sign that someone is willing to interact (互動) with others, while pulling our eyebrows up in the middle is an expression of sympathy (同情), Penny Spikins from York University told The Daily Telegraph.

If you still find this hard to understand, just draw a simple face on a piece of paper and draw a line above the eyes. You can draw lines in different shapes and directions . You will find that it is very easy to show anger, fear or surprise in a face.

But this is not the only purpose of our eyebrows. They can also protect our eyes. Their arched shape can help to move rain or sweat around to the sides of our faces, keeping our eyes dry, the BBC reported. Together with our eyelashes, eyebrows can also help to keep dust and other things out of our eyes.

Some researchers believe that if we didn’t have eyebrows, we would have evolved some other facial features to perform the same functions (功能). That could make us look quite different.

【1】According to researchers from the University of York, our eyebrows can .

A.keep us warmB.make us look better

C.help us show strengthD.help us to communicate better

【2】When you pull your eyebrows up in the middle, you might be .

A.showing your sympathyB.eager to talk with others

C.keeping dust out of your eyesD.showing anger in your face

【3】According to the passage, early humans with big brow ridges looked .

A.surpris edB.strongC.angryD.small

【4】The word “that” in the last paragraph refers to .

A.our eyebrowsB.some other facial features

C.some researchersD.the same functions

【5】We can tell from the story that .

A.our eyebrows help us show anger, fear or surprise in our faces

B.it is easy to show your feelings without your eyebrows

C.our eyes may feel dry without our eyebrows ’ protection

D.connecting both eyebrows can help someone look powerful

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】B

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

眉毛有很多形狀和大小，當我們還在進化中時，眉毛幫助我們更好地交流，眉毛讓我們可以表達復雜的情感，也可以讓我們更好地理解別人的情緒，同時眉毛還能保護的眼睛免受雨水的浸濕和灰塵的傷害。

【1】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段““Researchers from the University of York in the UK believe that eyebrows helped us to communicat e better”可知眉毛幫助我們更好地交流，故選D。

【2】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段“while pulling our eyebrows up in the middle is an expression of sympathy”可知把眉毛拉到中間是表示同情，故選A。

【3】細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段“Early humans had large brow ridges This helped them show strength”可知早期的人類有很大的眉骨有助于使他們看起來很強壯，故選B。

【4】詞義猜測題。根據(jù)第六段“if we didn’t have eyebrows, we would have evolved some other facial features to perform the same functions”可知如果沒有眉毛，我們會進化出一些其他的面部特征來完成同樣的功能，根據(jù)文句表述的邏輯關系，推斷下文指這些其他的面部特征會讓我們看起來很不同；故選B。

【5】推理判斷題。由文中的陳述可知眉毛幫助我們更好地交流，讓我們表達復雜的情感，也可以讓我們更好地理解別人的情緒，由此推斷眉毛幫助我們在臉上表現(xiàn)出憤怒、恐懼或驚訝，故選A。