1 . Are you someone who easily gets tired and doesn’t feel like doing anything? Do you label this kind of behavior as mere laziness?
Feel disconnected from everything.
People experiencing exhaustion most commonly don’t feel like themselves anymore, don’t feel engaged by anything and constantly struggle with the sense of helplessness and inability to take back control of their lives.
Used to be motivated and passionate.
A clear difference between someone who’s worn out and someone who’s lazy is that the tired people used to have things they were passionate about.
Become moody and annoyed.
Do you suddenly find yourself easily angry?
One of the warning signs is that you start neglecting your self-care and socially keep away from others. You stop making an effort to dress up yourself or look good and you tend to spend most of your time by yourself doing nothing.
Changes happen gradually.
Studies show that exhaustion develops in five major stages, according to degrees of severity. The honeymoon phase, the onset of stress, chronic stress, exhaustion and habitual exhaustion. By the time you reach the final stage, exhaustion will make you suffer from depression and anxiety.
| A．Ignore your self-care. |
| B．Focus on warning signs. |
| C．Do you often feel emotionally out of control? |
| D．So it’s important to raise awareness about exhaustion. |
| E．But the lazy people don’t ever devote themselves to things. |
| F．However, they may now be struggling to find interest in anything. |
| G．Here are five signs to show you’re experiencing exhaustion rather than laziness. |
2 . Math is a necessary skill that people use throughout their lives. Unfortunately, many children and adults feel stressed and anxious when they have to do math. They may be experiencing what is called “math anxiety”. Because of this, many people believe that they are bad at math and don’t like math.
A recent research has shown that some children as young as 6 years old may feel anxious about math. A team of researchers asked 154 children in grades 1 and 2 questions like “How do you feel when taking a big test in your math class?” The children expressed how nervous they felt by pointing to a position on a scale (刻度), where there were different faces from a very nervous face on the left to a calm face on the right. After answering these questions, the children took a math test. These researchers found that almost half of the children who participated in the study said that they were at least somewhat nervous about doing math. Also, children with higher math anxiety got worse scores on the math test.
Scientists have also found that math anxiety develops in children who experience certain kinds of social situations that influence their thoughts or feelings. This means that the child’s emotions, opinions, or behaviors are affected by things that other people say or do. For example, teachers with high math anxiety were more likely to have students with poorer math achievements at the end of the school year.
Good news is that researchers have found tools to help people with math anxiety. These tools are called interventions (干预). For example, researchers did an intervention where they asked children with math anxiety to write about their math-related worries. Then they found that children’s math test scores improved. Therefore, it is advised to talk to classmates and teachers about math anxiety. This is the first step toward helping to reduce the possibly harmful effects of math anxiety.
1. What does the underlined word “this” refer to in Paragraph 1?| A．Math ability. | B．Stressful life. |
| C．Math anxiety. | D．Painful memory. |
| A．By making a math project. |
| B．By recording math scores. |
| C．By asking kids questions. |
| D．By showing teaching problems. |
| A．Anxiety determines math ability. |
| B．One’s math anxiety can affect others. |
| C．Students are born with math anxiety. |
| D．Children should avoid social situations. |
| A．Talking about it. | B．Working harder. |
| C．Using math tools. | D．Attending lectures. |
3 . How to Overcome Fear
Everyone experiences fear sometimes. Fear can actually help keep you safe by alerting you to potentially dangerous situations.
Realize that it’s okay to have fears. Fear is an adaptive function that prolongs our lives. Fear triggers a “fight-or-flight” response, which readies our bodies to take action in order to protect ourselves.
Understand your triggers. Is it something obvious, like the sight of a snake on a trail? Figure out everything that triggers your fear.
Imagine the outcome you desire. Now that you better understand your fear, think about what exactly you want to change.
Practice engaging with the fear. The power to label your emotions is beneficial for self-understanding and emotional intelligence.
Make your fear a source of fascination. Try to re-frame your fear in a positive light and acknowledge the thrill it can offer. When you start seeing fear as a source of energy, you might even embrace its role in your life.
| A．However, there are times when fear runs overwhelming and disturbs your daily life |
| B．Start seeing fear as an opportunity |
| C．Recognize when fears become overwhelming |
| D．The more you can know about your fear, the better |
| E．Think about yourself experiencing life without your fear |
| F．Figure out exactly what power your fear has over your mind and behavior |
| G．Acknowledge what comes up with no attachment to “good” or “bad” |
4 . Kyra Peralte thought keeping a diary during the pandemic (流行病) might help her sort out her feelings. In April 2020, the mother of two in Montclair, New Jersey, now 46, started writing about the challenges of work, marriage and motherhood during a global crisis. She invited women from near and far to fill the notebook with their own pandemic tales.She named the project The Traveling Diary.
