江苏省张家港市20xx年中考英语网上阅卷适应性考试测试卷

江苏省张家港市20xx年中考英语网上阅卷适应性考试测试卷内容摘要：

ed door. 28. What does the underlined word identify mean? A. find out who the visitor is B. keep silent with the visitor C. refuse to let the visitor in D. look carefully at the visitor 29. What is the passage mainly about? A. How to ask for help. B. How to talk to strangers. C. How to be a brave child. D. How to be safe at home. B What39。 s the name of our neighbour? I can39。 t remember right now.”Have you ever heard your grandparents ask questions like this sometimes? Usually, we think that older people39。 s memory bees bad because their brains get weak. But now a team of scientists at the University of Tubingen in Germany has a new idea. The human brain works slower in old age,” says Michael Ramscar, the lead scientist. But only because they have stored more information overtime.” The findings are based on a series of puter simulations(模拟 ) of learning and memory. Scientists let the puters read a certain amount of words and learn new things each day. When the puter reads only so much, its performance on cognitive(认知 )tests is similar of a young adult. But if the puter learns the experiences we might encounter over a lifetime, its performance is similar to that of an older adult. Often it is slower, but not because its processing capacity has declined. Rather, increased experience has caused the puter39。 s database to grow, giving it more data(数据 )to process—— which takes time. This is similar to old people. Imagine a person knows two people39。 s birthdays. Another person knows the birthdays of 2020 people, but can only match the right person to the right birthday nine times out of 10. Can you say the first person has a better memory than the second person? 30. The writer uses a question at the beginning of the passage to A. invite the readers to answer the question B. attract the readers39。 attention to the topic C. show how weak older people39。 s brains are D. tell the readers the latest findings about brains 31. According to the research, why do old people fet people39。 s names easily? A. Because they have a very poor memory. B. Because they are too old to remember things. C. Because their brains bee weaker than before. D. Becasue they have stored too much information. 32. Where would this passage most probably appear A. In a magazine. B. In a story book. C. In a novel. D. In a guidebook. 33. What would be the best title for the passage? A. Do old people have a bad memory? B. Scientists39。 new findings on brains C. Human brain39。 s processing capacity D. Which is better, the old or the young? C Don39。 t drive your kids to school. Let them ride a bike to school. In England 8. 3 million children travel to school every day. It is reported that only a small number of pupils cycle to school (under 2%), although one in three children would actually like to. Experts say that to stay healthy, children need at least one hour of proper exercise every day. But only six out of ten boys and four out of ten girls get that. One of the reasons is that parents have developed a habit of driving their children to school when they could just walk or。