第二节:完形填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
Anger is good for you, as long as you control it properly, according to new psychology research. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University ___36___ anger may help you ____37___ the negative effects of stress and help you become healthier.
“Here getting emotional is not bad for you if you look at the case of anger.” Said Jennifer Lerner of Carnegie Mellon. “The more you display anger, the lower your ____38___ responses.”
Lerner studied 92 UCLA students by asking them to count back from 6,200. They must say out loud every 13th number. Researchers interfered with them by asking them to ___39____ faster or ask them other questions. If they made any ____40___ , they had to restart from the very beginning. Many students felt depressed about making so many mistakes or got angry ____41____ the researchers were ____42____ them.
Lerner used a ____43____ video camera and recorded all their facial _____44____ during the test. The researchers ____45____ their reactions as fear, anger and disgust. Other members recorded the students’ blood pressure, pulse and production of a high- stress hormone called cortisol.
People whose faces showed more ____46____ during the experiment had higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormone. Both can have lasting effects such as diabetes (糖尿病), heart disease, depression and weight gain. When people fear, negative impacts ____47____, but when they get angry, those negatives go down, according to the ____48____. “ Having that sense of anger ____49____ people to actually feel some power in what ____50____ is a maddening situation.” Lerner said.
Lerner previously studied Americans’ emotional response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks two months after the incident. He found people who reacted with ____51____ were more optimistic. These people are healthier ____52____ with those who were frightened during the event.
So in maddening ____53____, anger is not a ____54____ thing to have. It’s a ____55____ response than fear.
36. A. shows B. suggests C. expresses D. insists
37. A. drop B. reduce C. lose D. throw
38. A. mistake B. sadness C. stress D. anger
39. A. read B. write C. speak D. count
40. A. mistakes B. decisions C. changes D. losses
41. A. unless B. because C. if D. until
42. A. watching B. stopping C. interrupting D. recording
43. A. rented B. stolen C. borrowed D. hidden
44. A. spots B. points C. expressions D. smiles
45. A. chose B. regarded C. treated D. described
46. A fear B. anger C. regret D. happiness
47. A. decrease B. increase C. climb D. spread
48. A. plan B. method C. study D. project
49. A. hopes B. leads C. lets D. drives
50. A. actually B. really C. otherwise D. luckily
51. A. pain B. joy C. sorrow D. anger
52. A. compared B. comparing C. satisfied D. connected
53. A. situations B. conditions C. positions D. persons
54. A bad B. good C. proper D. wonderful
55. A. shorter B. bigger C. faster D. healthier
Coming home from school that dark winter day so long ago, I was filled with excitement of having the weekend off. But I was 41 into stillness by what I saw. Mother, seated at the far end of the sofa, was 42 with the second-hand green typewriter on the table. She told me that she couldn’t 43 fast and then she was out of work. My shock and embarrassment at finding Mother in tears was a perfect proof of how 44 I understood the pressure on her. Sitting beside her on the sofa, I began very slowly to understand. “I guess we all have to 45 something,” Mother said quietly. I could 46 her pain and the tension of 47 the strong feeling that were interrupted by my 48 . Suddenly, something inside me lit up. I reached out and put my arms around her. She broke then. She put her face 49 my shoulder and sobbed. I held her 50 and didn’t try to talk. I knew I was doing what I should, what I could and that was 51 . At that moment, feeling Mother’s 52 with feelings, I understood for the first time her being easy to 53 . She was still my mother, 54 she was something 55 : a person like me, capable of fear, 56 and failure. I could feel her pain as she must have felt mine on a thousand occasions when I sought57 in her arms.
A week later Mother took a job selling dry goods at half the salary the radio station __58 .
“It’s a job I can do, though.” She said simply. But the evening practice on the green typewriter continued. I had a very 59 feeling now when I passed her door at night and heard her 60 away across the paper. I knew there was something more going on in there than a woman learning to type.
