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阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

I used to find notes left in the church’s collection basket, beautiful notes about my homilies (讲道)and about the writer’s thoughts on the daily readings.The______fascinated(吸引)me, but it was a long time______I met the author of the notes.

One Sunday morning, I was ______that someone was waiting for me in the office, a young woman who said she______all the notes. When I saw her I was ______, since I had no idea that it was she who wrote the notes.She was sitting in a chair in the office.Her41was bowed and when she raised it to look at me, she could barely______without pain. Her face was disfigured(畸形), so smiling was very______for her.

We______for a while that Sunday morning and agreed to meet for lunch later that week.

As it ______, we went to lunch several times and told each other about our______.We spoke of authors we had both______, and it was easy to tell that______were a great love of hers.

She suffered from a disfigurement that cannot be made to look_____.I know that her condition_____her deeply.Yet there was beauty to her that had nothing to do with_____.She was one to be listened to, whose words came from a wounded but _____heart. She possessed a fine tuned sense of beauty.Her only _____in life was the loss of a frien

The truth of her life was a desire to see beyond the _____for a glimpse of what it is that matters.She found beauty and _____and they befriended her, and showed her what is real.

1.A.questions B.ideas C.notes D.basket

2.A.since B.after C.when D.before

3.A.told B.warned C.informed D.showed

4.A.lost B.left C.dropped D.collected

5.A.shocked B.satisfied C.frightened D.disappointed

6.A.hand B.arm C.head D.body

7.A.stand B.smile C.speak D.sit

8.A.pleasant B.bitter C.beautiful D.difficult

9.A.chatted B.discussed C.drank D.greeted

10.A.turned out B.turned up C.came out D.came up

11.A.families B.beliefs C.hobbies D.lives

12.A.known B.read C.met D.heard

13.A.friends B.churches C.writings D.books

14.A.friendly B.happy C.attractive D.normal

15.A.hurt B.impressed C.changed D.helped

16.A.fame B.wealth C.interest D.looks

17.A.cheerful B.interesting C.loving D.exciting

18.A.fear B.wonder C.defeat D.regret

19.A.dream B.surface C.imagination D.time

20.A.success B.hope C.grace D.help

B

We might think we know which colours do what.The idea that red wakes us up or blue calms us down is deeply rooted in Western culture.But do they really change our behaviour in the ways that we assume?

When it comes to scientific research, the results are mixed and at times contested.Some studies have found that people do better on cognitive tasks when faced with red rather than blue or green; others show the opposite.The idea is that if you repeatedly have a particular experience surrounded by a certain colour, then you eventually begin to associate that colour with the way you were feeling or behaving.A school career spent reading your teacher’s red writing circling your mistakes forever makes you link red with danger.Blue meanwhile is more likely to be associated with calmer situations like marvelling at a big blue expanse of sky.

Of course there will always be exceptions --- the comment from the teacher saying “well done” is also written in red.It is true that people do make different associations with different colours, but whether this translates into behaving in a certain way or succeeding at a particular task is a different question.

In 2009 researchers tried to clarify the situation.They sat their participants at computer screens colored blue, red or “neutral” and tested them on various tasks.With a red screen people did better on tasks requiring attention to detail, but when the screen was blue they did better on creative tasks.In practice this might be tricky.In a classroom you might want to think creatively some of the time and pay attention to detail at others.

However, when another team tried to repeat the study with a larger group of people in 2014, the effect of color disappeared.The initial study consisted of just 69 people.In this new, bigger study, of 263 volunteers, background color made no difference.

So colors might well have an effect, but so far those effects have been difficult to demonstrate consistently and sometimes don’t seem to exist at all.

1.What’s the major function of the first paragraph?

A.To present a widely held view

B.To raise a question of behavior change

C.To introduce the theme of the passage

D.To summarize the whole passage

2.The author mentions the exception in Paragraph 3 in order to show _____.

A.there are exceptions to every rule

B.people tend to associate colors with behaviors

C.colors don’t necessarily mean particular behaviors

D.colors do matter to those who desire success

3.It can be concluded from the results of the studies in 2009 and 2014 that _____.

A.the research findings are practical in indoor decoration

B.solid evidence is inadequate to prove how colors affect us

C.a larger study may help confirm colors’ effects on our behaviors

D.walls should be painted different colors depending on different tasks

Everyone has done experiments in high school laboratories,but have you ever thought about designing a satellite to explore space?

On Nov.19,a team of students from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in the US awed peers and even scientists by successfully launching a satellite.

The first satellite designed and built by high school students was sent up into space along with a record setting.28 other small ones on a rocket were sent from a NASA center in Virginia,CNN reported. It took the students seven years to build.

The students call their tiny satellite TJ3Sat,which is named after their school.It is just 10x10x12 centimeters and weighs only 0.89 kilograms,according to Orbital Sciences,a company which developed the rocket and supported the students’ project.It can be controlled with a smartphone.

Like most satellites,TJ3Sat can send and receive datA. The small spacecraft is equipped with a voice synthesizer (合成器),which can switch text to voice and transmit those sounds back to Earth over radio waves,said Orbital officials.In this case,anyone can give it a try via the project’s website (school website) by submitting (提交) a text.The texts that get approved will be sent to the satellite,changed to voice and then broadcast back to Earth via radio waves.

“I can say ‘Go Colonials’on our ground station and when it is on the other side of the world,in India,someone can hear‘Go Colonials’over the radio,”the team explains on the website.

The satellite will stay in space for at least three months.

School principal Evan Glazer told The Washington Post that the project started in 2006 as an activity in the spare time.Later it became a research project for a select group of seniors.

At a time when American students are busy with SATs,the launch of the satellite shows what diligent teenagers can achieve when allowed to pursue their own curiosities,Glazer said.

“It used to be that kids growing up wanted to be an astronaut,” Andrew Petro,program executive (主管) for small spacecraft technology at NASA,said in a statement.“I think we might be seeing kids saying what they want to do is build a spacecraft.The idea here is that they really can do that.”

1.The underlined word “awed” in the second paragraph is closest in meaning to _____.

A. influenced

B. amazed

C. delighted

D. inspired

2.Which of the following statements about TJ3Sat is TRUE according to the article?

A. It took a group of students about a decade to build the satellite.

B. Besides TJ3Sat,28 other small satellites were built by the students.

C. TJ3Sat can receive text messages that the students send into space,which can be changed to voice messages and broadcast back to Earth.

D. TJ3Sat is expected to stay in orbit for the next year,sending out messages together with information about its position in space.

3.According to the article,the launch of the satellite _______.

A. is evidence of the advance of spacecraft technology

B. proves that hard working teenagers can achieve a lot

C. shows the importance of extracurricular activities at school

D. has inspired many people to take an interest in space travel

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