their current selves’ needs and desires to those of their future selves,” wrote pyschologists Neil Lewis and Daphna Oyserman.
Oyserman and Lewis decided to try to find a way to make “Present Me”imagine exactly how “Future Me” would feel the night before a big paper was due, though “Present Me” hadn’t started yet. They made “Present Me” think about a far-off event as a number of days away, not months or years.
Thinking about events in this way meant that something like a friend’s wedding seemed 16.3 days sooner when considered in days rather than months and 11.4 months sooner when considered in months rather than years.
The researchers also tried to find out whether people would take action sooner if they were told a certain event was happening in X days rather than years. For example , participants imagined they had a newborn child, and that the child would need to go to college in either 18 years or 6570 days. The researchers found those in the “days”condition planned to start saving four times sooner than those in the“years” condition.
So if you think of your life in days instead of years, you may get things done quicker.
32. What did Oyserman and Lewis intend to do through their study？
A. To work on a solution to test if someone is a procrastinator.
B. To find out whether human beings usually have two different characters C. To discover procrastinators are more likely to have a lower sense of well-being
D. To prove it’s helpful to connect our current selves more with future selves.
33. The underlined part “this way”in paragraph 4 refers to “_________” A. setting up tough deadlines B.following schedules strictly C.counting in smaller units of time D.imagining how your future self will feel
34. What helps prevent people from procrastinating? A. Comparing their future selves with present selves B. Considering their current selves’ nees and desires. C.Thinking about far-off events in days rather than years D.Marking important events on a calendar as a reminder 35. What does the passage mainly talk about? A. A way to get things done in time. B.The harmful effects of procrastinating
C.The reason to overlook future needs and desires D.The way to reduce stress and improve happiness
第二节（共五小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能够填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
If you’re a gamer who’s constantly glued to your phone, it could be time to ask for medical help.
On June 18, 2020, the World Health Organization(WHO)officially listed “gaining disorder” as a mental health condition ______36.
“Video gaming is like a non-financial kind of gambiling (赌博)from a psychological poingt of view,” Mark Griffiths, a professor from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, told the Associated Press(AP).” Gamblers use money as a way of keeping score, while gamers use points.”
________37.
“people need to understand this doesn’t mean every child who spends hours in their room playing games is an addict, otherwise doctors are going to be flooded with requests for help,”Joan Harvey, a spokeswoman for the British Paychological Society, told AP.
____38 For example, a 21-year –old Chinese woman surnamed Wu in Guangdong rovince went blind in one eye after playing the mobile game King of Glory for a whole day. On days when I have no work, I usually get up at 6am, eat breakfast and play until 4pm, “she told the South China
Morning Post. Then I’ll eat something, have a nap(小睡) and play until 1 am.”
Wu isn’t alone. According to a study published by China Youth Daily, about one in five young Chinese peope play online video games for at least four to five hours perday. ________39 In April, the Ministry of Education issued a notice asking Chinese schools and parents to prevent students from becoming addicted to the Internet and game.
Other countries have also taken action. _____40 Meanwhile, in Japan, some mobile phones have a special mode for children that lets their parents control what games they can download and how long they can play. A. This means it’s now on the same list as other mental illnesses B. Thankfully, meansures have been taken to deal with the problem. C. We often see people around us playing games on their mobile phones
D. In South Korea, children are forbidden to play video games after midnight.
E. WHO’s main work is to improve the mental health of individuals and society
F. But if you lose control over your gaming habits, you’ll face serious problems.
第三部分 语言只是运用（共两节，满分45分）
第一节 完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）
阅读下面短文， 从短文后各题所给的A,B, C 和D四个选项中， 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
It was a cold and dark winter night. A town, in Wenchuan County, one of the worst 41_______areas in the May 12 earthquake, 2020, was extremely quiet except that the sound of 42_____ came out of a small house. This was not an ordinary house 43____ a community KTV set up by a young man in late September.
Ever since its opening, it has become a place for local people to heal their 44____. From sentimental (伤感的) love songs to happy pop songs, singing has become part of the long an d hard process of easing people back to a 45______life.
The young man still remember the KTV’s early days. The room were46____ on the opening day and many people chose to 47____the whole night. In the following four months, the KTV has 48_____nearly all the local people and those from nearby 49____shelters. Manhy couldn’t help50 ____as they sang their favorite songs.
The young man may not have known their names, but he51 ____their sorrow and relief. He remembers one young woman who 52_____ many
河南省郑州市2020届高三英语上学期第一次质量预测试题
