(七) 完形填空 +阅读C +回答问题
Ⅰ.完形填空(8分)
Have you ever blown dandelion(蒲公英) eds to make a wish? Me too. Have you ever eaten a dandelion? Me neither.
“Time to go, Athena,” Mama said from the sidewalk. She 1 open the car door waiting for me. I stepped in the car with my book. “She knew I didn’t eat dandelions. Why did I have to pick them with my family every spring?” I thought.
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My father and grandmother smiled from the front ats of the car. I turned and 2 to Brigid, the girl who had just moved in. She stood across the street and watched. I was glad she didn’t ask where we were going. 星期三 英文
We rode into the 3 , not too far from our hou just outside Chicago. I t down my book feeling the warm breeze. I told the wind, “I hope we are not there yet.”
I had never en anyone in the field with us, but I was always 4 申请留学出国 that someone would notice us picking dandelions. People in America pulled dandelions from their yards. What would the new neighbors think if they found out our family ate weeds (杂草)?
We drove west until the hous stopped. Then we stopped. We walked through a large field. Hundreds of yellow flowers 5 over the soft earth. I looked for a place to hide.
“What’s the matter with you, Athena?” Grandmother asked. “Nothing,” I said. “But why do we eat dandelions? No one el does.” “The best 6 in the world,” Grandmother answered.
It emed to take hours to fill the bags. By the time we were ready to leave, we had enough dandelions. On the way home, Mama and Grandmother talked about hosting a dinner party for the new neighbors.
The night of the party, Brigid arrived with her parents. Mama rved octopus with onions, peppers stuffed with lamb and rice, and horta made of dandelions. Our guests ate everything. Brigid tasted the octopus and the lamb. Then she put her fork on the horta. “Wait!” I said. Too late. “You ate the dandelions!” I told her 7 . “Not bad,” she said and ate another bite. We both laughed.
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wcg什么意思After dinner, Brigid and I went to the backyard. The stars reminded me of dandelions in the soft field. I clod my eyes and made a 8 : to be as open-minded as my family and my new friends.
1.A.pushed B.broke C.held D.knocked
功夫梦片尾曲2.A.waved B.ran C.talked D.drove
3.A.city B.country C.factory D.company
4.A.glad B.curious C.excited D.afraid
5.A.walked B.fell C.spread D.climbed
6.A.wood B.food C.cotton D.corn
7.A.patiently B.differently C.relaxedly D.embarrasdly
8.A.wish B.word C.deal D.list
Ⅱ.阅读理解(8分)
Old habits, especially bad ones, can be hard to break.
People often make fun of New Year’s resolutions (决心). However, resolutions prent a big opportunity for lf-improvement. Fortunately, social science has some ideas about how to start a good habit and stick to it.
Gary Charness and Uri Gneezy, two scientists at the University of Chicago, did some rearch, where 120 students were asked to take part in an experiment about exerci habits, and each of them would get $175 in the end. The students were randomly assigned(随机分配) to three groups. The first group got the money for just giving rearc
hers permission(允许) to record their gym attendance. The cond group gave permission, but had to go to the gym at least once the next month. The final group gave permission and had to go to the gym eight times that month.
长征诗词 七律Unsurprisingly, the group that had to make eight gym visits to get paid exercid more than the other two groups. After the payments stopped, the students kept going to the gym at higher rates(频率). They went to the gym about twice as often as the other two groups.funky music
In another study, rearchers invited 151 students to work out in the gym, and randomly assigned 75 to a“temptation-bundling” group. As they exercid, they listened to the start of an attractive audio-novel(有声小说). At the end of their workout, students were told that if they wanted to hear what happened next in their book, they would have to come back to the gym. They could only listen to the audio-book while exercising. The other 76 students also completed the first workout but without any kind of temptation bundle.
ctdIt turned out that the students in the temptation-bundling group visited the gym 27% more often than the control group over the next ven weeks. Sadly, the temptation-bundling trick fell apart over the Thanksgiving holiday when the gym was clod.
The studies show that trying something new quite often for as little as a month can kick-start a lasting change in behavior. Moreover,“temptation-bundling” may also be a uful method for changing behavior, particularly when ud together with other methods. Even if you cannot promi yourlf to stick with something for long, there is a huge benefit in putting in a lot of energy for a few weeks. It may pay off for longer than you think. So, why not challenge yourlf with next New Year’s resolution?
9.What can we learn from the two studies?
A.The students got different payments according to their gym attendance.
水黾科B.The temptation-bundling group loved audio-novels more than the other group.
C.27% of the students in the temptation-bundling group exercid more often than before.
D.The students who exercid more often at first were more likely to keep working out.
