【正文】 lay at Art ，該吃午飯了。選項中有一項為多余選項。第一篇：北京市朝陽區(qū)2014年初三英語一模試卷北京市朝陽區(qū)2014 年初三英語一模試卷知識運用（共25 分）四、單項填空（共13 分，每小題1 分）從下面各題所給的A、B、C、D 四個選項中，選項可以填入空白處的最佳選項。（共26 分，每小題2 分）ATennis came from France—it was popular there eight hundred years ago!It came to Britain sixhundred years ago and soon became very those days it was called “real tennis” and it was played indoorsBaseball, the national sport of the US, es from an old English game called “rounders”.Rounders is a very simple game which children in England still play today, but the American game is more plex(復(fù)雜的)and takes more time to six hundred years ago, people in England often played bowls indoors when it was games they used were smaller than the ones outsides because there was less make the game more difficult, holes were out in the green and players started to use sticks to hit the , someone had the good idea of raising the whole green onto a table—and that’s how the game of billiards did tennis e to Britain? years years years years country has baseball as its national sport? of the following started in England?Guide dogs are an accepted part of everyday life,but what about guide horses ?There are really such useful animals , at least in the animals are miniature horses,no more than 86cm high at the shoulders ,like big are well trained,just as guide dogs are(including house training).They go on publictransport ,including planes ,with their owners and into building—if necessary wearing specially made shoes to avoid falling down on floors—but they sleep might be chosen inpreference to a guide dog because the owner is afraid of dogs or wants an animal that will live to Michigan student Mona Ramouni, it’s not right to have a dog inside the house for some religious reasons, Ramouni, who is blind ,says her guide horse Cali has changed her whole world.“She has made it possible for me to do anything I want to do.” are guide horses like? than than than than of following cannot guide horses do? on on in in does Mona Ramouni need a guide horse? is is is is You’re buying a used car , moving into a new house, or deciding which doctor should treat your are times when you need to get directly to the core(核心)of an important general questions gets little valuable information and may even result in unrealanswers, says Julia Minson, a visiting scholar in decision sciences at the University ofPennsylvania in the best way, says Minson, is to ask a lot of questions that discover there are ’s say someone is selling a used example of a general question is “What canyoutell me about it?”A positiveassumption(正面推測)question is “There aren’t any problems with it,right?” But a negativeassumption question, such as “What problems have you had with it?” will get the most honest answer, found Minson and her a study, 87% of the sellers warned the buyers to problems when asked anegativeassumption question, while 59% of those did the same thing to a positiveassumption you want the truth , you have to ask for problems does this car have? What are the worst parts of this job? How many people with my kind of illness have been successfullytreated? Your questions should municate that you are sure there will be difficulties and that you want to know about can we do if we want the truth, according to the passage? for it with honest it some kind of questions has the best result ? of the following can be the best title for the passage? to Find Honest People to Talk with Others to Get an Honest Answer to Avoid Being CheatedDResearchers have recently discovered how to make families work more surprising idea has appeared: the single most important thing you can do for your family, it seems,is to develop a family first heard this idea in the mid1990s from Marshall Duke, a professor at Emory was studying stories in families when his wife, a children’s learning specialist,made a discovery:”The students who know a lot about their families will do better when they face challenges(挑戰(zhàn)),”Sara , Duke set out to test her and Emory workmate RebynFivush developeda method called the “Do you know?”degree that asked children to answer 20 questions such as:Do you know where your grandparents grew up?Do you know where your mum and dad went to highschool?Do you know about an illness or something really terrible that happened in your family? Duke and Fivush asked those questions to members of four dozen families in thenpared the children’s result with a group of psychological(心理學(xué))tests the children had taken and reached a conclusion that agreed to Sara’s more children knew about their families’ histories, the stronger their sense of control over their lives, the higher their selfrespect, and the more successfully they believed their families worked from generation to generation(代代 傳承).“We were blown away,” Duke researchers mentioned the children after the terrible events of September 11,2001.“Once again ,” Duke said, “the ones who knew more about their families proved to be stronger.”Why does knowing where her grandmother went to school help a child overe somethingterrible and difficult? Duke said that children who have the most selfconfidence have what he calls “a strong intergenerational self”.They know that they e from something bigger than suggested that parents do the same activities with their children again and kind of activities work to teach the sense of history: holidays, vacations, big family gettogethers, even a drive to the shop.“These traditions bee part of your family,” Duke of research have showed that most happy families also municate successfully, butit’s not simply a matter of talking through also means telling a positive story about faced with a challenge, happy families, like happy people, just add a new chapter(章)to their life story that shows them overing the skill is very important for children when they are growing bottom lines: if you want a happier famil