Getting ready for a big test? Want to get some extra energy for your next sports event? Or do you just need to relax? Match the mood you’re in( or the mood you’d like to be in) to the descriptions below and find out what color may help.
Feeling tired: Red can help you meet the demands of a busy day. If you’ve got a tough day ahead, try wearing a red sweater or painting your fingernails a rich red to boost(增加) your energy.
Feeling tense or depressed: Green may give you a sense of peace. Take a long walk through a tree-filled park or read a book in a grassy area.
Wanting to use your creativity: Violet(紫罗兰色) helps increase creativity. Think of a creative project you’d like to start and use the color violet as your main theme.
Experiencing lack of interest: Yellow helps to improve thought process and mental sharpness. Start keeping a diary on yellow notepaper, and get some sunlight on your face.
Needing to boost your imagination: Indigo(靛蓝色) strengthens dream activity. Put on your favorite pair of jeans and a pair of indigo sunglasses.
Feeling sad, self-conscious, nervous: Orange may help start your emotions and make you more social. Buy yourself an orange book bag or purse and carry it with you on the days when you’re feeling low.
Having trouble sleeping: Blue helps calm your nerves and brings relaxation. Buy some blue sheets for your bed and curl up with your favorite magazines for a relaxing night.
小题1: If you’re trying to calm yourself down, you may ________.| A．wear a red sweater | B．walk through green fields. | | C．put on a pair of jeans | D．buy a yellow bag |
小题2:Which of the following is most helpful in producing unique artwork?| A．Red | B．Green | C．Violet | D．Orange |
小题3:According to the passage, orange____________.| A．helps fire one’s imagination | B．helps you deal with people easily | | C．helps have a good rest | D．helps save energy |
小题4: If you want to be in high spirits, which colors may help?| A．Red and yellow | B．Yellow and blue | | C．Green and violet | D．Blue and green |
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【解题导语】 本文讲述颜色对人的情绪的影响，通过对颜色的认识，可以用颜色来调节心情。
小题1:选B。细节判断题。根据第三段中的Green may give you a sense of peace可知，绿色会使人心情平静。
小题1:选C。推理判断题。根据第四段可知，紫罗兰色可以激发人的创造性，而奇特的艺术作品最需要创造性。
小题1:选B。推理判断题。根据倒数第二段可知，桔色可以锻炼人的社交能力，使人学会更轻松地与他人打交道。
小题1:选A。细节理解题。根据文章内容可知，红色给人以能量，黄色加快人的思维过程，由此可以判断这两种颜色都能使人保持一种好的精神状态。 |
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“So teach him to close the door”, my daughter Emma responded after listening to me 36 , again, about the dog coming in from the back door, bringing with him a blast of Buffalo January 37 air．
Teach a dog to close a door behind him? That has got to be a really, really 38 thing to do．But then she took it a step 39 ．“Come on, Kolby”, she said, grabbing some treats（犒劳物） and 40 him in front of the open door．“Touch．” And “touch” he did, which moved the door to a 41 position．She 42 him with a treat, smiled, looked at me, and said “see!” And I saw and became 43 ．Over the last few days I have been with Kolby．Each time he comes in I bring him back to the 44 door and ask him to close．There have been 45 in the beginning, but lately more and more successes．
However, there remains much work to be done．I have to get him to follow my hand signal again and again 46 he will close the door from a distance．But, I now realize, as long as you keep to the focus , the 47 will be completed, and, with the way things are 48 , completed quickly．
What a 49 treat to have a dog that can close the door after himself! Even more wonder can be found in the 50 I learned so clearly from both Emma and Kolby．
A wish is just a wish until you decide to take 51 ．Once you 52 the belief that it is “too hard”, then it remains “too hard ” and out of 53 ．Once you want to accomplish a goal, and 54 that it is “easy”, then it becomes “easy” to do what needs to be done．Just 55 doing it．
| 小题1: | | A．complain | B．scream | C．worry | D．scare |
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| 小题2: | | A．thin | B．fresh | C．dirty | D．cold |
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| 小题3: | | A．interesting | B．funny | C．tough | D．possible |
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| 小题4: | | A．again | B．further | C．deeper | D．backward |
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| 小题5: | | A．pushing | B．catching | C．driving | D．positioning |
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| 小题6: | | A．stopped | B．fixed | C．closed | D．checked |
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| 小题7: | | A．rewarded | B．provided | C．offered | D．thanked |
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| 小题8: | | A．moved | B．convinced | C．concerned | D．puzzled |
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| 小题9: | | A．open | B．closed | C．broken | D．perfect |
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| 小题10: | | A．pleasures | B．experiments | C．failures | D．pauses |
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| 小题11: | | A．in case | B．even if | C．as if | D．so that |
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| 小题12: | | A．interest | B．task | C．profit | D．harmony |
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| 小题13: | | A．changing | B．reacting | C．progressing | D．happening |
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| 小题14: | | A．wonderful | B．small | C．different | D．simple |
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| 小题15: | | A．knowledge | B．skills | C．lessons | D．experience |
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| 小题16: | | A．patience | B．part | C．delight | D．action |
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| 小题17: | | A．hold on to | B．pay attention to | C．come up with | D．live up to |
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| 小题18: | | A．date | B．touch | C．reach | D．power |
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| 小题19: | | A．prove | B．decide | C．approve | D．realize |
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| 小题20: | | A．imagine | B．start | C．keep | D．enjoy |
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They huddled （挤在一起） inside the storm door – two children in dirty old coats.
