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大庆实验中学三部英语期中考试跟进测试题
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A
The
Naismith
Memorial
Basketball
Hall
of
Fame
(
the
Hall
of
Fame
for
short
)
is
a
fantastic
destination for
everyone from lifelong basketball fans to families
with children who are just beginning
to
explore
the
world's
most
popular
sport.
Each
year,
several
thousand
visitors
crowd
into
this
birthplace of
basket
-
ball.
Dates and Hours of Operation
The Hall of Fame is open Wednesday
through Sunday from late November through March 31
and
daily the rest of the year. Hours
are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Friday through Sunday:
10 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Because it may
close for private functions, it is wise to confirm
hours of operation ahead of your visit.
Just call 1
-
877
p>
-
466
-
675
2.
Ticket
Information
Admission to the
Hall of Fame (as of 2019) is $$24 for people aged
over 16, $$16 for youths aged
from 5 to
16 and free for children under age 5. Since the
number of visitors is limited each day, you
are advised to make a reservation in
advance. For more information, please call 1
-
877
-
466
-
6831.
Travelling from All
Directions
The
Hall
of
Fame
is
conveniently
located
within
driving
distance
from
Boston
(in
the
east),
Albany
(in the west), Vermont (in the north) and New York
(in the south) and is right off of MA Route
91. For those who prefer to travel by
air, the museum is not far from Logan
International Airport and
Bradley
International Airport. For more information about
the transportation, call 1
-
8
77
-
446
-
6755.
A Friendly
Reminder
1. No food and
beverage inside of the hall.
2. Backpacks and any large bags are not
permitted inside of the hall unless needed for
medical
reasons.
3. If
you wish to participate in shooting on Center
Court, please wear appropriate footwear. Also,
contests of any kind and half court
shots are not allowed for everyone's
safety.
4. For anything you
don't know for sure, call 413
-
781
-
6500.
1. When can visitors visit the Hall of
Fame?
A. At 11:00 a.m.,
Monday, Nov. 30th.
B. At
3:00 p.m., Friday, Mar. 12th.
C. At 4:30 p.m., Tuesday,
Apr.1st.
D. At
5:30 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 20th.
2. What is the purpose of the fourth
paragraph of the text?
A. To
tell about the location of the Hall of
Fame.
B. To introduce
several cities near the Hall of Fame.
C. To stress the easy accessibility to
the Hall of Fame.
D. To
encourage people to reach the Hall of Fame by
car.
3. What are visitors
advised to do in the Hall of Fame?
A. Join in shooting contests on Center
Court.
B. Take some snacks
in case they are hungry.
C.
Take care of their backpacks during the
visit.
D. Wear suitable
shoes if they want to try shooting.
B
Grandma was
going to turn eighty
-
two on
Friday. I heard Mom ordering a cake from the
bakery
over the phone. “Don’t put any
icing on it,” she said, “Just a plain angel cake.”
Angel cake with fresh
strawberries was
her favorite. So Mum was ready.
That afternoon when Dad came home, he
showed me the phone he had bought for Grandma. “It
has
speed
-
dialing,”
he
said.
“She
won’t
have
to
push
so
many
buttons
when
she
calls
the
doctor’s
1
office
or her sister.” Dad looked pleased. “Her fingers
are so stiff with arthritis
(
关节炎
) that the phone
seems a good idea.”
But what about me? Here I was with only
one dollar in my pocket and one night to think of
a gift.
Even though Mom always insisted
that “it’s the thought that counts,” I had a big
problem. My mind
was even more empty of
ideas than my wallet was empty of
money.
When I have a
problem, it sometimes helps to shoot a few baskets
in the driveway.
Dribble,
shoot, rebound.
For a while
I just played without even trying to think. I
began to remember back before Granddad
died, when we used to visit them in
Kentucky, Granddad showed me how to do a jump
shot. Thinking
about Granddad made me
sigh. Grandma’s life was a lot happier when he was
alive.
Swish! I’d made two
in a row.
Suddenly, I
remembered a green glass dish in the shape of a
leaf that Grandma used to keep on a
table back in Kentucky. It was always
full of those red
-
and
-
white
-
stripe
d peppermint candies. I hadn’t
thought
of
that
dish
for
a
long
time.
Maybe
it
was
lost
or
broken
when
Dad
rented
the
truck
and
brought Grandma and the
belongings to Ohio.
Just
thinking
about
that
candy
dish
made
me
taste
the
peppermint
slowly
dissolving
on
my
tongue.
I
could
almost
hear
Grandma
saying,
“Help
yourself
to
a
piece
of
peppermint,
Burt.”
That
voice had a smile
behind it. It was a voice I hadn’t heard for a
long time.
Aha!
I
took
one
last
shot,
then
dribbled
to
the
back
door,
ran
up
the
steps
two
at
a
time,
and
grabbed
my wallet.
4. What do you know about
the author’s grandma?
A. She has difficulty
moving fingers.
B. She loves
high
-
tech products.
C. She doesn’t
like a plain cake.
D.
She has a sweet tooth.
5. What does the underlined word
“dissolving” mean in the last paragraph but
one?
A. Melting.
B. Chewing.
C. Swallowing.
D.
Fading.
6. What would the
writer probably buy in the end?
A. Something
decorative for candies.
B. Something
bringing good memories.
C. Something convenient to
use.
D. Something to Grandma’s
taste.
7. What is the best
title of the text?
