It is hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies. While "Rocky" is fiction, the strategic advantage of being left-handed in a fight is very real, simply because most right-handed people have little experience of fighting left-handers, but not vice versa. And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket.
The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialization of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ. Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans (and all other vertebrate animals) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180° relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (and thus the right body) is usually dominant. And on average, lefthanders are smaller and lighter than right-handers. That should put them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Sporting advantage notwithstanding, therefore, the existence of left-handed-ness poses a problem for biologists. But Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond, of the University of Montpellier Ⅱ , in France, think they know the answer. As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, there is a clue in the advantage seen in boxing.
As any schoolboy could tell you, winning fights enhances your status. If, in prehistory, this translated into increased reproductive success, it might have been enough to maintain a certain proportion of left-handers in the population, by balancing the costs of being left-hand-ed with the advantages gained in fighting. If that is true, then there will be a higher proportion of left-handers in societies with higher levels of violence, since the advantages of being left-handed will be enhanced in such societies. Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond set out to test this hypothesis.
Fighting in modern societies often involves the use of technology, notably firearms, that is unlikely to give any advantage to left-handers. So Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond decided to confine their investigation to the proportion of left-handers and the level of violence (by number of homicides) in traditional societies.
By trawling the literature, checking with police departments, and even going out into the field and asking people, the two researchers found that the proportion of left-handers in a traditional society is, indeed, correlated with its homicide rate. One of the highest proportions of left-handers, for example, was found among the Yanomamo of South America. Rai-ding and warfare are central to Yanomamo culture. The murder rate is 4 per 1000 inhabitants per year (compared with, for example, 0.068 in New York). And, according to Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond, 22.6% of Yanomamo are left-handed. In contrast, Dioula-speaking people of Burkina Faso in West Africa are virtual pacifists. There are only 0.013 murders per 1000 inhabitants among them and only 3.4% of the population is left-handed.
While there is no suggestion that left-handed people are more violent than the right-hand-ed, it looks as though they are more successfully violent. Perhaps that helps to explain the double meaning of the word "sinister".
Which of the following might be the best title for the passage

A:Left-handedness in Traditional Society B:Left-handedness VS Right-handedness C:Left-handedness and Violence D:The advantage of Left-handedness in Boxing

It is hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies. While "Rocky" is fiction, the strategic advantage of being left-handed in a fight is very real, simply because most right-handed people have little experience of fighting left-handers, but not vice versa. And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket.
The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialization of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ. Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans ( and all other vertebrate animals ) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180~ relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (and thus the right body) is usually dominant. And on average, lefthanders are smaller and lighter than right-handers. That should put them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Sporting advantage notwithstanding, therefore, the existence of left-handedness poses a problem for biologists. But Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond, of the University of Montpellier Ⅱ , in France, think they know the answer. As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, there is a clue in the advantage seen in boxing.
As any schoolboy could tell you, winning fights enhances your status. If, in prehistory, this translated into increased reproductive success, it might have been enough to maintain a certain proportion of left-handers in the population, by balancing the costs of being left-handed with the advantages gained in fighting. If that is true, then there will be a higher proportion of left-handers in societies with higher levels of violence, since the advantages of being left-handed will be enhanced in such societies. Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond set out to test this hypothesis.
Fighting in modem societies often involves the use of technology, notably firearms, that is unlikely to give any advantage to left-handers. So Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond decided to confine their investigation to the proportion of left-handers and the level of violence ( by number of homicides) in traditional societies.
By trawling the literature, checking with police departments, and even going out into the field and asking people, the two researchers found that the proportion of left-handers in a traditional society is, indeed, correlated with its homicide rate. One of the highest proportions of left-handers, for example, was found among the Yanomamo of South America. Raiding and warfare are central to Yanomamo culture. The murder rate is 4 per 1 000 inhabitants per year (compared with, for example, 0.068 in New York). And, according to Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond, 22.6% of Yanomamo are left-handed. In contrast, Dioula-speaking people of Burkina Faso in West Africa are virtual pacifists. There are only 0. 013 murders per 1 000 inhabitants among them and only 3.4% of the population is left-handed.
While there is no suggestion that left-handed people are more violent than the right-handed, it looks as though they are more successfully violent. Perhaps that helps to explain the double meaning of the word "sinister".
Which of the following might be the best title for the passage

A:Left-handedness in Traditional Society B:Left-handedness VS Right-handedness C:Left-handedness and Violence D:The advantage of Left-handedness in Boxing

Television piracy gets less attention than film or music piracy, but it is no less widespread. One of the big (1) that had stood in its way--the large file sizes required to transmit video--is shrinking (2) computers get faster and bandwidth costs (3) . More and more people are buying televisions that can connect (4) the internet.
TV piracy (5) for two reasons. It can bring shows to foreign (6) faster, and it is free. The first (7) matters for only a very few shows, most of them American dramas. And media firms have reduced this advantage further by releasing TV shows almost (8) in different countries. The second advantage is not as big as it appears either (9) music and film, nearly all television is free at the margin: (10) a household has paid its subscription, it costs (11) to watch another show.
The real threat (12) by piracy is not that it threatens television’s current business model but that it makes building a new one more difficult. (13) of the limitations of advertising-supported online video, Euro- pean media firms are currently testing micropayments for shows. The wide (14) of free illegal alternatives may well damage these efforts. (15) the parallel is not with music or films but with newspapers and maga- zines. These days print piracy is a(n) (16) issue, since most general news articles are (17) free. If news- papers and magazines begin 18 people to read their output, the pirates are likely to turn (19) , and at a rapid rate. (20) it may be with television.

