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2 . A new research has found that comedy doesn’t just make us feel good—it actually has the power to improve health. A recent study was conducted to test whether or not “laughter therapy (疗法)”could help people who have heart disease.
The study involved 26 adults, with an average age of 64. They all had coronary artery (冠状动脉) disease, which happens when the supply of blood to the heart is held up by plaque (斑块) that grows in the coronary arteries, the big tubes that send blood to the heart. Over three months, 13 of the adults were asked to watch two-hour-long comedy shows every week. The other 13 were asked to watch two documentary films on serious topics like politics and the Amazon rainforest. Then, the participants were examined by doctors.
The first group that watched comedy showed a big improvement in the amount of oxygen which we breathe in to survive and that the heart could pump around the body. Their arteries also got better at expanding, which meant that more blood could flow through them. There was less plaque in the arteries afterward too, cutting the person’s risk of having a heart attack or stroke.
The study was led by Marco Saffi, a professor at a hospital, who said laughter helps the heart because it releases chemicals in the body called endorphins. They reduce inflammation, which can lead to heart disease, and help the heart relax.
Having a good laugh also reduces levels of stress hormones (荷尔蒙). Stress hormones are the body’s natural alarm system, which kicks in if a person is in a tense situation. They’re great for helping people cope with danger, but they can put a strain on the heart if they stay in a person’s system for too long.
Saffi thinks the results show “laughter therapy” could be used to treat patients at the risk of heart problems. He said, “It does not have to be TV programs——people with heart disease could be invited to comedy evenings or encouraged to enjoy fun evenings with friends and family.”
1. What does paragraph 3 mainly talk about?| A．The study’s impact. | B．The study’s findings. |
| C．The study’s process. | D．The study’s participants. |
| A．Guard. | B．Thought. | C．Mask. | D．Stress. |
| A．It’s costly. | B．It’s unique. | C．It’s promising. | D．It’s unworthy. |
| A．Laughter is the best medicine. | B．Smiling faces sometimes tell lies. |
| C．Smile is the most beautiful language. | D．Laughter is the privilege of mankind. |
3 . As a professional life and relationship coach, Allison Cowan has over 21 years of experience in teaching and supporting others to achieve their goals. She has dedicated her career to helping her clients gain power and awareness in their lives.
As a coach, Allison inspires her clients to overcome obstacles and achieve goals. However, her practice has come with its own share of challenges. Expanding her knowledge to meet diverse client needs has involved lots of trial-and-error searching.
Initially, Allison spent a hard time building strong and trustworthy relationships with her clients. She knew trust was critical to finding and retaining clients but was frustrated at how long the trust-building process takes.
Allison soon learned that there was no single right way to coach. To meet her clients’ different needs, she needed to become more efficient at supporting their diverse learning styles. To overcome her challenges as a coach and offer better service, she began looking for ways to customize her coaching solutions.
During her search, Allison realized Positive Psychology is a field with many different goals. “It covers so many areas, including whatever a client may go through,” she recalled. Later, she began using self-reflection tools to help her clients develop self-acceptance and self-forgiveness. She even discovered a way to help clients without a coaching goal find their purposes. She said, “There’s a lot of blame. The more they stay in blame mode, the more angry they are, and they are not able to move forward with acceptance and forgiveness. But we can find solutions in Positive Psychology.”
Whether Allison was helping clients build self-confidence, understand their attachment styles, or reframe their challenges, she quickly found that she was also learning all the time. By completing the homework Allison assigned to them, her clients were also changing. They were more engaged with their coaching and making more significant progress between their sessions. That made Allison proud. She said, “They grow and move forward at a quicker pace. That’s what coaching is about.”
1. Why is Allison’s initial trouble mentioned in the text?| A．To show her special efforts. | B．To stress her defeated career. |
| C．To prove the difficulty in coaching. | D．To give the reason for setting goals. |
| A．She used the same coaching ways to teach them. |
| B．She coached them according to their own needs. |
| C．She tried her best to change their learning styles. |
| D．She helped them overcome their challenges in life. |
| A．Doubtful. | B．Unclear. |
| C．Supportive. | D．Dismissive. |
| A．Allison’s clients misunderstood what coaching is about. |
| B．Allison learned to build self-confidence all the time. |
| C．Allison’s clients helped her complete homework. |
| D．Allison and her clients benefited each other. |
4 . Popular Libraries in the World
The idea of a public library —— where anyone in the community is trusted to borrow books, often for long stretches of time, for free —— is fairly magical. Some of the libraries in the world are pretty popular now.
The British Library, London, the UK
The British Library is comparable to the Library of Congress in terms of the size of their holdings, many of which are unique. According to its annual report, the British Library welcomes millions of visitors every year, but the figure in 2016-2017 represents a small but disappointing reduction in the overall visitor numbers.
The State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
According to its annual report, the State Library of Victoria’s visitors broke the 2 million in 2016-2017 visit record for the first time in its history, making it the busiest library in Australia. It also recorded many online visits, accessed collection items and uses of digitized collection items.
The New York Public Library, New York, the USA
The New York Public Library reports that it has hosted millions of visitors and circulated large numbers of items over their locations. According to a press, the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building —— the main branch of the library —— yearly receives the greatest number of visitors.
The National Library of China, Beijing, China
Established as the Imperial Library of Peking in 1909, the National Library of China is now the largest library in Asia, with holdings of over 30 million items. The library’s annual report puts its total visitors across multiple locations at several million every year.
