It was the day after Halloween when my grandmother was admitted to the hospital with the worst headache she’d ever had. While posing in our costumes the night before, we knew something was wrong, just not how wrong.
Grandma’s house was the central gathering place of my family. Sunday lunches, birthday
dinners, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas — all were our traditions, with her as hostess. While my parents were busy running their small business, there were many nights when Grandma fed me and put me to bed in her spare room, until they came to get me. I spent my summers at Grandma’s and I went everywhere with her. I couldn’t imagine a time when she wouldn’t be around me.
Then November 1,1991 began her month-long stay in the hospital—she suffered from a rare
infection (感染)called nocardia asteroides. After being born in the year of the Great Depression, living through World War II, raising three kids, and being widowed at the age of 48, Grandma never expected to live into her seventies. The infection in her brain seemed to confirm that she wasn’t long for this world. But that’s not the end of her story. A team of doctors successfully removed the abscess(脓肿), and Grandma even made it into a local medical journal. Her doctor called her “the brain lady”.
Grandma celebrated her 85th birthday in March this year. In the almost 23 years since her
recovery, she’s seen two of her four grandchildren get married and welcomed three great-grandsons. Although they damage something in her house, she loves it when my two boys come over. And while I know they make her day, seeing her love blossom for another generation makes my day too. Happy Grandparents’ Day to my amazing grandmother! 24. When celebrating Halloween, the author’s family _______.
A. knew Grandma would appear in a local medical journal B. found that something was wrong with the costumes C. didn’t realize that Grandma was feeling unwell D. didn’t know how serious Grandma’s illness was 25. What is the tradition of the author’s family?
A. Running small businesses. B. Spending summers at Grandma’s.
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C. Making Grandma hostess anywhere. D. Gathering at Grandma’s at special events.
26. When did Grandma have the operation to remove the abscess?
A. At the age of 60.
B. When she was about 62.
C. Before November 1, 1991. D. After this year’s Halloween. 27. The author wrote this text _____.
A. in honor of Grandma
B. to promote Grandparents’ Day
D. in celebration of Grandma’s recovery
C. to stress the importance of health
c
There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. Information in long-term memory can be remembered at a later time when it is needed. The information may be kept for days or weeks. However, information in short-term memory is kept for only a few seconds, usually by repeating the information over and over. The following experiment shows how short-term memory has been studied.
Henning studied how students who are learning English as a second language remember vocabulary. The subjects in his experiment were 75 college students. They represented all levels of ability in English: beginning, intermediate (中等), and native speaking students.
To begin, the subjects listened to a recording of a native speaker reading a paragraph in English. Following the recording, the subjects took a 15-question test to see which words they remembered. Each question had four choices. The subjects had to circle the word they had heard in the recording, some of the questions had four choices that sound alike. For example, weather, whether, wither, and wetter are four words that sound alike. Some of the questions had four choices that have the same meaning. Method, way, manner, and system would be four words with the same meaning. Finally the subjects took a language proficiency test.
Henning found that students with a lower proficiency in English made more of their mistakes on words that sound alike; students with a higher proficiency made more of their mistakes on
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words that have the same meaning. Henning's results suggest that beginning students hold the sound of words in their short-term memory, and advanced students hold the meaning of words in their short-term memory.
28. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Henning gave a separate test on vocabulary to his students. B. Long-term memory can be achieved only by training. C. It is easier to test short-term memory than long-term memory.
D. Information in short-term memory is different from that in long-term memory. 29. From Henning's result we can see that ________.
A. beginners have difficulty distinguishing the pronunciation of words B. advanced students always remember words by their meaning C. it is difficult to remember words that sound alike
D. it is difficult to remember words that have the same meaning 30. The word \
A. the student experimented on B. the theme of listening material C. a branch of knowledge studied D. memory 31. The passage centers on ________.
A. an experiment on students B. two kinds of memory C. short-term memory D. memory
D Celebrity has become one of the most important representatives of popular culture. Fans used to be crazy about a specific film, but now the public tends to base its consumption( 消 费 ) on the interest of celebrity attached to any given product. Besides, fashion magazines have almost abandoned the practice of putting models
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on the cover because they don’t sell nearly as well as famous faces. As a result, celebrities have realized their unbelievably powerful market potential, moving from advertising for others’ products to developing their own.
Celebrity clothing lines aren’t a completely new phenomenon, but in the past they were typically aimed at the ordinary consumers, and limited to a few TV actresses. Today they’re started by first-class stars whose products enjoy equal fame with some world top brands. The most successful start-ups have been those by celebrities with specific personal style. As celebrities become more and more experienced at the market, they expand their production scale rapidly, covering almost all the products of daily life.
However, for every success story, there’s a related warning tale of a celebrity who overvalued his consumer appeal. No matter how famous the product’s origin is, if it fails to impress consumers with its own qualities it begins to resemble an exercise in self-promotional marketing. And once the initial attention dies down, consumer interest might fade, loyalty returning to tried-and-true labels.
Today, celebrities face even more severe embarrassment. The pop-cultural circle might be bigger than ever,
but its rate of turnover has speeded up as well. Each misstep threatens to reduce a celebrity’s shelf life, and the same newspaper or magazine that once brought him fame has no problem picking him to pieces when the opportunity appears. Still, the ego’s( 自我的) potential for expansion is limitless. Having already achieved great wealth and public recognition, many celebrities see fashion as the next frontier to be conquered. As the saying
goes, success and failure always go hand in hand. Their success as designers might last only a short time, but fashion—like celebrity—has always been temporary. 32.Fashion magazines today A. totally refuse to put models on the cover B. rarely place models on the cover
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. C. need not worry about celebrities’ market potential D. judge the market potential of every celebrity correctly 33.A change in the consumer market can be found today that A. price rather than brand name is more concerned B. producers prefer models to celebrities for advertisements C. producers prefer TV actresses to film stars for advertisements D. quality rather than the outside of products is more concerned
34. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 indicates that any wrong step will possibly A. shorten the artistic career of a celebrity in show business B. damage the image of a celebrity in the eyes of the general public C. cut short the time of a celebrity’s popularity D. influence the price of a celebrity’s products 35. The passage is mainly about A. celebrity and personal style C. celebrity and fashion design
. B. celebrity and market potential D. celebrity and clothing industry
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根据短文内容，从短文后的七个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 There is a huge power in knowing how to make adjustments in life. In fact, it’s possible to turn failure into success by making the right adjustments. 36 Whatever your station in life, everyone will face what I call the 3Cs: changes, challenges and choices. The following are some simple but powerful tips to help you make effective life
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四川省雅安中学2019-2020学年高一下学期4月月考英语试题 Word版含答案
