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The Antidepressant Survival Guide: Beat the Side Effects of Your Medication by Robert J.Hedaya, M.D, Robert J.Hedaya, M.D., is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Georgetown University Hospital's Department of Psychiatry. Motto: Live well. |
B.How Fear Limits Us |
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On Becoming Fearless in Love, Work, and Life by Arianna Huffington Arianna Huffington was raised in Greece by her fearless mother.She has written this book for her two daughters in the hope that they will lead fearless lives. Motto: Overcome the obstacle, get over the next hill. |
C.Determination: How to Set Goals and Go After Them |
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Fight Your Fear and Win by Don Greene, Ph.D. Don Greene, Ph.D., was a nationally ranked high school diver.He was the sports psychologist for the U.S.Olympic Diving Team. Motto: Determination is drive. |
D.The Anger Business |
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Anger : The Misunderstood Emotion by Carol Tavris, Ph.D. Carol Tavris, Ph.D., was senior editor,she now teaches from time to time in the department of psychology at UCLA Motto: Reduce Stress! |
E.In the Presence of Danger |
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The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker Davin de Becker, America's leading expert on violence, is the best-selling author of the Gift of Fear: Survival Signals. Motto: Trust and act on our straight instincts. |
F.Moving from Fear to Freedom |
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Transforming Anxiety, Transcending Shame by Rex Briggs, M.S.W. REX BRIGGS, M.S.W., has been a selected speaker at the National Anxiety Disorders Association of America's conferences since 1986. Motto: Weaken anxiety |
下面是这些书的简要内容,请匹配相关的书名。This useful, popular book shows that if you are gone broke and lose love, please hold yourself back. If you look fat, just face it calmly. If you are in survival thinking, the most important is that you get rid of all the difficulties in front of us, life will be safe, perfect. If your daughters are to take their rightful place in society, they must become fearless.
In this book, the author calls the nation's leading experts on violent behavior, and shows you how to spot even tiny signs of danger before it's too late. Most violent acts are unpredictable. It points out that true fear is often a signal that can save your life. Believe the threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves by straight judgment.
This book based on his years of clinical experience. It says about twentyfive million Americans take medicine to avoid depression. Despite the advances in the treatment of depression in recent years, many patients, even with the best medical care, feel that they are not living rich and fulfilling lives. This book will direct you how to survive well.
This interesting book tells us that annoyance is as much a political matter as a biological one. And anger is a definite message: Pay attention to me. I don't like what you are doing. Restore my pride. You're in my way. Give me justice. This book suggests that when you're angry, just let it right out.
This valuable book states that nervousness has become a constant factor in today's society like a sign of the times, but it is sometimes difficult to recognize the effects of anxiety on our mental health. The only way to feel better about ourselves is to go out and do it.
Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
A.They thought spinach made them strong. | B.They thought Popeye was funny. |
C.Spinach had a lot of iron. | D.People liked folic acid. |
A research group told people that spinach____.
A.made Popeye strong |
B.was a green vegetable |
C.had less iron than other green vegetables |
D.had more iron than other green vegetables |
The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from____.
A.iron | B.folic acid | C.spinach | D.exercise |
Folic acid is ____.
A.something in food | B.a vegetable | C.dangerous | D.a certain kind of spinach |
Hungry for the brightest students, many of the country’s stronger universities are actively discounting tuition (学费).And it’s the high achievers, rather than the needy students, who are getting a good chunk of the money.The practice is remarkably widespread, reaching almost all but the 30 or so Ivy and other top colleges that forbid good grades-based financial aid.Schools are also becoming more aggressive in raising their discounts.At the DePauw University Website, enter an SAT or ACT score, grade point average and class rank, and a computer program immediately tells you what kind of "award".Only "the real unlucky" pay full price any more.
About 76% of first-year students got some form of discount this year at 331 private schools.Average award per student: $7,000.At small schools with tuition under about $20,000, the average discount is even higher, with some schools returning over half their tuition.
Carnegie Mellon even tells students it will "negotiate(讨价还价)" and perhaps match financial-aid packages if kids are offered bigger awards at other schools.Much as banks and insurers offer special rates to their best customers, schools are giving the biggest breaks to their top students.Public four-year colleges, too, are offering discounts.
The flip side of big discounts is that less money is available to improve academic programs and keep school infrastructure (基础设施) up to date.Universities that have sharply increased their tuition discount rates have seen graduation rates fall, and that’s true even among highly selective schools.They get the students in the door, but don’t have the services to keep them.From the first paragraph, we can judge that _______.
A.all the universities don’t offer tuition discounts. |
B.Ivy and other top colleges offer financial aid to the high achievers |
C.the needy students get more money from the universities |
D.the graduation rates of the students from highly selected schools fall |
The underlined words “flip side” in the last paragraph probably mean “_______”.
A.advantage | B.disadvantage | C.bad practice | D.good function |
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A.The brightest students are not at all hungry for stronger universities. |
B.About 76% of first-year students got an award of $ 20,000 per year. |
C.Public colleges never offer discounts to the students. |
D.Colleges should concentrate more on the services to keep the students |
This passage mainly talks about _______.
A.the great benefit of offering lower tuition |
B.college tuition discounts in popularity |
C.the top students in need of tuition discounts |
D.reducing graduation rates due to big discounts |
A HOLIDAY jet pilot (飞行员) said that he would land and call the police after a woman refused to stop smoking.
He warned Maureen Harkavy, “Put that cigarette out, or I’ll land the plane and have you arrested.”
Maureen, 47, was so shocked she wrote to the airline’s chairman.But his reply was even ruder.
“You seem to think you have a God-given right to pollute your neighbors’ atmosphere,” wrote John Ferriday of Paramount Airways.
