2021届黑龙江省大庆市实中高三上学期期中考试跟进测试英语试题

striped 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.

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

C. The Thought That Counts

B. The Gift of Gratitude

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.

5. What does the underlined word “dissolving” mean in the last paragraph but one?

A. Melting.

B. Chewing.

C. Swallowing.

D. Fading.

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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

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.

D. Failure to achieve original intentions.

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.

C. Disappointment of over

-

ambitions.

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.

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

C. Ordinary people.

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