【正文】 pt, but, in除外 )。s not all. China has an even greater highspeed railway plan— to connect the country with Southeast Asia, and eventually Eastern Europe. China is negotiating to extend its own highspeed railway work to up to 17 countries in 10 to 15 years, eventually reaching London and Singapore. China has proposed three such projects. The first would possibly connect Kunming with Singapore via Vietnam and Malaysia. Another could start in Urumqi and go through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and possibly to Germany. The third would start in the northeast and go north through Russia and then into Western Europe. If China39。s new highspeed railway plan will be a winwin project because __________. A. China will get muchneeded resources and develop its western regions B. China and the countries involved will benefit from the project in various ways C. China will develop its railway system and munication with other countries D. the foreign countries involved will develop their railway transportation, business and tourism 68. According to the passage, the greatest challenge to the new highspeed railway plan is _____. A. technical issues B. safety of the system C. financial problems D. maintenance of railway tracks 69. Which of the following words best describes the author’ s attitude towards China’ s highspeed railway plan? A. Critical B. Reserved C. Doubtful D. Positive 70. Which of the following might be the best title for the passage? A. New Railway Standards B. Big Railway Dreams C. Highspeed Bullet Trains D. International Railway Network 2020湖南卷 C篇 People from East Asia tend to have more difficulty than those from Europe in distinguishing facial expressions— and a new report published online in Current Biology explains why. Rachael Jack, University of Glasgow researcher, said that rather than scanning evenly(均勻的 ) across a face as Westerners do, Easterners fix their attention on the eyes. We show that Easterners and Westerners look at different face features to read facial expressions, Jack said. Westerners look at the eyes and the mouth in equal measure, whereas Easterners favor the eyes and neglect (忽略 ) the mouth. According to Jack and her colleagues, the discovery shows that human munication of emotion is more plex than previously believed. As a result, facial expressions that had been considered universally recognizable cannot be used to reliably convey emotion in crosscultural situations. The researchers studied cultural differences in the recognition of facial expressions by recording the eye movements of 13 Western Caucasian and 13 East Asian people while they observed pictures of expressive faces and put them into categories: happy, sad, surprised, fearful, disgusted, angry, or neutral. They pared how accurately participants read those facial expressions using their particular eye movement strategies. It turned out that Easterners focused much greater attention on the eyes and made significantly more errors than did Westerners. The cultural difference in eye movements that they show is probably a reflection of cultural difference in facial expressions, Jack said. Our data suggest that whereas Westerners use the whole face to convey emotion, Easterners use the eyes more and mouth less. In short, the data show that facial expressions are not universal signals of human emotion. From here on, examining how cultural factors have diversified these basic social skills will help our understanding of human emotion. Otherwise, when it es to municating emotions across cultures, Easterners and Westerners will find themselves lost in translation. 66. The discovery shows that Westerners . A. pay equal attention to the eyes and the mouth B. consider facial expressions universally reliable C. observe the eyes and the mouth in different ways D. have more difficulty in recognizing facial expressions 67. What were the people asked to do in the study? A. To make a face at each other. B. To get their faces impressive. C. To classify some face pictures. D. To observe the researchers39。s far west. We foresee that in the ing decades, millions of people will migrate to the western regions, where the land is empty and resources unused. With highspeed trains, people will set up factories and business centers in the west once and for all. And they39。s not that unrealistic, with the development of China39。 What we can39。另外 though為副詞 ,意為 但是 。 歸納整理： 題練落實： 1. The secretary finally decided_____ the president, though unwillingly. A. to interrupting B. to disturb C. to stopping D. to surprise 2. 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