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【題目】C. Fill in the blanks with proper words （在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順，每空格限填一詞，首字母已給）

A rare experience

Imagine the situation. You’re walking down the crowded high street and s【1】 a complete stranger stops you and says, “Hi! You were on the beach in the south of Spain six years ago. How are you doing?” This stranger isn’t necessarily m 【2】 . He or she might be a “super - recogniser”. These are people who have the unusual ability to recognise people they have seen only once -- a long time ago, maybe in a crowed.

Whatever the differences in looks

It doesn’t matter what the person looks like now. People change, get different hair styles, dye their hair or go grey. Wrinkles, new glasses and makeups give them new a【3】 , but the “super - recognisers” can still recognise them.

An inborn skill

Although scientists have known for a long time that about 2% of people suffer from face - blindness, which means that they have huge problems recognising faces, they are only new realising that some people are the exact o 【4】 .Tests have shown that a “super - recogniser” can identify people that they only saw for a brief moment -- and this is not an ability that we can d【5】 , it’s something we are born with.

A great h 【6】

The police are starting to use “super - recognisers” to spot criminal faces in videos of crowds. They look for people with a specific build and facial features like beards and moustaches but they can even recognise quite o【7】people, with no noticeable features at all. As well as surprising our holidaymaker in Spain six years later, this ability can be used for a very practical purpose indeed.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】suddenly

【2】mad

【3】appearnaces

【4】opposite

【5】develop

【6】help

【7】ordinary

【解析】

本篇文章難度適中，主要講述什么是超級識別者，雖然以前見過一面，現(xiàn)在你的外形發(fā)生改變了，但是他們能讓能認(rèn)出你，這是天生的技能，最后講述這一技能可以幫助警察指認(rèn)罪犯。這種能力確實有非常實用的地方。

【1】句意：你走在擁擠的大街上，突然一個完全陌生的人讓你停下來并說：“嗨!六年前你在西班牙南部的海灘上”。

根據(jù)句意可知，空處用副詞修飾整個句子。表示“突然有人讓你停下來”。suddenly突然，故答案為suddenly。

【2】句意：這個陌生人不是瘋了。

根據(jù)空前系動詞is以及副詞necessary可知，空處用形容詞。mad瘋的，故答案為mad。

【3】句意：皺眉、新的眼鏡以及化妝給了他們新的外貌，但是這個超級識別者仍然能夠認(rèn)出他們。

根據(jù)空前形容詞new可知，空處用名詞，且根據(jù)People change, get different hair styles, dye their hair or go grey“人們會變，會有不同的發(fā)型，會把頭發(fā)染成灰色”可知，表示的是新的外貌，appearance外貌，根據(jù)them可知，用復(fù)數(shù)，故答案為appearances。

【4】句意：盡管科學(xué)家們很早就知道大約2%的人患有臉盲癥，這意味著他們在識別人臉方面有很大的困難，但他們只是剛剛意識到有些人恰恰相反。

根據(jù)空前exact可知，空處用名詞，根據(jù)Tests have shown that a “super - recogniser” can identify people that they only saw for a brief moment“測試表明，超級識別者可以識別那些他們只看了不一會兒的人”可知，表示“他們與臉盲癥的人完全相反”。opposite相反，故答案為opposite。

【5】句意：測試表明，超級識別者可以識別那些他們只看了不一會兒的人。這不是我們能夠培養(yǎng)的能力，這是我們天生具有的一些東西。

根據(jù)空前can可知，空處用動詞原形，且根據(jù)it’s something we are born with“這是我們天生具有的東西”可知，這種能力不能培養(yǎng)。develop培養(yǎng)，故答案為develop。

【6】句意：一個很大的幫助。

根據(jù)空前great可知，空處用名詞。且根據(jù)The police are starting to use “super - recognisers” to spot criminal faces in videos of crowds“警方開始用超級識別者在人群視頻中識別罪犯的面孔”可知，可以幫助警察識別罪犯，所以表示“很大的幫助”，help幫助，且根據(jù)空前a可知，用單數(shù)，故答案為help。

【7】句意：他們尋找的是有特定體型和面部特征的人，比如絡(luò)腮胡子和八字胡，但他們甚至可以識別根本沒有明顯特征的非常普通的人。

根據(jù)空前quite以及空后people可知，空處用形容詞，且根據(jù)with no noticeable features at all“一點也沒有值得注意的特征”可知，表示“普通的”。ordinary普通的，故答案為ordinary。