2016届广东省天河区高考英语二轮语法复习精讲精练：阅读理解21_高考复习指南

2016届广东省天河区高考英语二轮语法复习精讲精练：阅读理解21

　　D．Functions of mirror neurons.

　　【要点综述】本文是一篇科普说明文。介绍了镜像神经元的作用。

　　67.C　推理判断题。从第二段的第一句话“every time we see someone else do something, our brains imitate it”可知镜像神经元的作用就是当我们看到别人做某事，我们也会跟着做。

　　68. A　词义猜测题。根据第三段镜像神经元对语言的作用，当人们听到“手抓住球”这句话时，神经元就开始起作用了，就像手抓住球这个动作真的发生一样。set off：出发；触发。

　　69. A　细节理解题。根据最后一段第一句可知答案。

　　70. D　主旨大意题。本文主要介绍了人体镜像神经元的作用。

　　120.

　　Decisionmaking under Stress

　　A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative(负面的) consequences of a decision.

　　The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.

　　“Stress affects how people learn，” says Professor Mara Mather.“People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”

　　For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像)with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn't gone through the stress.