2016年安亭高中第一次月考.doc

第I卷 ll. Grammar And Vocabulary (20’每小题1分) Section A (10分每小题I’) Directions：After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word；for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. Studying for an exam while listening to music is not smart, (1)______ background music (2)_______ injure your ability to perform memory tasks, new research has found. Study participants were asked to recall a list of eight letters in the order they (3)______ (present). They did this while in five different sound environments: quiet surroundings; music they liked music they disliked; changing state; and steady state. The participants recall ability was poorest when listening to music, regardless of (4)______ they liked or disliked it, and in changing-state conditions. (5)_______ (accurate) recall occurred when participants performed the task in steady-state environments, according to the study (6)______ (publish) online in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology. “It is the sound variation in the music and changing state (7)______ reduces the ability (8)______ (recall) the order of item within the presented list,” explained the leading researcher Nick Perham, (9)______ is a lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff, in a news release from the journal’s publisher. When performing (10)______challenging mental task, do it in silence, Perham recommended. Section B (10分每小题1’) Directions：complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need. A. impact B. particular C. continued D. failure E. battling F. equally G. suffering H. popular I. differently J. described K. walks Steve Jobs, the founder and former CEO of Apple, died on October 5 at the age of 56. Jobs had been___11