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湖北省武汉市江汉区 2024-2025学年九年级上学期四校十月考英语试题
Time flies when you play on your smartphone. But when you get down to the real business of work and study, one hour feels like a year. Why are we so attracted by smartphones but easily bored by studying?
It all boils down to something small and hard to see: dopamine(多巴胺). Dopamine is a" pleasure chemical" that makes people feels good. Our brains give it out when we eat yummy food, after we exercise or when we get a prize.
Compared with studying, playing on smartphones causes our brains to give out more dopamine. For example, checking your phone for a text leads to a 400 percent increase in dopamine. But why?
When we visit social media, we don't know what we'll see next, or who will give opinions about things we post. This" magic of maybe", makes the dopamine system active. We get excited wondering if we have messages from our friends. When our expectations are met, dopamine is given out.
And to find more dopamine, we continue checking our phones. Studying doesn't provide such magic. Without this excitement, we get bored much more easily.
Can we do something to change that? According to scientists, apps can become less attractive if we turn off notifications or change the screen colors to black and white. We can also set time limits on apps to avoid overusing them.
" As for studying, you could check your progress daily or weekly and reward yourself for it" said Daniel Wong, writer of The Happy Student," You could also search for interesting topics connected with your textbook. Use what you' ve learned to make an influence in the real world. This will make knowledge much more interesting to learn".
A.Its flowers look like egrets.What are egrets? They are a kind of bird.Because this plant's flowers look like flying egrets,people call it the egret flower.It grows in eastern Asia. B.We all know that people can be shy.But how can a plant be shy? When something touches this plant's eaves, they close up tightly.After a few minutes,the leaves open up again. C.When it comes to laughing, this tree is funny.This is because the fruit of this tree has a hole in it. If the wind blows, this amazing tree "laughs".When people first hear it laughing, they are usually quite amazed and begin to laugh along with the tree. It grows in the middle of Africa. D.This plant grows in the southwest of Africa.Like most plants, it has roots.But it has only two leaves and a stem .Its two leaves continue to grow for its whole life.This plant can live as long as 1500 years. E.When this tree hurts,a kind of red liquid will come out.It looks like blood.People say it will cry when it hurts.It grows in western Africa. F.An interesting plant in North America eats "meat".When an insect comes near its leaves,the leaves close up tightly until the insect dies.Then, it enjoys its delicious meal. |
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Mary found a strange plant with only two leaves.She wants to know more about it.
{#blank#}2{#/blank#}Jackie said he saw a bird-like flower.He felt it interesting and wanted to find it out.
{#blank#}3{#/blank#}Candy's best friend is not happy She wants to find a way to make her friend smile.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#}Tony notices that there is a plant.The leaves may close up tightly to get its food.
{#blank#}5{#/blank#}Lucia's classmate doesn't believe trees get hurt sometimes.He wants to show her.
Problems between parents and children are common. If you need to improve your relationship with your parents, you are not alone. To develop a better relationship with your parents, you should change how you think and do things. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}
Act first. Don't wait for your parents to try to improve the relationship. {#blank#}2{#/blank#} Be thankful to your parents. Think about everything that your parents have done for you. You are sure to feel thankful to them. {#blank#}3{#/blank#} Give them a nice gift or do some housework without being asked. They will be happy with you for these actions.
{#blank#}4{#/blank#} Talk to your parents about things that you care about and your feelings about these things. Often talk to them, and your parents can understand you better. If so, it's easy for them to discuss things that you are interested in and develop the relationship.
Accept that your parents are different. They grow up in a different situation with different technologies. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}Try to remind them of any problem in their relationships with their parents because of these differences.
Use these ways when you talk to your parents to improve your relationship with them.
A. Here is some advice for you. B. So they think in a different way. C. Show your thanks with your actions. D. Be open and honest. E. You should take action first. |
Today, many wild animals are in danger because the environment that they are living in has changed a lot. For example, their living area has become smaller and smaller because of the serious pollution (严重的污染). They don't have enough places to live in or enough food to eat. At the same time, some people are trying to kill (杀死) these animals to make more money or have their meat.
People must do something to protect the animals. We should stop the killing and build some nature reserves (保护区) so that animals can live happily there. What's more, we should do something to make our world cleaner.
Problem: Many animals are in {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. Situations:{#blank#}2{#/blank#} living area is becoming smaller and smaller. They don't have enough {#blank#}3{#/blank#} to eat. Reasons: The environment animals live in has changed. Also, People don't{#blank#}4{#/blank#}these animals and even kill them. Action to protect them: Stop the killing; Build some nature reserves; Make the world {#blank#}5{#/blank#}. |
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