2025年中考英语考前冲刺复习：短文填空 精准提分练习题（含答案解析）.docx

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1、2025年中考英语考前冲刺复习：短文填空 精准提分练习题一短文填空（共20小题）1（2025闵行区校级三模）The Paradox of Effort：Why Resting Is Harder Than It SeemsDo you ever dream of doing nothing at all，lying on a grassland for a whole afternoon，just staring at the sky and listening to the silence？It may sound like a （1）l idea，but in fact we can fi

2、nd doing nothing at alland no sleepvery hard to do.In a famous study a few years ago at the University of Virginia，participants were led one at a time into a （2）c empty room with no distractions （分心之物）.They had no phones，no books，no screensand they werent allowed to take a nap.Electrodes （电极） were f

3、itted to their ankles，and they were left alone for 15 minutes.It was a chance to kick back and relax for a short while.So，how did it go？Well，before being left alone，participants were shown how to press a computer key connected to a machine that gave an electric shock.You might think that having trie

4、d it once，no one would want to do it again.（3）W .In fact，71% of the men and 25% of the women gave themselves at least one electric shock during their time alone and one man shocked himself a shocking 190 times.It turns out that having nothing to do was so torturing （折磨人的） that many of the participan

5、ts （4）p to，in fact，torture themselves rather than put up with no distraction.This experiment is an （5）e example，but we know from everyday life that people continuously choose to do things they dont need to do and which are sometimes painful.Think of your friends who run 40 kilometers a time or set p

6、unishing rules at the gym.They go way beyond what is required for their health and fitness.Michael Inzlicht from the University of Toronto calls this the paradox （悖论） of effort.Sometimes we take the easy way and do as little as possible，but other times we actually enjoy the situations more when we have to work hard.The （6）j of putting in effort can be so great that we choose not to take the easy way