2021-2022学年度高一第41期总第871期
Exploring our bodies (Page 6) 学案

I. Read the text and answer the following questions.
1. Why did the author mention the common saying in the first paragraph?
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2. What did Longo and his team study?
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3. How do we know the positions, sizes and shapes of our body parts?
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4. Why do we tend to feel that our lips are bigger than our nose?
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II. Translate the following expressions into English.
1. 直到……            ________________
2. 与……相关联        ________________
3. 位置感            ________________
4. ……间的距离        ________________
5. 基于……            ________________
6. 把A与B相比较    ________________

III. Write.
Summarize the passage in about 60 words.
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参考答案：
I
1. To indicate that the following study may show something different from what people think.
2. The left hands of 100 people.
3. ① Our sense of position. ② The maps our brains make for themselves.
4. Our brains “see” areas based on our sense of touch, with the stronger the sense of touch in a specific body part, the bigger that body part seems. As our lips have more nerves than our noses, our brain’s map shows our lips are bigger.
II
1. up to; 2. be connected to; 3. sense of position; 4. distance between;
5. based on; 6. compare A to B