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1、 1 学业分层测评学业分层测评 三三 完成句子 1 最使我感到惊讶的是这个小女孩的小提琴拉得如此好 was that the little girl could play the violin so well 2 劝说这样的人加入我们真是浪费时间 It is a waste of time us 3 乘宇宙飞船飞往月球一定很有趣 It must be great fun in spacecraft 4 我父母一直认为我接受良好的教育非常重要 My parents always my getting a good education 5 我们没走多远就迷路了 We when we lost ou
2、r way 答案 1 What surprised me most 2 persuading such a person to join 3 to fly to the moon 4 attach great importance to 5 hadn t walked far 阅读理解 A On the edge of the South Pole the land is still sleeping after a harsh and endless winter The coming Antarctic summer will last for only four months like
3、a resemblance 有点像 of spring before the temperatures dive back down to the standard minus 40 This warmer climate then is eagerly awaited by millions of creatures that come here every year to summer on the polar beaches This plodding 脚步沉重缓慢的 little fellow decided one fine day that he 2 would get here
4、before all the others And once again this year he s the first He has just spent eight months at sea and needs to stretch its legs It hasn t come here by chance it travels here like on a pilgrimage 朝圣者的施途 every year It was born on these rocks it first mated here it knows this island by heart In short
5、 it s home Most of the Ad lie penguins arrive at the same time They come from the sea In two weeks they re all here packed together on all the reasonably flat ground They have but one obsession time Summer is a race against the clock for them but places are rare and bitterly fought over The Ad lie p
6、enguins are a little obsessive They spend their time gathering stones This is the first thing that the male does when they reach the colony always shortly ahead of his mate This mania 狂热 continues throughout the season When the female joins him at the colony she will be pleased to find her mate sitt
7、ing on a sizeable mineral fortune According to popular belief the best males have the biggest nests Once the mating ritual has been carried out the couple devotes itself to its favorite sport stone hunting And as a sideline 副业 stone stealing This is an endless game As soon as a penguin has its back
8、turned one of its neighbors is ready to relieve it of a few stones In this manner the stones are moved around the island from beak 鸟喙 to beak from the victim s nest to the thief s nest and back again 1 What does rush hours refer to in the text A Time for hurrying to journey B Wonderful time for ston
9、e hunting C The short and wonderful spring in Antarctic D The short and wonderful summer in Antarctic 解析 从第一段第一句得到信息 即将到来的南极的夏天只会停留四个 月 和春天一样 之后气温又急剧下降至南极的常规气温 零下四十摄氏度 因此 每年来南极沙滩度夏日的数百万动物都热切期待着暖和天气 答案 D 2 This plodding little fellow in Paragraph 2 refers to A the penguin B the Ad lie penguin 3 C one
10、 of the Ad lie penguin D male penguin 解析 这里特指一只捷足先登的阿德利企鹅 从下文的今年它又一次捷 足先登 And once again this year he s the first 和下段开头 大部分阿德利企鹅都 同时到达 Most of the Ad lie penguins arrive at the same time 的对比可以得出答案 答案 C 3 According to popular belief the best male penguins have A the biggest nests B perfect figures 完美
11、的身材 C the most beautiful nests D enough food 解析 第四段最后一句 According to popular belief the best males have the biggest nests 可知 企鹅普遍相信 只有最佳的雄性企鹅才会有最大的巢穴 答案 A 4 The stone hunting and stone stealing is not a game A that has no end B in which the stones are moved around the island from beak to beak from t
12、he victim s nest to the thief s nest and back again C which is penguins D started after dinner 解析 D 选项文章没有提到 其他选项在最后一段都能找到依据 答案 D B After moving to the United States immigrant groups trying to fit in tend to choose high calorie fatty foods in an attempt to appear more American a new study finds That
13、 s one reason why immigrants approach US levels of obesity within 15 years of moving to America The researchers also did an experiment that measured whether or not the threat of appearing un American influenced respondents food choices After being questioned about their ability to speak English 75 p
14、ercent of Asian Americans identified a typical American food as their favorite Only 25 percent of Asian Americans who had 4 not been asked if they spoke English did the same When their American identity was called into question during a follow up study Asian American participants also tended to choo
15、se typical American dishes such as hamburgers and cheese sandwiches In that experiment 55 Asian Americans were asked to choose a meal from a local Asian or American restaurant Some participants were told that only Americans could participate in the study Those who chose the more typical American far
16、e ended up consuming an extra 182 calories including 12 grams of fat and 7 grams of saturated fat 饱和脂肪 People who feel like they need to prove they belong to a culture will change their habits in an attempt to fit in said Sauna Cheryan an author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington If immigrants and their children choose unhealthy American foods over healthier traditional foods across their lives this process of fitting in could lead to poorer health
