上海市华东师范大学附属东昌中学2021届高三上学期12月阶段测试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛.docVIP

第 PAGE 11 页 共 NUMPAGES 13 页 上海市华东师范大学附属东昌中学2021届高三上学期12月阶段测试英语试题带答案解析+详解点睛 姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________ 题型 选择题 填空题 简答题 xx题 xx题 xx题 总分 得分 评卷人 得分 第 1 题：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. Taking a shower is relaxing. You can hum a song, daydream or think about nothing, leaving the real world behind you. But do you know that showering ___1___ also benefit your mind? A research by Scott Barry Kaufman, a psychologist from Yale University in the US interviewed over 3,000 people around the world. ___2___ turned out that nearly two-thirds of the interviewees said they experienced new ideas in the shower and were more likely to have them in the shower than at work. So why does a simple shower have such magic power? Science can explain it. Showering can help to raise our level of dopamine, a hormone ___3___(relate) to our creativity. “People ___4___(vary) in terms of their level of creativity according to the activity of dopamine”, explained Alice Flaherty, a famous American neuroscientist. “Taking a warm shower can make us feel relaxed and therefore make the dopamine level rise and bring ‘Aha!’ moment to us.” ___5___ the chemical changes, showering may give you a break from what you feel you have been stuck with. Especially when you ___6___(think) hard all day about a problem, jumping into the shower can keep you from the outside world so that you can focus on your inner feelings and memories. In this way, according to American psychologist Shelley H. Carson, author of Your Creative Brain, “a showering hour may turn into an ‘incubation (孵化) period’ for your ideas.” Compared with sitting in front of a computer, taking a shower is something we do ___7___(frequently) in our daily life. When showe