1 . Money with no strings attached. It’s not something you see every day. But at Union Station in Los Angeles last month, a board went up with dollar bills attached to it with pins and a sign that read, "Give What You Can, Take What You Need."

What does the expression "money with no strings attached" in paragraph 1 mean?

A．Money spent without hesitation.	B．Money not legally made.
C．Money offered without conditions.	D．Money not tied together.

2 . “We know that narrative has the power to transport us to another world,” says Guilherme Brockington from Brazil’s Federal University. “Earlier research suggested that stories help children process and regulate their emotions — but this was mostly conducted in a laboratory, with subjects answering questions while lying inside functional MRI machines. There are few studies on biological and psychological effects of storytelling in a more commonplace hospital setting.”
What is the second paragraph mainly about?

A．The effects of story-telling on children.

B．The limitations of the earlier research.

C．The methods used in earlier studies.

D．The major breakthroughs achieved so far.

3 . Given its role in helping restore physiological peace, it appears that regardless of whether someone has BPD or not, it can be beneficial to learn to label your emotions. When you’re starting down the pathway of experiencing a negative emotion, you can benefit by applying an accurate label to that emotion as opposed to holding it back or calling it something else. This can potentially prevent engagement in destructive behaviors that may function to downregulate emotion such as self-harm.

To sum up, this new information about BPD can offer hope that at least one key element of the emotion regulation process appears to function effectively. Building on this strength could very well provide a new and unexplored pathway for their satisfaction.

What is the passage mainly about?

A．A new pathway of regulating emotions.

B．A method of consciously labeling emotions.

C．An unexpected strength of people with BPD.

D．An involuntary reaction to people with BPD.

4 . Directions: Fill in each blank with the missing words according to the text.
● However, Hua did receive the support of a     1    while he was at school.
● He loved maths and studied so hard that he managed to win a     2    .
● Then something terrible happened: because of a serious illness, his left leg became     3    .
● Despite this terrible setback, Hua continued to study on his own and     4    .
● Mentally, at least, most of us could     5    lists of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’.
● The same old favorites recur year in year out    6    .
● Past experience has taught us that certain accomplishments are     7    .
● If we remain     8    , it is only because we have so often experienced the frustration that     9    .
● We also make the fundamental error of announcing our resolutions to everybody so that we look even more foolish when we     10    our bad old ways.