A.fooled B.tricked C.puzzled D.shocked
A.crying B.smiling C.thinking D.whispering
A.write B.type C.grasp D.glance
A.seldom B.adequately C.little D.much
A.fail B.win C.forgive D.gain
A.realize B.understand C.sense D.recognize
A.holding back B.putting away C.holding on D.coming out
A.attitude B.attempt C.arrival D.admission
A.by B.upon C.beside D.against
A.tightly B.attentively C.gently D.cheerfully
A.enough B.little C.all D.nothing
A.forehead B.face C.fingers D.back
A.content B.break C.conquer D.control
A.therefore B.although C.yet D.however
A.more B.excellent C.strange D.huge
A.wound B.pride C.success D.hurt
A.kindness B.memory C.comfort D.support
A.supplied B.offered C.paid D.contributed
A.different B.distinct C.pleasant D.sympathetic
A.crying B.striking C.tapping D.sewing
My goddaughter, Shari, owns The Berry Factory in Sacramento, California, and her mother, Joan, and I were helping with the Valentine’s Day rush. We’d dipped hundreds of berries, arranged gift baskets and packaged orders to be 36 around the country.
By the end of the day, the two middle-aged women, Joan and I, were exhausted. But Shari didn’t seem tired. That was 37 Shari. 38 she was very busy, I’d seen her give away berries to everyone—parking attendants, mail carriers and hairdressers. “For me?” they would say, bursting into 39 .
40a“thank you”, Shari took us out for dinner. But there was a 45-munite41 at her favorite restaurant. “No big 42 . There’s an
other place just up the road,” she said, driving up there. This time we walked right 43 .
When th
e waitress came to 44 our drink orders, Shari 45 into her handbag, pulling something out. “ I want you to have these,” she said,46 the waitress a box of chocolate-dipped strawberries. “ She will love those berries!” I thought.47 the waitress seemed very surprised instead. She only let out a “
thank you”48 grabbing the box and rushing into the kitchen.
A few minutes later, the waitress returned 49 our iced tea. “ I apologize,” she said. “ My best friend and I had 50 to send each other something every Valentine’s Day. But she 51 last year. I didn’t know how I’d 52 this day without her. Then you handed me that box.”
“ I’m so sorry to hear that,” said Shari. “ It’s not much, but I hope you can53 them.”
“ Oh, I will,” the waitress said. “ See, every year we 54 sent each other the same thing: a box of chocolate-dipped strawberries bought from our favorite store, The Berry 55 .”
A.brought B.produced C.travelled D.shipped
A.ordinary B.typical C.strange D.healthy
A.If B.Since C.Though D.Until
A.a smile B.tears C.laughter D.song
A.By B.Without C.Through D.As
A.discussion B.wait C.choice D.talk
A.mistake B.deal C.idea D.matter
A.out B.along C.in D.away
A.ask B.tell C.bring D.take
A.looked B.passed C.reached D.pushed
A.handing B.forcing C.removing D.providing
A.But B.Or C.And D.So
A.until B.before C.after D.while
A.for B.to C.from D.with
A.promised B.explained C.imagined D.recognized
A.passed out B.passed away C.passed by D.passed through
A.look through B.break through C.get through D.follow through
A.impress B.treasure C.value D.enjoy
A.always B.hardly C.sometimes D.still
A.Market B.Store C.Factory D.Garden
I’m an operating engineer, running crane(起重机) in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had 36 the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started 37 our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come 38 and get on the 39 list.
The next morning I went down to the 40 at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I 41 the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to 42 me, and that I would stay in 43 with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to 44 the rest of the way.
And somewhere in there I became 45 when I went into something I 46 . I once worked there in 1966 for the 47 of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten 48 tall. And it was burning. I started to ask 49in which my crane might be 50a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had 51 the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people 52 them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely 53 . I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my 54 and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to die.”
Then I 55 a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”
A.noticed B.reached C.hit D.passed
A.finding B.making C.getting D.losing
A.away B.near C.in D.down
A.volunteer B.soldier C.police D.fireman
A.company B.hotel C.center D.home
A.answered B.made C.heard D.received
A.be curious about B.forget about C.laugh at D.worry about
A.peace B.touch C.connection D.relation
A.walk B.complete C.cancel D.smooth
A.delighted B.frightened C.embarrassed D.interested
A.built B.met C.designed D.had
A.construction B.plan C.destruction D.use
A.miles B.centimeters C.stories D.floors
A.means B.numbers C.position D.directions
A.as B.why C.when D.because
A.driven B.let C.asked D.enjoyed
A.pushing B.giving C.looking D.picking
A.dangerous B.urgent C.efficient D.important
A.view B.sight C.breath D.sense
A.put down B.settled down C.knocked down D.let down
Temperature is part of my married romance. 36 to New York from Baltimore——where there is just one small snowstorm each year——I was seated by a fireplace in my new home, with fires 37 all day, just as what ancient people did at a wedding.