1. What do we know about the British Library?| A．It holds many rare collections. |
| B．Its visitors are constantly on the rise. |
| C．It has the largest collection of books in Europe. |
| D．Its coverage is the smallest in the world’s libraries. |
| A．They possess two branches. |
| B．They gain plentiful visitors. |
| C．They are the busiest libraries in their countries. |
| D．They face a decline in tourism in the 20th century. |
| A．Finance. | B．Culture. |
| C．Architecture. | D．Technology. |
1. What is the conversation mainly about?
| A．Fighting fires. | B．Detecting fires. | C．Using fires. |
| A．Around 50. | B．About 400. | C．Over 8600. |
| A．Size of a car. | B．Size of a plane. | C．Size of a sports field. |
| A．Saving animals. | B．Saving the trees. | C．Saving humans. |
提示: 1．积极参加体育锻炼，有一个健康的身体。
2．多与老师、家长和朋友交谈， 说出自己的烦恼。
3．多听听音乐，多看看书。
4．尽自己最大努力学习，勇敢面对自己的成绩。
5. 如果经常压力太大，可以去看看医生。
How to solve our stress
We all have some problems and in our lives. How should we solve them?
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Dear headmaster,
I am a student from Class 1, Senior 1. I am writing to you to share my views on the shocking waste of water, electricity and paper in our school.
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A worried student,
Li Hua
8 . Storytelling has caught the human imagination for thousands of years. People everywhere have told stories to amuse, to teach, to remember, and just to pass the time. People started telling stories long before writing was invented.
Before people developed writing, storytelling was the most important way to pass along information. Anything a culture wanted to protect — its beliefs, its history, and its traditions — had to be told out loud. Each generation would tell the culture’s stories to the next.
Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition. Even cultures that know how to write still pass along some information in this way.
However, stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them. A storyteller might change a story in order to make it better. Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a story. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person.
Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
| A．In this way the stories were passed along. |
| B．In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories. |
| C．Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember. |
| D．Instead, a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history. |
| E．Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays. |
| F．Today we aren’t telling stories any more. |
| G．The storyteller is a special occupation (职业). |
9 . Not long ago I wasn’t doing very well in exams and I was full of disappointment and negative thinking. While on the
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| A．stage | B．farm | C．street | D．Internet |
| A．stands out | B．turns out | C．comes out | D．looks out |
| A．argued | B．told | C．chatted | D．interviewed |
| A．hearing | B．eyesight | C．courage | D．confidence |
| A．speaking | B．saying | C．typing | D．spelling |
| A．write | B．follow | C．read | D．copy |
| A．friendship | B．marriage | C．hardships | D．happiness |
| A．as soon as | B．as long as | C．as hard as | D．as well as |
| A．helped | B．produced | C．delivered | D．analyzed |
| A．try | B．come | C．attempt | D．manage |
| A．imagined | B．suggested | C．planned | D．designed |
| A．However | B．Wherever | C．Whatever | D．Whichever |
| A．send | B．lose | C．obtain | D．change |
| A．webpage | B．speech | C．words | D．complaints |
| A．create | B．discover | C．recognize | D．organize |
| A．moment | B．case | C．opportunity | D．occasion |
| A．hopeless | B．disappointed | C．excited | D．optimistic |
| A．but | B．and | C．so | D．then |
| A．eagerness | B．expectations | C．richness | D．nervousness |
| A．strange | B．difficult | C．various | D．dangerous |
10 . The brain function of very late risers and “morning larks(早睡早起的人)” during the hours of the working day is different, according to a study.
Researchers scanned the brains of night owls(夜猫子)with a bedtime of 02: 30 and awake time of 10: 15, along with early risers. The tests performed between 08 : 00 and 20 : 00 found night owls had less connectivity in brain areas linked to keeping consciousness. They were more likely to be scatterbrained and they also had slower reactions and increased sleepiness.
Scientists took 38 people who were either night owls or morning larks (people who went to bed just before 23 : 00 and woke at 06 : 30) and studied their brain function at rest. The volunteers then carried out a series of tasks at various times, from 08 : 00 to 20 : 00, and were asked to report on their levels of sleepiness.
Morning larks were least sleepy and had their fastest reaction time in the early morning tests. They were also found to perform significantly better at this time than night owls. In contrast, night owls were least sleepy and had their fastest reaction time at 20 : 00, although they did not do significantly better than the larks at this time.
The brain connectivity in the areas that predicted better performance and lower sleepiness was significantly higher in larks at all time points, suggesting connectivity in late risers is impaired(减弱的) throughout the whole working day, researchers said.
The lead researcher, Dr Elise Facer-Childs, of the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Human Brain Health, said the findings “could be partly driven by the fact that night owls tend to compromise throughout their lives.” He added, “Night owls during school have to get up earlier, then they go into work and they have to get up earlier, so they’re constantly in conflict.”
Therefore, Dr Facer Childs called for more researches to understand the effects of night owls performing on a work or school schedule to which they are not naturally suited.
1. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “scatterbrained” in Paragraph 2?| A．Unfocused. |
| B．Satisfied. |
| C．Recognized. |
| D．Discovered. |
| A．Morning larks were more tired in the morning. |
| B．Night owls were more active in the morning. |
| C．Morning larks perform better all day. |
| D．Night owls perform better all day. |
| A．The workings of their brain. |
| B．The effects of their compromises. |
| C．Whether they can turn into morning larks. |
| D．How to help them adapt to the normal schedule. |
| A．To solve a problem. |
| B．To give practical advice. |
| C．To tell an interesting story. |
| D．To present a research result. |
