英语周报高考版高三2023-2024第十四参考答案期

英语周报高考版高三2023-2024第十四参考答案期

If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? Your neighbour or a super star? A few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality（虚拟现实）device. Rikke Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping experiment at the Be Another lab, a project developed by a group of artists based in Barcelona. She swapped with her partner, an actor, using a machine called The Machine to Be Another and temporarily became a man. “As I looked down, I saw my whole body as a man, dressed in my partner’s pants,” she said. “That’s the picture I remember best.”

The set-up is relatively simple. Both users wear a virtual reality headset with a camera on the top. The video from each camera is sent to the other person, so what you see is the exact view of your partner. If she moves her arm, you see it. If you move your arm, she sees it.

To get used to seeing another person’s body without actually having control of it, participants start by raising their arms and legs very slowly, so that the other can follow along. Eventually, this kind of slow synchronised（同步的）movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they are living in another person’s body.

Using such technology promises to alter people’s behaviour afterwards-potentially for the better. Studies have shown that virtual reality can be effective in fighting racism-the bias（偏见）that humans have against those who don’t look or sound like them. Researchers at the University of Barcelona gave people a questionnaire called the Implicit Association Test, which measures the strength of people’s associations between, for instance, black people and adjectives such as good, bad, athletic or awkward. Then they asked them to control the body of a dark skinned digital character using virtual reality glasses, before taking the test again. This time, the participants’ bias scores were lower. The idea is that once you’ve “put yourself in another’s shoes” you’re less likely to think ill of them, because your brain has internalised the feeling of being that person.

The creators of The Machine to Be Another hope to achieve a similar result. “At the end of body swapping, people feel like holding each other in their arms,” says Arthur Pointeau, a programmer with the project. “It’s a really nice way to have this kind of experience. I would really, really recommend it to everyone.”

1.The word “swapping” (paragraph 1) is closest in meaning to______.

A. building B. exchanging C. controlling D. transplanting

2.We can infer from the experiment at the Be Another lab that______.

A. our feelings are related to our bodily experience

B. we can learn to take control of other people’s bodies

C. participants will live more passionately after the experiment

D. The Machine to Be Another can help people change their sexes

3.In the Implicit Association Test, before the participants used virtual reality glasses to control a dark skinned digital character, ______.

A. they fought strongly against racism

B. they scored lower on the test for racism

C. they changed their behaviour dramatically

D. they were more biased against those unlike them

4.It can be concluded from the passage that______.

A. technology helps people realize their dreams

B. our biases could be eliminated through experiments

C. virtual reality helps promote understanding among people

D. our points of view about others need changing constantly

英语周报高考版高三2023-2024第十四参考答案期试题答案

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：文章介绍了一种Be another lab的体验，可以让人们互换角色，这样可以一定程度上消除人们的偏见，也可以促进人与人的相互理解。

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考点：考查科普类短文

最近，你班同学就“太空探索是否值得”这一话题展开了一场讨论。请你根据下表提供的信息，用英语写一篇短文介绍讨论的情况。

注意：

1. 词数：120左右；

2. 参考词汇：短缺 shortage （n.) 。

英语周报高考版高三2023-2024第十四参考答案期试题答案

One possible version：

Recently, students in our class have had a discussion on whether space is worth exploring.30% of us think space

exploration is not worthwhile. They think space is too far away from us and our daily life. And the money spent on space exploration can be used to solve the earth’s problems such as starvation and  pollution. 

     On the other hand, 70% think space is worth exploring because we have benefited a lot from it, such as using

satellites for communication and weather forecast. What’s more, with further space research, we may solve the population problem by moving to other planets one day. Also, space research will enable us to find new sources to solve the problem of energy shortages on the earth.

【解析】

试题分析：根据提示判断本文属于话题作文。通过提示语可总结出命题者让学生写的话题即attitude towards space exploration。所以在结构上可以采取三段式，第一段用一两句话引出话题students in our class have had a discussion on whether space is worth exploring.。第二段按照命题要求表述出30%学生关于太空探索的看法，并列举原因；第三段则写的是另外70%的学生关于此事的看法，在列举事例时注意时态和长短句结合，搭配适当的过渡词使文章衔接自然。

【亮点说明】

本篇范文开篇点题，直接引入话题并表明自己的观点Recently, students in our class have had a discussion

on whether space is worth exploring. 文体部分以30% of us think space exploration is not worthwhile.30%的学生认为太空探索式值得的，并列举理由；70%的学生则意见相反，他们觉得宇宙探索有意义有价值，过渡自然。

在表明理由时，如 30%  of us think space exploration is not worthwhile. They think space is too far away from us and our daily life. 直接明了文章句式错落有致，不显冗长或单调。其中还使用了一些连接词如On the other hand,what’s more等，过渡自然，恰如其分。状语从句 because we have benefited a lot from it, 分

词做状语by moving to other planets one day. 不定式做Also, space research will enable us to find new sources

to solve the problem of energy shortages on the earth.等。除此之外，文中使用的词汇难度得当，固定搭配使用灵活，都为文章增色不少。

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