牛津译林版英语高二上册期末测试二

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who still celebrated it on April 1st and those people were called April Fools. Pranks performed on April Fools’ Day range from the simple, (such as saying, Your shoe39。 s untied!), to the elaborate. Setting a roommate39。 s alarm clock back an hour is a mon gag. The news media even gets involved. For instance, a British short film once shown on April Fools’ Day was a fairly detailed documentary about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees. Whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, April Fool! April Fools’ Day is a forfunonly observance. Nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their significant other out to eat in a fancy restaurant. Nobody gets off work or school. It39。 s simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next April Fool! Each country celebrates April Fools’ differently. In France, the April Fools’ is called April Fish (Poisson d39。 Avril). The French fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends39。 backs and when some discovers a this trick, they yell Poisson d39。 Avril!. In England, tricks can be played only in the morning. If a trick is played on you, you are a noodle. In Scotland, April Fools Day is 48 hours long and you are called an April Gowk, which is another name for a cuckoo bird. The second day in Scotland39。 s April Fools’ is called Taily Day and is dedicated to pranks involving the buttocks. Taily Day39。 s gift to posterior posterity is the stillhilarious Kick Me sign. 60. The main idea of this passage is about . A. the introduction to April Fools’ Day B. the celebration of April Fools’ Day C. April Fools’ Day in different countries D. the history of April Fools’ Day 61. The hometown of Aprils’ Day was thought to be in . A. Britain B. America C. Australia D. France 62. On April Fools’ Day, people celebrate it by . A. buying gifts to friends B. getting together with family C. playing tricks D. having a big dinner 63. The passage suggests that . A. tricks can be played only in the morning in Britain B. people in England celebrate it in a different way from the Scottish C. people can have a day off on April Fools’ Day D. people who are taken in are called “ April Gowk” in France C The research is in: Women don’ t really talk more. Women don’ t talk more than men. Really, they don’ t. Popular wisdom would have it that women are much chattier than men, speaking 20,000 words a day, vs. the average man39。 s 7,000. But a study being published Friday debunks (揭穿 ) that stereotype (陈规 ). Both men and women use about 16,000 words a day, says the new research, in Science magazine. It39。 s been a mon belief, but it just didn39。 t fit, says James Pennebaker, chairman of the psychology department at the University of Texas at Austin and coauthor of the sevenyear study. Pennebaker and colleagues analyzed recorded conversations of 396 university students ages 1829 in the USA and Mexico, including 210 women and 186 men. The study didn39。 t look at vocabulary or word use, but rather word count via an electronically activated recorder that researchers developed and refined during the study, conducted between 1998 and 2020. He says twothirds of participants spoke 11,000 to 25,000 words a day, with the average for both sexes about 16,000. The finding may seem surprising in a popular culture where women are often stereotyped as talkative and men as unmunicative. Most recently, neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine cited the 20,000 vs. 7,000 parison in her 2020 book The Female Brain, as evidence for gender brain differences. After the book came out in August, the statistic was widely quoted. That hit a nerve. It39。 s been surprising to me that this one little point is the point people pick out, says Brizendine, director of the Women39。 s and Teen Girls39。 Mood and Hormone Clinic at the University of California, San Francisco. But experts in neurolinguistics contacted her saying the data was unsubstantiated (无根据的 ). The statistic has been cut from newer editions. That first printing is a collector39。 s item now, she says. Mark Liberman, a linguistics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, says that after Brizendine39。 s book came out, he tried to track down evidence to support her claim, but failed. 64. How many words do women use a week according to the new research?。