【推荐1】选词填空

distance,captain,cheerful,measure,attempt,honesty,site, vehicle,base,prepare,conduct,trap,nearby,overseas,damage,interrupt

1. He didn’t do enough _____for his exam,and failed.
2. The research group produced two reports _____on the survey,but neither contained any useful suggestions.
3. Parents are always excited to see the _____faces of their children at the moment when they opened their gifts.
4. The _____was able to bring the ship up just before it hit the little boat.
5. She answered all my questions with her usual _____.
6. The _____between dream and reality is often only one step away.
7. A _____has been chosen for the new school.
8. The doctor weighed the baby and _____its height.
9. He wanted to persuade his parents to go _____with him.
10. The arrival of driverless _____is a chance to make sure that those vehicles are more environmentally friendly.
11. Don’t _____your health for being slim.
12. All those _____under the building were rescued by the firefighters.
13. During these two years they _____to conduct many scientific experiments.
14. They ___a survey to find out local reaction to the building of a new airport.
15. Excuse me,I wonder if I could _____you for a moment.
16. Some classmates suggest we should go to places of interest _____.

【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. techniques B. negative C. factual D. slip E. identify F. conscious G. stick H. distance I. analyzers J. approach K. deceptive

The Language of Lying

“Sorry, my phone died.” “It’s nothing. I’m fine.” “I love you.”

We hear anywhere from 10 to 200 lies a day, and we spent much of our history coming up with ways to detect them, from medieval torture devices to polygraphs, blood-pressure and breathing monitors, voice-stress     1     and eye trackers. But although such tools have worked under certain circumstances, most can be fooled with enough preparation, and none are considered reliable enough to even be admissible in court. But, what if the problem is not with the     2    , but the underlying assumption that lying brings about physiological changes? What if we took a more direct     3    , using communication science to analyze the lies themselves?

Psychologically speaking, we lie partly to paint a better picture of ourselves, connecting our fantasies to the person we wish we were rather than the person we are. But while our brain is busy dreaming, it’s letting plenty of signals     4     by. Our     5     mind only controls about 5% of our cognitive function, including communication while the other 95% occurs beyond our awareness. According to the literature on reality monitoring, stories based on imagined experiences are qualitatively different from those based on real experiences. This suggests that creating a false story about a personal topic takes work and results in a different pattern of language use.

A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to     6     three such common patterns in the subconscious language of deception.

First, liars mention themselves less when making     7     statements. They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to     8     themselves from their lie, which sounds more false: “Absolutely no party took place at this house,” or “Nobody hosted a party here.”

Second, liars tend to be more     9    , because on a subconscious level, they feel guilty about lying. For example, a liar might say something like, “Sorry, my stupid phone battery died. I hate that thing.”

Third, liars tend to use longer sentence structure, inserting irrelevant but     10     sounding details in order to pad the lie. A President confronted with a scandal claimed: “I can say, categorically, that this investigation indicates that no one on the White House staff, no one in this administration presently employed was involved in this very odd incident.”