Previous studies have shown that people experience feelings of romantic rejection (失恋) in the same way that they experience physical pain. And Psychology Professor Water Michel, of Columbia University, also believes that the psychological pain of ending a relationship is similar to physical pain, and should be treated like any other injury. “When we speak about rejection experiences in terms of physical pain, it is not just a metaphor – the broken heart and emotional pain really do hurt in a physical way," he said. “When you look at a picture of the one who broke your heart, you experience a pain in a similar area of the brain which is activated when you burn your arm. ”
Research shows that people who are given a simple painkiller, like aspirin, are able to handle feelings of rejection better than those given a placebo (安慰剂) .
‘Take two aspirins and call me next morning’ would be a cold-hearted response to a friend’s late-night report of fresh heartbreak, but it has a solid basis in the research.
1. The aspirin is a kind of _________.
| A．wine | B．fruit | C．dessert | D．medicine |
| A．mend a broken heart | B．burn your arm |
| C．make people feel pain | D．help people get over a break-up. |
| A．pains | B．hearts | C．people | D．areas |
| A．Just take an aspirin or two |
| B．Just call me at any time |
| C．Just wait for a long time |
| D．Just eat as much as you can |
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【推荐1】Time flies when you play on your smartphone. But when you get down to the real business of work and study, one hour feels like a year. Why do we like to spend too much time on the phones but easily become bored by studying?
It all comes down to something small and hard to see: dopamine(多巴胺). Dopamine is something that makes people feel good.Our body can release(释放) it when we eat delicious food, after we exercise or when we are rewarded(奖励).
Compared with studying, playing on smartphones causes our body to release more dopamine.For example, checking your phone for information leads to a 400 percent increase in dopamine. But why?
When we look at our phones, we don’t know what we’ll see next, or who will give you “like”. This uncertainty(不确定性), or “the magic of maybe”, makes the dopamine system active, according to the popular science website Guokr. We get excited wondering if we have “likes” from our friends. When our expectations achieve, dopamine is released.
And to get more dopamine, we continue checking our phones. However, Studying doesn’t provide such uncertainty. Without the excitement of “gambling(赌博)”, we get bored much more easily.
“As for studying, you could check your progress daily or weekly and reward yourself for it.” said Daniel Wong, writer of The Happy Student. You could also use what you’ve learned to make a difference in the real world. This will make studying much more interesting.
1. According to the writer, when students study, they ________.| A．are getting happier | B．feel time pass more slowly |
| C．have more dopamine | D．need to eat food |
| A．works out. | B．turns out. | C．results in. | D．is because of. |
| A．Get up early. | B．Eat delicious food. |
| C．After we exercise. | D．When we are rewarded. |
| A．When they know what will happen next. | B．When they stay in a familiar environment. |
| C．When their expectations achieve. | D．When they face less uncertainties. |
| A．Stopping playing and finding more interests in real life. |
| B．Reading the most difficult parts of your books first. |
| C．Sleeping more when you are in face of difficulties. |
| D．Using what you learn from books to do things in real life. |
【推荐2】Birth order—does it matter? Are you different because you are the first, second, or third child in your family—or maybe the last of nine?
A study found that first-borns have an average(平均的) IQ that is three points higher than people who fall into a different place in the birth order, perhaps because first-borns often help younger brothers and sisters, which improves their own skills. In 2007, an international organization of CEOs found that 43% of CEOs are first-borns 33% are middle children, and 23% are last-borns. First-borns are more likely(可能的) to be doctors and astronauts and get higher pay.
If first-borns are more successful, last-borns are generally more agreeable. They are also more likely to be funny, possibly to get attention from all the bigger people at the dinner table. Mark Twain and Stephen Colbert were both the youngest in large families, and Jim Carrey was the youngest of four. According to a 2007 Time magazine article, “The power of Birth Order.” last-borns are more likely to be artists and successful businessmen.
Then there are the middle children: we have not ignored(忽视) them! Many middle children are short of one-on-one time with their parents. They often feel short-changed: the oldest gets more rights, and the youngest is spoiled(宠坏的). Though they may be ignored, middle children are more likely to grow into easygoing adults.
Many factors(因素) make us who we are, but if the research is correct, birth order may be one of the most important factors.
