浙江省宁波市鄞州区2020-2021学年九年级上学期英语第三次质量分析检测试卷

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

﹣Ralph Waldo Emerson

How many times have we said, "Oh I'll do that 1." Sometimes tomorrow never 2and we find ourselves saying. "Boy, I wish I hadn't put that off."

Our family has been friends with Betty for many years. Over the years we shared phone calls and birthday cards. Betty sent our youngest son Brandon a birthday card with $50.00 in it 3he graduated. We 4 each other quite often when we lived not far away. Then we moved to New York. However, the distance did not cut off the 5we kept in with each other.

This past November, I called Betty to see 6she was. I was quite 7when Betty didn't answer the phone; instead her daughter Carol did. Carol told me that her mom had gone downhill fast and she was now in hospice (临终养老院) care. Carol 8 the phone to Betty. I talked briefly to her and let her9we loved her.

As soon as I got off the phone, I sent a text to Brandon to let him know Betty wasn't doing 10. Little did I know that Brandon stopped what he was doing and immediately 11 flowers to Betty.

You can imagine how 12 I was of Brandon when Carol called the next day letting me know how much Betty loved the 13 Brandon had sent. A few days later, Betty 14. So, my friends,15what Emerson once said:" You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

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Imagine yourself in a test situation. You are sitting there hesitating between two choices﹣A or C.

Your instincts tell you that A is right but you think that C makes more sense. When you get your paper back you find out that A was correct and you regret not picking it, and you think, "I should have followed my instincts(本能).

Most of the time we think our instincts are not as reliable as facts but scientists have just discovered that our instincts are surprisingly powerful tools, according to the study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Instincts don't come out of nowhere. When we make decisions, we weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of each choice. But when we make our choices based on our instincts, we actually go through the same process without realizing it. "A lot of our decision﹣making and a lot of our feeling are based on things that we're not really aware of, "said Sarah Moore, professor in University of Alberta, Canada.

In order to find out how accurate people's instinct can be, Professor Marius Usher of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his team designed an experiment to test it.

In the experiment, people who were shown pairs of numbers on a computer screen, two pairs at a time. They were then asked to choose which of the two pairs of numbers had the highest average. But the fact is that the numbers changed so quickly that they were unable to memorize the numbers or do the math. They had to depend only on their instincts to make decisions.

Scientists found something amazing as the experiment went on﹣the people's accuracy increased when they were shown more pairs of numbers. When shown six pairs of numbers the people chose correctly 65 percent of the time. But when they were shown 24 pairs the accuracy rate grew to about 90 percent.

"Intuitively, the human brain is able to take in many pieces of information and decide on an overall value" said Usher.

Next time, when you are having a difficult time making decisions simply follow your instincts.

There is a good chance that they will help you make the right choice.

When she was 16, Joanne Loewensterm learned that her parents weren't her birth parents. She was also told that her birth mother was a woman named Lillian Feinsilver and she had died days after giving birth to her in New York. Feeling sad and doubtful, Joanne spent nights crying, wondering what her birth mother had been like. And yet, some part of her believed her mother was still alive. The doubts troubled Joanne for years.

Shelley, Joanne's daughter in﹣law, suggested taking a DNA test to find her birth family. That was in 2017, and Joanne was 79 years old. Joanne took the test, and about a year later Shelley received a message from a man named Sam Ciminieri , whose genetic report had matched him with Joanne.

Shelley immediately wrote back to Sam, asking whether he knew a Lillian Feinsilver." Yes," Sam said," that's my mother's name." Almost unbelievably, she was alive, at age 100 ﹣Joanne had been right all along.

But there were more shocks to come. Sam said that Lillian lived in an assisted﹣living facility in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Joanne lived in Boca Raton, more than 80 miles away.

The families quickly planned a reunion at the facility. A month later, Joanne found herself sitting across from the mother she had searched for her whole life. Lillian, who has dementia(痴呆) , was silent in a wheelchair.

"I don't know if she recognizes me, "Joanne said.

Joanne said to Lilian that she'd been told her birth mother had passed away. No expressions on Lillian's face, Joanne started to cry. At that point Lillian's eyes brightened. Joanne excitedly began telling Lillian all about her family. Lillian smiled. Then she said the words Joanne had waited more than 60 years to hear：

"This is my daughter."

Joanne learned that over the years, Lillian had repeatedly told her family that she" lost her daughter". Everyone, including Lillian, believed that the baby had died.

The two women spent that first afternoon together joyfully. "I'm proud," Joanne said. "This is something I wanted to do all my life."

The world's largest radio telescope was finished on Sept. 25, 2017 in China.

FAST is a five﹣hundred﹣meter telescope. It is also called Tian﹣yan ("The Eye of Heaven") , with a dish the sire of 30 football grounds, deep in the mountains of southwest China's Guizhou Province. The giant dish is built on a howl﹣like valley.

The surrounding area has "radio silence" as there are no towns and cities within a 5﹣kilometer radius (半径范围) and only one county center within 25 kilometers.

FAST is made up of 4, 450 panels (面板). The second largest radio telescope is in Russia. The bigger dish will be able to pick up weaker signals (信号) .

The radio telescope is like an ear, listening to tell meaningful radio messages from white noise in the universe. With the help of the telescope, we can receive weaker and more radio messages far away in space. It will help us to search for intelligent life outside of the Galaxy (银河系) and explore the origins (起源) of the universe. "Any of its discoveries will lead to a Nobel Prize," said Joseph Taylor, a Noble Prize winner.

The FAST project began in 2011. And the telescope is expected to remain the global leader for the next 10 to 20 years.

    Her life looks like one straight out of a fairy tale. Li Ziqi impresses millions with her videos. The things she made are from dyeing a dress with fresh grape juice to fashioning traditional lipstick, from roses in her garden to searching on horseback in order to prepare one pretty meal after another.

    She has some 50 million fans in China and another 8 million overseas.

    So she remains a mystery to many of the fans. But now, she's ready to open up to us.

    To find Li, we had to travel to rural Sichuan Province in southwestern China. Li grew up with her grandparents here. In 2012, she decided to return to the countryside to take care of her grandmother.

    She started filming her life there in 2016. The dishes she prepares range from a single condiment to detailed multi﹣course meals. But whatever she makes, she leaves no stone unturned, going as far as raising baby ducklings just to make a sauce out of salted duck eggs.

    Apart from food, she's also known for her videos presenting traditional crafts, like building this bamboo furniture set.

    Li's videos have attracted a lot of young people's attention in China's big cities. But some viewers have been doubting the truth of her videos and her life.

    Li says she now works with one videographer and one assistant, but she's still the one calling the shots. But today, three years after she first picked up the camera, Li is one of China's most successful online video makers.