My husband, Peter, comes from northern Ontario(加拿大的安大略省), where winter 38 from September to May and cold wind is 39 . “When Canadians have -30℃, they 40 it bravely,” he says, “Cold wind is for crybabies.(爱哭的人)”
So to marry this man I had to learn to 41 for serious cold. To get me from Baltimore’s Inner Harbor to Albany’s frozen Hudson, Peter piled me 42 jackets and sweaters, scarves and gloves, even a hat with earflaps. The gift of Sorel boots——comfortably warm at Canada’s 30 below, was a 43 meaning getting serious.
That first winter together, living in upstate New York, I thought I’d 44 . My boots were good below freezing, but my fingers could 45 tie them. Physical adaptation is real, but it came slowly. And there is also emotional 46 to cold. Some days I tell myself that I have enough beach memories to stick to on 47 days and other days I am reminded that living cold does indeed build 48 .
49 , having a warm house is important. After my first marriage ended, for years I 50 went on a second date with a man whose response to my “I’m cold.” was, “Put on a sweater.” Now I’m married to a man who 51 that cold hands do not mean a warm heart, and that a big oil bill is better than roses. But surprisingly, I’ve grown, too. I am 52 , in this new life and climate, to go and look for that cost-saving sweater.
The word comfortable did not 53 refer to being satisfied. It’s from Latin, comfortare,meaning to strengthen. The Holy Spirit is Comforter;not
to make us comfortable, but to make us 54 . We 55 not be warm but we are indeed comforted.
A.Coming B. Having been coming C. To come D. Came
A.lightning B. burning C. going D. flashing
A.appears B. starts C. keeps D. runs
A.something B. everything C. nothing D. none
A.suggest B. face C. neglect D. love
A.drink B. receive C. dress D. ride
A.under B. over C. inside D. with
A.remark B. sign C. comment D. show
A. sleep B. forget C. die D.continue
A. hardly B. easily C. tightly D. loosely
B. reaction C. feelings D. adaptation
A.rainy B. freezing C. sunny D. happy
A.character B. love C. hope D. hardship
A.Meanwhile B. However C. Therefore D. Besides
A.merely B. ever C. never D. just
B. knows C. states D. decides
A.unable B. accustomed C. interested D. willing
A.originally B. exactly C. actually D. namely
A.wild B. cold C. strong D. warm
A.will B. must C. can D. may
One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been 21me to play chess(棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly 22. It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could 23my moves, because she 24 to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I 25 she had strict sleeping habits, 26 I thought she ought to be able to 27some of this strictness. I said to her, “28, you can stay up late for once. We’re having29.” We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked30. Finally she said, “Please, Daddy, do it quickly.”“No,” I replied. “If you’re going to play it 31, you’re going to play it slowly.” And so we32 for another ten minutes, until33my daughter burst into tears, and34that she was beaten.
Clearly I had made 35. I had started the evening wanting to have a36time with my daughter but had 37my desire to win to become more38than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win 39me well. As a parent, I 40that it got in my way. So I had to change.
| B. asking B. expected B. repeat B. needed B. learned B. for B. take up B. Go ahead B. luck B. proud B. again B. continued B. immediately B. admitted B. a decision B. different B. recognized B. attractive B. served B. apologized |
C. training C. replied C. hurry C. begged C. guessed C. but C. pick up C. By the way C. fun C. anxious C. fairly ![]() C. counted C. strangely C. wondered C. an attempt C. full C. allowed C. practical C. controlled C. imagined |
D. advising D. accepted D. pass D. hated D. heard D. or D. give up D. Come on D. success D. angry D. regularly D. argued D. suddenly D. discovered D. an effort D. happy D. reduced D. interesting D. taught D. explained |