1 . Reasons Why Emotions (情绪) Are Important
Emotions can play an important role in how you think and behave.
Emotions can make you act. When faced with an exam, you might feel a lot of anxiety about whether you will perform well and how the test will impact your final grade.
Emotions help others understand you better. When you communicate with other people, it is important to give clues to help them understand how you are feeling. The clue might include emotional expressions through body language.
Emotions allow you to understand others. Just as your own emotions offer valuable information to others, the emotional expressions of those around you also give a wealth of social information.
| A．Why are they important |
| B．Emotions help you to avoid danger |
| C．How can you control your emotion well |
| D．It might also include directly stating how you feel |
| E．Getting social information is an important part of your daily life |
| F．You are giving them important information about taking action |
| G．You’re driven to take action to improve your chances of getting a good grade |
1. How does Martin feel about the coming exam?
| A．Relaxed. | B．Confident. | C．Stressed. |
| A．Watch TV. | B．Have a sleep. | C．Continue reviewing. |
3 . How to Deal with Stress (压力) at School
Stress is part of students’ life. While some stress can help them to get work done, too much stress can cause problems with health and sleep.
Work out your own learning ways.
Students learn in different ways and have different learning styles. Some do homework all at once, while others need to take some breaks. Some students remember well in the morning.
Stay healthy and get enough sleep.
Many students don’t focus on (关注) their health.
Talk to others.
You should feel good about taking break. And only you can say which activities work best for letting you relax. Some people find that quiet activities like reading a book or watching TV are the best way to relax. Others prefer more active breaks: working on personal projects, exercising like yoga or Tai Chi, listening to music or spending time outdoors.
| A．Give yourself a break. |
| B．Share your happiness. |
| C．Sometimes you feel tired. |
| D．However, other students remember well in the evening. |
| E．As a result, their performance (表现) in school and work can be bad. |
| F．Now when you feel your stress building up inside, how can you manage it? |
| G．Share your problems and how you are feeling and dealing with a parent, friend, teacher, or doctor. |
4 . Math anxiety is far from uncommon, but too often, those who fear the subject simply avoid it. Research from the University of Chicago offers evidence for the link between math anxiety and avoidance.
Studying nearly 500 adults through a computer program called the Choose-And-Solve Task (CAST), the researchers gave participants (参加者) a choice between math and word problems labeled “easy” and “hard”. The easy problems were always worth two cents, while the hard problems were worth up to six cents. They also informed participants the computer task would change the questions in the process of testing based on their abilities, enabling them to handle about 70% of the hard problems.
Although participants attempted hard word problems when promised higher monetary prizes, they rarely chose to do the same for math problems. “We found we couldn’t even pay math-anxious individuals to do difficult math problems,” researcher Rozek says.
The findings also contradict a widely held belief that feeling anxious about math and avoiding math-related problems is rooted in being bad at math. “If you take two students good at math, the math-anxious one will do worse at math than the one that isn’t anxious.”
Such a mentality does more than stopping people from taking calculus courses or pursuing a career in STEM. It can affect everyday interactions with math-like leaving a tip in a restaurant. But all is not lost. “Reframing their anxiety from negative to positive could help math-anxious people re-engage. Giving those anxious about sitting exams guidance may lead them to perform better. Telling them if you’re anxious, this is your body getting you ready to perform and focus,” Rozek says. “Another path may be to create early positive experiences around math. For example, telling stories featuring math and tackling problems around the story may be helpful.” he adds.
1. What does the University of Chicago offer evidence for?| A．The advantages of math anxiety. |
| B．The link between math anxiety and avoidance. |
| C．The importance of math. |
| D．The link between anxiety and study. |
| A．How the study was organized. | B．Why people chose easy problems. |
| C．Who participated in the study. | D．What the result was. |
| A．Math anxiety is the cause of math avoidance. |
| B．Math anxiety causes people to be bored of math. |
| C．Math anxiety is a complex phenomenon in life. |
| D．Math anxiety results from poor math performance. |
| A．Reframing math anxiety from negative to positive is impossible. |
| B．People with math anxiety should pay attention to math less. |
| C．People can deal with math anxiety through proper ways. |
| D．People with math anxiety won’t perform better. |
5 . Most of us spend a lot of time inside our own mind—worrying about the future and focusing on the parts of life that leave us dissatisfied. Although they are common, negative or unwanted thoughts can prevent you from enjoying experiences, distract you from focusing on what’s important, and drain your energy.
