跟蹤導(dǎo)練（四）4

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Psychologist George Spilich and workmates at Washington College in Chestertown， Maryland， decided to find out whether， as many smokers say， smoking helps them to “think and concentrate”. Spilich put young non-smokers， active smokers and smokers deprived （被剝奪） of cigarettes through many tests.

In the first test， each subject sat before a computer screen and pressed a key as soon as he or she recognized a target letter among a group of 96 letters. In this simple test， active smokers， deprived smokers and non-smokers performed equally well.

The next test was more complex， requiring all to look quickly at orders of 20 same letters and respond to the immediate one of the letters transformed into a different one. Non-smokers were faster， but under the encouragement of nicotine， active smokers were faster than deprived smokers.

In the third test of short-term memory， non-smokers made the fewest errors， but deprived smokers committed fewer errors than active smokers.

The fourth test required people to read a passage， and then answer questions about it. Non-smokers remembered 19 percent more of the most important information than active smokers， and deprived smokers bested those who had smoked a cigarette just before testing. Active smokers were not only likely to have poorer memories but also had trouble picking important information from unimportant details （細節(jié)）.

“As our tests became more complex，” Spilich concludes， “non-smokers performed greatly better than smokers.” He predicts， “Smokers might perform well enough at many jobs—until they got complex. A smoking airline pilot could fly well enough if no problems appeared， but if something went wrong， smoking might damage his mental capacity （容量）.”

1. Whats the purpose of George Spilichs experiment on smoking？

A. To show how it damages peoples mental capacity.

B. To prove that it affects peoples regular performance.

C. To find out whether it helps peoples short-term memory.

D. To test whether it has a positive effect on the mental capacity of smokers.

2. George Spilichs experiment was conducted by ___ .

A. checking the effectiveness of nicotine on smokers

B. registering the immediate responses of the subjects

C. putting the subjects through increasingly complex tests

D. forcing the subjects to pick major information from details

3. The underlined word “bested” in Paragraph 5 most probably means “___”.

A. lost B. beat

C. hated D. caught

4. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ___ .

A. no airline pilots smoke during flights

B. smoking in urgent cases causes mental illness

C. smokers should not expect to become airline pilots

D. smokers may prove unable to deal with urgent cases

選詞填空

用方框里單詞的正確形式填空，使其句意完整。每空一詞，有兩個詞是多余的。

relativity victim breeding explore explode

straight clear brilliant physical escape

1. The police said that the bomb might ____ at any time.

2. The ____ was caused by an escape of gas.

3. A（n） ____ line is the shortest distance between two points.

4. The gas was ____ from a small hole in the glass bottle.

5. The clouds ____ away and the stars shone very brightly in the sky.

6. After his vacation he was in fine condition both ____ and mentally.

7. The ____ of the explosion were buried last week.

8. This area has become a（n） ____ ground for Giant Pandas.

句子翻譯

1. 你喝醉后，要想走直線是不可能的。

2. 小孩子們總是在想著怎樣逃離父母的掌控。

3. 蒂娜是以準(zhǔn)時出名的，所以我們不知道她這次遲到的原因。

4. 幾個部門經(jīng)理發(fā)言支持我的新建議。

書面表達

為了踐行社會主義核心價值觀，你校學(xué)生會決定舉辦以“文明禮儀伴我行”為主題的英語征文比賽，請你根據(jù)以下的要點提示及要求，寫一篇英語短文參賽。

提示：

1. 尊敬（respect）父母，幫助他們做家務(wù)；

2. 對人有禮貌，誠實友好，幫助他人；

3. 不在公共場所大聲講話，不亂扔垃圾；

4. 節(jié)約糧食，節(jié)約用水；

要求：

1. 短文須包含要點提示中的所有信息（不要逐字翻譯），并在此基礎(chǔ)上適當(dāng)發(fā)揮；

2. 100詞左右（短文開頭已給出，不計入總詞數(shù)）；

3. 文章中不得出現(xiàn)真實的人名、校名和地名。

As a middle school student， we should have good manners.