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To their great fear, they found ____ in the heaviest snowfall they had ever had.

A. they were catching             B. themselves caught

C. they had caught                D. themselves catching

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To their great fear, they found _______ in the heaviest snowfall they had ever had.

A. they were catching     B. themselves caught

C. they had caught       D. themselves catching

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To their great fear, they found________ in the heaviest snowfall they had never had.

A. they were catching                B. themselves caught

C. they had caught                    D. themselves catching

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To their great surprise, they found ________ in the meeting.

A. they were not understanding　　　　　　 B. themselves not understood

C. they had not understood　　　　　　　　 D. themselves not understanding

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To their great _____, Tom’s problem proved not to be as serious as they had feared.

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Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting（收缩）and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don’t see and guide whether we see fear.”

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner（扫描仪）to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person’s feeling of fear.

“We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear,” Dr Garfinkel said.

“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”

1.What is the finding of the study?

A. Fear is a result of one’s relaxed heartbeat.

B. One’s heart affects how he feels fear.

C. Fear has something to do with one’s heart health.

D. One’s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

2.The conclusion was drawn by analyzing 　　　　　　 .

A. volunteers’ heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

B. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

C. volunteers’ reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?

A. Order　　　　　　　 B. Treatment

C. Machine　　　　 　 D. System

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Although the students complained sometimes, they found their efforts in the preparation for the play ________.

A.laid off B.switched off C.paid off D.gave off

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I’m afraid to grow old—we’re all afraid. In fact, the fear of growing old is so great that every aged person is an insult and a threat to the society. They remind us of our own death, that our body won’t always remain smooth and responsive, but will someday betray(背叛) us by aging. The ideal way to age would be to grow slowly invisible, gradually disappearing, without causing worry or discomfort to the young. In some ways that does happen. Sitting in a small park across from a nursing home one day, I noticed that the young mothers and their children gathered on one side, and the old people from the home on the other.

　　　 Whenever a youngster would run over to the “wrong” side, chasing a ball or just trying to cover all the available space, the old people would lean forward and smile. But before any communication could be established, the mother would come over, murmuring embarrassed apologies, and take her child back to the “young” side.

　　　 Now, it seemed to me that the children didn’t feel any particular fear and the old people didn’t seem to be threatened by the children. The division of space was drawn by the mothers. And the mothers never looked at the old people who lined the other side of the park. These well-dressed young women had a way of sliding their eyes over, around, through the old people; they never looked at them directly. The old people may as well have been invisible; they offended the aesthetic eye of the mothers.

　　　 My early experiences were somewhat different; since I grew up in a small town, my children had more of a nineteenth-century flavor. I knew a lot of old people, and considered some of them friends.

1.People are afraid of growing old because it is usually associated with ______.

A. insult　　　　　 B. threat　　　　　　 C. death　　　　　 D. betrayal

2.In the author’s opinion, it is a perfect way to ______.

A. grow old slowly and then die unnoticed

B. grow old suddenly and then die

C. shut oneself up from others when growing old

D. remain young all one’s life and then die suddenly

3.It can be inferred that young mothers would try to keep their children away from the old because ______.

A. they feared their children might hurt the old

B. they didn’t like their children to take up the space belonging to the old

C. they felt it was wrong to play balls near where the old stayed

D. they didn’t want their children to have anything to do with the old

4.The author believes the division between the old and the young is _____.

A. made by people　　　　　　　　　　 B. understandable

C. formed naturally　　　　　　　　　 D. traditional

5.From the passage, we learn that the author ______.

A. used to have the same experience as the young have today

B. has never been afraid of getting old

C. was quite free to know and befriend old people in his childhood

D. both B and C

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____Whites are spending their holiday in Hawaii, for they have _____great love for nature.

A. / ; the            B. the ; a         C. a ; the       D. the ; /

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____Whites are spending their holiday in Hawaii, for they have _____great love for nature.

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