黑龙江省哈尔滨市第六中学2020届高三英语上学期期中试题第一卷第一部分：阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30 分）AA home science experiment recently took the world by storm. Two teens from Toronto, in Canada, sent a Lego man rising above the Earth and captured their tiny astronauts trip on film.Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad,both 17, used a weather balloon to launch their plastic lego model 16 miles above the Earth. This is inside a part of Earths atmosphere.The two teens were inspired by a similar project performed by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT). The MIT students had launched a weather balloon with a camera into near space and taken many unusual images of the Earth. Mathew and Asad then spend four months figuring out how to launch their own spacecraft into the space.Travelling to space is expensive for NASA, but Mathew and Asad worked hard to keep their costs down. They bought much of their equipment used and even sewed the Lego mans parachute by hand. In total, the project cost only$400.“We had a lot of anxiety on launch day because there were high winds when we were going up,”Mathew told reporters. They had to pump extra helium(氦）into the balloon so that it would rise quickly and avoid being blown too far off course by the strong winds.The toy astronauts journey lasted 97 minutes before the balloon broke and he fell back to Earth. Mathew and Asad then spent two weekends looking for their spacecraft. It had landed 76miles away from the launch site.The student scientists are currently finishing up their final year of high school and applying for colleges. They are also looking into more do-it-yourself space projects.“I guess the sky is not really the limit anymore,” Mathew told reporters. “We never knew wed get this far. Its been a lesson for us that hard work pays off.”1.By saying “took the world by storm” in the first paragraph, the writer meant the experiment_.A.destroyed the worldB.flooded the worldC.fascinated the world D.managed the world2.Which of the following about the students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is right?A.They were examples for Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad.B.They helped Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad to achieve dream.C.They launched weather balloon together with Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad.D.They studied with Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad in the same school.3.How did Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad keep their costs down?A.By sewing the weather balloon themselves.B.By borrowing spacecraft from the MIT students.C.By making their spacecraft by handD.By using second-hand equipment4.What problems did Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad have on launch day?A.They ran out of heliumB. The wind was too strongC.The balloon suddenly brokeD.Their spacecraft was blown away. BBeing forgiving to yourself and others can protect against stress and the harm it does to mental health, according to a new study in the Journal of Health PsychologyResearchers looked at the effects of lifetime stress on a persons mental health，and how more forgiving people got along compared with people who werent so forgivingTo do this, they asked 148 young adults to fill out questionnaires that assessed their levels of lifetime stress，their tendency to forgive and their mental and physical healthNo surprise，people with greater exposure to stress had worse mental and physical healthBut the researchers also discovered that if people were highly forgiving of both themselves and others,that characteristic alone almost removed the connection between stress and mental illness“Its almost entirely erasedits zero,”says study author Toussaint.“If you dont have forgiving tendencies，you feel the immediate effects of stress in a severe wayYou dont have anything to cushion you against that stress”How a forgiving personality protects a person from the influence of severe stress is hard to determineThe researchers infer that people who are more forgiving may adopt better skills to deal with stress，or their reaction to major stressors(压力源)may be slow Though more research is needed to fully understand the benefits of being more forgiving，Toussaint believes“100”that forgiveness can be learnedHis own previous research has shown that saying a short prayer on forgiveness can help people take the edge off. “I think most people want to feel good and forgiveness offers you the opportunity to do that，”he says5.The researchers got the effect of forgiving by_A.analyzing questionnaires B.doing scientific experimentC.writing research papers D.communicating with 148 adults6.What can we infer from the passage?A.Forgiving tendencies can deal with all mental problemsB.It remains unknown why forgiveness helps to reduce stressC.Toussaints study has fully discovered the benefits of being forgivingD.Saying a short prayer on forgiveness is the key to getting rid of stress7.What does