1. Who is most likely to be a CEO?| A．A first-born. | B．A second-born. | C．A third-born. | D．A last-born. |
| A．He was likely to be given low pay. | B．He was likely to be agreeable. |
| C．He was a first-born. | D．He was a middle child. |
| A．受亏待的 | B．受控制的 | C．受宠爱的 | D．受欢迎的 |
| A．has no influence on IQ | B．matters a lot at the dinner table |
| C．may decide who we are | D．is a factor in making us powerful |
| A．Where Is Your Place in the Family? | B．Who Improves Your Social Skills? |
| C．What Makes You Successful in Life? | D．How Can You grow into a big Man? |
Why do zebras have stripes? Scientists think they might have the answer. The team studied horses, zebras and horses dressed as zebras. They spent more than 16 hours standing in fields and watching these animals. They wrote a new study that was later published in the journal Plos One, showing the pattern seems to confuse flies. The stripes make it harder for flies to bite zebras.
Martin How, a scientist at the University of Bristol in England, helped write the study. He said the flies moved naturally around both zebras and horses. However, landing was different. Fewer flies landed on zebras than horses. Scientists saw that the flies moved too quickly and were not able to control their flight when they got close to the zebras. Instead of controlling their direction, they would turn away or run into the zebras. “This is probably because of the flies’ poor eyesight.” How said, “From about 6 feet away, a zebra would just look like a grey horse to a fly.” So when the flies got close, the stripes might deter them at once by making them feel either confused about the direction or uncertain about how fast things were passing by, affecting their ability to land.
The scientists wanted to make sure the effect was not caused by something else. For example, it could have happened because zebras and horses smell different. So the scientists put black, white and zebra-striped coats on seven horses in turn. There was no difference in the rate at which the flies landed on the horses’ uncovered heads, but the flies touched and landed on the zebra coat far less often than either the black or white coats.
The team said that biting flies must be one of the reasons why stripes developed. Zebras come from pars of the world where flies carry bad diseases. There could be some very terrible results when being bitten by flies. But horses are different. They have lived in different environments where diseases from flies are less dangerous.
That’s big news for outdoor enthusiasts who have suffered from fly bites. Perhaps they could get ideas from zebras.
1. The new study is mainly about ________.| A．bow flies bite zebras | B．how stripes on zebras confuse flies |
| C．how zebras get stripes | D．how zebras and horses are different |
| A．encourage | B．satisfy | C．hurt | D．stop |
| A．separate horses from zebras | B．keep flies from landing on them |
| C．see if the stripes keep flies away | D．show that horses smell like zebras |
| A．Flies will be confused by stripes from far away. |
| B．Horses live in places where there are fewer flies. |
| C．Outdoor enthusiasts may avoid wearing striped clothes. |
| D．Zebras developed stripes to get used to the environment. |
【推荐1】Is there a connection between music and language? According to recent studies, the answer is yes. Music boosts (促进) certain language abilities in the brain. Here are two examples.
Music and HearingA study from Northwestern University shows that playing a musical instrument can improve a person’s hearing ability. As a part of the study, two groups of people listened to a person talking in a noisy room. The people in the first group were musicians, while those in the second group had no musical training. The musicians were able to hear the talking person more clearly.
Musicians hear better, says study leader Nina Kraus, because they learn to pay attention to certain sounds. Think about violinists in an orchestra (管弦乐队). When the violinists play with the group, they hear their own instruments and many others, too. But the violinists must listen closely to what they are playing and ignore (忽视) the other sounds. In this way, musicians are able to concentrate on certain sounds, even in a room with lots of noise.
Music and SpeechGottfried Schlaug, a doctor at Harvard Medical School, works with stroke patients (中风患者). Because of their illness, these people cannot say their names, addresses, or other information normally. However, they can still sing. Dr. Schlaug was surprised to find that singing words helped his patients to eventually (最终地) speak. Why does this work? Schlaug isn’t sure. Music seems to activate (激活) different parts of the brain, including the damaged parts. This somehow helps patients use those parts of the brain again.
Understanding the resultMusic improves concentration, memory, listening skills, and our language abilities. It can even help sick people get better. Playing an instrument or singing, says Nina Kraus, can help us do better in school and keep our brains sharp as we get older. Therefore, music is not only enjoyable. It’s also good for us in many other ways.
