速测(六) 完形填空+阅读理解D+选词填空+任务型阅读
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Ⅰ. 完形填空
A kindergarten teacher decided to have her class play a game. The teacher told each student to bring a plastic bag with a few potatoes in it to school. Each student would “name” their potatoes after people they did not like. 1 , the number of potatoes would be 2 depending on how many people each student hated.
The next day, with their potatoes, all the students went to school 3 the game. Some kids had just one or two potatoes, while others had as many as five or six. The teacher then told the children that they would have to carry their potatoes with 4 wherever they went for one week. Several days 5 . Some of the students started to complain(抱怨), as their potatoes began to rot(腐烂) and 6 bad. The students who carried 7 potatoes began to get unsatisfied with the heavy bags.
One week later, the game 8 . The teacher asked, “How did you 9 carrying around your potatoes for a week?”
The students complained once again. The teacher simply smiled and said, “This is what it’s like to carry hatred(仇恨) in your heart. You have to carry it with you wherever you go. If you can’t tolerate(容忍) carrying rotten potatoes for one week, how can you imagine having 10 in your heart for a whole lifetime? Forgive others and move on with your life.”
( )1.A.However B.In a word C.Therefore D.After all
( )2.A.different B.similar C.the same D.small
( )3.A.to watch B.to join in C.to win D.to lose
( )4.A.it B.that C.them D.school bags
( )5.A.walked B.passed on C.passed D.walked by
( )6.A.taste B.smell C.sound D.feel
( )7.A.few B.some C.more D.any
( )8.A.continued B.was done C.began D.was over
( )9.A.feel like B.look like C.enjoy D.just like
( )10.A.love B.happiness C.friendship D.hate
Ⅱ. 阅读理解
How long does a year last? Children might say that a year lasts forever. But your parents might say that a whole year can pass “in the blink of an eye”. Why does time seem to pass faster as we get older?
According to scientists from Duke University, our brains degrade(退化)and change over time. This physical change causes the rate at which we take in and deal with new information to fall down.
Babies, for example, move their eyes much more often than grown-ups because they’re dealing with images at a faster rate, Adrian Bejan from the university told the Daily Mail. They take in a lot of information and do many things in a single day. This makes them feel like a single day lasts for a long time. However, as people’s brains degrade over time, fewer images are dealt with in the same amount of time. Therefore, older people receive less information during a day than younger people. This causes things to seem as if they’re happening more quickly.
What’s more, people may also “feel” time differently due to psychological(心理的) reasons. People may measure time by the number of memorable events that can be recalled(回忆) within a certain period.
Have you ever noticed that when you recall your firsts(first day of school, first family vacation, first birthday party, etc.)? They seem to be in slow motion. That’s because when something is a “first”, there are many exciting things to remember. Recalling these memories makes you feel like they took forever, according to David Eagleman of the Baylor College of Medicine in the US.
For many grown-ups, life is made up of daily things. When they look back, they might feel like there are not many interesting things to remember. Therefore, time seems to be moving faster to them.
1.The phrase “in the blink of an eye” has the similar meaning to “ ”. ( )
A. carefully B.directly
C.slowly D.quickly
2.Time seems to pass faster as we get older because . ( )
A. human brains become smaller and smaller over time
B.grown-ups often forget things easily and quickly
C.grown-ups don’t deal with information as quickly as babies
D.grown-ups are able to do a lot of things in a single day
