Book2Unit4北师大英语必修2单元练习.docVIP

Book 2　Unit 4　Cyberspace Ⅰ.完形填空 Many people think it is safe to use a cellphone while they are driving.Yet scores of studies suggest that real multitaskers—those who can__1__out multiple tasks equally well，make up just 2 percent of the population.More surprisingly，the so-called “supertaskers”__2__have differently structured brains to the other 98 percent. The brain areas that make supertaskers__3__from the rest of the population are the same parts that are most different between__4__and nonhuman primates，according to David Strayer，director of the applied cognition lab at the University of Utah.Scientists are__5__of the reason why some brains are different. In fact，we could all benefit from doing just a(n)__6__task at once.In most of us，scientists have__7__a “bottleneck in the brain” that may explain why we find it__8__to do two things at once. The__9__appears to be caused by a logjam of nerve messages.Faced with two almost__10__tasks less than 300 milliseconds apart，the brain’s ability to deal with the second one slows down.The__11__response to the second task was postponed until the response to the first was completed.This means that with e-mails，phone calls，text messages and online social media all competing for our__12__，often against a background of television，radio or music，our brains can__13__information overload. Scientists made the discovery after scanning the brains of__14__attempting to multitask on a computer.The task was deliberately designed to involve the use of __15__senses and motor responses. 1．A.carry B．put C．turn D．think 答案　A 解析　考查动词。根据“multiple tasks”可知，此处用carry较为合适，语境表示那些真正同时可以把多项工作做好的人仅占人口的百分之二。 2．A.interestingly B．strangely C．actually D．normally 答案　C 解析　考查副词。此处用actually说明一种事实。更令人惊奇的是这些所谓的一次可以做多种工作的人的大脑和其他人的大脑构造不同。 3．A.result B．separate C．conclude D．differ 答案　D 解析　考查动词。由上文可知一次可以做多种工作的人的大脑和其他人的大脑构造不同。所以用differ from...表示“不同于……”。 4．A.humans B．animals C．plants D．monkeys 答案　A 解析　考查名词。由下文中的“nonhuman primates”可知此处应用humans。 5．A.conscious