Question

    If you’ve always felt that you look 1.(attractive) in videos than you do in photographs,you,re not alone. A recent study 2. (do) by researchers at UC Davis and Harvard has found this to be true. It turns out that looking attractive in photos isn’t easy due to 3. the researchers are calling the “frozen face effect."

    In the study,university 4. (volunteer) were asked to watch 20 videos of various faces,after 5. they were given 20 stills pulled from the videos they had just watched. When they were then asked to rank the imagery based 6.attractiveness,the videos consistently ranked higher than the corresponding stills. The researchers even

7. (try) giving the subjects a series of photos shown as a group,but regardless,the video ranked higher — 8. (apparent) we humans like moving faces.

    Maybe a portrait(人像) photographer's most prized skill has to do with bringing out 9.best in people or Photoshop; but in reality it may just be the ability 10.(overcome) the “frozen face effect." 

Answer 1

1. more attractive。考查形容词的比 较级。由than可知应填attractive的比较级。

2. done。考查过去分词作定语的用 法。do与study之间是逻辑上的 动宾关系，且do所表示的动作己 完成，故填done。

3. what。考查连接词。设空处引导 宾语从句，且在从句中作calling 的宾语，故填what。

4. volunteers。考查名词。由 were 可知主语是复数名词，故填 volunteers 。

5. which。考查关系词。faces后面 是“介词+关系代词”引导的定语 从句，且设空处指代整个主句的 内容，故填which。

6. on / upon。考查介词。(be) based on / upon意为“根据”。

7. tried。考查一般过去时。try所表示的动作发生在过去，故填tried。

8. apparently。考查副词。设空处 修饰整个句子，故填apparently。

9. the。考查定冠词。疮容词虑:高 级前用定冠词the。

10. to overcome。考查不定式作定 语的用法。ability后需跟不定 式作定语，故填to overcome。