“Any old __36___ , lady?”
I was __37__ with my household budget (预算). I wanted to say no --- until I looked down at their __38__ . Thin little sandals (凉鞋), __39__ through. “Come into the front room and I’ll make you a cup of hot __40__ .” There was no conversation. Their wet sandals left __41__ upon the hearthstone (壁炉的石头).
I __42__ them cocoa and bread with jam (果酱) to __43__ against the cold outside. Then I went back to the kitchen and started __44__ on my household budget.
I __45__ the silence in the front room and looked in. The girl held the empty __46__ in her hands, looking at it. The boy asked in a flat voice, “Lady ... are you rich?”
“Am I rich? No!”
The girl put her cup back in its saucer (碟子) – __47_ . “Your cups __48__ your saucers.” Her voice was old, with a __49__ that was not of the stomach.
They left then, holding their newspapers __50__ the wind. They hadn’t said __51__ . They didn’t need to. They had done more than that. Plain blue pottery cups and saucers. __52__ they matched. I tasted the potatoes and stirred (搅拌) the gravy (肉汁). Potatoes and brown gravy, a roof over our heads, my man with a good steady job – these things matched, too.
I moved the chairs back from the fire and cleaned the living room. The muddy prints of small sandals were __53__ wet upon my heart. I let them be. I want them there __54__ I ever forget again how very__55__ I am.
| 小题1: | | A．cups | B．newspapers | C．food | D．clothes |
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| 小题2: | | A．worried | B．excited | C．sad | D．busy |
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| 小题3: | | A．dress | B．faces | C．feet | D．socks |
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| 小题4: | | A．wet | B．cold | C．worn | D．broken |
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| 小题5: | | A．cocoa | B．soup | C．gravy | D．tea |
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| 小题6: | | A．snow | B．water | C．raindrops | D．marks |
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| 小题7: | | A．made | B．served | C．offered | D．sent |
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| 小题8: | | A．protect | B．warm | C．fight | D．beat |
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| 小题10: | A．h ated | B．wondered | C．found | D．noticed |
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| 小题11: | | A．spoon | B．cup | C．bowl | D．plate |
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| 小题12: | | A．carelessly | B．carefully | C．hurriedly | D．heavily |
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| 小题13: | | A．suit | B．fit | C．match | D．complete |
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| 小题14: | | A．hunger | B．hope | C．sound | D．anger |
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| 小题15: | | A．with | B．against | C．in | D．along |
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| 小题16: | | A．thank you | B．goodbye | C．nothing | D．sorry |
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| 小题18: | | A．still | B．even | C．once | D．ever |
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| 小题19: | | A．because | B．even though | C．in case | D．as if |
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| 小题20: | | A．kind | B．happy | C．serious | D．rich |
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Beauty has always been regarded as something praiseworthy. Almost everyone thinks attractive(漂亮的) people are happier and healthier, have better marriages and have more respectable jobs. Personal advisors give them better advice for finding jobs. Even judges are softer on attractive defendants (被告). But in the executive (行政的；管理的) circle, beauty can become
a liability.
While attractiveness is a positive factor for a man on his way up the executive ladder, it is harmful to a woman. Handsome male executives were considered as having more honesty than plain(平常的，不漂亮的) men; effort and ability were thought to lead to their success. Attractive female executives were considered to have less honesty than unattractive ones; their success was connected not with ability but with factors such as luck. All unattractive women executives were thought to have more honesty and to be more capable than the attractive female executives. Interestingly, though, the rise of the unattractive overnight successes was connected more to personal relationships and less to ability than that of the attractive overnight successes.
Why are attractive women not thought to be able? An attractive woman is considered to be more feminine and an attractive man more manly than the less attractive ones. Thus, an attractive woman has an advantage in traditionally female jobs, but an attractive woman in a traditionally manly position appears to lack the "manly" qualities required.
This is true even in politics. "When the only clue is how he or she looks, people treat men and women differently," says Anne Bowman, who recently published a study on the effects of attractiveness on political candidates. She asked 125 undergraduate students to rank two groups of photographs, one of men and one of women, of attractiveness. The students were told the photographs were of candidates for political offices. They were asked to rank them again, in the order they would vote for them.
The results showed that attractive males completely defeated unattractive men, but the women who had ranked most attractive unchangeably received the fewest votes.
