城市的近义词阅读理解第六套

2021年1月20日发(作者：乐恒)
北大附中
2015
届初三英语寒假作业




2015.2
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阅读理解第六套

(A)







































A school bus is one that is used to take children to and from school.






In the USA, about 450,000 school buses take more than 25 million
children to and from school. The yellow school bus is a US icon (
象征
).
Yellow became the color of school buses in the USA in 1939. Dr. Frank got
the good idea. He said it was easy for people to see yellow buses and the
black letters on them in early morning or late afternoon. That would make
children safer.





There are not many school buses in Britain, and they are not yellow. They have trackers (
追
踪器
) on them, so kids are being tracked while they travel to and from school by bus. The trackers
let parents know where the school bus is and whether their kids are on the bus.





Kindergarten is
a difficult time for some kids.
It’s the first
time for them to
go away
from
their
parents.
To
make
kids
love
their
school,
Japanese
kindergartens
and
schools
have
colorful
buses. The buses can easily make children want to take them--and then, go to school. Even some
parents want to take them, too!





School buses are becoming more and more popular in China now. It saves a lot of time for
students to take a school bus. It’s said that there will be 5,000 yellow school buses on the road by
the end of this year in Beijing.
1. According to Dr. Frank,










school buses are safer for the students.





A. yellow











B. black













C. white













D. colorful
2. Children in Japan may easily










by taking colorful school buses.





A. save time




























B. love their school





C. play games



























D. do their homework
3. The author is mainly talking about











.





A. school buses


























B. school life






C. popular colors

























D. students’ safety


(B)

Are
you
listening
to
pop
songs
but
not
learning
to
play
a
musical
instrument? The idea of practicing the piano or violin every day under your
parents’ watchful eye is bad enough, not to mention all the playtime you’ll
lose.
But
you
would
change
your
mind
if
you
knew
that
musical
training
could
make
you
smarter,
especially
if
you
start
young,
according
to
The
New York Times.
In fact, the study of the benefits (
益处
) of music has been going on for years. Back in 1993,
Nature magazine reported an experiment showing that college students who listened to 10 minutes
of Mozart music before taking an IQ test scored better. This is what’s now known as the ―Mozart
effect‖.

Although scientists later found that it wasn’t IQ that had been improved, but temporary (
短时
的
) reasoning ability, this study still got them thinking
–
if simply listening to music can bring good
effects, what would actually playing an instrument do to brain development?




Now researchers at Northwestern University, US, have got the answer. They studied a group of
college students
–
some of them had received musical training in their school years while others had
not.
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北大附中
2015
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2015.2
Looking
at
their
brain
waves,
researchers
discovered
that
they
responded
differently
when
hearing
complex
sounds
–

those
who
had
learned
music
before
were
better
at
picking
out
single
pitches (
音高
) from a noisy background. And this was true even if the lessons had ended years ago.
This ability to single out certain sounds is connected to language-based learning
–
for example,
reading.
―To learn to read, you need to have goo
d working memory, the ability to disambiguate (
分辨
)
speech
sounds,
make
sound-to-
meaning
connections,‖
professor
Nina
Kraus
from
Northwestern
University told The New York Times.




―Each
one
of
these
things
really
seems
to
be
strengthened
...
[when]
playin
g
a
musical
instrument.‖

But the researchers also said that there is no one best way to apply these findings. Different
instruments, different teaching methods, different schedules
–
parents need to find what works best
for the child, and children should try to enjoy themselves and their lessons. After all, music is about
pleasure, instead of being just a tool.
1. Musical training can improve the ability to ______.



A. enjoy the noisy background



B. make different speech sounds



C. learn language-based learning
D. connect sounds with the pictures

2. We can infer from the passage that ______.
A. listening to Mozart’s music can improve one’s IQ temporarily

B. musical training at a young age can bring us a great advantage



C. students who can play musical instruments are better at reasoning
D. we must learn the skill of playing a musical instrument nowadays
3. The article is mainly about ______.
A. the connection between musical training and getting good grades
B. the effects of musical training on the development of human brain
C. a new discovery about the longtime benefits of early music lessons
D. the efforts at making full use of the brain through musical training

(C)


Height is
just one of the thousands of features
your
genes
decide.
In
fact,
because
you
have
two
parents,
your
genes
provide
you
a
height
that
usually
lands
somewhere
between
the
height
of
each
parent.
If
both
your
parents
are
tall,
then
most
probably
you
will
be
tall,
too,
but
if
you
have
questions about how tall you’re going to
be, ask your doctor if he or she can
help you find it out.
But
genes
don’t
decided
everything.
For
example,
eating
an
unhealthy
diet can keep
you from growing to
your full potential(
潜力
). Getting plenty of sleep and enough
exercise will help you grow to the expected height.
No doubt(
怀疑
) you’re wondering how fast you should grow. It depends. There’s no perfect or
right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 2 inches (6 centimeters) a year between age 3
and the time when they start puberty.
Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the
years. Two centimeters here
and
2
inches
there
are
not
nearly
as
important
as
the
height
you’re
at
now,
how
you’ve
been
growing up to this point, and what other changes your body may be going through.
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