30.If you are like most people, your intelligence varies from season to season. You are probably a lot sharper in the spring than you are at any other time of the year. A well-known scientist, Ellsworth Huntington (1876-1937), concluded from other men's work and his own among people in different climates that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.
He found that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than summer heat. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in the summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of large numbers of people tend to be lowest in the summer.
Spring appears to be the best period of the year for thinking. One reason may be that in the spring man's mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in all nature.
Fall is the next-best season, then winter. As for summer, it seems to be a good time to take a long vacation from thinking!
(1).Huntington based his conclusions on ___________.
A.work with people in different climates
B.records of temperature changes
C.records of change in his own intelligence
D.all of the above
(2).Ellsworth Huntington decided that climate and temperature have _________.
A.some effect on most people's intelligence
B.no effect on people's intelligence
C.effect on only a few people's intelligence
D.a great effect on everyone's intelligence
(3).One possible reason why spring is the best season for thinking is that ___________.
A.there are some things making all nature different from before
B.it lasts longer than the other seasons
C.it is neither too warm nor too cold
D.it is more natural for the development of mental abilities
(4).The two best seasons for thinking seem to be _____________.
A.winter and summer
B.summer and spring
C.spring and fall
D.fall and winter
(5).According to the passage above, vacations from thinking should be taken ___________.
A.several times throughout the year
B.during the summer
C.during spring and fall
D.as seldom as possible
三、完型填空 (共 1 道试题,共 10 分)
40.The first course of British meals is soup, ## on shallow plates.
Then comes fish; there is often a knife and fork ## special shape.
If you are in ## surroundings, keep an eye open for what the others are doing.
The next course generally ## a joint of meat.
Pudding is the fourth course. ## that he has finished with a course, a person lays his knife and fork on his plate with the handles towards him.
After the pudding or sweets, the ladies may get up and retire to the drawing-room, ## the men a little longer over their wine, smoking and talking.
When the ladies rise, the men get up too, ##, and resume their seats when they have left the room. Soon the men rejoin the ladies.
It must not be imagined ## all English people eat like this.
As in all countries, working-class people can afford ## the time nor the money to live like this.
Their dinners are cooked not by a servant ## by the mother of the family. All meals are much simpler than these served in the homes of the rich.
(1).
A.to serve
B.serving
C.serves
D.served
(2).
A.on
B.of
C.by
D.at
(3).
A.unfamiliar
B.similar
C.familiar
D.different
(4).
A.makes up of
B.is consisted of
C.consists of
D.composes of
(5).
A.To show
B.Shown
C.Showing
D.Show
(6).
A.to leave
B.left
C.leaving
D.leaves
(7).
A.out of respect
B.in respect
C.in all respects
D.by respect
(8).
A.which
B.what
C.this
D.that
(9).
A.none
B.neither
C.either
D.both
(10).
A.with
B.or
C.but
D.and
