Question

If you want to see a thing well, touching can help you to "see" it better.

Your eyes can tell you that a glass ball is round.But by holding it in your hands, you can feel how smooth and cool the ball is. You can feel how heavy the glass ball is. When you learn all these about the ball, you really see it well.

With your skin, you can feel better. For example, your fingers can tell the difference between two different coins in your pocket. You can feel a little drop of water on the back of your hand, too. You can even feel sounds against your skin.

Have you ever wanted to know why some people like very loud music? They must like to feel the sounds of music.

All children soon learn what " Don't touch！ means. They hear it of ten. Yet most of us keep on touching things as we grow up.In shops, we touch things that we might buy.To see something well, we have to touch it.The bottoms of our feet can feel things, too. You know this when you walk on warm sand, cool grass or a hard floor.All feel different under your feet.

Most museums are just for looking.But today some mu?seums have some things to touch. Their signs say, " Do touch ！" There you can feel everything on show.

There are ways of learning to see well by feeling. One way is to close your eyes and try to feel everything that is touching your skin.Feel the shoes on your feet, the clothes on your body,and the air on your skin.

If you want to see better, reach out and touch it. Then you will really see ！

41. The underlined word " these" in Paragraph 2 refers to(指

代)_.

A. a glass hall is round

B. a glass ball is smooth and cool

C. a glass hall is smooth,cool and heavy

D. a gla'、s hall is round ,smooth ,rool and heavy

42. From paragraphs 4 and 5 , we can know that_-

A. we have to touch something in order to see it well

B. we never touch things that we might buy in shops

C. the bottoms of our feet can't feel cool grass

D. we can see "Do touch!" in all museums

43. By touching things,you can_•

A. have a strange feeling

B. know how to reach out your hand

C. learn more about them

D. tell whal colors they really are

44. Which of (he following is NOT true?

A. Touching is helping us to see better.

B. Our skin may help us enjoy music.

C. People don't have to learn to feel.

D. Most people touch things to see them well.

45._can be the best title (標題)of the passage.

A.Feeling by Seeing B.To See or to Feel

C.Ways of Touching D.To See Better―Touch

Answer 1

41. D由第二段可知these指代的是"玻璃球是圓的、平滑的、 涼爽的、重的"這一系列事實，只有選項D說法比較全面。

42. A 第4和第5段主要是圍繞To see  something well ， we have to touch it.展開的，故A項"為了清楚地看某個事物，我們不 得不用手觸摸它"是正確答案。

43. C通讀全文可得出"通過觸摸事物，我們能更好地了解它 們"的結(jié)論。

44. C由第一段可知選項A說法正確，由第三段可知選項B說 法正確，選項D說法也符合短文的觀點，而選項C"人們不必 學(xué)*感知"與短文觀點相矛盾。

45. D短文主要是圍繞"為了看得更清楚,觸摸它"這一觀點展 開的，故四個選項中，用D項To See Better—Touch作為標題 最佳。