1 . Emotions play a crucial role in people’s lives. Being in tune with your emotions is a great thing, and it can lead to deeper connections. Nevertheless, when your emotions control you, they can seriously affect your ability to perform and to think clearly in crucial situations. You can’t get rid of your emotions completely.     1    

Focus on your body, not your mind

What does your body feel like right now? Pay attention to the feeling of the clothes on your skin, and try to ignore any thoughts that you’re having.     2    . Then you can find inner peace.     3    

If you feel yourself starting to get upset or angry, head to the bathroom and look in the mirror for a few minutes. As you do, focus on taking deep breaths and think about increasing yourself-compassion. After 2 to 3 minutes, you’ll probably feel your heart rate slowdown and your breathing get a little more even. It’s a good tool to use at work or out in pubic when things get a little overwhelming.

Distract yourself

Do something engaging that will keep your mind off your emotions.     4    . For example, do a puzzle, read a new book, try a word search, or do some art. The more you can keep your mind off things, the less you’ll focus on your emotions.

Worry about your own problems

    5    . If you’re an empathetic person, listening to your friends or family members tell their issues will take a toll on you. It’s great to care about other people, but it’s also okay to set boundaries if you need to take some time for yourself.

A．Look at yourself in the mirror

B．Take a shower in the bath room

C．Here are some useful tips for you to get emotional

D．Try to pick something that really work your brain

E．But you can keep emotions from taking over your life

F．Shouldering the burdens of others can really wear you down

G．This can help you control emotional eruption gin the moment

2 . While everyone feels lonely at times, being alone too much can negatively affect your physical and emotional health. Studies have found that loneliness can be just as harmful to your health as smoking 15 cigarettes per day.     1     . Here is something you can do right away when you feel lonely.

·Acknowledge that you’re feeling alone

Admitting feeling alone doesn’t mean you’re a loser or you’re weak.     2     . So simply putting a name to loneliness might help your brain make sense of how you’re feeling and instantly help you feel a little less lonely.

·     3    

When you are feeling alone, sometimes it’s easier to connect with old friends than it is to make new ones. Perhaps you have lost touch with your college roommates over the years. You might reach out and see how they’re doing. Talk about how you’ve missed being able to catch up and say that you’d like to reconnect.

·Join a group or club

    4     . From book clubs and community service projects to hiking groups and business societies, you will likely discover there are many ways to connect with people in your area.

·Learn something new

Getting excited about something you’re learning— whether it’s a new language or a new skill— might help when you are feeling alone.     5     .

A．It just means you’re human

B．Connect with people from your past

C．Address how you feel about being lonely

D．Loneliness is also linked with cognitive decline

E．It also might open up doors to meeting new people

F．Look for community activities that might be a good fit for you

G．It isn’t unusual to be alone and feel that you have few or no close friends

3 . Every fall, like clockwork, Linda Krentz of Beaverton, Oregon, felt her brain go on strike. “I just couldn’t get going in the morning,” she says. “I’d get depressed and gain 10 pounds every winter and lose them again in the spring.” Then she read about seasonal affective disorder, a form of depression that occurs in fall and winter, and she saw the light literally. Every morning now she turns on a specially constructed light box for half an hour and sits in front of it to trick her brain into thinking it’s still enjoying those long summer days. It seems to work.

Krentz is not alone. Scientists estimate that 10 million Americans suffer from seasonal depression and 25 million more develop milder versions. But there’s never been definitive proof that treatment with very bright lights makes a difference. After all, it’s hard to do a double-blind test when the subjects can see for themselves whether or not the light is on. That’s why nobody has ever separated the real effects of light therapy from placebo (安慰剂) effects.

Until now, in three separate studies published last month, researchers report not only that light therapy works better than a placebo but that treatment is usually more effective in the early morning than in the evening. In two of the groups, the placebo problem was resolved by telling patients they were comparing light boxes to a new anti-depressant device that gives off negatively charged ions (离子). The third used the timing of light therapy as the control.

Why does light therapy work? No one really knows. “Our research suggests it has something to do with shifting the body’s internal clock,” says psychiatrist Dr. Lewey. The body is programmed to start the day with sunrise, he explains, and this gets later as the days get shorter. But why such subtle shifts make some people depressed and not others is a mystery.

That hasn’t stopped thousands of winter depressives from trying to heal themselves. Light boxes for that purpose are available without a doctor’s prescription. That bothers psychologist Michael Terman of Columbia University. He is worried that the boxes may be tried by patients who suffer from mental illness that can’t be treated with light. Terman has developed a questionnaire to help determine whether expert care is needed.

In any event, you should choose a reputable manufacturer. Whatever product you use should give off only visible light, because ultraviolet light damages the eyes. If you are photosensitive (对光敏感的), you may develop a rash. Otherwise, the main drawback is having to sit in front of the light for 30 to 60 minutes in the morning. That’s an inconvenience many winter depressives can live with.

