Anyone who has ever played the game of Tetris (俄罗斯方块) knows the game’s surreal ability to spill into real life. After you shut off the game, you still see those Tetris blocks falling in your mind. You're grocery shopping and find yourself thinking about rearranging items on grocery shelves. Your mind continues to play the game, even when you're physically not.
Robert Stickgold, a Harvard professor, noticed something similar after a day hiking a mountain. That night, he dreamt he was still going through the motions of mountain hiking. Curious about this, he tried something: he got a group of college students of various skill levels to play Tetris and let them sleep in the Harvard sleep lab.
Over 60% of the students, including those who suffered from amnesia (健忘症), reported dreams of images of Tetris pieces falling, rotating (旋转), and fitting together. Interestingly, half the Tetris expert students reported such Tetris dreams, while 75% of the beginners did.
A study found that playing Tetris can grow your brain and make it more efficient. Adolescent girls played the game for an average of 1.5 hours a week over three months. The cerebral cortex (大脑皮层) of the girls grew thicker, while brain activity in other areas decreased. Richard Haier, who had found that there was a "Tetris learning effect", in which the brain consumed less energy as mastery of the game rose, concluded, "The brain is learning which areas not to use."
Haier's study showed that as the girls practiced playing the game, nerve cells made connections, communicating through synapses (a synapse is a connection between two nerve cells). When you learn something, you change those connections. Every time you reactivate(激活) a circuit, synaptic efficiency increases, and connections become more durable and easier to reactivate. Stickgold says sleep plays a role in this memory process.
So to sum up, whenever you do specific tasks over and over again, they take up less of your brain power over time. And that’s pretty amazing.
1.What does the underlined part ‘surreal ability’ in the first paragraph mean?
A. The game can help people arrange things in life.
B. The game can be applied to many aspects of life.
C. There are great similarities between the game and things in life.
D. The mind continues to play the game when we are doing other things.
2.What can we learn from Stickgold’s study?
A. More than half of the students dreamed of images of Tetris.
B. Students having bad memories didn’t dream of the game.
C. The Tetris expert students were more likely to dream of the game than the beginners.
D. More than half of the Tetris expert students didn’t dream of the game.
3.Playing Tetris for a long time can help ________.
①grow one’s brain
②one’s brain function efficiently
③arrange things tidily in life
④improve the adaptability of one’s brain
A. ①②③ B. ①②④
C. ②③④ D. ①③④
4.The purpose of the passage is to ________.
A. encourage people to play Tetris
B. warn people to focus while doing things
C. warn people not to play games before sleep
D. tell people they will improve at something if they keep doing it
科目：高中英语 来源：内蒙古2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假设你是李华,于2016年6月3日搭乘国外某航空公司航班(flight number BA793)回国后,发现遗失了一个行李箱(suitcase)。现请用英文给该航空公司写一封信,请他们帮你寻找。
信件要点包括:
1.陈述写信原因
2.简要描述该行李
3.说明其重要性
4.期待回复并表示感谢
注意:
1.词数100左右。
2.信件格式已为你给出。
3.请在答题卡上作答。
Dear Sir or Madam,
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Yours truly,
Li Hua
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科目：高中英语 来源：河南省商丘市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
Children who spend more time outdoors may have a lower risk of becoming nearsighted, new research suggests.
In the study, researchers looked at about 1,900 schoolchildren. The scientists found that the kids who had been instructed to spend more time outdoors over three years were 23 percent less likely to develop nearsightedness during this time than those who had not been instructed to spend more time outdoors. Moreover, among the kids who did become nearsighted during the study, the degree to which their eyesight worsened was slightly smaller among those who spent more time outdoors.
The researchers selected six schools and required the children, whose average age was 7 at the start of the study, to attend one additional 60-minute class of outdoor activities during each school day for three years. The parents of these children were also encouraged to engage their children in outdoor activities after school, especially during weekends and holidays. The other half of the children, from another six schools, continued their usual activity patterns. After three years, 30.4 percent of the kids in the intervention(干预) group had become nearsighted, compared with 38.5 percent of the kids in the other group.
It is not clear exactly why spending more time outside would benefit children’s eyesight, the researchers said. However, some research has suggested that the higher levels of light intensity found outdoors may increase the release of the chemical dopamine(多巴胺) of the eye. In turn, dopamine is known to restrain（抑制） the type of growth in the eye that is associated with nearsightedness.
Based on the new results, the researchers recommend that children spend more time outdoors because of the potential benefits to their eyesight. However, it’s important to protect kids’ skin and eyes from UV light, which can be damaging.
1.What did the children in the intervention group do during each school day?
