陕西省宝鸡市宝鸡中学2019届高三英语上学期模拟考试试卷一B卷【精心整理】.doc

didn't need any of the junk, and we abandoned all of those, saving $300.

That got me thinking about all our pointless expenses in life. With a promise that we'd stop if it was killing us, I convinced the family to take the leap into frugality(节俭). The rules were that we would buy nothing for 30 days except absolutely essentials.

Our adventure began with a great start. By 9 a.m., my wife, Ruth, had already made cakes from old strawberries and picked flowers I didn't even know we had in the garden. I cleared the car by hand for the first time for years. I read and returned the neighbor's newspaper before he woke up. Total spending on the first day: $0.

As days turned into weeks, we became so proficient(熟练的) at living frugally. We started riding our bikes to save gas. My child's finger painting was recycled as gift wrap for the home-made presents. We started to use an Internet application like Skype for free phone calls and ask neighbors with gardens for extra vegetables and herbs.

In the end, we saved more than $2000 by not spending for a month. When we began, I imagined we would rush out the moment we were done and buy a lot of things in the supermarket. Then

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maybe hit the mall or go to the movies.

24. We can infer from the passage that before that very afternoon, the family

A. had had higher income and living standard.

B. hadn't expected they would have financial problems. C. had often spent money without thinking much. D. had adopted an advisable habit of saving money. 25. How many things were mentioned about what the family did to save on the first day of the \

A. Two. B. Five. C. Four. D. Three.

26. The end of the story suggests that the family

A. stopped halfway because of unexpected things. B. could barely put up with the life of frugality. C. would return to normal after the \

D. succeeded in saving and changed their spending habit. 27. This passage is mainly about

A. how a new idea came up. B. a family's no-buying try.

C. a family's way of solving life problems. D. how a family managed their daily life.

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C

A recent study has found that the risk of dementia(痴呆) can increase if people live near a main road. According to the research, waste gas and noise from a busy road lead to one in ten dementia deaths of the 6.6 million patients investigated. Air pollution is already known to contribute to the deaths of around 40,000 people in Britain each year by worsening breathing and heart conditions, while previous research showed

emissions(排放物) can cause brain shrinkage. But the new study

by Canadian public health scientists is the first to find a link between living close to heavy traffic and the increasing of dementia, a discovery described as \and \

Dr. Hong Chen said: \study suggests that busy roads could be a source of environmental stressors that could give rise to the onset of dementia. Population growth and urbanization have placed many people close to heavy traffic, and with widespread exposure to heavy traffic and growing rates of dementia, even a modest effect from near-road exposure could cause a large public health burden. More research to understanding this link is needed, particularly into the effects of different aspects

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of traffic, such as air pollutants and noise.\

In the new study, the team tracked all adults aged between 20 and 85 living in Ontario for more than a decade from 2001 to 2012. They used postcodes to determine how close people lived to a main road and analyzed medical records to see if they went on to develop dementia, Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis(多发性硬化).

While there was no correlation between living near a road and Parkinson's disease or multiple sclerosis, dementia risk reduced as people lived further from a main road, with a 7 percent higher risk in developing dementia among those living within 50 metres; a 4 percent higher risk at 50-100 metres and a 2 percent higher risk at 101-200 metres. After 200 metres there was no increase. Researchers believe that noise of traffic may also play a role in the raised risk as well as other urban pollution, which is often present near busy roads.

28. What can we know about Canadian's new study?

A. British experts think highly of it.

B. It shows that air pollution is very serious.

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