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)7（）

A:piracy B:publication C:defect D:advantage

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Which of the following might be the best title for the passage

A:Left-handedness in Traditional Society B:Left-handedness VS Right-handedness C:Left-handedness and Violence D:The advantage of Left-handedness in Boxing

It is hard to box against a southpaw, as Apollo Creed found out when he fought Rocky Balboa in the first of an interminable series of movies. While "Rocky" is fiction, the strategic advantage of being left-handed in a fight is very real, simply because most right-handed people have little experience of fighting left-handers, but not vice versa. And the same competitive advantage is enjoyed by left-handers in other sports, such as tennis and cricket.
The orthodox view of human handedness is that it is connected to the bilateral specialization of the brain that has concentrated language-processing functions on the left side of that organ. Because, long ago in the evolutionary past, an ancestor of humans (and all other vertebrate animals ) underwent a contortion that twisted its head around 180° relative to its body, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, and vice versa. In humans, the left brain (and thus the right body ) is usually dominant. And on average, left-handers are smaller and lighter than right-handers. That should put them at an evolutionary disadvantage. Sporting advantage notwithstanding, therefore, the existence of left-handedness poses a problem for biologists. But Charlotte Faurie and Michel Raymond, of the University of Montpellier Ⅱ, in France, think they know the answer. As they report in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, there is a clue in the advantage seen in boxing.
As any schoolboy could tell you, winning fights enhances your status. If, in prehistory, this translated into increased reproductive success, it might have been enough to maintain a certain proportion of left-handers in the population, by balancing the costs of being left- handed with the advantages gained in fighting. If that is true, then there will be a higher proportion of left-handers in societies with higher levels of violence, since the advantages of being left-handed will be enhanced in such societies. Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond set out to test this hypothesis.
Fighting in modern societies often involves the use of technology, notably firearms, that is unlikely to give any advantage to left-handers. So Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond decided to confine their investigation to the proportion of left-handers and the level of violence (by number of homicides) in traditional societies.
By trawling the literature, checking with police departments, and even going out into the field and asking people, the two researchers found that the proportion of left-handers in a traditional society is, indeed, correlated with its homicide rate. One of the highest proportions of left-handers, for example, was found among the Yanomamo of South America. Raiding and warfare are central to Yanomamo culture. The murder rate is 4 per 1000 inhabitants per year (compared with, for example, 0.068 in New York). And, according to Dr Faurie and Dr Raymond, 22.6% of Yanomamo are left-handed. In contrast, Dioula-speaking people of Burkina Faso in West Africa are virtual pacifists. There are only 0.013 murders per 1000 inhabitants among them and only 3.4% of the population is left- handed.
While there is no suggestion that left-handed people are more violent than the right- handed, it looks as though they are more successfully violent. Perhaps that helps to explain the double meaning of the word "sinister".

Which of the following might be the best title for the passage（）

A:Left-handedness in Traditional Society B:Left-handedness VS Right-handedness C:Left-handedness and Violence D:The advantage of Left-handedness in Boxing

Rope skipping has many advantages for someone looking for an inexpensive and convenient form of exercise. It (51) to all the components of physical fitness, (52) in the area of cardiorespiratory(心和肺的)endurance. Rope skipping can be done (53) or in pairs. The ends of the rope are held loosely in the fingers. Elbows should be (54) the sides and the arms pointed away from the body. The arms and shoulders move in circular motion; as the rope follows a circular motion, (55) momentum (力量，势头)can be provided by rotating the wrists. (56) by pushing off from the toes just (57) enough to allow the rope to pass under your feet.
Some physical educators (58) that rope skipping expends as much energy as running. Another (59) is the relatively short time it takes to perform the activity. Some people rope skip for 10 minutes and feel that this is (60) to jogging for 30 minutes, at least (61) terms of energy expenditure (消耗). An added advantage of rope skipping (62) an activity for many students is that they do not have to skip on hard surfaces. Some students find jogging difficult because of the need to (63) on hard surfaces. Rope skipping, on the other hand, (64) be performed indoors or outdoors on a hard or (65) surface. Rope skip- ping can be done almost anywhere at anytime, providing there is space enough for the rope to make a complete revolution.

A:matter B:advantage C:issue D:problem

? ?阅读下面的短文，文中有15处空白，每处空白给出4个选项，请根据短文的内容从4个选项中选择1个最佳答案。

A:matter B:advantage C:issue D:problem

if you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or (51) in your work would depend, to some great extent, (52) your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. Of the utmost importance is your attitude. A person (53) begins a job convinced that he isn’t going to like it or is (54) that he is going to show a weakness which can only harm his Success. On the other hand, a person who is firm in his belief that he is probably as capable (55) doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt at it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. (56) the required skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can’t add or a carpenter who can’t cut a straight line with a saw (57) hopeless eases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize (58) the strength and overcome the (59) that you bring to the job of learning. But in groups to measure your development, you must first (60) stock of somewhere you stand now.
As we get further along in the book, we’ll be (61) in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening (62) skills. However (63) begin with, you should stop (64) examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three alreas that are critical to your success or failure in school: your (65) , your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.

A:idea B:weakness C:strength D:advantage