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浙江省平阳县2017-2018学年八年级上学期英语第二次阶段性检测试卷

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    What is the first thing you want to do when you see someone yawn? You want to yawn, too! Yawning is contagious.
    Scientists have found that all people yawn. Babies start to yawn even before they are born. The earliest yawn takes place when a baby is still inside its mother. When young children are about one year old, they start to yawn when they see others yawning. That's why scientists think yawning is contagious.
    It's no secret that yawning is contagious, but why do we yawn? Well, scientists are not really sure.
    Some think we yawn because we feel bored. Others believe yawning has something to do with breathing. When there is too much carbon dioxide(CO2) in our bodies, our bodies will tell the brains to breathe deeply. That causes a big yawn.
    In 2007, scientists said people yawned to cool down their brains. These scientists found people yawned more often if they were warmer than others.
    Scientists are still trying to find out why yawning happens and why it is so contagious. But they are only sure that when one person yawns, immediately everyone else nearby wants to yawn, too.
(1)、The underlined word "contagious" in Paragraph 1 means__________.
A、helpful to our health B、passing from one person to another C、hard to understand D、getting into one trouble after another
(2)、According to the scientists, people start to yawn when they are__________.
A、born B、one year old C、17 or 19 years old D、inside their mothers
(3)、Which of the following is NOT RIGHT according to the passage? __________
A、People yawn to catch others' attention. B、People yawn because they are bored. C、People yawn to cool down their brains. D、People yawn to get rid of carbon dioxide.
(4)、We can probably read this passage in a__________.
A、story book B、movie poster C、science magazine D、travel guidebook
举一反三
 阅读下面材料,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

I am worried about my teeth. My front teeth are so big that they almost look like buckteeth(龅牙). When I take photos,I never laugh. I am also afraid my classmates will laugh at me. If I had smaller teeth like other people, I would be very happy. 

( Mari, Lima, Peru) 

I want to change my pessimistic attitude(悲观的态度) to life. Sometimes, things are not that bad, but I take everything too seriously. Once, I thought I didn't do well in an exam. I became very sad. But when I saw the result, it was not as bad as I thought. I worried about it too much. I think I shouldn't be so pessimistic.  

( Troy, London, UK) 

 I want to change my bad temper(脾气). I often get angry and hurt the people I love. Every time my mother cares about me, I think she talks too much. Sometimes, I even argue with her. But I know     ▲    . I shouldn't do that. I will try to change my temper.  

( Jake, Ottawa, Canada) 

I often dream about having long legs. They would make me look more beautiful, and help me run faster. I like running and always join the running races at school. But other runners always pass me during the big race. I try my best, but it doesn't work because of my short legs. So I want to have longer legs.

( Nancy, Sydney, Australia)

 根据语篇内容, 选择最佳选项。

①Some people think that we aren't really able to form memories before our fourth or fifth birthdays. But scientists say this is untrue. They think we form memories at a very young age. However, the memories seem to change as we get older.

②Researchers in Newfoundland, Canada, interviewed 140 children aged between 4 and 13. First, they asked the children to describe their earliest memory and tell their ages. Next, they asked their parents to make sure the event actually happened. All the answers were recorded. The researchers waited for two years before they went back to the children and asked them again," What's your earliest memory?"

③Nearly all the children were aged between 4 and 7 in the first interview. They said something very different in the second interview. However, many of the children who were between 10 and 13 at the first interview described exactly the same memory in the second interview. This seems to suggest that our memories change in the early years, but at around the age of ten, they make the things that we remember fixed.

④The researchers are now looking into why children remember certain events and not others. We sometimes think that most first or early memories are about very stressful things that happened to us as children, because bad things stand out in our minds. But in this study, stressful things were only a small part of what the children said they remembered. More often, children's early memories were happy ones. The researchers are trying to work out the reasons. We can surely look forward to more fascinating discoveries about memories in the near future.

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