2017届四川省泸县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解练习：5（含解析）_高考复习指南

2017届四川省泸县高考英语一轮复习阅读理解练习：5（含解析）

　　35. What can we learn from the passage?

　　A. Chaz Miller works for EPA.

　　B. Miller is optimistic about the future of e-waste.

　　C. At present, less than 10 percent of e-waste is recycled.

　　D. All states in the US have banned e-waste from landfills.

　　参考答案32―35 DCAB

　　阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。

　　(2017·哈尔滨市质检，C)

　　Your name made you do it, though unconsciously, suggests new research that finds your name can negatively make you achieve less.

　　Psychologists at Yale and the University of California, San Diego studying the unconscious influence of names say a preference for our own names and initials—the ?nameletter effect?—can have some negative consequences.

　　Students whose names begin with C or D get lower grades than those whose names begin with A or B; major league baseball players whose first or last names began with K are significantly more likely to strike out.

　　Assistant professors Leif Nelson of UCSD and Joseph Simmons of Yale have conducted five studies over five years using information from thousands of individuals.

　　“The conscious process is that baseball players want to get a hit and students want to get A's，” Nelson says. “So if you get a change in performance in agreement with the nameletter effect, it clearly shows there must be some unconscious desire operating in the other direction.?