A. Attend an extra class of outdoor activities.
B. Continue to do their usual activities.
C. Spend one hour in doing eye exercises.
D. Participate in outdoor activities with parents.
2.What can be inferred about the chemical dopamine?
A. It can contribute to poor sight.
B. It can damage people’s brain.
C. It is beneficial to eyesight.
D. It means low levels of light intensity.
3.What may be discussed in the following paragraph?
A. How to design outdoor activities for kids.
B. How to prevent kids becoming nearsighted.
C. How to protect kids’ skin and eyes from UV light.
D. How to encourage kids to join in outdoor activities.
4.Which can serve as the best title for the passage?
A. The More Time Outdoors, the Better
B. Kids May See Better if They Play Outside
C. It’s Time to Engage Kids in Outdoor Activities
D. Researchers Found a Cure for Nearsightedness
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科目：高中英语 来源：安徽省蚌埠市2016-2017学年高二下学期期中考试英语试卷 题型：七选五
How to Improve Vocabulary Fast
Your vocabulary refers to the words in a language you are familiar with. We should learn some ways to expand it.
Read every day. 1. Choose reading material that is slightly above your level and keep a dictionary with you to look up words you do not know.
2.. If you do not meet with an unfamiliar word in your daily reading, use your dictionary to search for one.
Learn the correct definition and pronunciation for each new word. Pronunciation is as important as definition because in order to add a word to your active vocabulary, you must be able to use it in speech.
Elaborate(详尽阐述)on the meaning of the word. If you have just learned that the word “stubborn” , think about the neighbor who will not
lend you his car. 3.
Use your new word in speech and in writing. E-mail your sister about how your cat is stubborn about sleeping on your pillow. 4. But the more you use it, the more fluent you will become in its use. Soon it will be a regular part of your active vocabulary.
Tell everyone you are trying to increase your vocabulary. Encourage them to ask you what your latest word is. 5.. The more you explain the meaning of a word to someone, the more likely you are to remember it.
A. Find a new word every day.
B. The vocabulary can be increased.
C. Your vocabulary contains the words you understand.
D. The more often you read, the faster your vocabulary can grow.
E. Or let them ask for the definition of a new word you have used.
F. Imagine him shaking his head, and think of him as “stubborn in his refusal”.
G. The first time you use a new word in speech it may seem strange.
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科目：高中英语 来源：湖北省天门、仙桃、潜江三市2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：短文填空
Hua Mulan was a brave girl in the Northern Wei dynasty. She disguised (假扮)1. (her) as a man, and joined the army in place of her father. Mulan’s father, once 2. soldier, taught his daughter military (军事的) skills, 3. (include)horse riding and how to fight. Hua Mulan also read her father’s books 4. military science.
5. (drive) away the Rouran nomads (游牧民族), the 6. (rule) of Northern Wei ordered that every family should send a man off to war against them. Mulan’s old father, as well as her young brother, was not able to go and fight. So Mulan 7. (decide) to join the army instead of her father. Mulan fought for 12 years 8. (successful) without her true identity being discovered. Mulan became a hero, 9. bravery moved people greatly, and she 10. (offer) a high position, but she refused it.
Even though her story might be no more than a legend, Hua Mulan has been respected as a filial (孝顺的) daughter by Chinese people for hundreds of years.
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科目：高中英语 来源：辽宁省庄河市2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：完形填空
Mickey was a nice, cheerful, optimistic boy. No one could remember ever having seen him ______; it seemed he didn’t ______ whatever people said to him. Even his teachers admired his good ______. It was so unusual that a story was going around that Mickey’s ______ must be due to some special secret. They asked Mickey so much that he ______ his favorite teacher, Mr. Anthony, to tea one afternoon. When they had finished, Mickey ______ Mr. Anthony around the house. When Mickey opened his bedroom door, the teacher ______. The huge wall was a unique collage (拼贴画) of thousands of colors and shapes! It was the loveliest decoration Mr. Anthony had ever ______.
“Some people at school think that I ______ think badly of anyone,” Mickey started to explain, “and that ______ at all bothers me, but that’s not true at all. I’m just like anyone else. I used to get angrier than all the other kids.______ years ago, with the help of my parents, I started a small collage. With every little piece I stuck on I added some bad thought or act.”
It was ______. The teacher looked closely at die wall. In each one of the small ______ he could read “fool”, “silly”, “idiot”, “pain”, and a thousand other ______ things.
“This is how I started ______ all my bad times into an opportunity to ______ to my collage. Now I like the collage so much that, each lime someone makes me angry, I couldn’t be ______. They’ve given me a new piece for my work of ______.”