Peralte created a website for people to add their names to the queue. Each person gets to keep the diary for three days and fill as many pages as she wishes. Then she is responsible for mailing it to the next person, whose address Peralte provides. So far, more than 2, 000 women from 30 countries have joined in.
The diary reached Colleen Martin in Florham Park, New Jersey, in November 2020. “I had just recently lost my brother. By the time I actually got it and wrote in it, it was much more of a relief,” she says. Adding to the diary, she says, helped her look for meaning and “the growth and development that occurs in terrible times.”
Martin shipped off the diary to the next person, and Dior Sarr, 35, received it at her home in Toronto just before the new year. “I wrote about my ambitions(抱负), my goals and how I wanted to step into the new year, ” she says, “It felt meaningful to pass on something so personal. It felt like these were women that I had known even though I didn’t know them at all.”
Like many of the women who wrote in her diary, Peralte feels a strong bond with the people who filled its pages, none of whom she would have otherwise known. Her idea, Peralte says, has had a great effect on her and, she hopes, the other women who were part of it.
1. Why did Peralte start the project “The Traveling Diary”?| A．To become famous online. |
| B．To offer women an emotion outlet. |
| C．To meet more people on the Internet. |
| D．To popularize medical knowledge of pandemic. |
| A．Achieving her goals. |
| B．Receiving timely help. |
| C．Promoting personal growth. |
| D．Improving her writing skills. |
| A．Connection. | B．Competition. |
| C．Impression. | D．Need. |
| A．The Power of Unity |
| B．Warmth in a Global Crisis |
| C．The Sisterhood of the Traveling Diary |
| D．Friendship on the Internet |
5 . How adversity(逆境) makes you stronger
When faced with a crisis, we find it difficult to imagine the experience will eventually lead to some type of growth.
They build self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is the confidence in your ability to overcome challenges and succeed. I once took part in a program with soldiers, where I should dance in front of hundreds of audience. When I danced, I had a panic attack and had to hang onto my colleague’s arm to make it through. What was odd was my brain’s reaction to the exercise. While it was a truly unpleasant experience, I survived.
They help you treat stress as a challenge.
| A．They help you find the good. |
| B．They can bring growth after sufferings. |
| C．People have a healthier physical response to stress. |
| D．If your world feels out of control right now, just stay relaxed. |
| E．The fact is that we can become stronger after a difficult situation. |
| F．How you think about stress matters extremely in terms of how you process it. |
| G．That made my brain think about what other tough challenges I could conquer. |
6 . Ask most people which day of the week they fear the most and the answer is likely to be Monday. The first day of the working week can make us depressed.
The most depressing day of the year is the third Monday in January, when it’s cold and dark outside. This day was named “Blue Monday” by psychologist Cliff Arnall. Even if there was little science behind Blue Monday, it’s probably true that the sound of our alarm clock on any Monday morning means the coming of a new working week and possibly the end of our weekend of fun.
Apparently, Monday means the end of weekend lie-ins.
| A．But is Monday as bad as we like to think it is? |
| B．What exactly makes us feel down remains unknown. |
| C．Weekends are definitely happy days in all countries. |
| D．That’s why the feeling is described as the Monday blues. |
| E．There is a strong cultural idea that we don’t like Mondays. |
| F．Our Monday mood can be based on a direct comparison to the day before. |
| G．It’s back to the routine and the realization that there are five days of working ahead. |
I was in 7th grade when my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer. It was very sudden and unexpected for our family and obviously I was beaten. I tried my best to balance my first year of middle school and my home life, even if I knew this was impossible. I hated coming home from school every day for fear of what I would see when I got home. I hated seeing my mom sick all the time; she was not herself and all I wanted was for her to stop treatment and get better. Luckily, I had lots of support from my family, friends, and teachers during this hard time to help get me through it.
At the beginning of the year, I was determined to stay on track with my homework and studying and get through my first year at middle school successfully. Slowly, I started to become more distracted while at home with taking care of my mom, cleaning the house and helping my grandma cook our meals. While I was at school, I could escape and put my mom’s sickness in the back of my mind while I hung out with my friends and enjoyed playing. I noticed that my quiz and test grades were increasingly getting worse, but I never brought this to the attention of my mom because I did not want to worry her. Eventually, all of my grades were lower than C’s.
