2014深圳牛津版九年级英语语法填空(三)（新题型）(21)Toronto –A pleasant attitude can do wonders for patients’recovery, according ___1___ researchers who reviewed 16 studies ___2___ looked at patients’attitudes toward health. The studies lasted 30 years and looked at patients’ attitudes after operation.“In each case the better a patient’s ___3___ (expect) about how they would do after operation ___4___ some health procedure, the ___5___ (good) they did,’ said the author Donald Cole, of the Institute for Work and Health in Toronto.“This mind-body connection that we have ___6___ (be) toying with for the past couple of decades really does have hard science behind it. The result shows that the power of positive thinking is real,” Cole said.New York – A Pablo Picasso painting sold at Christie’s auction house in New York Wednesday ___7___ 55-million dollars. The price set a new record for ___8___Picasso, and is the fifth-highest price ever paid for any work of art at auction.The painting – Woman with her arms crossed – was purchased by an telephone bidder (投标者). ___9___(paint) in 1902 in Barcelona, the portrait is one of the best-known works from ___10___ is called Picasso’s blue period.Christie’s says the painting by the famous Spanish artist is of a quality not seen on the market in more than 10 years. It is sold for more than twice its pre-sale estimate.(22)Many animals have disappeared during the history of the earth. The most famous of the animals were dinosaurs. They ___1___ on the earth tens of millions of years ago. Long before humans came into ___2___. There were many different species of dinosaurs and several of them have been ___3___ in China. The eggs of twenty-five species have been discovered in Xixia County, Nanyang, Henan Province, and not long ago a rare new species of bird like dinosaur was discovered in Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province. The scientists were ___4___ to find they could not only run like other dinosaurs, but also climb trees. They ___5___ tell this from the way the bones were joined together.Dinosaurs died ___6___ quickly about 65 million years ago. Some scientists think it was after a large rock hit the earth and put too much dust into the air. ___7___ think the earth got too hot for the dinosaurs to live ___8___ any more. Nobody knows for ___9___. In the same way there are animals ___10___ have disappeared more recently and no one knows why.(23)For centuries it has been ___1___ (recognize) that mammals and birds differ from other animals in the way they regulate body temperature. Ways of characterizing the difference have become more accurate and meaningful ___2___ time, but popular terminology still reflects the old ___3___ (divide) into “warm-blooded”and “cold-blooded”species; warm-blooded included mammals and birds whereas all other creatures were ___4___ (consider) cold-blooded. As more species were studied, it became evident ___5___ this classification was inadequate. A fence lizard or a desert iguana – each cold-blooded – usually has a body temperature only ___6___ degree or two below that of humans and so is not cold. Therefore the next distinction was made between animals that maintain a constant body temperature, called homeotherms(同热剂，一种有机磷杀虫剂), and those ___7___ body temperature varies with their environments. ___8___ poikilotherms (变温动物，冷血动物). But this classification also proved ___9___ (adequate), because among mammals there are many that vary their body temperatures during hibernation. Furthermore, many invertebrates (无脊椎动物) that live in the depths of the ocean never experience change in the chill of the deep water, ___10___ their body temperatures remain constant.(24)The private automobile has long ___1___ an important role in the United states. In fact, it has become a necessary and important part of the American way of life. ___2___ 1986, sixty-nine percent of American families owned at least one car, and thirty-eight percent had more than one. By giving workers rapid transportation, the automobile has freed them form having to live near their places of work. This has encouraged the ___3___ (grow) of the cities, but it has also let to traffic problems.Family life has been affected in various ways. The car helps to keep families together ___4___ it is used for picnics and outings. ___5___, when teenage children have the use of the car, their parents can’t keep an eye ___6___ them. There is a great danger if the driver hss been ___7___ (drink) alcohol or taking drugs, or showing off by speeding or breaking down traffic laws. Mothers of victims of such accidents have formed an ___8___ called MADD. These women want to prevent further tragedies. They have worked to encourage the government to limit the youngest drinking age, Students have also formed a ___9___ organization, SADD, and are spreading the same message among their friends.For many Americans the automobile is a necessity. But for some, it is also a mark of ___10___ (society) position and for young people, a sign of becoming an adult. Altogether, cars mean very much to Americans.