That day, the teacher was impressed by Mickey’s ______ to have an optimistic character. Without telling anyone, Mr. Anthony ______ his own collage and he would often recommend it to his students.
1.A. lonely B. angry C. calm D. excited
2.A. accept B. understand C. mind D. forget
3.A. decision B. character C. dream D. method
4.A. goodness B. cleverness C. worry D. anxiety
5.A. helped B. introduced C. followed D. invited
6.A. drove B. promised C. showed D. moved
7.A. appeared B. relaxed C. escaped D. froze
8.A. seen B. want C. made D. required
9.A. often B. never C. almost D. ever
10.A. anything B. something C. nothing D. everything
11.A. But B. As C. Though D. Because
12.A. crazy B. reasonable C. difficult D. true
13.A. walls B. books C. pieces D. boxes
14.A. strange B. negative C. small D. clever
15.A. throwing B. turning C. packing D. cutting
16.A. get B. belong C. lead D. add
17.A. happier B. quicker C. more friendly D. more careful
18.A. movie B. literature C. art D. science
19.A. practice B. advice C. suggestion D. secret
20.A. began B. left C. bought D. missed
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科目：高中英语 来源：河南省南阳市联合体2016-2017学年高一下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：短文改错
文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在此处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出修改的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2.只允许修改10处，多者（从十一处起）不计分。
When I look at this picture of myself, I realize of how fast time flies. I had grown not only physically and also mentally in the past few years. About one month after this photo was took, I entered my second year of high school and become a new member of the school music club. Around me in picture are the things they were very important in my life at that time:car magazines and musical instruments. I enjoyed studying difference kinds of cars and planes, playing pop music, and collecting the late music albums. This picture often brings back to me many happy memories of your high school days.
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科目：高中英语 来源：湖南省长沙市2017届高三高考模拟试卷（二）英语试卷 题型：书面表达
假定你是高三学生李华，你最近看到“中美大学生的经济资助状况”的一个调查结果(如下表)想就这个话题给美国的笔友Joe写封信，进行相关探讨。
信的内容包括：
1．描述中美大学生的经济资助状况；
2．分析这种状况的成因；
3．预测中国大学生经济资助的可能变化。
Financial Sources of College Students | ||
Financial sources | Examinees | |
American StudentS | Chinese StudentS | |
Parents | 45％ | 90％ |
Part-time Jobs | 40％ | 5％ |
Scholarship | 15％ | 5％ |
注意；1．词数100左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
3．信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数-
Dear Joe，
How is everything going? I’m writing to talk about financial sources of college students，which are quite different between in China and m America. According to a survey，
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What’s your idea? Looking forward to your reply!
Yours．
Li Hua
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科目：高中英语 来源：山西省2016-2017学年高二下学期期末考试英语试卷 题型：阅读理解
A dam is a man-made structure built across a river. Most dams are built to control a river’s water flow, improve navigation and control flooding. However, some dams are built to produce hydro-electric power.
Hydro-electric power is produced as water passes through a dam, and into a river below. The more water that passes through a dam, the more energy is produced. Once a dam is built, a man-made lake is created behind the dam.
Electricity is produced by a kind of equipment called a turbine(水轮机). Turbines contain metal coils(线圈) surrounded by magnets(磁铁). When the magnets move round rapidly over the metal coils, electricity is produced. Turbines are located inside dams. The falling water makes the magnets go around the coils.
Dams provide clean energy, but they can also harm the environment. Species that use rivers to reproduce are often hurt by dams. In the Northwest of the US, the population of fishes has dropped from 16 million to 2.5 million since hydro-electric plants were built on the Columbia River. Dams all over the world have hurt some species.
The highest dam in the Unites States is located near Oroville, California. The Oroville Dam towers 230 meters and is more than a mile wide. This dam was built in 1968, 22 years after the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam, on the Nevada-Arizona border controls the Colorado river. It is 221 meters high and has 2.6 million hectare-meters of water.
The highest dam in the world is the Nurek Dam on the Vakhsh River in Tadzikistan, a country in central Asia. This dam is 300 meters tall.
1.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A. Some dams are built for controlling a river’s water flow.
B. Hydro-electric power is usually produced through a dam.
C. Dams can offer energy and they are harmless to the environment.
D. Generally speaking, where there is a dam, there is a man-made lake.
2.The third paragraph mainly tells us _____.
A. how hydro-electric power is produced
B. What a turbine is and how it works
C. how the magnets and the metal coils work
D. how the falling water passes through a turbine
3.The dam which controls the Colorado river is ____.
A. the Oroville Dam B. the Hoover Dam
C. the Nurek Dam D. the Vakhsh Dam
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