1. What two groups did Northwestern University study?| A．noisy people and quiet people. | B．musicians and nonmusicians. |
| C．violinists and other musicians. | D．adults and students. |
| A．Orchestra musicians. | B．Instruments. | C．Violinists. | D．Groups. |
| A．They both work at Harvard Medical School. |
| B．They both play an instrument in an orchestra. |
| C．They are both interested in how music and the brain are connected. |
| D．They are both good at music. |
| A．By playing music for them. | B．By getting them to sing words. |
| C．By teaching them to play instruments. | D．By activating their parts of body. |
A． | B． | C． | D． |
【推荐2】People usually imagine they are much more likely to win the lottery（彩票）than they really are. The American lottery is promoted（促销）with the phrase（短语）“It could be you”, which, of course, is technically true. To tell the whole truth it should be read: “It could be you, but it almost certainly won’t be.”
Recently thousands of people began pouring into（涌入）Pennsylvania from other states. They wanted to buy lottery tickets. The tickets cost only $0.9 each. But that small spending could bring them reward of $90 million. That was the second largest lottery jackpot（积累奖金）in history.
More than 87 million tickets were bought for the Pennsylvania lottery drawing（抽奖）. Those who bought tickets had to choose seven numbers from 1 to 80. The chance of winning was one in 9.6 million, but that little chance certainly didn’t affect ticket sales. In the last few days before the drawing, tickets were sold at the unbelievable rate of 500 per second.
Experts say many people buy lottery tickets because they just want to have a piece of the action. Others say the lottery is a stock market for poor people. It allows them to dream about wealth they’ll probably never have.
But many people believe lotteries are no better than legalized（合法化的）gambling. Some critics（评论家）note that most people who play are poor and may not be able to afford the tickets. There are also many addicts（入迷的）who take the game seriously. They may pour their life savings into lottery tickets. Some clubs have been formed to help them get rid of the habit.
Politicians（政治家）like lotteries because they provide money that would otherwise have to come from new taxes（税收）. The profits from lotteries are usually used to pay for education or programs for the old people. But critics say this arrangement just allows states to legalize vice（恶习）under the name of social progress. Whether you regard stock lotteries right or not, you cannot refuse to accept their extreme popularity with many Americans.
1. There is _______ chance to win the lottery for most of the people.| A．never a | B．little | C．a big | D．a good |
| A．phone | B．postal | C．seven | D．lucky |
| A．$1.62million | B．$1.82 million |
| C．$9.6 million | D．$87million |
| A．join a support group | B．get rid of the habit |
| C．win the lottery | D．save every cent |
| A．lotteries are of great benefit to everyone who buys them |
| B．playing a lottery is just like investing in the stock market |
| C．many people buy lottery tickets, but lotteries cause disagreement |
| D．lotteries are nothing but legalized vice |
| A．Politicians don’t like lotteries because they like to pay extra taxes. |
| B．The popularity of lotteries in America actually is social progress. |
| C．Some critics don’t like lotteries because many poor people waste money on them. |
| D．People love the lottery because it is a stock market. |
【推荐3】Do you have any English friends? Do you know how they get their names?
Some people get their first names from their fathers. If your friend’s name is Johnson, you know his father is John. English people like Gods (神) very much. Some people name their babies after some gods. Abraham is the Father of Everything, so we can know the boy, Abraham’s parents hope he can be honest (诚实的) and clever. And Diana comes from the name of the Goddess of the Moon.
Some people get their family names from their jobs. Maybe, Harry Potter’s ancestor (祖先) can make a lot of beautiful pots (陶罐) for people. And Fisher’s ancestor can be a good fisher. He can get a lot of fish from the river every day.
And some family names come from the place of their homes. Do you know Winston Churchill, a great man in England? Next to his ancestor’s house, there may be a church (教堂).
What’s your English name? Can you tell us the meaning of your name?
1. Who is the son of Job?| A．Johnson. | B．Jobson. | C．Thomson. | D．Tomson. |
| A．Abraham. | B．Fisher. | C．Diana. | D．Mike. |
| A．two | B．four | C．six | D．five |
| A．诗意 | B．特点 | C．含义 | D．昵称 |
| A．English Friends | B．English Ancestors | C．English Names | D．English People |
【推荐1】Today I am going along with Rowan Dougall, a postman in Queensland in the far north of Australia, on his daily delivery (投递) trip. Every day, Rowan sets off with his post bags in the tail
of his little plane—not much bigger than a large family car, and flies across one of the wildest places on Earth, Australia’s Cape North, to reach the very faraway inland areas called the Outback.
