厦门一中2015—2016 高二上英语半期考.docx

厦门一中2015—2016 高二上英语半期考第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、c和D）中选出最佳选项。AIt’s happened to everyone. You run up to someone, thinking it’s your friend, only to realize that the person is a stranger.But there’s something about the curve of their nose or the shape of their eyes that looks strangely familiar. It’s as if your friend had a twin.The Germans invented a word for this phenomenon, “doppelganger”. Literally, it means “double walker”, and it’s come to mean anyone who looks very similar to another person. Doppelgangers pop up in literature and movies, and even in celebrity culture. There are countless Web pages about how celebrities such as US actress ZooeyDeschanel and singer Katy Perry look alike.But can you really find a person who looks the same as you? That’s an ongoing debate in the scientific community.After all, humans have a limited number of genes that control how our faces and bodies look. “There is only so much genetic diversity to go around,” the US’ Cornell University professor Michael Sheehan told Live Science. He compared genes to cards in a deck. If the deck gets shuffled enough times, some cards will appear again and again.But forensic scientist Daniele Podini from George Washington University, US is not convinced true doppelgangers exist. Nothing is impossible, Podini admits, but he told the website ScienceLine that most doppelgangers are the result of perception, the way each individual sees the world. We all see faces differently. You might see two people as doppelgangers, but for someone else, small differences between the two faces might be much more obvious. Each of us has a different ability to remember facer and details. There’s even a small group of people who cannot tell between faces at all. They suffer from prosopagnosia, or “face blindness”. They cannot even recognize the face of their own parents or friends.For the people who are very sensitive to differences between faces, the differences can seem never-ending