1、Lesson2LaughterIstheBestMedicine即时检测一、单词拼写1The actress is a to be one of the most hard-working women.答案acknowledged2The mouse couldnt r the smell and gave the bread a big bite.答案resist3Everyone will be f to leave the office until the work is finished.答案forbidden4The girl put the vase on the table wi
2、th great c.答案caution5Did you s her for breaking it?答案scold二、完成句子1她在国外旅游时偶遇一位老友。She an old friend when travelling abroad.答案ran into/came across2他时不时地跟周围的人开玩笑。He plays jokes on those around him .答案from time to time/now and then3他发现很难摆脱吸烟的坏习惯。He finds it hard to his bad habit of smoking.答案get rid of/ri
3、d of4上次台风造成上百万美元的损失。The last typhoon dollars worth of damage.答案resulted in several million5他被公认为是最好的导演之一。He is one of the best directors.答案acknowledged to be三、阅读理解A(导学号53070020)Even when youre extremely busy,you arent using your time with 100 percent efficiency.There are gaps in everyones schedule w
4、here they arent doing anything important.Even if your schedule has no gaps,there is probably lots of time when you arent working as fast or as effectively as you possibly could.Why arent you completely efficient?Its because time isnt the limiting factor.If it were the limiting factor,people could wo
5、rk non-stop without breaks or any unproductive distractions(消遣).Instead,people,even those who are highly productive,need to take breaks,occasionally procrastinate(拖延) and slow down on tasks throughout the day.The real and most important limiting factor for productivity is your energy levels to pay a
6、ttention.Energy levels limit your productivity because when youre tired,you can have enough time and still not get everything done.Your attention ability is also limited,because even if there are a million things that need to be done,you can only focus on one or two at a time.You might not be able t
7、o insert another 4-5 hours into your schedule without making some sacrifices(牺牲).But even extremely busy people can add an hour or two into their schedule without cancelling anything.The reason why its hard to “find time” isnt a lack of time.Its because you dont have enough energy left to focus on s
8、omething else that needs to fit into your day.I first suspected time wasnt the real problem during an extremely busy period in my life over a year ago.I was extremely busy,but at that time I still exercised regularly.I had daily to-do lists with over twenty items,and I still found time to exercise.H
9、owever,after a few weeks off,because of illness,I stopped exercising.I was not busy by any standards;in fact,my schedule was very light.Despite this free time,I found it hard to find time to exercise.It seemed to get pushed later and later into my schedule until it was gone.How can I explain this st
10、range experience?I believe you have known it.1If someone cant work with 100 percent efficiency,the most important limiting factor is .A.a schedule without gapsB.a schedule with breaks and distractionsC.the limited timeD.the limited energy解析从第三段第一句“Therealandmostimportantlimitingfactorforproductivity
11、isyourenergylevelstopayattention.”可以看出正确答案是D项。答案D2According to Paragraph 4,everyone,including the extremely busy people,can .A.work without any restB.focus on many things at a timeC.find some more time in a dayD.do some exercise regularly解析第四段第二句的意思是:即使是最忙碌的人也可以不用删去一些事情而在他们的时间安排表上增加一两个小时。由此可知C项正确。答案
12、C3What is the best title for the passage?A.Do You Really Lack Time?B.How Can You Work Efficiently?C.What Makes Your Energy Limited?D.When Should You Do Exercise?解析本文作者举例说明了工作效率的制约因素不是时间,而是精力。因此A项正确。答案ABSpending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness,the team at the
13、 University of British Columbia found.Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier.“We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at l
14、east as important as how much money they earn,”said Elizabeth Dunn,a psychologist at the University of British Columbia.They asked their 600 volunteers first to rate their general happiness,report their annual income and detail their monthly spending including bills,gifts for themselves,gifts for ot
