The study shows that smoking may generate lon...

The study shows that smoking may generate long-term stress, even if people feel it offers them ______ relief from tough situations.

A. temporary　　 B. original

C. primary　　 D. appropriate

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．A new study shows anger may help people reduce the negative impacts _____ stress and help you become healthier．

A．in        B．of        C．on       D．at

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A new study shows anger may help people reduce the negative impacts _____ stress and help you become healthier.

A. in                    B. of                   C. on               D. at

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A study shows that students living in non-smoking dormitories are not likely to ________ the habit of smoking.

A．pick up           B．turn up           C．draw up           D．make up

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A study shows that people living in non-smoking areas are less likely to ________the habit of smoking．

A．pick up              B．turn up          C．draw up          D．make up

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A new study shows that rising levels of planet-warming gases may reduce important nutrients（营养物质）in food crops

Researchers studied the effects of carbon dioxide on rice， In the experiment， scientists grew 18 kinds of rice in fields in China and Japan．They set carbon dioxide levels to what scientists are predicting for our planet by the end of the century．Rice grown under high carbon dioxide conditions had，on average，13 t0 30 percent lower levels of four B vitamins and 10 percent less protein（蛋白质）The crops also had 8 percent less iron and 5 percent less zinc than rice grown under normal conditions However， vitamin E leveLs increased by about 13 percent on average．

The researchers said the effects of planet-warming gases would be most sevcre for the poorest citizens in some of the least developed countries．These people generally eat the most rice and have the least complex diets．That includes abour 600 million people in Indonesia， Cambodia，Myanmar，Bangladesh，Laos and other nations，mainly in Southeast Asia．

Other studies have shown that higher temperatures from climate change and weather extremes will reduce food production．But scientists are finding that rising levcls of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases threaten food quality．

Earlier studies showed that wheat，rice，field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had Iower levels of protein and mincrais．Scientists predicted that almost 150 million people might be at risk of having too little protein or zinc in their diet by 2050．

The new study suggests a way to lower the nutritional harm of climate change．That is to grow different forms of rice that can adapt to higher carbon dioxide levels．

1.Growing rice under high carbon dioxide conditions may____．

A. increase iron in the rice

B. make it less nutritious

C. cause losses of Vitamin E

D. make it more delicious

2.How can people reduce the nutritional harm of climate change？

A. By importing rice from China and Japan．

B. By taking other kinds of food instead of rice．

C. By avoiding eating rice from Southeast Asia．

D. By growing rice suitable for the environment．

3.What’s the author’s purpose of writing the text？

A. To infom readers what nurrients food crops contain．

B. To call on people to care for the planet they live on．

C. To share the results of some studies on people’s diets．

D. To tell readers where food crops are mainly produced．

4.In which part of a magazine can you read the text？

A. Advertisements．　　 B. Arts and culture．

C. Science report．　　 D. Business news．

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A new study shows that rising levels of planet-warming gases may reduce important nutrients(营养物质)in food crops

Researchers studied the effects of carbon dioxide on rice. In the experiment， scientists grew 18 kinds of rice in fields in China and Japan.They set carbon dioxide levels to what scientists are predicting for our planet by the end of the century.Rice grown under high carbon dioxide conditions had，on average，13 to 30 percent lower levels of four B vitamins and 10 percent less protein(蛋白质)The crops also had 8 percent less iron and 5 percent less zinc than rice grown under normal conditions. However, vitamin E levels increased by about 13 percent on average.

The researchers said the effects of planet-warming gases would be most severe for the poorest citizens in some of the least developed countries.These people generally eat the most rice and have the least complex diets.That includes about 600 million people in Indonesia， Cambodia，Myanmar，Bangladesh，Laos and other nations，mainly in Southeast Asia.

Other studies have shown that higher temperatures from climate change and weather extremes will reduce food production.But scientists are finding that rising levels of carbon dioxide and other planet-warming gases threaten food quality.

