Have you ever had the strange feeling that you were being watched? You turned around and, sure enough, someone was looking right at you!
Parapsychologists (灵学家) say that humans have a natural ability to sense when someone is looking at them. To research whether such a “sixth sense” really exists, Robert Baker, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, performed two experiments.
In the first one, Baker sat behind unknowing people in public places and stared at the backs of their heads for 5 to 15 minutes. The subjects were eating, drinking, reading, studying, watching TV, or working at a computer. Baker made sure that the people could not tell that he was sitting behind them during those periods. Later, when he questioned the subjects, almost all of them said they had no sense that someone was staring at them.
For the second experiment, Baker told the subjects that they would be stared at from time to time from behind a two way mirror in a laboratory setting. The people had to write down when they felt they were being stared at and when they weren’t. Baker found that the subjects were no better at telling when they were stared at and when they weren’t. and they were no better at telling when they were stared at than if they had just guessed.
Baker concludes that people do not have the ability to sense when they’re being stared at. If people doubt the outcome of his two experiments, said baker, “I suggest they repeat the experiments and see for themselves.”
1.The purpose of the two experiments is to .
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A．explain when people can have a sixth sense |
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B．show how people act while being watched in the lab |
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C．study whether humans can sense when they are stared at |
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D．prove why humans have a sixth sense |
2.In the first experiment, the subjects .
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A．were not told that they would be stared at |
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B．lost their sense when they were stared at |
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C．were not sure when the would be stared at |
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D．were uncomfortable when they were stared at |
3.What can be learned from the passage?
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A．People are born with a sixth sense. |
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B．The experiments support parapsychologists’ idea. |
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C．The subjects do not have a sixth sense in the experiments. |
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D．People have a sixth sense in public places. |
Job stress has been known to cause heart problems in people who already have cardiovascular(心血管) disease. Now Finnish scientists have shown that 50 in healthy people the pressure of work can cause damage.
High blood pressure, lack of 51 , smoking and being overweight 52 to heart disease—a 53 killer in many industrialized countries.
But Mika Kivimaki, of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, and his colleagues, who studied the 54 histories of 812 healthy Finnish men and women in a metal industry company over 25 years, said job stress also plays an important role.
Workers who had the highest job-related stress levels at the start of the study were more than twice as 55 to die of heart disease, 56 the study published in The British Medical Journal.
Work stress 57 too much work as well as a lack of satisfaction and feeling undervalued and 58 .
Many people work long hours but if the effort is 59 the stress is minimized. Kivimaki said job pressure is damaging when being overworked is 60 with little or no control, unfair supervision and few career opportunities.
The British Heart Foundation said the results 61 earlier research showing that people in jobs with low control, such as manual workers, could be at greater 62 of heart disease than other employees.
“It is 63 for people to try to minimize levels of stress at work and for employers to 64 people to have more control at work and to be rewarded for their success,” the foundation said in a statement.
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Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.
Moral Side of Murder
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A. urgent |
B. restore |
C. severely |
D. desperate |
E. surgeon |
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F. emergency |
G. donor |
H. moderately |
I. quietly |
J. guy |
Case A: You’re a doctor in the 1.room and six patients come to you. They’ve been in a very terrible trolley car crash. Five of them were 2.injured and one was 3. injured. You could spend all day caring for the one severely injured victim but in that time the five would die. Or you could look after the five, 4. them but the severely injured person would die.
Case B: You’re a transplant 5. and you have five patients, each in 6. need of organ transplant in order to survive, one needs a heart, one a lung, one a kidney, one a liver and the fifth a pancreas (胰脏). You have no organ 7. and you’re about to see them die. Then it occurs to you that in the next room there’s a healthy 8. who came in for a check up. He’s taking a nap. You could go in very9. , yank out the five organs. The person would die you could save the five.
What’s the right thing to do? What becomes of the principle at each time?
A programmer may make mistakes in a wrong analysis of the situation _____ the programme was based.
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A．which |
B．of which |
C．on which |
D．of what |
__________ the directions exactly, you will never get confused.
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A．Follow |
B．To follow |
C．Following |
D．Followed by |
Some people have called ________ the worst period ever for Pop Music.
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A．1990’s |
B．the 1990 |
C．the 1990’s |
D．1990s |