1. What is the probable cause of Krentz’s problem?

A．An unexpected gain in body weight.

B．Unexplained impairment of her nervous system.

C．Weakening of her eyesight with the setting in of winter.

D．Poor adjustment of her body clock to seasonal changes.

2. What is the CURRENT view concerning the treatment of seasonal depression with bright lights?

A．There is definitive proof of its effect.

B．It serves as a kind of placebo.

C．It is considered as a relatively effective therapy.

D．It hardly produces any effects.

3. What is psychologist Michael Terman’s major concern?

A．Winter depressives will be addicted to using light boxes.

B．No mental patients would bother to consult psychiatrists.

C．Inferior light boxes will give off harmful ultraviolet lights.

D．Light therapy could be misused by certain mental patients.

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A．Winter depressives prefer light therapy in spite of its inconvenience.

B．Light therapy increases the patient’s photosensitivity.

C．Eye damage is a side effect of light therapy.

D．Light boxes can be programmed to correspond to shifts in the body clock.

4 . Six years ago when I was told that my father suffered from dementia(痴呆), everything changed overnight. Until then, I was loved and lived with little _______. My father became a child who needed round-the-clock _______ for everyday activities. _______, we learnt that the best way to deal with him was with patience and_______.

Our family started_______more time and activities together——Sundays were set aside for a drive, a park visit and dinner at a restaurant. Each _______ gave us the chance to connect as a family.They were special to my father and gave him great_______. It was also a time of _______—— I found myself tested in different ways and found perseverance(坚毅) that I didn’t_______ I had.

By December last year, my father’s condition became more________. Unable to deal with his illness, we were ________ to send him to a centre for dementia care.

We brought my father home in February when he got ________. The next month, the government advised us to stay home because of COVID-19. I was worried that he would miss his walks and would get________ if he had to stay home all day long, but when we explained the________to him, he understood. Perhaps it was because he knew his family would ________ with him.

1.

A．pay

B．honour

C．worry

D．knowledge

2.

A．schedule

B．purpose

C．trust

D．help

3.

A．Slowly

B．Clearly

C．Similarly

D．Usually

4.

A．power

B．kindness

C．love

D．bravery

5.

A．planning

B．missing

C．needing

D．remembering

6.

A．game

B．outing

C．discussion

D．visit

7.

A．luck

B．joy

C．pride

D．surprise

8.

A．self-control

B．self-study

C．self-discovery

D．self-pity

9.

A．agree

B．mean

C．guess

D．know

10.

A．serious

B．common

C．important

D．special

11.

A．ordered

B．forced

C．trained

D．wished

12.

A．better

B．happier

C．safer

D．quicker

13.

A．injured

B．lost

C．concerned

D．upset

14.

A．lesson

B．change

C．story

D．reason

15.

A．talk

B．stay

C．work

D．wait

5 . When I was a little boy, my parents and brothers would often play cards in the afternoons. It was a (n) ________ way to pass the time and after watching countless games, I started to ________. I was only five but I learned________ and was soon winning as often as I lost. When I started school, I found out the hours of playing cards had made me good with ________. I was getting full marks on my math tests until high school when I ________ they had a thing called Algebra   (代数) . I was ________to see letters mixed in with the numbers and I struggled to ________ it. Then one day I opened a Calculus (微积分) book. One look was all to know that I would not major in math.

Instead I found ________ studying literature, history, psychology, and philosophy, which all put me on a path that I am ________on today: it is a journey of learning all I can about life and________ . One thing I did learn was that love has its own unique math that isn’t logical yet makes________. In the Calculus of Love the more love you________, the more love you have. Sharing sorrows means subtracting (减去) them. Sharing________means multiplying them.

Love like life is often more than we can ________. But our soul can. May you choose it, share it, and learn it. Only then will your life add up ________.

1.

A．exact

B．valid

C．stable

D．merry

2.

A．join in

B．mark out

C．get through

D．break away

3.

A．hardly

B．quickly

C．normally

D．apparently

4.

A．dots

B．tests

C．versions

D．numbers

5.

A．discovered

B．indicated

C．observed

D．admitted

6.

A．excited

B．shocked

C．fascinated

D．associated

7.

A．adjust

B．seize

C．learn

D．obtain

8.

A．myself

B．it

C．me

D．itself

9.

A．already

B．yet

C．still

D．ever

10.

A．value

B．love

C．talent

D．skill

11.

A．effort

B．sense

C．progress

D．difference

12.

A．talk about

B．set aside

C．give away

D．hope for

13.

A．joys

B．ideas

C．dreams

D．feelings

14.

A．accept

B．hold

C．govern

D．understand

15.

A．fast

B．much

C．right

D．altogether