A. The Good Old Days
B. The Gift of Gratitude
C. The Thought
That Counts
D. The Inspiration from
Basketball
C
People often plan to receive medical
exam but don't, resulting in increasing health
care cost. A
surprising number of
citizens mean to complete tax forms in time but
forget to, forcing them to pay
unnecessary
fines.
Many
families
miss
the
government
deadline
to
complete
financial
aid
forms,
losing out on aid
available for child care.
How
can
policymakers
help
people
follow
through
on
important
tasks?
They
use
carrots
and
sticks: bonuses, late
fees, or regulations. These methods can be clumsy,
and often aren't effective for
the
situation at hand. Reminding people to form simple
plans, however, provides a
low
-
cost, simple,
and powerful tool.
Evidence
is
growing
that
providing
prompts,
which
push
people
at
key
times
to
think
through
how and when they will follow through,
make people more likely to act on tasks of
importance. In one
early
randomized
study
on
tetanus
vaccination
rates,
for
example,
a
team
of
social
psychologists
showed
that
28%
of
Oxford
University
seniors
got
the
shot
after
being
encouraged
to
review
their
weekly schedules and to select a
possible time to stop by the health center. They
were also given a list
of times when
shots were available and a map showing the health
center's location. Only 3% of the
seniors got the shot when simply
informed about how effective the shots
were.
People who make a plan
gain an advantage from their psychological forces.
Specifically, they can
overcome the
tendency to put off as well as the tendency to be
overly optimistic about the time it will
take to accomplish a task. Imagine
Sarah who wants to renew a car insurance, but it
will require two
hours of travel to and
from a garage. Making a plan may lead her to take
two hours off and have her
responsibilities
covered
by
her
colleagues
while
she
is
away.
Moreover,
she
will
be
less
likely
to
underestimate the time needed to
accomplish the task—a particularly common problem
for complex
tasks.
People mistakenly believe that their
strong intentions are enough to push them to
perform desired
behaviors.
These
psychological
research
results
stress
the
need
for
policy
decisions
that
encourage
2
plan
making and improve social welfare.
8.
What
phenomenon is described in paragraph 1?
A.
Heavy burden
of daily chores.
B. Lack of task management
skills.
C. Disappointment of
over
-
ambitions.
D. Failure to achieve
original intentions.
9. What
does the randomized tetanus vaccination study
show?
A. People need to
think deeply before they act.
B. Specific reminders help people
accomplish plans.
C.
Awareness of task significance matters in
planning.
D. Seniors need
encouragement to have vaccination
shots.
10. What
psychological benefit can people get from making a
plan?
A. They are realistic
in the time required.
B.
They are optimistic about the outcome.
C. They are confident to overcome
hardship.
D. They are
careful with task arrangements.
11. Who may be the intended readers of
this text?
A. Medical
staff.
B.
Government officials.
C.
Ordinary people.
D. Social psychologists.
D
Hardware
in
general,
and
smartphones
in
particular,
have
become
a
huge
environmental
and
health problem in the Global South's
landfill sites
(
垃圾填埋场
).
Electronic waste
(e
-
waste) currently takes up
5 percent of all global waste, and it is set to
increase
rapidly as more of us own more
than one smartphone, laptop and power bank. They
end up in places
like
Agbogbloshie
on
the
outskirts
of
Ghana's
capital,
Accra.
It
is
the
biggest
e
-
waste
dump
in
the
world, where
10, 000 informal workers walk through tons of
abandoned goods as part of an informal
recycling process. They risk their
health searching for the precious metals that are
found in abandoned
smartphones.
But
Agbogbloshie
should
not
exist.
The
Basel
Convention,
a
1989
treaty,
aims
to
prevent
developed
nations
from
unauthorized
dumping
of
e
-
waste
in
less
developed
countries.
The
e
-
waste
industry, however, circumvents the
regulations by exporting
e
-
waste labelled as
poor countries like Ghana, knowing full
well that it is heading for a landfill
site.
A recent report found
Agbogbloshie contained some of the most dangerous
chemicals. This is not
surprising:
smartphones contain chemicals like mercury
(
水银
), lead and even
arsenic(
砷
). Reportedly,
one
egg
from
a
free
-
range
chicken
in
Agbogbloshie
contained
a
certain
chemical
which
can
cause
cancer
and damage the immune system at a level that's
about 220 times greater than a limit set by the
European
Food
Safety
Authority
(EFSA).
Most
worryingly,
these
poisonous
chemicals
are
free
to
pollute
the
broader
soil
and
water
system.
This
should
concern
us
all,
since
some
of
Ghana's
top
exports are cocoa and nuts.
Some governments have started to take
responsibility for their consumers' waste. For
example,
Germany has started a project
that includes a sustainable recycling system at
Agbogbloshie, along with
a
health
clinic
for
workers.
However,
governments
cannot
solve
the
problem
alone,
as
there
is
an
almost
limitless
consumer
demand
for
hardware,
especially
when
governments
green
policies
are
focused on issues like
climate change.
Only
the
manufacturers
can
fix
this.
A
more
economically
sustainable
and
politically
possible
solution
is
through
encouraging
hardware
manufacturers
to
make
the
repair,
reuse
and
recycling
of
hardware profitable, or at least
cost
-
neutral.
12. What can we infer from Paragraph
2
?
A. Electronic
products need improving urgently.
B. Electronic waste is too complex to
get fully recycled.
C.
Electronic waste requires more landfill sites
across Ghana.
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