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is a type of wave. I confidently went through years of school believing that light is a wave. One day，however I heard the German exchange student mention that light could be made up of particles. As the others laughed at his statement, I started to question my beliefs.
Maybe the teachers and textbooks hadn't given me the whole story. I went to the library, did some research and learned of the light-as-a-wave versus light-as-a-particle debate. I read about Einstein's discovery of the dual nature of light and learned the facts of a paradox(悖论) that puzzles the world's greatest thinkers to this day. Light behaves as both a particle and a wave, it is both at once. I realized I had gone through life accepting only half of the story as the whole truth.
Each new year brought more new facts, and I formulated even more questions. I found myself in the library after school, trying to find my own answers to gain a more complete understanding of what I thought I already knew. I discovered that my parents and teachers are incredible tools in my quest for knowledge, but they are never the final word. Even textbooks can be challenged. I learned to question my sources, I learned to be a thinker. I once believed that everything I learned at home and at school was certain, but I have now discovered to re-examine when necessary.
Questions are said to be the path to knowledge and truth, and I plan to continue questioning. How many things do we know for sure today that we will question in the future? At this moment, I know that our sun will burn for another five billion years, and I know nothing can escape the gravity of a black hole. This knowledge, however, may change in the next 20 years—maybe even in the next two. The one thing we can control now is our openness to discovery. Questions are the tools of open minds, and open minds are the key to intellectual advancement.
65．In the first paragraph, Aristotle is taken as an example to show that ______.
A．he is the greatest and respected philosopher of all time B．huge influence of great thinkers may block human thought C．advancements are made when thinkers question theories D．great thinkers often make mistakes and then correct them
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66．What does the underlined word “intimidate” in Paragraph 2 mean?
A．Frighten. B．Encourage. C．Strength. D．Persuade. 67．The author began to question his previous beliefs because ______.
A．what he learned from textbooks before turned out to be wrong B．he was inspired by the different ideas from an exchange student C．he was laughed at by other students for his unacceptable statement D．he was not satisfied with his life and desperate to achieve success 68．According to the passage, the author ______.
A．looks down upon great thinkers all the time B．never doubts what he has learned in the textbook C．always throws himself into the laboratory D．determines to be a thinker and questioner 69．We can conclude from the last paragraph that ______.
A．the author is not quite sure about his future B．we human beings don't dare to predict future C．theory of black holes will change in two years D．questioning is necessary to promote advancementthe 70．What does the passage mainly talk about?
A．Following rules. C．Questioning giants.
B．Challenging yourself. D．Predicting future.
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第四部分 任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。 注意：请将答案写在答题纸上相应的题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。 Marketers have more options in today’s increasingly multilingual society — a variety of electronic and print media can address groups of consumers in different languages. Various factors influence the choice of media and language. In some cases, it’s simply practical to advertise in the consumer’s native language, particularly if many of the consumers in this group are primarily monolingual. In other cases, by advertising on, say, a Spanish television channel in the US, an advertiser may earn the respect of the consumer by addressing him in his native language, as well as develop positive associations with the medium and its unique content. Now, marketers have another factor to consider when deciding where to advertise and in what language. A paper. Do bilinguals have two personalities? A special case of cultural frame switching published by researchers at the University of Texas, shows that bilingual individuals exhibit different personality characteristics when speaking different languages.
Lead researcher Nairan Ramirez-Esparza, tested individuals who were bilingual in English and Spanish for various personality traits, and found that the subjects answered the questions differently when asked in English and Spanish. The new work built on past research showed the values of subjects changed when they were surrounded by stimuli from different cultures.
How can marketers take advantage of “cultural frame switching”? It may sound challenging without specific research, but at least for Spanish, English bilinguals in the US, there is now some hard data on the language-related personality shift. Extrapolating to other language combinations may be possible, too. Since the Spanish/English bilingual results seem to be in agreement with testing of monolingual Spanish and English speakers, language-specific testing of bilingual subjects may not be essential to get an idea of what kind of cultural frame switching might occur in other bilingual combinations. Rather, comparing known personality differences for each language/ culture would give an indication of the differences bilingual individuals would exhibit.
I think it would be a mistake to over-emphasize this phenomenon over other
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criteria affecting the selection of appropriate media and language to reach a target market. Clearly, the major considerations of demographics (人口统计资料), perception of the medium, language fluency, etc. should remain major factors. Besides, the language-driven cultural frame switching may not make much difference to many products or services. If the product does attract one cultural personality more, though, it may make sense to exploit that difference of the other decision criteria are more or less equivalent.
The researchers point out that the differences aren’t great. Even if slight, though, the differences are noticeable.
Cultural Frame Switching: Different Language, Different Personality Cultural frame switching refers to the phenomenon of shifting from one cultural mindset to another when people are 71 to their new cultural environment. Cultural frame switching is a factor marketers now take into 72 to reach target customers. Personality shift proves to be 73 for Spanish/ English Applications of cultural frame switching Looking for the known personality differences between each language/culture would give marketers a better 75 of how bilingual individuals would 76 in two different cultures. It’s wrong to put too much 77 on the functions of Facts about cultural cultural frame switching. frame switching Compared with other criteria, the language-driven cultural frame switching simply plays a (n) 78 role in marketing bilinguals, which makes it not 74 to do language-specific testing of bilingual subjects. Concept of cultural frame switching 高三英语试卷 第 16 页 共 27 页