科目:初中英語 來源:2013屆北京市海淀區(qū)中考二模英語卷(帶解析) 題型:閱讀理解
"Earworms", some people call them. Songs that get stuck in your head go round and round, sometimes for days, sometimes for months. For no clear reason you cannot help yourself from humming or singing a tune by Lady Gaga.
To a psychologist, the most interesting thing about earworms is that they show a part of our mind that is clearly outside of our control. Earworms arrive without permission and refuse to leave when we tell them to. They are parasites (寄生蟲) living in a part of our minds.
If you have got an earworm you can suffer an attack of it simply by someone mentioning the tune, without having to hear it. This proves that earworms are a part of long-term memory. Humans have an "inner ear", for remembering phone numbers, for instance. When it gets infected with earworms, rather than review our plans for the day, or lists of things to remember, the inner ear gets stuck on a few short bars of music or a couple of phrases from a song. A part of us that we normally do not have to think about, that should just do what we ask, has been turned against us, upsetting us with a request that we never asked for. The mind is an inner world which we do not have complete knowledge of, or have control over.
Fortunately psychology can provide some advice on how to deal with an uncontrollable mind. Consider the famous "don’t think of a white bear" problem, which tells you to try not to think about white bears, or to do something else, to avoid both thinking of the white bear and not thinking of the white bear. For earworms, the solution may be the same. Our inner ear has become infected with an earworm. This is a part not under our control, so just sending in instructions to "shut up" is unlikely to be of much help (and has been shown to make it worse). Much better is to employ the inner ear in another task. If your mind is poisoned by Brittany Spears’ Toxic, for instance, then try singing Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head. Let me know if it works!
【小題1】According to the passage, earworms are ______.
A.songs that keep going round in our mind |
B.worms that live in a part of our brain |
C.tunes by pop singers like Lady Gaga |
D.parasites clearly under our control |
A.Singing songs may get earworms out of your head. |
B.Earworms are used for keeping long-term memory. |
C.Humans do not have complete control over their mind. |
D.You won’t suffer from earworms unless you hear the song. |
A.The instruction to shut up your mind. |
B.“Don’t think of the white bear” problem. |
C.Kylie Minogue’s Can’t Get You out Of My Head. |
D.Using the earworm-infected inner ear in another task. |
A.The causes and influences of earworms. |
B.What earworms are and how to deal with them. |
C.How to clear earworms out of your head. |
D.The relation between earworms and popular songs. |
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科目:初中英語 來源:2011年江蘇省淮北中學九年級(上)第一次階段性檢測英語卷 題型:閱讀理解
Trudy’s class has an English newspaper. The students write stories, articles and poems for it. Then they type and print their works out. The teacher posts everything on the wall so that it looks like a large, open newspaper.
One day Trudy said to the teacher, “Most newspapers have advertisements. Can we have some small ads in ours?” The teacher thought this was a very good idea. She made Trudy the advertising manager and Trudy asked the other students to offer things for sale in the newspaper. Here are some of the ads she received.
GOOD HOME WANTED: Six lovely cats need good homes. They are the cutest things you’ve ever seen. Free to the right person. See John. | CONCERT TICKETS: Has anyone got an extra ticket for the Raiders concert next week? I’m looking forward to and will pay well for a good ticket. See Sheila. |
Stationery For Rent: Anyone who has left his stationery at home, please come to Mike. No charge. But make sure to return in time. | LOST: A silver ring with a blue stone in it. Reward. See Patricia. |
WANTED PC: In good condition. Must be at least a Pentium. See Alan. | PETER’S HOMEWORK SERVICE: Help you solve the problems in your homework. Not expensive. Quick service. See Peter. |
WORK WANTED: Strong boy willing to work in the garden or do housework. 3 hours a week. Not expensive. See Tom. | Exchange Magazines: If you are interested in Chinese magazines and have science magazines at hand,please come to Nina. |
A.Trudy. | B.The teacher. | C.Some of the students. | D.Alan. |
A.To do other people’s homework. | B.To work in the garden or do housework. |
C.To sell six cats. | D.To fix broken PCs. |
A.A lovely cat. | B.A silver ring. |
C.A PC in good condition. | D.A ticket to the Raiders concert. |
A.Because she is thinking about going to the concert. |
B.Because she is looking forward to going to the concert. |
C.Because she doesn’t have homework to do. |
D.Because her friends are going to the concert. |
A.Nothing. | B.Another ring. | C.A ticket to the Raiders concert. | D.A reward. |
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科目:初中英語 來源:2013-2014學年河北省藁城市九年級上學期第三次月考英語試卷(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
Parents often believe that they have a good relationship with their teenagers. But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son. Suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. “The door to his room is always shut.” Joanna said.
??? Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year-old daughter. “She used to cuddle up(依偎) with me on the sofa and talk,” said Mark. “Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something. Sometimes she wants to be treated like a young lady. The problem is finding out which time is which.”
Before age 11, children like to tell their parents what’s on their minds. “In fact, parents are first on the list,” said Michael Riera, a writer.
“This completely changes during the teen years,” Riera explained. “They talk to their friends first, then maybe their teachers, and their parents last.”
?? Parents who know what’s going on in their teenagers’ lives are the best to help them. To break down the wall of silence, parents should create chances to understand what their children want to say, and try to find ways to talk and write to them. And they must give their children a mental(腦力的) break, for children also need freedom, though young. Another thing parents should remember is that to be a friend, not a manager, with their children is a better way to know them.
1.The underlined sentence in the first paragraph means that __________.
A. the son is always busy with his studies?????????
B. the son doesn’t want to see anymore
C. the son keeps himself away from his parents?????
D. the son wants to live with his friends
2.What troubles Tina and Mark the most is that __________.
A. their daughter isn’t as happy as before???????
B. they can’t understand what their daughter thinks
C. they don’t know what to say to their daughter?
D. their daughter talks far more to her friends than to them
3.“The wall of silence” in the first paragraph means that __________.
A. teenagers talk a lot with their friends????????
B. teenagers do not talk with their teachers
C. teenagers do not talk much with their parents??
D. teenagers talk little about their studies
4.The better way for parents to know their children is to be a ________.
A. teacher???? B. friend???? C. manager???? D. student
5.What do we learn from the passage?
A. Parents are all happy with their growing children.
B. Parents are teenagers’ best friends.
C. Parents should keep silence before teenagers.?
D. Parents should try to understand teenagers.
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科目:初中英語 來源:2012年初中畢業(yè)升學考試(湖北黃岡卷)英語(解析版) 題型:閱讀理解
Wang Bing’s father began smoking when he was a freshman ( 大學一年級學生)in college. His friend passed him his first cigarette. He has now been smoking for more than 30 years.
It’s a classic example of how young people are introduced to cigarettes, except that nowadays smokers develop their habit at an even younger age.
It has become a major concern(擔憂) in China that many teenagers begin to smoke. A survey showed that 22.5% of the middle school students questioned had tried smoking and 15.8% of them smoked regularly.
For many teenagers, smoking is a symbol of being an adult, independence, maturity(成熟) and attractiveness because the images who they love best often smoke on screen.
The social environment also plays an important role in attracting teenagers to smoking. They are used to seeing their elders, especially male family members, smoking at home. Many of them imitate adult behavior and become new smokers.
To increase the price of cigarettes is an effective way to reduce the number of young smokers, as teenagers have limited money to spend on them.
Another way is to educate the teenagers to voluntarily refuse cigarettes. A survey shows that 92.5% of the students know smoking will be bad for their health. If we persuade them in a proper way, most of them may give up smoking.
All in all, the society, the government, the school and the family should join together to take the responsibility for an anti-smoking (禁煙) campaign aimed at teenagers, not just to put empty slogans and warnings on cigarette packs.
1.The writer uses the first paragraph to ______.
A. tell the readers a story of a smoker
B. introduce the topic of the passage
C. introduce the college life of Wang Bing’s father.
2.What’s the main idea of this passage?
A.The teenagers think smoking is a symbol of being an adult and independence. |
B.The social environment encourages the teenagers to smoke. |
C.The teenagers should be educated to refuse to smoke. |
D.The teenage smoking has become a serious problem in China. |
3.What does the word ”imitate”in Paragraph 5 mean in Chinese?
A.指責 |
B.忍受 |
C.模仿 |
D.支持 |
4.From the underlined part of the last sentence of this passage, we can infer(推斷) that the writer thinks putting slogans and warnings on cigarette packs is ______to solve the problem.
A.not enough |
B.of no use |
C.of great help |
D.of great importance. |
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