(a)Said Maureen, “I only found out about it when I was checking in.I’m a nervous flyer so I lit a cigarette during the flight.A stewardess (空姐) asked me to put it out, but I said I wanted to carry on as there was no rule against smoking on the plane.” She was just finishing her cigarette when the pilot arrived.
(b) “I’ve never seen such an unpleasant letter.” She said, “I don’t think I’ll ever fly again.” But there was a funny side.Maureen explained, “We were offered duty-free (免税) cigarette from the stewardess on the plane!”
(c) Mr.Ferriday went on: “Believe me, you haven’t.Especially when you travel on my planes.”
Maureen and her husband Michael were moved to Paramount flight just before they left Portugal.But they were not told of the company’s no smoking policy.
(d) “He was loud and rude,” said Maureen.“He said if I lit another cigarette he would land the plane at Bordeaux and hand me to the French police.”
Later, from her home in Mosely, Birmingham, Maureen wrote to the company and received the rude reply.The second half of the story has been in wrong order.(Parts a-d) Choose the rearranged order which you think is right.
A.a, c, b, d | B.c, a, b, d | C.c, a, d, b | D.d, a, b, c |
The pilot warned Maureen Harkavy ____________________.
A.to throw her cigarette out of the plane, or he would get her off the plane. |
B.to stop smoking, or he would bring down the jet and hand her to the police. |
C.not to light another cigarette after her first one. |
D.to stop smoking, or he would bring her to justice. |
Maureen Harkavy ______ on the plane.
A.accepted the warning |
B.agreed to the warning |
C.refused to do what she was told to |
D.was so shocked that she wrote to the airline’s chairman |
In the answer letter to Maureen Harkavy, the airline’s chairman ____ .
A.made an apology to her for his worker’s rudeness |
B.made sure that he would solve the problem |
C.said that she had the right to smoke on his plane |
D.actually completely agreed with what the pilot said |
“The first and best of victories is for a man to conquer himself; to be conquered by himself is, of all things, the most shameful,” says Plato.Self-control is at the root of all the advantages.Let a man give in to his impulses (冲动) and feelings, and from that moment he gives up his moral freedom.
A single angry word has lost many a friend.When Socrates found in himself any temper or anger, he would check it by speaking low in order to control himself.If you are conscious of being angry, keep your mouth shut so that you can hold back rising anger.Many a person has dropped dead in great anger.Fits of anger bring fits of disease.“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.” “Keep cool”, says George Herbert, “for fierceness makes error a fault.”
To be angry with a weak man is to prove that you are not strong yourself.“Anger,” says Pythagoras, “brings with folly(愚蠢) and ends with regret.” You must measure the strength of a man by the power of the feelings he conquers, not by the power of those which conquer him.
Self-control is man’s last greatest victory.
If a man lacks self-control he seems to lack everything.Without it he can have no patience, no power to govern himself; he can have no self-confidence, for he will always be controlled by his strongest feeling.If he lacks self-control, the very backbone and nerve of character are lacking also.What does the reader learn from the first paragraph?
A.The greatest victory for a man is to conquer everything except himself. |
B.One’s moral freedom is based on the control of himself. |
C.To control oneself is the most difficult in one’s life. |
D.If a person is too stubborn, he will feel most shameful. |
What does the underlined sentence “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad” mean ?
A.If the gods want to kill you, they make you crazy first. |
B.If you are mad, you will be punished by the gods. |
C.If you cannot control yourself, you will become crazy. |
D.If you always lose your temper, you will soon be finished. |
If a man lacks self-control, he lacks all of the following EXCEPT _______.
A.the very backbone and nerve of character |
B.the patience and power to control himself |
C.strong feelings |
D.self-confidence |
The author’s main purpose in writing this article is to _______.
A.explain that self-control is the key to success |
B.teach people how to control everything in order to make a great success |
C.distinguish all kinds of self-control and suggest ways for keeping it |
D.advise people not to lose temper so as to make and keep more friends |
To switch or not to switch, that is the question.Google’s announcement of its Nexus One smartphone(智能手机) happened over a week ago and I’m still receiving lots of e-mails from readers asking the same question: Should they give up their iPhone for the Nexus One?
Some people with iPhones, disappointed by American Telephone&Telegraph’s inadequate service and the high monthly cost, are wondering if they have really got something to replace it.Does the Nexus One offer the functions that Apple has led them to expect?
I’m on the fence myself, even though I never thought I’d be interested in anything but the iPhone.From my experience using the Nexus One, and from talking to people who have made the change, it’s not necessarily about the differences between the iPhone and the Nexus One.The phones are extremely similar in design and general feel.Instead, the decision can be made based on the software(软件) services you use on your desktop.
My friend Chad Dickerson received a pre-launch Nexus One from Google three weeks ago.He said Google’s phone feels connected to certain services on the Web in a way the iPhone doesn’t.“Compared to the iPhone, the Google phone feels like it’s part of the Internet to me,” he said.“If you live in a Google world, you have that world in your pocket in a way that’s cleaner and more connected than the iPhone.”
Personally, the phones work perfectly with their own software, but both of them don’t make an effort to play well with other services.Why are some iPhone users expecting a new type of phone?
A.Because their old ones are out of date. |
B.Because they accept Google’s announcement. |
C.Because of the limited service and high cost. |
D.Because of the terrible software they can use.. |
What’s the author’s attitude towards the new phones in the third paragraph?
A.Negative | B.Neutral | C.Indifferent | D.Positive |
In Chad Dickerson’s opinion, the Nexus One is ________ the iPhone.
A.better than | B.worse than | C.as good as | D.as bad as |
The best title of the passage might be ________.
A.Apple’s New Smartphone |
B.Torn Between Two Phones |
C.Good Services Matter |
D.Google’s New Smartphone |