We fly just 300 metres above dangerous crocodiles (鳄鱼) and snakes. This is one of the
longest and most expensive postman trips in the world. However, a 50-cent stamp not only gets a letter posted to a neighbouring town, it will get it hand-delivered by flying postman to the furthest areas of the Outback. To help with the costs, the plane takes three or four paying local people or tourists, and I am one of them. In the back of the plane, there is a pile of post—envelopes of all sizes, newspapers, and a few parcels (包裹). Somehow I expected this post to look special, maybe to include some hats or cowboy boots, but this looks no more exciting than the post delivered to me in England. I look at some of the names and addresses, wondering about the people who are waiting for these letters and parcels.
Rowan’s route is 2,000 km long, with 15 stops, and I get a chance to meet Sandy, who has just received an order of clothes from a store. “I look forward to this weekly delivery,” she says, “but I do miss actually going shopping myself.” Rowan is checking the time. There are another ten stops
to make before dusk (黄昏). Time to leap back on the plane and up into the air.
1. What does the writer say about the cost of delivering to Cape North?
| A．The sender pays more than the usual mail cost. |
| B．People in the Outback pay 50 cents for a delivery. |
| C．It may be possible to find a less expensive delivery. |
| D．The money passengers pay help to cover some of the cost. |
| A．The items seem to be in a mess. | B．Some of the items are very unusual. |
| C．The items are similar to his own post. | D．He can’t see clear names on the items. |
| A．she would like the service to be more often |
| B．the mail plane does not stop long enough there |
| C．she would like to be able to do her own shopping |
| D．there are many items that cannot be delivered to her |
| A．To describe postal delivery services in the Outback. |
| B．To show the wild beauty of the Australian Outback. |
| C．To warn about the dangers to postmen in the Outback. |
| D．To get more support for postal services in the Outback. |
| A．The post plane is too small for the post that has to be delivered. |
| B．Only tourists are allowed to go as passengers on the post plane. |
| C．The postman has to fly the plane himself and deliver everything by hand. |
| D．The delivery could be faster if the postman spent less time talking to local people. |
Green is an important colour in the nature . It is the colour of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the colour of most growing plants.
Sometimes，the word green means young，fresh and growing. Sometimes，it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example，a green hand is someone who has no experience，who is new to a situation.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb（拇指）. It comes from early nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
The Green Revolution（革命）is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs. Green is also the colour used to describe such a cling-jealousy（j嫉妒）. The green-eyed monster（怪物）does not come from outer space. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. Your friend may suffer from（忍受. ……. 的折磨）the green-eyed monster if you get a pay rise and he does not.
1. What does the underlined word “ripe” mean in Paragraph 2？| A．Grown. | B．Young. | C．New. | D．Unknown. |
| A．Who has a green thumb. | B．What the Green Revolution is. |
| C．What the meaning of “a green thumb” is. | D．Scientists have green thumbs. |
| A．a red thumb | B．a white thumb | C．a yellow thumb | D．a green thumb |
| A．Green. | B．The green-eyed monster. |
| C．Outer space. | D．A feeling. |
| A．Science in the News. | B．Health Report. |
| C．Words and Their Stories. | D．Education Report. |
When tea was first brought to England, an old couple got some as a special treat. But they did not know how I t should be used. They cooked the leaves in hot water, and spread them on a piece of bacon(熏肉) which they were going to have for dinner. They ate the leaves, and threw the tea away! However, tea is becoming as popular as coffee and milk in England today.
Tea is the leaf of a plant which grows widely in China, Japan and some other countries. Tea famers usually grow many tea plants on a large piece of land. When the tea leaves are ready to be picked, it is the busiest time for tea farmers in a year. They pull off on the leaves and dry them. In their spare time, they pick out the best leaves and get them ready for market. In china, whenever a visitor comes into a house, he is served with a cup of tea.
1. What was served for breakfast in England long ago?
| A．Beer. | B．Tea. | C．Coffee. | D．Milk. |
| A．They sold them. | B．They ate them. |
| C．They burnt them. | D．They threw them away. |
| A．serve visitors at home | B．sell tea in the market |
| C．pick and dry tea leaves | D．look for a piece of land |
| A．Nature. | B．Culture. | C．Environment. | D．Technology. |
【推荐1】Mr. Black has a clothes store. His store has many kinds of nice clothes.