Take a break from negative thoughts. It is possible to learn how to separate from negative thoughts.
Release judgment. We all judge ourselves and others, usually unconsciously. Constantly doing those leads to dissatisfaction. Be able to let go of judgment, and you will feel more relieved. Some ways to decrease judgmental thoughts include recognizing your own reaction, observing it, and then letting it go. Another helpful technique is to “positive judge.”
Focus on your strengths.
| A．They can also make you feel anxious and depressed. |
| B．The more you can focus on your strengths, the easier it will be to feel positive about yourself. |
| C．Recognize inaccurate thoughts. |
| D．Always give others positive comments. |
| E．When noticing you are negatively judging a person or yourself, observe positive qualities, too. |
| F．One way to do this is to allow yourself a certain amount of time with the thoughts. |
| G．Taking a break from negative thoughts is a little difficult. |
6 . In the course of a lifetime, people will experience regrets both large and small. These regrets can lead to motivation for personal growth or they can take you down a pathway to depression and self-punishment.
Apologize for mistakes. You may find it helpful to apologize to people who you may have hurt. An apology can be particularly important if your regrets are centered on conflicts in relationships that have caused emotional suffering. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re going to accept your apology.
Try to forgive yourself. There are somethings that you are not able to make right or change from your past. In these cases, it’s important to learn how to forgive yourself. You need to realize that we all have regrets and accept that what’s done is done. Never take all of the guilt and blame on yourself.
Consider seeking help. If you find yourself stuck in a repeating cycle of self-blame and negative thinking, you may need to reach out to a mental health professional for support.
| A．Learn from your regret. |
| B．Ask yourself some questions. |
| C．How regrets are dealt with counts a lot. |
| D．Instead, treat yourself as you would treat a friend. |
| E．You can also talk to other people with similar regrets. |
| F．But it can help to ease the tension and relieve your stress. |
| G．You should give yourself time to recover from a past regret. |
7 . Self-forgiveness has been defined as the process by which you become aware of any damage you’ve caused, seek to repair it, and eliminate or reduce your feelings of self-condemnation and guilt.
Forgiving yourself entails experiencing feelings of self-condemnation.
Self-forgiveness involves changing the way you think about your past mistakes. It’s of vital importance to stop interpreting them as sources of shame and regret.
The ability to forgive yourself also implies your firm belief that change is possible.
Finally, the last dimension of self-forgiveness is the awareness that you’re only human, hence, not perfect. Consequently, you’re capable of failing at any point in your life. Recognizing yourself as part of humanity can also help you to be more compassionate towards others.
| A．Self-forgiveness goes beyond feelings of self-pity. |
| B．This doesn’t refer to ignoring the fault you committed. |
| C．Self-forgiveness promotes your justice and reparation to others. |
| D．These are later replaced by the feeling of need to repair your mistakes. |
| E．You need to regard them as part of the process of becoming who you are. |
| F．Realizing this may be the first step you need to better face your future mistakes. |
| G．This means you’ll be more understanding and flexible in the face of others’ mistakes. |
8 . Doctors say anger can be an extremely damaging emotion, unless you learn how to deal with it. They warn that anger can lead to heart disease, stomach problems, headaches, emotional problems and possibly cancer.
For years many doctors thought that repressing anger was more dangerous to a person’s health than expressing it. They said that when a person is angry, the brain releases the same hormones (荷尔蒙). They speed the heart rate, raise blood pressure, or sugar into the blood, etc.