(25)Sleep is part of a person’s daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of ___1___, and they too occur in cycles. ___2___ you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you first drift off into slumber (睡眠), your eyes will roll about a bit, your temperature willdrop ___3___ (slight), your muscles will relax, and your breathing will slow down and become quite regular. Your brain waves slow ___4___ a bit too, with the alpha rhythm of rather fast waves in Stage 1 sleep. For the next half hour or so, as you relax more and more, you will drift down through Stage 2 and Stage 3 sleep. The lower your stage of sleep, ___5___ slower your brain waves will be. Then about 40 to 69 minutes after you lose consciousness you will have reached the deepest sleep of all. Your brain will show the large slow waves that are ___6___ (know) as the delta rhythm. This is Stage 4 sleep.You do not remain at this deep fourth stage all night ___7___, but instead about 80 minutes after you fall into slumber, your brain activity level will increase again slightly. The delta rhythm will disappear, to be replaced by the activity pattern of brain waves. Your eyes will begin to dart around under your closed eyelids as if you were looking at something ___8___ (occur) in front of you. This period of rapid eye ___9___ (move) lasts for some 8 to 15 minutes and is called REM sleep. It is during REM sleep period, that your body will soon relax again, and your breathing will slip gently back from Stage 1 to Stage 4 sleep – only to rise once again to the surface of near consciousness some 80 minutes ___10___.(26)Life is difficult. But ___1___ is not longer difficult once we truly understand and accept it. Most do not fully see this truth. Instead they complain about their problems and difficulties as if life ___2___ be easy. It seems to them that their difficulties represent a special kind of suffering especially forced upon them or else upon their families, their class, ___3___ even their nation.What makes life difficult is that the process of facing and ___4___ (solve) problems is painful. Problems, depending on their nature, cause us sadness or loneliness or regret or ___5___ (angry) or fear. These are uncomfortable feelings, often as any kind of physical pain. And___6___ life causes an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as ___7___ as joy. Yet, it is in this whole process of solving problems that life has its meaning. Problems are the serious test that tells success ___8___ failure. When we desire ___9___ (encourage) the growth of the human spirit, we encourage the human ability to solve problems for our children to solve. It is through the pain meeting and working out problems that we learn. As Benjamin Franklin said, “those things that hurt, instruct.” It is for this reason ___10___ wise people learn not to fear but to welcome the pain of the problems.(27)What kinds of homes ___1___ we live in the future? Nobody can be sure, but architects (建筑师) are working out new ideas now.Some architects are thinking about ___2___ (build) whole cities under glass domes. Of ___3___, complicated heating and cooling systems will be necessary to control the climate in the domes. However, there will never be any rain or snow, and the temperature will always be comfortable. Another idea that will be ___4___ (help) to small countries (and island countries) is the floating city. Monaco has already built homes, stores, and offices ___5___ the Mediterranean Sea (地中海). And a Japanese architect has proposed (提出) ___6___ plan for constructing buildingon bridge over Tokyo Bay.There are some people ___7___ think we will go back to living in caves. But the caves of the future will be very ___8___ (形容词) from the caves of the Stone Age. Computer will control light ___9___ climate. Farms and parks will be on the land over the cave city. ___10___ people want ot go to the country or to the park, a short ride in a lift will take them there.(28)Some people are pessimistic when they think about the future. They say that, a hundred years form now, we will have used ___1___ most of the earth’s resources. We will have made our seas so dirty ___2___ we will not be able to eat fish from them. There will be so many people in the world that we will have to use al the countryside for housing; there will be no farmland ___3___ (过去分词).Other people have a different idea about the future. ___4___ their view, the city of the future will be a huge pyramid-shaped building, ___5___ will be floating on the surface of the sea. About 5,000 families will live there, and there will ___6___ (副词) be schools, shops in it.In a hundred years’time, people will not need to use oil. They will heat their homes with power form the sun.Think of space. Perhaps a station will ___7___ set up on the moon; people will be able to visit the moon as tourists. They may even spend their holidays in space, traveling from planet to planet.What ___8___ interesting picture!Many people don’t think about the future. “I don’t care. I’ll be ___9___ (形容词) then,” they say. But it is our duty to care ___10___ the world of a hundred years’ time will be the world of our children’s and their children after them.(29)After I finished school, I began to look for work. Now, several months later, I had not found the kind of work I was interested in ___1___.One morning I received ___2___ phone call. “Is ___3___ Jenny Smith?” a man asked. “I have been told you’re looking for a job.” I agreed. Then he went ___4___. “I hear that you did well in your studies and ___5___ you were active in sports. Well, I might have a job for you. If you’re ___6___, come over to my office. I’m Tim Brown of the All-Star Clothing Factory.”I went to see Mr Brown that afternoon. While ___7___ (ask) me questions, he looked at me, up and down carefully.At last he said, “Ok, I’ll let you ___8___ (have ) the job.” My heart started beating faster. Would he take me on as a laboratory assistant? I wanted to become a scientist or an engineer some day. When he spoke again, I couldn’t ___9___ my ears. 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