I knew that I was not doing well at school, and I needed to get my grades back up. I knew that a lot of my teachers were cutting me some unimportant work because they knew what was happening at home. Ms. Zazoski, my English teacher was the most supportive teacher that I have ever had and I am so glad that I was in her class that year.
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One day my teacher had me stay after school to have a talk with her.
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That was the motivation that I needed to improve my grades.
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8 . Birthdays are supposed to be happy occasions where celebrations, being spoiled and positive reflection are all part of the day. Unfortunately, feeling depressed about an approaching birthday, as a person ages, is common. The following may help fight off Birthday Blues.
·Find the best way to celebrate
·Keep busy
If the Birthday Blues threaten to have a negative impact on someone, it may be better to avoid the day altogether.
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It is OK to be sad sometimes, but drowning in sadness all day is unhelpful for anyone struggling with negative emotions. For those who always get the Birthday Blues, it might be a good idea just to accept that they might feel sad and anxious.
·Do something special
However much people hate or fear their birthday, they can make it better if they plan something for that day that cannot fail to bring them excitement. They may think about booking to see a show, getting a spa, or going out for dinner.
| A．Set a sadness time limit. |
| B．Turn the sadness into a helpful experience. |
| C．Allow those feelings to come into their mind. |
| D．Removing negative thoughts finally pays off. |
| E．Keeping distracted will ensure the day passes quickly. |
| F．Birthdays are days when it is acceptable to be a bit selfish. |
| G．Whatever is likely to lift their spirits may help them feel better. |
9 . Tracking daily steps can motivate us to walk more. Tracking sleep can reveal sleep patterns and help improve them. Can tracking our moods make us happier?
There are now many tech ways to log your emotions each day. Fitbit offers mood logging in its stress-management tool. Apps like Daylio focus on mood. The latest big player to enter the competition is Apple. Its latest software updates include a way to log your state of mind.
Why log your mood? Many mental-health professionals say simply being aware of your mental state can identify patterns and improve well-being. When people can see associations between their moods and factors like sleep and exercise, these doctors say, it can be even more powerful. Apple’s push into mental health comes as the country is experiencing a youth mental-health crisis and growing numbers of adults are struggling with depression.
Then you can figure out if you feel better on days when you sleep well or exercise more. After selecting how they feel, people can then choose factors that have the biggest impact on their feelings, like travel or family. The features will be available in the Health app on iPhones and iPads. On the Apple Watch, it’s in the Mindfulness app. Apple device users who track their moods will be able to share the log with their doctors. (Apple says it doesn’t share Health app data with third parties without the user’s permission.)
“When people keep track of emotional changes and see linkages, it can lead them to make changes in their behavior,” says Michelle Craske, a psychology and psychiatry professor at UCLA who has studied the effects of mood tracking.
But some research suggests that people don’t experience lasting benefits because they don’t track often or long enough. “A lot of mood-tracking tools are built on the idea that people would track their mood at least once a day because they’re supposed to identify patterns and triggers (诱因),” said Stephen Schueller, associate professor of psychological science at the University of California, who has studied mood-tracking apps. Schueller and his colleagues found that most people really only track their moods a couple of times a week. However, Schueller said that while there isn’t enough evidence to say definitively that tracking your moods makes you happier, there aren’t any downsides — except the few extra minutes a day on your phone.
1. What motivates Apple to update the mood-tracking software?| A．The growing need for emotion regulation. |
| B．The fierce tech competition. |
| C．The global mental-health crisis. |
| D．The professionals’ advice. |
| A．Adjusting one’s behavior accordingly. | B．Sharing the record with a doctor. |
| C．Monitoring one’s exercise habits. | D．Cutting down the screen time. |
| A．Because users don’t record long and often. | B．Because the data can’t be shared. |
| C．Because extra screen time is harmful. | D．Because the triggers are diverse. |
| A．Tips on Keeping a Good Mood | B．Keeping Track of Good Emotions |
| C．Apple’s Efforts to Make You Happy | D．Tracking Moods, Beneficial or Not |
10 . Procrastination is the act of putting off tasks until the last minute, or past their deadline.
For many students, getting a task that is due in two months is a great thing. They have two months to slowly work on the task, making necessary improvements all along the way.
What is at the root of all of this procrastination? Some might say that it is laziness, but it is really just a problem with mindset (心态).
It is difficult to stop this terrible habit.
| A．That is how it is supposed to be done. |
| B．For many people, it has become a habit. |
| C．It takes a long time to truly change your ways. |
| D．Procrastination is a problem that usually affects students. |
| E．Procrastination can be found in the working world as well. |
| F．If it does, you probably have a problem with procrastination. |
| G．Many people don’t even consider hypnosis as a treatment option. |
