湖北省黄冈市五校联考2022-2023学年高一下学期期末高难综合选拔性考试英语试题.docxVIP

试卷第 =page 1 1页，共 =sectionpages 3 3页 试卷第 =page 1 1页，共 =sectionpages 3 3页 湖北省黄冈市五校联考2022-2023学年高一下学期期末高难综合选拔性考试英语试题 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、阅读理解 “It’s raining. It’s pouring. The old man is snoring(打鼾). He bumped his head when he went to bed, and he couldn’t get up in the morning.” Why couldn’t the old man in the children’s song get up? (Let’s kindly suppose that he just didn’t want to get up) This was possibly because in the absence of sunlight, the body was still producing the hotmon(激素) melatonin(褪黑素), which makes people sleepy. There are many ways that rainfall affects human behavior. But how much does rain really affect people’s moods and behavior? In 2008, researchers from the University of Minnesota and Lanzhou University published a paper. They proposed that decreased rainfall was influential in social upheaval(社会动荡) and the downfall of the Tang, Yuan and Ming dynasties in ancient China. This is thought to be related to reduced rice cultivation. But how might rain affect social behavior in the modern world? A 2009 New York Times investigation found that murder rates in New York drop significantly on rainy days. Meanwhile, in Britain, Dr Peter Langmead Jones of Greater Manchester police published a study in 2015 detailing an analysis of 6.6 million police records over one decade in Manchester. “The research showed that the heavier the rainfall, the lower the recorded crime,” he said. Langmead Jones also found that there is a strong association between heavy rain and relatively few violent crimes recorded including domestic abuse(家庭暴力). This might be because heavy rain stops people from going out to buy alcohol and the reduced alcohol consumption results in fewer crimes. It’s not all good news though. One study in 1997 concluded that the behavior of children can predict oncoming storms—they were observed to exhibit their worst behavior when barometric(气压的) pressure fell. Another study in 2012 found that women are much more l