科目：初中英語 來源：2011年北京市石景山區(qū)中考英語一模試卷 題型：閱讀理解
Do you know that women’s brains are smaller than men’s? Normally the women’s brain weighs 10% less than men’s. Since research has shown that the bigger the brain, the cleverer the animal, men must be more intelligent（聰明的） than women. Right? Wrong. Men and women always score similarly on intelligence tests, despite the difference in brain size. Why? After years of study, researchers have concluded that it’s what’s inside that matters, not just the size of the brain. The brain is made up of “grey matter” and “white matter”. While men have more of the white matter, the amount（數(shù)量）of “thinking” brain is almost the same in both men and women.
It has been suggested that smaller brain appears to work faster, perhaps because the two sides of the brain are better connected in women. This means that little girls may learn to speak earlier, and that women can understand sorts of different information at the same time. When it comes to talking to the boss on the phone, cooking dinner and keeping an eye on the baby all at the same time, it’s women who come out on top every time.
There are other important differences between two sexes（性別）. As white matter is the key to spatial（空間的）tasks, men know better where things are in relation to other things. “A great footballer always knows where he is in relation to the other players, and he knows where to go,” says one researcher. That may explain one of life’s great mysteries: why men refuse to ask for directions … and women often need to!
The differences begin when fetuses（胎兒）are about nine weeks old, which can be seen in the action of children when they are very young. A boy would try to climb a barrier before him or push it down while a girl would ask for help from others. These brain differences also explain the fact that more men take up jobs that require good spatial skills, while more women speech skills. It may all go back to our ancestors, among whom women needed speech skills to take care of their babies and men needed spatial skills to hunt, according to one research.
【小題1】Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 1?
| A．Grey matter controls thinking in the brain. |
| B．Men’s brain is 10% less than women’s. |
| C．Grey matter plays the same role as white matter. |
| D．Men and women have the same amount of white matter. |
| A．Men have weaker spatial abilities. |
| B．Women do not need to tell directions. |
| C．Women prefer doing many things at a time. |
| D．Women do many jobs at a time better than men. |
| A．Our children needed more spatial skills. |
| B．Women may have more feelings than men. |
| C．Young boys may be stronger than young girls. |
| D．More women take up jobs requiring speech skills. |
| A．ways of being more intelligent |
| B．differences between men and women |
| C．studies on brains between two sexes |
| D．studies on white matter and grey matter |
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科目：初中英語 來源：2011廣東省深圳市初中畢業(yè)生學(xué)業(yè)考試英語模擬試卷（2） 題型：閱讀理解
閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容回答問題。（共10分，每小題2分）
THE KING’S SPEECH---OSCAR WINNER
A lot of stories are about friendship and courage. They have been told in many different ways. It is just something that people need to be told from time to time that perhaps people would grow bored of it. Well, director Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech,a historical movie about the British royal family, won the Oscar on 27th, February, 2011. The movie tells about the true story of a King George VI and it also tells the story of a friendship between the king and his doctor. They find something special about the word “courage”.
Just as the name of the movie, the story was simple but moving. Maybe The King’s Speech is just an ordinary story, though it won the Oscar. Throughout the honored movies in Oscar’s these years, it’s not difficult to find out that they seldom follow a traditional Hollywood way. The traditional way of Hollywood means shiny actors, famous director, a lot of money, 3D technology or something else.
With the development of technology, our native movies prefer to follow the traditional Hollywood way. But the results were the decrease of the good comments(評論). What can we learn from that? The standard(標(biāo)準(zhǔn)) for a good movie is not how well- known the actor is, how famous the director is, or how eye-catching the usage of the special skills are, but the connotation(內(nèi)涵) or the theme the movie includes!
【小題1】Is The King’s Speech about friendship and courage?
【小題2】 When did The King’s Speech win the Oscar?
【小題3】 What does the traditional way of Hollywood mean?
【小題4】Which is more important to a good movie, famous actor or the theme the movie includes?
【小題5】 What is the passage mainly about?
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科目：初中英語 來源：2013-2014學(xué)年山東省淄博市畢業(yè)班上學(xué)期期末質(zhì)量檢測英語試卷（解析版） 題型：完型填空
People usually talk about two groups of colors: warm colors and cool colors. Warm colors are red, orange and yellow. They usually make people more . For example, red is exciting. Therefore, sociable(好交際的)people, those who like to work with others like . Cool colors are green, blue and purple. These colors can make people . When people are in a place with cool colors, they are usually quiet. People who like to spend time often prefer blue.
Scientists say that time seems to pass more slowly in a room with warm colors in a room with cool colors. They that a warm color such as red and orange, is a good color for a restaurant. People who are don’t want time to pass quickly. Cool colors are better for offices or factories, people who work there want time to pass quickly.
Scientists don’t know why people think some colors are warm and others are cool. However, almost agrees that warm colors remind people of warm days and cool colors remind them of cool days. Why? Because in the north, the is low and the sunlight looks quite blue during winter. And the sun is higher during summer and the hot summer sunlight looks yellow.
1.A. active B. quiet C. serious D. relaxed
2.A. orange B. red C. yellow D. purple
3.A. stand up B. warm up C. calm down D. break down
4.A. again B. quickly C. carefully D. alone
5.A. and B. except C. or D. than
6.A. suggest B. plan C. pretend D. decide
7.A. reading B. thinking C. eating D. sleeping
8.A. so B. because C. but D. although
9.A. nobody B. anybody C. everybody D. somebody
10.A. lighting B. restaurant C. room D. sun
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科目：初中英語 來源：2014屆福建省廈門實驗學(xué)校九年級上學(xué)期期中考試英語試卷（解析版） 題型：單項填空
I prefer_____ at home rather than _______ out in such bad weather.
A. stay; go B. to stay; going C. to stay; go
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科目：初中英語 來源：2013年初中畢業(yè)升學(xué)考試（四川雅安卷）英語（解析版） 題型：單項填空
It's raining outside.
I stay at home go out.
A. prefer, to B. prefer, than
C. would rather, than D. would rather, to
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