高三上学期英语周练试题2 含答案文档格式.docx

1、Exercise makes you work up an appetite, right? Not according to new research, which shows that a brisk 45-minute workout in the morning actually decreases a persons desire for food. Say what?Scientists at Brigham Young University put 35 women through a vigorous morning walk on a treadmill, then meas

2、ured their brain wave activity as they viewed images of food. The experiment _25_ （repeat） two days later, this time without the workout. The result: On workout days, the subjects neural activity was _26_ （responsive） to food than non-workout days, but they are about the same amount. The results wer

3、e consistent for obese and normal weight subjects, _27_ （suggest） that the mon assumption _28_ exercise makes you hungry doesnt hold. While this is one of the first studies _29_ （measure） neural activities after exercise, scientists still need to determine how long the diminished interest in food _3

4、0_ last post-exercise. If you want to try the experiment on _31_, make sure your workout is pretty vigorous. Previous research has found that intense aerobic exercise, like jogging, may suppress （压抑） your appetite for up to three hours _32_ reducing levels of hunger hormones produced in your tummy.

5、So the next time hunger pangs makes it hard for you to stick with your diet, try boosting the intensity of your workouts. （B）I was on my way to the Taiyetos Mountains. The sun was setting when my car _33_ （break） down near a remote and poor village. Cursing my misfortune, I was wondering where I was

6、 going to spend the night when I found myself _34_ （surround） by the villagers who were arguing as to _35_ should have the have the honor of receiving me _36_ a guest in their house. Finally, I accepted the offer of an old woman who lived alone in a little house. While she was getting me _37_ （settl

7、e） into a tiny but clean room, the head of the village was tying up his horse to my car to pull it to a small town some 20 kilometres away _38_ there was a garage. I had noticed three hens running free in my hostesss courtyard and that night one of _39_ ended up in a dish on my table. Villagers brou

8、ght me goats cheese and bone. We drank together and talked merrily till far into the night. When the time came for me to say goodbye to my friends in the village, I wanted to reward the old woman _40_ the trouble I had caused there. Section B plete the following passage by using the words in the box

9、. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. reward B. ignore C. unique D. plete E. persevering AB. solutionAC. ride AD. recovery AE. brush BC. challenging BD. deadline What is your dream? What is the goal that you have set for yourself and are working to ach

10、ieve? Realizing your dreams is not an easy _41_. Last fall I decided to write a new book for my publisher. Writing a book is a _42_ goal, which got off to a terrific start last October. The writing is flowing well. Then I got sick. In fact, I got ill that I needed surgery and the _43_ was long and e

11、xhausting. I did not work from the first week of November until the second week of January. By then I was nervous about meeting the April _44_ for submitting the new manuscript to my publisher. Worried, I asked my author friends for some help, and they gave me this key piece of advice, “Lets start w

12、riting!” they all said. So I did. It was not an immediate _45_ to my depression, but after a few weeks of _46_, I got back to normal. Several people in my circle of supporters helped me make some good connections and I got the book _47_, and to the publisher on time. It was an exciting goal for me t

13、o reach, so I took my family to Hawaii as my _48_. Sometimes you _49_ your own dreams because of self-doubt, fear, or external plications. You can think of many different excuses to _50_ those dreams aside, but, if you go after your dreams, your world will bee more exciting and you will begin to liv

14、e a more passionate and meaningful life. So, now, take a minute to write down three goals you want to acplish this year. . Reading prehension For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phase marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fit the conte

15、xt. In business, there is a speed difference: Its the difference between how important a firms leaders say speed is to there petitive strategy （策略） and how fast the pany actually moves. The difference is important _51_ industry and pany size. panies fearful of losing their petitive advantage spend m

16、uch time and money looking for ways to pick up the _52_. In our study of 343 businesses, the panies that chose to go, go, go to try to gain an edge ended with lower sales and operating ines than those that _53_ at key moments to make sure they were on the right _54_, Whats more, the firms that slowe

17、d down to _55_ improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating ines over a three-years period. How did they _56_ the laws of business, taking more time than petitors yet performing better? They thought _57_ about what slower and faster mean. Firms sometimes _

18、58_ to understand the difference between operation speed （moving quickly） and strategic speed （reducing the time it takes to deliver value）. Simply increasing the speed of production, for example, may be one way to try to reduce the speed difference. But that often leads to reduced value over time,

19、in the form of lower-quality products and services. In our study, high performing panies with strategic speed always made changes when it is _59_. They became more _60_ to idea and discussion. They encouraged new ways of thinking. And they allowed time to look and learn. _61_, performance suffered a

20、t firms that moved fast all the time, paid too much attention to improving _62_, stuck to tested methods, didnt develop team spirit among their employees, and had little time thinking about _63_. Strategic speed _64_ as a kind of leadership. Teams that _65_ take time to get things right are more suc

21、cessful in meeting their business goals. That kind of strategy must e from the top. 51. A. according to B. regardless of C. due to D. instead of52. A. profit B. product C. speed D. method53. A. paused B. developed C. persevered D. engaged54. A. situation B. track C. occasion D. duty55. A. look on B.

22、 keep up C. hold back D. speed up56. A. learn B. discover C. disobey D. prefer57. A. strangely B. abstractly C. entirely D. differently58. A. fail B. attempt C. pretend D. desire59. A. convenient B. necessary C. emergent D. incredible60. A. alert B. restless C. open D. specific61. A. In short B. By

23、contrast C. Above all D. All in all62. A. welfare B. technology C. efficiency D. condition63. A. qualities B. standards C. petitors D. changes64. A. serves as B. stands for C. refers to D. deals with65. A. temporarily B. extensively C. naturally D. regularlyDirection: Read the following three passag

24、es. Each passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage you have just read. （A）Frederic Mishkin, whos been a professor at Columbia Busines

25、s School for almost 30 years, is good at solving problems and expressing ideas. Whether hes standing in front of a lecture hall or engaged in a casual conversation, his hands are always waving and pointing. When he was in graduate school, one of his professors was so annoyed by this constant gesturi

26、ng that he made the young economist sit on his hands whenever he visited the professors office. It turns out, however, that Mishkins professor had it exactly wrong. Gesture doesnt prevent but promotes clear thought and speech. Research demonstrates that the movements we make with our hands when we t

27、alk form a kind of second language, adding information thats absent from our words. Its learnings secret code: Gesture reveals what we know. It reveals what we dont know. Whats more, the agreement （or lack of agreement） between what our voices say and how our hands move offers a clue to our readines

28、s to learn. Many of the studies establishing the importance of gesture to learning have been conducted by Susan Goldin-Meadow, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago. We change our minds by moving our hands, writes Goldin-Meadow in a review of this work. Particularly significant are

29、what she calls mismatches between oral expression and physical gestures. A student might say that a heavier ball falls faster than a light one, for example, but make a gesture indicating that they fall at the same rate, which is correct. Such differences indicate that were moving from one level of u

30、nderstanding to another. The thoughts expressed by hand motions are often our newest and most advanced ideas about the problem were working on; we cant yet absorb these concepts into language, but we can capture them in movement. Goldin-Meadows more recent work strews not only that gesture shows our readiness to learn, but that it actually helps to bring learning about. It does so in two ways. First, it elicits （引出） helpful behavior from others around us. Goldin-Meadow has found that adults resp