单项选择题

　　1、 I catch a cold now and then.

　　A.always

　　B.occasionally

　　C.constantly

　　D.regularly

　　2、 We cannot go on quarrelling like this.

　　A.choose

　　B.prepare

　　C.continue

　　D.advise

　　3、根据内容回答题。

　　Early or Later Day Care

　　The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment" period from birth to three may scar a child's personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlby's work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental sepa- ration it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.

　　Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modem societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, in some tribal societies, such as the Ngoni, the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant a- lone far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not be so widespread to- day if parents, care-takers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicat- ed and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care had a neural or slightly positive effect on children's development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.

　　But Bowlby's analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possi- bility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evi- dence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.

　　Which of the following statements would Bowlby support?

　　A.Children under three get used to the life at nursery schools more readily than children over three.

　　B.The first three years of one's life is extremely important to the later development of personality.

　　C.Early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.

　　D.Statistical studies should be carried out to assess the positive effect of day care for children at the age of three or older.

　　4、 We were astonished to heat that their football team had won the champion.

　　A.amazed

　　B.amounted

　　C.amused

　　D.approached

　　5、The president proposed that we should bring the meeting to a close.

　　A.stated

　　B.said

　　C.announced

　　D.suggested

　　6、I won't tolerate that kind of behavior.

　　A.bear

　　B.receivE.

　　C.admit

　　D.take

　　7、The Mind-Body Connections

　　Norman Cousins was a famous American magazine editor. In 1964, he returned from an overseas trip and then became very ill. In the hospital, he had terrible pain and couldn't move his body. Doctors told him he had a serious disease called ankylosing spondylitis(强直性脊柱炎)and said he had only 1 chance in 500 of surviving. They gave him powerful drugs, but his condition only got worse.

　　Cousins had read about a theory that negative emotions can harm your health. He believed that positive emotions were good for one's health, and he decided to try an experiment. He would fill his days with good feelings and laughter and see if that might improve his condition.

　　He left the hospital and moved into a hotel room. There, he got a large supply of funny TV programs and copies of old Marx Brothers movies and cartoons. He also hired a nurse to read funny stories to him. His plan was to spend the whole day laughing and thinking about happy things. On his first night in the hotel, Cousins found that laughing at the movies helped his body produce chemicals that reduced pain. For the first time in weeks, he could sleep comfortably for a few hours. Every time the pain came back, he watched another funny movie and laughed until he felt better.

　　Over time, Cousins was able to measure changes in his body with blood tests. He found that the harmful chemicals in his body decreased at least 5 percent every time he watched a funny movie. After a short time, he was able to stop taking all of his medications. Finally his condition improved so much that he could go back to work.

　　Cousins later wrote a book about how laughter and happiness helped him to survive a deadly illness. Many people didn't believe his story and said that his doctors were wrong about his disease. But since then, research has found that emotions do have a strong effect on physical health, and experiments found that laughter can help to reduce pain. Scientists today are working to understand the ways that our minds affect our bodies.

　　Norman Gousins became ill while he was traveling in another country.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　8、 On hearing of the case some time later, Conan Doyle was convinced that the man was not guilty, and immediately went to work to ascertain the truth.

　　A.explore

　　B.obtain

　　C.verify

　　D.search

　　9、 Sometimes，the messages are conveyed through deliberate，conscious gestures;other times，our bodies talk without our even knowing.

　　A.definite

　　B.intentional

　　C.delicate

　　D.interactive

　　10、 Some of the larger birds can remain stationary in the air for several minutes.

　　A.silent

　　B.seated

　　C.true

　　D.motionless

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