Some doctors say that both repressing and expressing anger can be dangerous. They believe that those who express anger violently may be more likely to develop heart disease，and they believe that those who keep anger inside may face a greater danger of high blood pressure.
Doctors say that a good way to deal with anger is to find humor in the situation that has made you angry.
| A．Anger may cause you a cancer. |
| B．Do not express your anger while angry. |
| C．In general the person feels excited and ready to act. |
| D．They say that laughter is much healthier than anger. |
| E．Doctors say the solution is learning how to deal with anger. |
| F．Anger is a normal emotion that we all feel from time to time. |
| G．Expressing anger violently is more harmful than repressing it. |
9 . Everyone gathered around and Paddy read out loud, slowly, his tone growing sadder and sadder. The little headline said: BOXER RECEIVES LIFF SENTENCE.
Frank Cleary, aged 26, professional boxer, was today found guilty of the murder of Albert Gumming, aged 32, laborer, last July. The jury (陪审团) reached its decision after only ten minutes, recommending the most severe punishment to the court. It was, said the Judge, a simple case. Gumming and Cleary had quarreled violently at the Harbour Hotel on July 23rd and police saw Cleary kicking at the head of the unconscious Gumming. When arrested, Cleary was drunk but clear-thinking.
Cleary was sentenced to life imprisonment with hard labour. Asked if he had anything to say, Cleary answered, “Just don’t tell my mother.”
“It happened over three years ago,” Paddy said helplessly. No one answered him or moved, for no one knew what to do. “Just don’t tell my mother,” said Fee numbly(麻木地). “And no one did! Oh, God! My poor, poor Frank!”
Paddy wiped the tears from his face and said. “Fee, pack your things. We’ll go to see him.”
She half-rose before sinking back, her eyes in her small white face stared as if dead. “I can’t go,” she said without a hint of pain, yet making everyone feel that the pain was there. “It would kill him to see me. I know him so well — his pride, his ambition. Let him bear the shame alone, it’s what he wants. We’ve got to help him keep his secret. What good will it do him to see us?”
Paddy was still weeping, not for Frank, but for the life which had gone from Fee’s face, for the dying in her eyes. Frank had always brought bitterness and misfortune, always stood between Fee and himself. He was the cause of her withdrawal from his heart and the hearts of his children. Every time it looked as if there might be happiness for Fee, Frank took it away. But Paddy’s love for her was as deep and impossible to wipe out as hers was for Frank.
So he said, “Well, Fee, we won’t go. But we must make sure he is taken care of. How about if I write to Father Jones and ask him to look out for Frank?”
There was no excitement in the eyes, but a faint pink stole into her cheeks. “Yes, Paddy, do that. Only make sure he knows not to tell Frank we found out. Perhaps it would ease Frank to think for certain that we don’t know.”
1. Paddy cried because he thought ___________.| A．Frank did kill someone and deserved the punishment |
| B．Frank should have told Fee what had happened |
| C．what had happened to Frank was killing Fee |
| D．Frank had always been a man of bad moral character |
| A．Fee was so heart-broken that she could hardly stand up |
| B．Fee didn’t want to upset Paddy by visiting Frank |
| C．Fee couldn’t leave her family to go to see Frank |
| D．Fee struggled between wanting to see Frank and respecting his wish |
| A．The jury and the judge agreed on the Boxer’s Sentence of Life Imprisonment. |
| B．The police found Gumming unconscious, heavily struck by Frank. |
| C．The family didn’t find out what had happened to Frank until 3 years later. |
| D．Frank didn’t want his family to know the sentence to him, most probably out of his pride. |
| A．Frank is Fee’s son and Paddy is Fee’s brother. |
| B．Frank is Fee’s son and Paddy is Fee’s husband. |
| C．Frank is Fee’s brother and Paddy is Fee’s lover. |
| D．Frank is Fee’s lover and Paddy is Fee’s husband. |
| A．She was late for the appointment. |
| B．She often kept other people waiting. |
| C．She ran into the man on her way here. |
| D．She called her friend about the book. |
