河北省武邑中学2015-2016学年高二上学期英语寒假作业8
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第二部分:阅读理解 （共两节，满分40分）（共15小题;每小题2分，满分30分） A Mother and I start our new life in America. In the morning we travel together to work. Rising at the crack of dawn, I love the adventure of tiptoeing around in the dark living room where we sleep, whispering to each other so as not to wake Aunt Celia and Uncle Martin in the bedroom, then leaving the house soundlessly and making our way to the subway station in semidarkness. By the time we reach Kings Highway, the rising day throws a mysterious light on the empty and quiet avenue ordinarily crowded with human traffic, and on the shuttered(有百叶窗的) storefronts and fruit stands now cozily(舒适的) wrapped in layers of canvas(帆布). There is a sense of mystery---a sense of power---in being here before the rest of the world awakens…as if witnessing the beginning of time. We love travelling together on the subway, Mother and I. It’s fun to observe our fellow subway riders, exchange jokes in Hungarian, play guessing games as to their identities, their ages, and their jobs and make bets as to where they’d be getting off. In a couple of weeks Mother becomes familiar with the train route, and she no longer allows me to accompany her. “But I’ll miss the fun of travelling together in the morning,” I protest. “So will I. But it comes at a sacrifice. In order to accompany me, you must rise an hour earlier, losing an hour’s sleep. You need that extra hour of sleep.” Mother is firm, and I have no choice but to comply and regretfully give up on our morning fun. “I hope you’ll have time to teach me English. Now that I have a job and travel alone on the subway, I’ll need to improve my vocabulary. I don’t want to depend on you every time I need to make a phone call in English, or want to take public transport.” “Okay, madam,” I agree in a happy, joking tone. “How about today? Let’s have our first lesson this evening!” Every evening I ask Mother a lot of questions about vocabulary and grammar, and indeed in a couple of weeks she learns enough to do marketing on her own and travel freely by subway. 21. Which detail from the text shows that the author is excited about her life in America? A. Her resistance to the growing independence of her mother. B. Her acceptance of why she can no longer accompany her mother. C. Her description of rising early to ride the subway with her mother. D. Her discipline to work on language lessons every day with her mother 22. Which of the following describes the author’s attitude towards her mother? A. Supportive. B. Disrespectful. C. Sympathetic. D. Angry. 23. The text is most probably taken from ___________. A. a review of a book B. a book about one’s life story C. a travel magazine D. a handbook for foreigners. B Welcome to the world of multitasking---a place where the measure of a person is how many jobs they can perform at the same time. In fact, if experts are to be believed multitasking is a disastrous idea. One of the opponents(反对者) of multitasking is Dr. Clifford Nass, a professor at Stanford University. “People who multitask frequently are less able to pay attention; they are worse at managing their memory,” he said. In his opinion, the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless in some situations, for example, part of doing business in the digital world; but you can’t do
命题： 姓名_______ serious work like writing, thinking or solving an important problem this way. You do worse even as you think you’re doing better. All the time the research points to a simple fact: the brain cannot cope. When you stop midway through composing a report to check an email, you force your brain to stop and regroup. It is like pressing the pause button during a movie, meaning the film takes longer to watch. And according to Dr. Nass, the problems extend beyond the brain. Young people who frequently multitask are not as socially and emotionally healthy as those who don’t. They just feel more emotionally satisfied and the feeling is so good and they are bound to desire it again. Todd Oppenheimer, a writer said, “We’ve become a very short-term society and don’t reward people for taking a lot of time on something.” He fears we may end up losing the next generation of great thinkers. “It’s really unfortunate because the long-term challenges of our world---environmental issues, financial issues---require people to think wisely about the long-term consequences of what they do. And it’s no coincidence that the kind of people who do think long-term don’t multitask. 24. According to Dr. Nass, multitasking ________. A. contributes to memorizing various things B. may result in losing the next generation of great thinkers C. can be performed using digital tools D. makes the performance emotionally affected only 25. From the passage, we can tell ________. A. we mistakenly believe that we’re doing better by switching between tasks B. multitasking does harm to us in every area C. for every task you add to your multitasking, you can finish your goal more quickly D. the loss that we get with multitasking is harmless 26. Which of the following is a multitasking addict? A. You watch from start to finish without distraction when playing a DVD. B. You have your office desk covered with paperwork from various unfinished projects. C. You feel that when you try to do too much at once, the result always suffers. D. You turn your cell phone to silence when you are out to dine with friends. 27. The author mainly wants to tell us _________. A. it is more efficient to do things all in a mixed way B. it takes longer for us to become a great thinker C. we shouldn’t be lazy if we want to accomplish many tasks D. the less you switch, the better you do C Here’s a new warning from health experts: Sitting is deadly. Scientists are increasingly warning that sitting for prolonged periods — even if you also exercise regularly — could be bad for your health. And it doesn’t matter where the sitting takes place — at the office, at school, in the car or before a computer or TV — just the overall number of hours it occurs. Several studies suggest people who spend most of their days sitting are more likely to be fat, have a heart attack or even die. In an editorial published this week in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, Elin Ekblom-Bak of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences suggested that authorities rethink how they define physical activity to highlight the dangers of sitting. While health officials have issued guidelines recommending minimum (最少的) amounts of physical activity, they haven’t suggested people try to limit how much time they spend in a seated position. “After four hours of sitting, the body starts to send harmful signals,” Ekblom-Bak said. She explained that genes regulating (调节) the amount of glucose (葡萄糖) and fat in the body start to shut down.
