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北京市石景山区2016届九年级上学期英语期末测试

阅读下面的四篇短文,根据短文内容,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选择最佳选项。

    Bad news travels fast – when you watch the evening news or read the morning papers, it seems that things that get the most coverage are all sad events or situations like wars, earthquakes, floods, fires and murders.

This is the classic rule for mass media (大众传媒). ―They want your eyeballs and don't care how you're feeling, Jonah Berger, a psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania, US, told The New York Times.

But with social media getting more and more popular, information is now being spread in different ways, and researchers are discovering new rules – good news can actually spread faster and farther than bad accidents and other sad stories.

Berger and his colleague Katherine Milkman looked at thousands of articles on The New York Times' website and analyzed (分析) the ―most e-mailed‖ list for six months.

One of his findings was that articles in the science part were much more likely to make the list. Those science stories waked up feelings of awe (敬畏) and made the readers want to share this positive emotion with others.

Besides science stories, readers were also found to be likely to share articles that were exciting or funny. “The more positive an article was, the more likely it was to be shared,” Berger wrote in his new book. “For example, stories about newcomers falling in love with New York City,” he writes, “seemed to be shared more than the death of a popular zookeeper.”

    But does all this good news actually make the readers feel better? Not necessarily.

    According to a study by researchers at Harvard University, people are more likely to say more positive things about themselves when they're talking to a bigger audience, rather than just one person, which helps explain all the perfect vacations that keep showing up on micro blogs. This, researchers found, makes people think that life is unfair and that they're less happy than their friends.

    But no worries. There's a quick and easy way to take the despair from you that you get from viewing other people's seemingly perfect lives – turn on the television and watch the news. There is always someone doing worse than you are.

(1)、In Berger's opinion, bad news covers most papers because ______.

A、the public cares for reading sad events B、mass media wants to attract the public's attention C、the public tries to share positive feelings with each other D、mass media wants the public to help those unlucky people
(2)、Which of the following might be e-mailed most according to Berger?

A、The perfect vacation of your friend. B、The death of a popular zookeeper. C、The story of a creative scientist. D、The flood hitting a small town.
(3)、We can infer from the passage that ______.

A、bad news always makes people sad B、good news sometimes has negative influence C、people can remove despair by reading good news D、people prefer to share bad news with a bigger audience
(4)、What would be the best title for the passage?

A、Good News Spreads Fast B、The Power of Good News C、The Effect of Bad News D、Bad News Travels Fast
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Many social media posts(社交媒体帖子) may let you believe that everyone is happy all the time, but being happy all the time is not possible.

As a teenager, you probably expected to get good grades in an exam or to win the most important basketball game, but it didn't happen. Good results make you happy and bad results make you sad. But sadness can drive you to improve yourself next time.

However, when people get into sadness for a long time and it starts to affect(影响) their lives, it's called depression (抑郁). You don't want to get out of bed. You don't feel like studýing or going out with your friends. I remember the same feeling when my dog Rebel died in an accident. I remember that he followed me to school. Now he was gone, and I lost all interests to do anything.

My parents told me dogs don't live forever. What was more, Rebel had a good life. If Ihad a good life, Rebel must be happy, too.

Depression is not a person's mistake. It's normal to feel sad sometimes. Many great people, like the comedy actor Jim Carrey, once get depressed. But you should know what to do to stop depression or make yourself less depressed.

When you feel down, you must not keep yourself away from the world. Try to share your feelings with a family member or a good friend. Staying at home by yourself will make you more lonely. You should stand up, open the window, and throw away (抛弃) the sadness.

阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容判断句子正误。正确的写"A", 错误的写"B"。

Once a man walked to India where he had never been before. When he got there, he saw many kinds of fruits. But most were expensive. The man saw a big basket of red, long fruit. He thought it must be sour and sweet. 

He went up and asked, " How much per kilo?"And the shopkeeper said, "Two rupees(卢比). "

Two rupees in India is nothing. And it was the cheapest in the shop. So he bought a kilogram and started eating it. But after he ate some, his eyes watered, his mouth watered and burned, and his face became red. He even coughed while eating. 

But he still ate the fruit! Some locals who were looking at him shook their heads and said, "You're crazy, man. It's chilly! You can't eat so much! People use it as spice(调味品), but only a little bit to put into food for taste. They're not fruit!" But the man said, . "No, I can't stop! I can't waste my money. "

Do you think that man was stupid? In fact, we sometimes do a lot of things like that. We put money, time or effort into a relationship, business or job. Even though over a long time it won't work, and we know things will never change in the future, we still go on just because of the things we've put in. like the man. 

So even if you've lost something, let it go and move on. That's better than keeping losing. 

阅读下面短文, 根据短文内容选择正确答案。

The World Earth Day is on April 22nd. Here at Greenpeace, we know how much you want to make a positive(积极的) difference to our world! So, read on to find out how to protect our earth. 

http://www. greenpeace. org. cn/

Have a greener, healthier and more peaceful planet. 

Saveenergy and water!

◇Before leaving home, make sure to turn off the electricity. Take great effort to develop wind power and so on. 

◇If you can, try bicycling, walking, or using public transportation to get out instead of using the car. 

◇Don't let water run while brushing your teeth, and take short showers for four minutes or less!

Be a pioneer!

 ◇Share your knowledge with others, and help them become eco-heroes too! It needs lots of people to work together to make changes happen, so share, share, share!

◇Volunteer with more friends. Write to some companies to stop them working together with people who are harmful to the forest. 

Reduce, reuse, recycle!

◇Before you throw something away, stop and think about what else it could be used for! 

◇ If you don't want to keep some things, try to find out who else needs them. Our goal is to keep usable things out of landfills(填埋场). 

Be friendly to wildlife!

◇Make your garden wildlife-friendly! You could build a bee hotel, provide some food or even create a pool. 

◇If you own a cat that goes outdoors, put a bell around its neck so that little wildlife can hear it coming and run away quickly!

What else can you do to make the world better? You can visit the website or scan the QR code to know more. 

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