15、hers and donations to charity.“No matter how much income each person made,those who spent money on others reported greater happiness,while those who spent more on themselves did not,”Dunn said in a statement.Dunns team also surveyed 16 employees at a company in Boston before and after they received
16、an annual profit-sharing bonus of between $3,000 and $8,000.“Employees who devoted more of their bonus to pro-social spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus,and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the b
17、onus itself,”they wrote in their report,published in the journal Science.They gave their volunteers $5 or $20 and half got clear instructions on how to spend it.Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it.“These findings suggest that very minor changes in
18、 spending allocations as little as $5 may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day,”Dunn said.4What is the general idea of the passage?A.The more you earn,the greater happiness you will get.B.Spending more money on yourself will make you happier.C.Money can buy happiness,but only
19、if you spend it on yourself.D.You can spend only $5 a day on someone else to get happiness.解析本文主要介绍了英国哥伦比亚大学的一项研究:每天只需为别人花5美元就能大大提升快乐感。故选D项。答案D5The underlined word “boost” in the first paragraph probably means “”.A.help to findB.help to increaseC.help to bringD.help to get解析根据第二段可知,研究人员对630多名美国人所做的实
20、验表明,即使实验对象认为为自己花钱会更快乐,但实际结果显示,他们为别人花钱时其实更加快乐,由此可知此处boost应是“有助于提升”的含义。答案B6Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?A.Those who spend more money on others can get much more bonus.B.People usually think spending money on themselves will make them happier.C.Very small chang
21、es in spending your money may be enough to gain happiness.D.Researchers think that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn.解析从第二段中的“.theythoughtspendingthemoneyonthemselveswouldmakethemhappier.”可知B项正确;从最后一段“这些研究结果表明,每天只需稍稍改变支出分配哪怕为别人花5美元,就能得到更多快乐”可知C项正确;从第三段
22、第一句“我们试图检验人们的花钱方式与挣钱多少至少同等重要的理论”可知D项正确;A项文章未提及。答案A7It can be inferred from the 6th paragraph that .A.the volunteers who were not given $5 or $20 spent their own money on themselvesB.those who spent the money on someone or something else felt happier about itC.the volunteers were given $5 or $20 as a
23、 reward for the experimentD.half of the volunteers could spend the money as they liked解析从本段第一句中的“andhalfgotclearinstructionsonhowtospendit”可知选D项。答案D四、七选五阅读理解(导学号53070021)TurtleTravelsIts a starry night in August.Eggs lie hidden more than two feet below a sandy beach.The nest holds more than 100 eggs
24、.Each egg is about the size of a golf ball.1.From the start,what happens to these turtles depends on the environment.The temperature of the sand determines whether sea turtles hatch as male or female.Scientists know little about the next stage of a green sea turtles life.This period is often called
25、the “lost years”.A couple of days after leaving the nest,the little turtle may reach the open sea.2. She may move with the currents.Scientists think green sea turtle hatchlings(刚孵化的小动物)float with some seaweed,which provides a hiding place as well as food.The hatchling may eat small sea creatures tha
26、t move in and around the seaweed.Unfortunately,the sea also contains plastic and trash that people throw away.3.There are many other dangers in the sea,too.Sharks swim below the small turtles.Large birds fly above.4.The bottom of her shell is almost white,so sharks swimming below may not spot her.Th
27、e top of her shell is dark.From above,she blends(混合)into the dark water.The sea turtle slowly grows larger.Soon she moves to feeding grounds farther off shore where she grows into an adult.5.At night,the turtle rests in the water under rocks.She can hold her breath for up to five hours!When the turt
28、le is about 26 years old,she must return to the beach where she was born to lay her eggs.A.This journey may last several years.B.There,she eats a sea grass called turtle grass.C.Eating them could be a deadly mistake for the turtle.D.Inside each one,there may be a baby green sea turtle.E.After two hours of hard work,she is ready to lay her eggs.F.They can make her go the wrong way,away from the sea.G.The turtle gets some protection for the coloring of her shell.答案15 DBCGA