余杭中学、萧山八中、富阳新登中学等2016期中联考英语试题及答案(2)

   A. stand by     B. stand up        C. stand for         D. stand out
20. ---Wearing a smile not only helps us make friends but makes us feel better.
   --- _____.
A. I’m with you on that             B. It’s my pleasure
C. It’s up to you                   D. I’d love to
第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1分，满分20分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 21～40 各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。

During the 19th century scientists found that when certain parts of the brain of a man were injured, he would  21  the power to do some things. Therefore, people thought that 22   part of the brain did a   23   job. However, modern research has  24   that this is not so, for it is not easy to say  25  what each part of the brain does.
    In the  26  fifty years, there has been a great increase in the amount of research  27  on the brain. 28  and biologists have discovered that the way the brain works is not so simple as people  29  may think. Chemists tell us that 1,000,000 30 changes take place in the brain every second. Some  31 researches also suggest that we 32 EVERYTHING that happens to us. We may not be able to recall(回忆) the things we have heard and seen,  33  it is all  34  there in the storehouse of the human mind.
    Earlier scientists thought that the power of one’s brain got  35  as one grew older. But it is now thought that it is not  36  .  37 the brain is given plenty of exercise, it keeps its power. It has been established that  38  person who has always been active in the mind has a 39 mind than a young person who has only done physical work without using much of his brain. It is now thought that 40  work we give our brains, the more work they are able to do.
21. A .get              B. increase          C. lose              D. be missing
22. A. every            B. any              C. each             D. all
23. A. same            B. various           C. similar           D different
24. A. found           B. found out         C. founded out        D. discovered
25. A. firmly           B. really            C. freely             D. exactly
26. A. passed          B. past              C. before             D. later
27. A. done            B. finish            C. making            D. to try
28. A. Physicists        B. Scientists         C. Chemists          D. Doctors
29. A. particularly       B. in general        C. special            D. surely
30. A. physical         B. great             C. atomic            D. chemical
31. A. recent          B. ancient           C. fortunate          D. foolish
32. A. needn’t forget                     B. can’t remember
C. can remember                      D. must remember
33. A. or             B. thus              C. so              D. but
34. A. living          B. staying           C. kept             D. invisible
35. A. weaker and weaker                 B. stronger and stronger
   C. thinner and thinner                  D. cleverer and cleverer
36. A. real            B. wrong            C. true             D. false