选修八Unit4知能演练轻松夺冠.docVIP

Ⅰ.完形填空 This idea is known as “the self-fulfilling prophecy”．When you believe the team will perform well，in some strange，magical way they do.And __1__，when you believe they won’t perform well，they don’t. There is enough experimental __2__ to suggest that the self-fulfilling prophecy is true.One unusual__3__in 1911 concerned a very clever horse called Hans.This horse had the reputation for being able to__4__，multiply，subtract，and divide by tapping out the answer with its hooves.The extraordinary thing was that it could do this without its trainer being present.It only needed someone to put the__5__. On investigation，it was found that when the questioner knew the answer，he or she__6__various very subtle body language clues to Hans such as the raising of an eyebrow or the dilation(扩大)of the nostrils(鼻孔)．Hans simply picked up on these clues and continued__7__until he arrived at the required answer.The questioner expected a (an)__8__and Hans obliged. In similar vein，an experiment was carried out at a British school into the__9__ of a new intake of pupils.At the start of the year，the pupils were each given a rating，__10__from“excellent prospect”to “unlikely to do well”．These were totally__11__ratings and did not reflect how well the pupils had previously performed.Nevertheless，these ratings were given to the teachers.At the end of the year，the experimenters__12__the pupils’ performance with the ratings.Despite their__13__abilities，there was an astonishingly high__14__between performance and ratings.It seems that people perform as well as we__15__them to. 【文章大意】　本文讲述试验者通过对马和小学生的调查实验发现自我实现预言是真有这么回事——这也是皮格马利翁效应。 1．A.hopefully　　　　　　　　　B．similarly C．suddenly D．fortunately 解析：选B。前后两种情况是类似的，故选B。 2．A.outcome B．way C．data D．procedure 解析：选C。表示有足够的资料可以证明自我实现预言是真的，故选C。 3．A.experiment B．method C．choice D．experience 解析：选A。根据前面experimental...可知应是一个非同寻常的实验，故选A。 4．A.count B．add C．speak D．think 解析：选B。加、减、乘、除中的加用add，故选B。 5．A.problems B．answers C．clues D．