Earlier studies showed that wheat，rice，field peas and soybeans grown under high carbon dioxide conditions all had lower levels of protein and minerals.Scientists predicted that almost 150 million people might be at risk of having too little protein or zinc in their diet by 2050.

The new study suggests a way to lower the nutritional harm of climate change.That is to grow different forms of rice that can adapt to higher carbon dioxide levels.

1.Growing rice under high carbon dioxide conditions may____.

A. increase iron in the rice　　 B. make it more delicious

C. cause losses of Vitamin E　　 D. make it less nutritious

2.How can people reduce the nutritional harm of climate change？

A. By importing rice from China and Japan.

B. By taking other kinds of food instead of rice.

C. By avoiding eating rice from Southeast Asia.

D. By growing rice suitable for the environment.

3.What’s the author’s purpose of writing the text？

A. To inform readers what nutrients food crops contain.

B. To call on people to care for the planet they live on.

C. To share the results of some studies on people’s diets.

D. To tell readers where food crops are mainly produced.

4.In which part of a magazine can you read the text？

A. Advertisements.　　 B. Arts and culture.

C. Science report.　　 D. Business news.

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The rise of the so-called “boomerang generation” is revealed in official figures showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.

By contrast, only one in eight university graduates had failed to fly the nest by the same age 20 years ago. It also found that grown-up sons are twice as likely as their sisters to still be living with their parents in their late 20s. With nearly a quarter of men approaching 30 still living at home, the findings are bound to lead to claims of a “generation of mummy’s boys”.

Young professionals in their late 20s or early 30s have been nicknamed the “boomerang generation” because of the trend toward returning to the family home having initially left to study. Recent research has suggested that young people in Britain are twice as likely to choose to live with their parents in their late 20s than their counterparts elsewhere in Europe.

Rising property prices, mounting student debts and the effects of recession on the job market have forced a wave of young people to move back into the family home at an age when they would normally be moving out. But commentators warned that the phenomenon may have more to do with young people facing “dire” prospects than simply a desire to save money.

While the proportion of those of university or college age moving out from the family home has continued to rise in the last 20 years, among those in their mid and late 20s the trend has been reversed. Overall 1.7 million people aged from 22 to 29 now share a roof with their parents, including more than 760,000 in their late 20s. In 1988, 22.7 per cent of men aged 25 to 29 were still living with their parents but last year the proportion was 24.5 per cent.

1. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The economic crisis has shown its effect on the young generation.

B. More young professionals are returning home to live.

C. British parents are suffering more loads from their grown-up children.

D. Britain is suffering more than any other country in Europe.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. Male children seem to more independent than females.

B. Eighty percent of university graduates were able to live independently two decades ago.

C. The grown-up children choose to live with their parents only to save money.

D. More and more children are moving out at university age.

3. What does the underlined word “dire” probably mean?

A. promising.     B. inconvenient.   C. very bad.    D. hopeful

4. The following factors may account for the phenomenon except _____.

A. that living prices have risen a lot.

B. that it’s difficult to land a job.

C. that education has already cost them a lot

D. that parents can help them more

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Studies show that you may be lied to every day anywhere from 10 to 200 times. We say, “Nice song.” “Honey, you don’t look fat in that, no.” But another study showed that strangers lied three times within the first 10 minutes of meeting each other. We lie more to strangers than we lie to coworkers. Men lie eight times more about themselves than they do other people. Women lie more to protect other people. If you’re married, you’re going to lie to your wife/ husband in one out of every 10 communications. If you’re unmarried, that number drops to three. But look, if at some point you got lied to, it’s because you agreed to get lied to. Truth about lying: lying’s a cooperative act. Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we’re willing to lie for the sake of social dignity (尊严), maybe to keep a private secret.

Lying is complex. It’s woven into the fabric of our daily and business lives. We’re deeply disturbed by the truth. We explain it, sometimes for very good reasons, other times just because we don’t understand the gaps between ideals and realities in our lives. We’re against lying, but secretly we’re for it in ways that our society has practiced for centuries and centuries. It’s as old as breathing. It’s part of our culture and history. Think the stories from Dante, Shakespeare, the Bible, News of the World.