小题1:The word "liability" most probably means __________. | A．disadvantage | B．advantage | C．misfortune | D．trouble |
小题2:In traditionally female jobs, attractiveness ________. | A．makes women look more honest and capable | B．strengthens the qualifies required | | C．is of no importance to women | D．often enables women to succeed quickly |
小题3:Bowman"s experiment shows that when it comes to politics, attractiveness _______. | A．turns out to be a disadvantage to men | | B．is more of a disadvantage than an advantage to women | | C．affects men and women alike | | D．has as little effect on men as on women |
小题4:It can be inferred from the passage that people"s views on beauty are often _____. | A．practical | B．supportive | C．old-fashioned | D．one-sided |
小题5: The author writes this passage to ________________. | A．give advice to job-seekers who are attractive | | B．discuss the disadvantages of women being attractive | | C．demand equal rights for women | | D．state the importance of appearance |
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If you dream in color, you’re not alone: the majority of people today claim to have colorful dreams. But it wasn’t always thus. Research conducted in the early part of the last century consistently found that people reported dreaming most often in black and white.
According to Eva Murzyn at the University of Dundee, there are at least two possible explanations for this strange situation.
The first is the methods used in the researches. The early studies tended to use questionnaires（问卷）, while more modern studies use dream diaries (filled in upon rising in the morning) or so-called “REM-awakening”, which involves interrupting people’s dream-filled periods of sleep to find out what they were dreaming about. People’s memories of their dreams are likely to be less accurate by using the questionnaire approach and they are more likely to reflect their beliefs about the form dreams generally take in an unclear way.
The second explanation has to do with black and white television and film. It"s possible that the sudden increase in black and white film and television during the first half of the last century either affected the form of people’s dreams at that time, or affected their beliefs about the form dreams generally take.
According to Murzyn’s findings, it’s the explanation based on media exposure that carries more weight. She used both questionnaire and diary methods to study the dreams of 30 older (average age 64) and 30 younger people (average age 21).
The methodological technique made no difference to the type of dreams people reported. However, the extremely important thing was that, across both questionnaires and diaries, the older participants (who had had significant early life exposure to black and white media) reported experiencing significantly more black and white dreams over the last ten days than the younger participants (22 per cent vs. 4 per cent).
Another finding was that older participants reported black and white dreams and colorful dreams to be of equal clearness. By contrast, the younger participants reported that the quality of black and white dreams was poorer. This raises the possibility that the younger participants didn’t really have any black and white dreams at all, but were simply regarding poorly remembered dreams as black and white.
小题1:We learn from the text that ______.| A．people in the first half of the last century never had colorful dreams | | B．older people are more likely to have black and white dreams | | C．the dreams of younger people are always colorful | | D．people today don’t have white and black dreams any more |
小题2:What did Murxyn do to find out the explanations for the colors in people’s dreams?| A．She applied both questionnaire and diary methods to study people’s dreams. | | B．She used diary methods to record people’s dreams. | | C．She chose 60 people to answer her questions about their dreams. | | D．She woke people up to record the colors of their dreams. |
小题3:What does the underlined expression “carry more weight” in paragraph 5 mean?| A．be heavier | B．be more powerful | C．be more important | D．be more useful |
小题4:From Murxyn’s findings we can infer that ______.| A．both older people and younger people could report colorful dreams clearly | | B．young people don’t have any black and white dreams in fact | | C．the color of a person’s dream is decided by one’s age | | D．it is probably the color of media that affects the color of one’s dream |
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One silly question I simply can’t understand is "How do you feel?" Usually the question I asked of a man’s action－a man on the go, walking along the street or busily working at his desk. So what do you expect him to say? He’ll probably say," Fine, I’m all right," but you’ve put a bug in his ear. ——Maybe now he’s not sure. If you are a good friend, you may have seen something in his face, or his walk, that he overlooked(忽略)that morning. It starts him worrying a little. First thing you know, he looks in a mirror to see if everything is all right, while you go merrily on your way asking someone else. "How do you feel?"
Every question has its time and place. It’s perfectly acceptable, for example, to ask "How do you feel?" if you’re visiting a close friend in hospital. But if the fellow is walking on both legs, hurrying take a train, or sitting at his desk working, it’s no time to ask him that silly question.
When George Bernard Shaw, the famous writer of plays, was in his eighties, someone asked him, "How do you feel?" Shaw put him in his place. "When you reach my age," he said, "either you feel all right or you’re dead."
小题1:According to the writer, greetings such as "how do you feel"_______. | A．show one’s consideration for others. | B．are a good way to make friends | | C．are proper to ask a man in action | D．generally make one feel uneasy. |
小题2:The question "How do you feel" seems to be correct and suitable when asked of________.| A．a man working at his desk. | B．a person having lost a close friend. | | C．a stranger who looks worried. | D．a friend who is ill. |
小题3:The writer seems to feel that a busy man should _______.| A．be praised for his efforts. | B．never be asked any question. | | C．not be bothered(烦扰). | D．be discouraged from working so hard. |
小题4:You’ve put a bug in his ear means that you’ve ________.| A．made him laugh. | B．shown concern for him | | C．made fun of him | D． given him some kind of warning. |
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