We don’t plan to cry, but it just happens. In fact when we feel sad or angry, a good cry is almost impossible to resist. But if you didn’t know what crying was, you’d have to wonder why some strong feelings started water streaming from people’s eyes and why they seemed to feel better afterwards.
Now a US researcher had found there may be more in crying than we think. William H. Frey II, author of “Crying: The Mystery of Tears,” believes it may really be one of the body’s clever self-repair mechanisms. Crying may be a way of getting rid of the by-products of stress, he says.
He has found that tears contain some chemicals which can cause stress. One of these is the hormone prolactin (激素), which is set free when one is feeling stressed. Since women have more of this than men, that might explain why they usually cry more, he suggests.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Frey’s study seemed to prove that most people feel better after a good cry. And sex has nothing to do with it ––– the result was true for women and men. So, next time you feel like bursting into tears, go ahead. If Dr Frey is right, you’ll be doing yourself a favour.
1.The best title of this passage would be ________.
A．Why Do We Cry B．Crying and Tears.
C．Dr Frey and Crying. D．Tears and Chemicals
2.According to the author, we feel like crying because________.
A．crying is one of our habits
B．we can’t control it
C．crying is one of the body’s self-repair mechanisms
D．we can get the by-products of stress by crying
3.According to the passage, men seem less likely to cry than women because_______.
A．their bodies contain less hormone prolactin
B．their tears contain more chemicals
C．they are not so full of feelings as women
D．the chemicals in their tears can’t cause stress
4.The author advised us________.
A．to plan to cry very often
B．not to cry any more
C．to go outdoors without hesitation
D．to cry as we want to
5.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
A．Good cries can make most people feel better
B．Only women can feel better after crying.
C．It is easy to understand that people feel better after a good cry.
D．Crying is sometimes impossible to resist.
Scientists are making new studies of color and its effects on our health. They have known for a long time that the color of a room or the color of the light in it can affect our feelings and emotions. Many prisons and hospitals have at least one room that is painted pink. Officials have found that light and color can produce physical changes in our bodies.
Professor Falfan worked with a group of 9 disabled children at school in Albert. Two of the children were blind. The other seven had normal sight. The scientists changed the color of the school room, then looked for changes in blood pressure, heart beat and breathing rate. The effects of color changes were the same for the blind children as for those with normal sight. Their blood pressure dropped from about 120 to 100. Similar changes were reported in heart-beat and the breathing. The children also were calmer and less excited. Then the colors of the room were returned to orange and white. Blood pressure, heart-beat and breathing rate went up and the children became excited again.
Professor Falfan said different colors produce different levels of light energy. He said the differences seem to affect chemicals in the brain that carry messages from nerve to nerve and from nerve to muscle.
1.Light and color can affect________.
A．only one’s feelings and emotions
B．one’s energy
C．one’s mental changes
D．one’s heart-beat, brain activities, blood pressure, feelings and emotions
2.The color of pink had a calming effect, that is to say, the color affects __________.
A．the chemicals in the brain B．the eyes
C．the skin D．the muscle
3.According to the text, orange and white are colors which can make people ________.
A．calm B．active C．sick D．blind
4.The colors in the school room mentioned in the passage were changed from _________.
A．orange to white B．orange and white to dark blue
C．orange and white to pink or some other colors D．gray to more colors
5.After reading the passage we can conclude that ________.
A．blind people can be affected by colors, too
B．one’s heart will beat fast in a colorful room than in a white room
C．the chemicals in the brain change with feelings and emotions
D．if one’s blood pressure drops, his breathing will get slower and slower
When children learn a language, they learn the grammar as well as words or vocabulary. No one teaches them; children just “pick them up”.
Before babies begin to produce words, they produce sounds. Some of these sounds will remain if they occur in the language being learned, and others will disappear. This is called the “babbling stage”.
A child does not learn the language “all at once”. The child first speaks only one-word “sentences”. After a few months, the two-word stage arises. During this stage, the child puts two words together. These two-word sentences have definite patterns and express grammatical and meaningful relationships. Still later, in the telegraphic stage, the child will produce longer sentences. These longer sentences are mainly made up of content words. The child’s early grammar lacks many of the rules of the adult grammar, but gradually it will become perfect.
All normal children everywhere learn language. This ability is not dependent on race, social class, geography, or even intelligence (智力). This ability is uniquely (独特的) for human.
1.This passage is mainly about ___________.