Lying has great value to the evolution of human being. Researchers have long known that the more intelligent the species, the more likely it is to lie. We human like to become leaders. It starts really early. How early? Well, babies will pretend to cry, pause, wait to see who’s coming and then go right back to crying. One-year-olds learn hiding truth. Two-year-olds bluff (虚张声势). Five-year-olds lie outright and try to control via flattery (讨好). Nine-year-olds, masters of covering up. By the time you enter college, you’re going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions. By the time we enter this work world to be breadwinners, we’ve entered a world that is just full of fake digital friends, business media, identity thieves, world-class cheats, ——in short, a post-truth society.

What do you do? Well there are steps we can take to guide our way through the bushes. Trained lie spotters get to the truth 90% of the time. The rest of us, we’re only 54% accurate. Why is it so easy to learn? There are clever liars and stupid liars. There’re no real original liars. We all make the same mistakes. We all use the same techniques.

1. From Para.1 we learn that lying is very ________.

A. harmful　　 B. easy

C. interesting　　 D. common

2.According to the passage, a lie works when _________.

A. the liar’s words are sweet enough

B. it is given to a complete stranger

C. someone gives the liar cooperation

D. we are willing to lie for the dignity

3.Lying is complex because ________.

A. it is practiced by clever ones

B. people are for it as well as against it

C. ancient stories are full of lies

D. it is the whole part of great culture

4. The examples of kids lying in the passage show ________.

A. lying is a sign of intelligent development

B. lying is good for children’s growing up

C. at what age children begin to tell lies

D. 9-year-old children are masters of lying

5.What will the writer most likely talk about if he continues the passage?

A. How to become clever liars.

B. How to avoid stupid lies.

C. How to get through the bushes.

D. How to tell truth from lies.

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Decision-making under Stress

　A new review based on a research shows that acute stress affects the way the brain considers the advantages and disadvantages, causing it to focus on pleasure and ignore the possible negative (负面的) consequences of a decision.

　The research suggests that stress may change the way people make choices in predictable ways.

　“Stress affects how people learn,” says Professor Mara Mather. “People learn better about positive than negative outcomes under stress.”

　For example, two recent studies looked at how people learned to connect images(影像) with either rewards or punishments. In one experiment, some of the participants were first stressed by having to give a speech and do difficult math problems in front of an audience; in the other, some were stressed by having to keep their hands in ice water. In both cases, the stressed participants remembered the rewarded material more accurately and the punished material less accurately than those who hadn’t gone through the stress.

　This phenomenon is likely not surprising to anyone who has tried to resist eating cookies or smoking a cigarette while under stress –at those moments, only the pleasure associated with such activities comes to mind. But the findings further suggest that stress may bring about a double effect. Not only are rewarding experiences remembered better, but negative consequences are also easily recalled.

　The research also found that stress appears to affect decision-making differently in men and women. While both men and women tend to focus on rewards and less on consequences under stress, their responses to risk turn out to be different.

　Men who had been stressed by the cold-water task tended to take more risks in the experiment while women responded in the opposite way. In stressful situations in which risk-taking can pay off big, men may tend to do better, when caution weighs more, however, women will win.

　This tendency to slow down and become more cautious when decisions are risky might also help explain why women are less likely to become addicted than men: they may more often avoid making the risky choices that eventually harden into addiction.

1.We can learn from the passage that people under pressure tend to ______.

A．keep rewards better in their memory

B．recall consequences more effortlessly

C．make risky decisions more frequently

D．learn a subject more effectively

2.According to the research, stress affects people most probably in their ______.

A．ways of making choices                   B．preference for pleasure

C．tolerance of punishments                 D．responses to suggestions

3.The research has proved that in a stressful situation, ______.

A．women find it easier to fall into certain habits

B．men have a greater tendency to slow down

C．women focus more on outcomes

D．men are more likely to take risks

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