It's a fine day,Cathy. What about ______ fishing together?
A.go B.going C.goes
科目:初中英語 來源:北京市海淀區(qū)2019-2020學年九年級上學期期末英語試卷 題型:閱讀單選
Our brains believe information automatically(自動地)-even if it's false-because we can learn efficiently this way. "We're learning false information not because we're poor learners or not working hard, " says David Rapp, a psychology and education professor at Northwestern University. "In many cases, it's a useful skill for us to accept what people tell us, because often what people tell us is true."
When we hear new information, those fresh facts don't cover what we knew before. We'll draw on old or new information when the situation comes up. ___________ . Short-term memories are easier for our brains to access than facts we heard longer ago, because they're fresher in our minds-even if they're wrong. Since we have to think back further to remember old information, we will often ignore it in favour of new inaccurate(不準確的)information. New information is what we're currently thinking about or has been recently presented to us, while the old one isn't as readily available.
We also buy into the facts that seem more reasonable. Often, this means they fit better with what we want to believe, which can explain why people quote different facts in political debates. Both candidates said something that was objectively true or not, but people would go with what they hope to be true.
Things get even trickier when truth and falsehood coexist in the information. For instance, our brains aren't sure whether to believe the descriptions of London in Harry Potter. "Don't look for that train station to Hogwarts, but there might be streets mentioned that are real, " says Dr. Rapp. In fact, our brains can keep track of what's true or false by mentally tagging(標記)facts as either true or false, but sorting all that information takes time. In many cases, we are unlikely to think critically to get information, especially when we are reading for pleasure.
However, it's worth putting in the extra effort to have a second thought about the information that seems doubtful. "With the ease that we can look things up on the Internet, " says Dr. Rapp, "there's no reason not to." "Seek out reliable sources, " he adds.
1.The missing sentence in Paragraph 2 might be "___________ ".
A.We always find the information updating fast nowadays
B.Oftentimes, we use the information we heard most recently
C.From time to time, we fail to remember unimportant things
D.We hardly see old information that is different from the truth
2.The underlined phrase "buy into" in Paragraph 3 can be replaced by ___________ .
A.believe in B.learn from C.come up with D.care about
3.Why does the writer mention Harry Potter in Paragraph 4?
A.To prove people are unable to think critically when reading.
B.To show the information we get can be a mix of true and false.
C.To warn readers of the negative influence, of false information.
D.To explain how individual facts are mentally tagged as true or false.
4.What can we learn from the passage?
A.Our brains can do very little with false information.
B.Short-term memories can cover long-term memories.
C.Dr. Rapp calls on people not to depend on the Internet.
D.People need to double-check the information they question.
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It takes about ____________ to travel from Shanghai to Hainan Island by plane.
A.two half hours B.two and half hours
C.two and a half hours D.two hours and half
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Is this your father?—Yes _______ is.
A.she B.this C.it
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—Where is the woman from?—______ from the USA.
A.He is B.She is C.I am
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Cloze test.
For many people, having your own business sounds like the perfect job. You can do work that you love. You can set your own timetable, and wear jeans to work. You never have to________a boss, and you make all decisions yourself. You can even raise your salary any time you want.
But the reality is different. "Having your own business can be________,"says David Paik. After working for an advertising agency for six years, he started a website design business at home. His income in the first two months was $0.________, he got a big project creating a website for a magazine. Then he had a new problem: his timetable. "I was working twelve hours a day, seven days a week, because I didn't have employees to help me." Today, Palk Web Design is successful, but David says, "I really wasn't prepared to be a business owner. I didn't________the difficulty."
With no boss, it's easy to take too much time off-and get too little work done. With no workmates, you might feel bored or________. You have to pay for your own holidays. If you make a bad business decision, you could lose all the money. For all of these reasons, more than half of all new business fail within one year.
Another problem is balancing work with personal life. As a business owner, you can't just stop at 5 p. m. and forget about your work until tomorrow. "Even when I'm watching TV in the evening, I'm always thinking about my________and projects," says David Paik.
Still, hundreds of people around the world start businesses every day, and most enjoy the experience. "There are lots of advantages to having your own business," says Denise Williams, the owner of a women's clothing store. "You can decide exactly how to do your work, how much money you want to make, and who will work for you."
1.A.talk about B.listen to C.hear from D.look after
2.A.hard B.expensive C.foolish D.strange
3.A.As a result B.In addition C.For example D.At last
4.A.memorize B.realize C.have D.solve
5.A.angry B.funny C.lonely D.sorry
6.A.lessons B.holidays C.customers D.friends
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The engineer that we invited last week has ______knowledge____ experience. We all respect him.
A.neither…nor B.not only…but also C.not…but D.either or
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—Excuse me, could you tell me ________ about the books I want to borrow in this library?
—Of course. You can check it on this computer.
A.how can I get the information
B.what information did I get
C.where I can get the information
D.that I got the information
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Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like "encyclopedia" and "amendment" very _______. She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.
Ms.Daisy, her English teacher made a_______ for the spelling tests that any child who doesn't get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week's spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled(掙扎) in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56% which meant she had to_______ the rest 44% words three times.
Stuti was so _______in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began. Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke "Handkerchief". Stuti scribbled(匆匆書寫) h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h…now what? Her mind was blank.
Ms. Daisy started to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti's mind that Seema_______how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.
There was wide open space between Stuti and Seema. Stuti's eyes rolled(滾動) to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema's handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper and_______ the word with the letters "i-e-f".
Stuti remained nervous as Ms.Daisy read the last spelling word. She had_______just for the first time in her life. She thought, "Is this the way I want to keep my perfect record-by being a cheater?"
Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she
knew was the wrong answer. She wrote "e-i-f". As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief(解脫). She thought, "So, what if my perfect scores are no longer being kept? At least my_______ is."
1.A.happily B.easily C.slowly D.carefully
2.A.plan B.suggestion C.guess D.rule
3.A.check B.copy C.read D.pronounce
4.A.special B.unusual C.confused D.confident
5.A.knew B.proved C.found D.wondered
6.A.changed B.picked C.finished D.replaced
7.A.cheated B.asked C.looked D.remembered
8.A.choice B.courage C.honesty D.pride
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