A．differences between a child’s language and an adult’s
B．ways of teaching babies to talk
C．children’s learning of the mother language
D．the importance of learning foreign languages
2.The phrase “pick them up” means____________.
A．raise them from the ground
B．learn them without much effort
C．use hands to help carry them
D．study very hard and remember them
3.During the “babbling stage”, babies ___________.
A．can only produce sound
B．learn to work without falling over
C．can understand people’s talk
D．begin to produce two-word sentences
4.The two-word sentences produced by babies __________.
A．are simpler than those produced in the “babbling stage”
B．are much more difficult than those produced in the telegraphic stage
C．are strictly grammatical
D．are meaningful and have function
5.The passage implies that any children can learn a language as long as he is ___________.
A．well-educated B．clever enough
C．unique D．physical normal
One day a few years ago a very funny thing happened to a neighbour of mine. He is a teacher at one of London’s big medical schools. He had finished his teaching for the summer term and was at the airport on his way to Russia to give a lecture.
He had put a few clothes and his lecture notes in his shoulder bag, but he had put Rupert, the skeleton (人体骨架) to be used in his lecture, in a large brown suitcase. At the airport desk, he suddenly thought that he had forgotten to buy a newspaper. He left his suitcase near the desk and went over to the shop.
When he got back he discovered that someone had taken his suitcase by mistake. He often wonders what they said when they got home and found Rupert.
1.Who wrote the story?
A．Rupert’s teacher. B．The neighbour’s teacher.
C．A medical school teacher. D．The teacher’s neighbour.
2.Why did the teacher put a skeleton in his suitcase?
A．He needed it for the summer term in London.
B．He needed it for the lecture he was going to give.
C．He wanted to take it to Russia for medical research.
D．He wanted to take it home as he had finished his teaching.
3.What happened at the airport?
A．The skeleton went missing.
B．The skeleton was stolen.
C．The teacher forgot his suitcase.
D．The teacher took the wrong suitcase.
4.Which of the following best tells the teacher’s feeling about the incident?
A．He is very angry. B．He thinks it rather funny.
C．He feels helpless without Rupert. D．He feels good without Rupert.
5.Which of the following might have happened afterwards?
A．The teacher got back the suitcase but not Rupert.
B．The teacher got back neither the suitcase nor Rupert.
C．The teacher got back Rupert but not the suitcase.
D．The teacher got back both the suitcase and Rupert.
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Wang peng felt very 1. （frustrate）when he saw none of his patrons(常客) would eat in his restaurant. In his opinion, nothing could be better than his fried rice, mutton kebabs, fatty pork or his 2. (sugar) cola. Who won his customers? He followed one of his best friends 3. Yong Hui’s newly 4.(open) slimming restaurant and was 5. (amaze) at the menu there: raw vegetables, fruit and water. It was obvious that Yong Hui was telling lies when promising to make the customers thinner. In order to win his customers back, he went to the library 6. (do) some research, 7. showed Yong Hui’s menu didn’t give the customers energy-giving food. Having found out the weakness of Yong Hui’s menu, Wang Peng 8.(write)his own sign, 9. (say) energy-giving food served. In fact, there was weakness in his menu, too. Food at his restaurant contains too much fat. So the only solution is to combine the two menus together to be a 10. (balance) menu.
One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been 1 me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly accepted. It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could hurry my moves, because she 2 to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I 3 she had strict sleeping habits, 4 I thought she ought to be able to 5 some of this strictness. I said to her, “ 6 , you can stay up late for once. We’re having 7 .” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked 8 . Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.” “No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it 9 , you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we 10 for another ten minutes, until suddenly my daughter burst into tears, and admitted that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made 11 . I had started the evening wanting to have a 12 time with my daughter but had allowed my desire to win to become more 13 than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win 14 me well. As a parent, I 15 that it got in my way. So I had to change.
1. A．guiding B．asking C．training D．advising
2. A．agreed B．needed C．begged D．hated
3. A．knew B．learned C．guessed D．heard
4. A．so B．for C．but D．or
5. A．put up B．take up C．pick up D．give up
6. A．As usual B．Go ahead C．By the way D．Come on
7. A．patience B．luck C．fun D．success
8. A．excited B．proud C．anxious D．angry
9. A．well B．again C．fairly D．regularly
10. A．discussed B．continued C．counted D．argued
11. A．a mistake B．a decision C．an attempt D．an effort
12. A．free B．different C．full D．happy
13. A．important B．attractive C．practical D．interesting
14. A．offered B．served C．controlled D．taught
15. A．realized B．apologized C．imagined D．explained
