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1、假期第十八天单句语法填空1、It was not until late in the evening_the traveler found a hotel.2、Only when Lily walked into the office_(do) she realize that she had left the contract at home.3、Hurry up,kid! The school bus_(wait) for us!4、What do you think of the meeting_(hold) yesterday?5、His job consists_helping ol
2、d people who live alone.阅读理解6、 Spending money on time-saving services reduces stress and boosts (增进) happiness, according to a new research, but shockingly, few of us do it. Whillans, a professor at HBS said, “Buying time helps to protect us from the stress in our lives caused by time pressure, and
3、the feeling that we don t have enough minutes in the day to complete our tasks. The effect was clearest in the Canadian experiment, in which 60 working adults were given $40 to spend in two different ways. One weekend, they were told to spend the money on a material purchasea gift for themselves. Th
4、e next weekend, they were instructed to spend the $40 on anything that saved them time, from paying the neighbors kid to run errands (跑腿) to taking a Uber instead of a bus. “On the day they made the time-saving purchase, they felt happier, in a better mood, and lower feelings of time stress than on
5、the day they bought a material purchase” said Whillans. The biggest surprise to the researchers was how few people would spend money on time-saving services. When they asked 98 working adults how they would spend a “windfall” of $40, only two percent named a purchase that would save them time. “One
6、reason, said Whillans, “is that were very bad at remembering how much we hate doing certain tasks once the suffering has passed. That makes us less likely to take active steps to avoid that over burdened feeling in the future.” But another possible cause is good old-fashioned guilt. “If you feel gui
7、lty about getting someone to clean your house for you, then you might get less happiness from outsourcing that task,” said Whillans, or you might just be less likely to spend your money in that way. 1.In the Canadian experiment, the participants_.A.were divided into two groupsB.were given $ 40 every
8、 two weeksC.were asked to give money to a neighbors kidD.were asked to spend the money in different ways2.According to the author, what can make people less time-stressed?A.Paying much for a concert ticket.B.Taking a regular bus to get to work.C.Employing someone to clean the garden.D.Buying themsel
9、ves an expensive present.3.When it comes to spending money on buying time”, _.A.no people would like to do itB.a small percentage of people choose to do itC.more people will do it if extra money is givenD.most people like the idea but dont practice it in life4.What do the underlined words “that over
10、burdened feeling” in Paragraph 6 refer to?A.The good old-fashioned guilt.B.The feeling of spending money on goods.C.The stress of having someone clean your house.D.The discomfort when completing tasks we hate doing.7、 Stonehenge, the world-famous circle of stone columns may 12. have had a brother. A
11、 much bigger, older brother. University of Bradford researchers announced they had discovered about 100 stones covering several acres thought to have been built around 4,500 years ago. The Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project discovered the monument, which is near Durrington Walls, also known as “ s
12、uperhenge”. Stonehenge, which is believed to have been completed 3,500 years ago, is about 2 miles away. What we are starting to see is the largest surviving stone monument, preserved underneath a bank, that has ever been discovered in Britain and possibly in Europe,” said Vince Gaffney. The evidenc
13、e was found under 3 feet of earth. Some of the stones are thought to have stood 15 feet tall before they were toppled. Our radar data have shown an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones, a number of which have survived after being pushed over, and a large bank placed over the stones, said professo
14、r Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology. “ In the east,up to 30 stones . have survived below,” he said. “The extraordinary scale and details of the evidence produced by the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project, which the
15、new discoveries at Durrington Walls, is changing fundamentally(根本上) our understanding of Stonehenge and the world around it, Neubauer added. Everything written before about the Stonehenge landscape and the ancient monuments within it will need to be rewritten,” said Paul Garwood, a scientist and lead historian on the project at the University of Birmingham. The findings were announced on the first day of the British Science Festival being held at the University of Bradford.1.It is believed that the superhenge is _earlier than the Stonehenge.A.1,000 yearsB.2,500 yearsC.3,500 year
