1、clock, with his hair fashionably combed and face perfectly shaved even though he is unable to see anything. He would move to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years old has recently passed away, making the move necessary.After hours of waiting patiently in the entrance hall of the nursing home, h
2、e smiled sweetly when told his room was ready. As he moved his walking stick skillfully to the elevator, the nurse provided a visual description of his tiny room. “I love it,” he stated with enthusiasm. “Mr. Jones, you havent been in the room,” said the nurse.“That doesnt have anything to do with it
3、,” he replied. “Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesnt depend on how the furniture is arranged. its how I arrange my mind. I have already decided to love it. Its a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice: I can spend the day in
4、bed complaining of the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do.”Each day is a gift, and as long as we are alive. Well focus on the new day and all the happy memories weve stored just as Mr. Jones does.1. What do we know
5、about Mr. Jones?A. He is a blind but very neat. B. His wife died many years ago.C. He likes playing the piano. D. His room in the nursing home is big.2. How did Mr. Jones feel about his room in the nursing home?A. Worried. B. Curious. C. Disappointed. D. Satisfied.3. The underlined word “it” in Para
6、graph 3 refers to “_”A. the furniture B. the room C. a decision D. a gift4What would be the best title for the text?A. Each Day Is a Gift B. Be Always GratefulC. Living in a Nursing Room D. Arrange Your Mind Every DayB湖北七市(州)教科研协作体高三联合考试)Modern humans have a hard time controlling their desire to eat
7、. Often you eat not because you are hungry, but because you are affected by many other things. How much you eat is strongly affected by how much those around you eat. People eating alone eat least. People eating with one other person eat 35 percent more than they do at home. People dining in a party
8、 of four eat 75 percent more. Eating with overweight friends? Youll eat more. Is your waitress overweight?ll eat more. A wide variety of food?ll eat more.Plates can decide how sweet dessert tastes. If people ate it off a paper plate, theyd say, “This is good.”If they ate it off a fancy silver plate,
9、 they would say,“This is the greatest cake Ive eaten in my entire life.”Your knowledge about what makes food good or bad also affects how much you eat. You tend to eat more when you think the food is good, and less when you think it is bad. So Grandmas cookies always taste better than other cookies.
10、“Good food” even has a “health halo (光环) effect”. If were eating something healthy, we feel that everything in that meal is healthy. Due to this, people often believe that a cheese cake with a salad has fewer calories (卡路里) than the cheese cake alone. Thats perhaps also why eating organic (有机的) food
11、 might turn you into an annoying guy. Your brain may use anything that makes you feel good about your own morality to excuse your immoral behaviour.Food and hunger affect your judgment too. Hungry judges give more serious sentences. Kids who dont eat breakfast behave worse than kids who eat their br
12、eakfast. People who have low blood sugar are more likely than the average person to have trouble concentrating and controlling their unpleasant emotions.5. What is mentioned as a cause of overeating?A. Suffering from great loneliness.B. Being served by a helpful waitress.C. Being treated to high qua
13、lity food.D. Eating with many friends.6. According to the passage, an annoying person may be one who _.A. finds any excuse for eating moreB. is crazy about the quality of platesC. competes with others in making cookiesD. teaches people to stick to morality7. What would be the best title for the pass
14、age?A. When Cant We Go on a Diet?B. What Affects Eating?C. How to Make Good FoodD. Where to Find Safe FoodC济南模拟)Social media is one of the fastestgrowing industries in todays world. A study conducted by the US Pew Research Center showed that 92 percent of teenagers go online daily. The wide spread o
15、f social media has changed nearly all parts of teenagers lives.Changing relationshipsHigh school student Elly Cooper from Illinois said social media often reduces facetoface communication. “It makes inperson relationships harder because of peoples attention given to their phones instead of their boyfriends or girlfriends,” Cooper said.Yet, some people believe social media has made it easier to start relationships with anyone from anywhere. Beth Kaplan from Illinois met her longdistance fri
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