One day, a boy comes to Mr. Black's store. He looks at a red sweater. Then he asks, “Excuse me. How much is it?” “It’s $ 25,” Mr. Black says. “Oh, that’s too dear,” the boy says. He looks very sad.
Mr. Black asks the boy, “Who do you want to buy this sweater for?”
“For my mother. Her birthday is next Sunday. She must look nice in this sweater. But I just have $ 10. I can’t buy it for her.”
“Well, the sweater is on sale these days. It’s $ 10. You can have it now.”
“Great! I’ll take it! Thank you!” the boy says. He looks happy now.
1. What does Mr. Black’s store have?| A．Vegetables. | B．Clothes. | C．Fruits. | D．Drinks. |
| A．Mr. Black’s | B．The boy’s | C．The boy’s mother’s | D．The boy’s father’s |
| A．$ 10. | B．¥ 10. | C．$ 25. | D．¥ 25. |
| A．The sweater is yellow. | B．The boy thinks the sweater is too cheap. |
| C．The boy wants to buy a skirt for his mother. | D．The boy takes the sweater at last. |
| A．bad | B．kind | C．short | D．fat |
If you think texting(发短信) while walking is dangerous, just wait until everyone starts wearing Google's smart, Internet-connected glasses. These glasses can do anything you now need a smartphone or tablet computer(平板电脑) to do —and then some.
In Google's video, a guy wearing the "Project Glass" is shown getting subway information, making an appointment with a friend for coffee and showing the directions in a bookstore, all with the help of the glass. It ends with him playing an instrument for a woman and showing her the sunset through a video chat.
The "Project Glass" Google displayed have a sleek(光滑的) wrap-around look and appear nothing like 3-D glasses. In development for a few years, the project is the idea of Google X, the online search-leader's secret department that produced the self-driving car and could one day send elevators into space.
Google posted the video and short blog post about “Project Glass” on April 4th, asking people to offer feedback(反馈) through its Google Plus social network. By April 5th, about 500 people did, voicing a mix of amazement and concern about the new technology. What if people used it in cars and could not concentrate on driving? What about the effect on(对……有影响) your sight of having a screen so close to your eye?
Some asked for the glass, but Google isn't giving those out just yet. The company didn't say when normal people can expect to get their hands on a piece of Project Glass, but going by how quickly Google will come out with new products, it may not be long. Enderle said that it could be about six months to a year before wide tests are coming, and a year or more for the first version(版本) of the product.
1. This passage mainly talks about .
| A．an invention | B．a video | C．Google |
| A．shape | B．inventor | C．price |
| A．a year | B．6 months | C．3 months |
| A．communicate with others |
| B．keep away from the sun |
| C．get information |
| A．The “Project Glass” looks like 3-D glasses. |
| B．Many people think that the glass may help a lot while driving. |
| C．Some people worry that the glass will be bad to our sight while wearing it. |
【推荐3】Before you go to another country it is a great help if you know the language and some of the customs of the country.
When people meet each other for the first time in Britain, they say, “How do you do? ”and shake hands. Usually they do not shake hands when they just meet or say goodbye. But they shake hands after they haven’t met for a long time or when they will be away from each other for a long time.
Last year a group of German students went to England for a holiday. Their teacher told them that the English people hardly shake hands. So when they met their English friends at the station, they kept their hands behind their backs. The English students had learned that the Germans shake hands as often as possible, so they put their hands in front and got ready to shake hands with them. It made both of them laugh.
1. It is ____ if you know the language and some of the customs of the country.| A．not useful | B．not helpful | C．very helpful | D．very bad |
| A．meet every time | B．meet for the first time |
| C．say goodbye to each other | D．say hello to each other |
| A．when they will be away for a long time |
| B．when they say “How do you do? ” |
| C．when they just meet or say goodbye |
| D．after they haven’t met for a long time |
| A．German people shake hands as often as possible. |
| B．English people like shaking hands very much. |
| C．German people hardly shake hands. |
| D．Neither English people nor Germans like shaking hands. |
| A．shaking hands | B．customs | C．languages | D．languages and customs |
