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One trip for their Jack Russell terrier in a planes cargo hold was enough to convince Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel that owners needed a better option to get their pets from one city to another.

On Tuesday, the first flight for the husband-and-wife teams Pet Airways, the first-ever all-pet airline, took off from Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY.

All commercial airlines allow a limited number of small pets to fly in the cabin. Others must travel as checked bags or in the cargo hold a dark and sometimes dangerous place where temperatures can vary wildly.

Binder and Wiesel used their consulting backgrounds and business savvy to start Pet Airways in 2005. The last four years have been spent designing their fleet of five planes according to new four-legged requirements, dealing with FAA regulations and setting up airport schedules.

The two say theyre overwhelmed with the response. Flights on Pet Airways are already booked up for the next two months.

Pet Airways will fly a pet between five major citiesNew York, Washington, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles. The $250 one-way fare is comparable to pet fees at the largest US airlines.

For owners the big difference is service. Dogs and cats will fly in the main cabin of a Suburban Air Freight plane, retooled and lined with carriers in place of seats. Pets (about 50 on each flight) will be escorted to the plane by attendants that will check on the animals every 15 minutes during flight. The pets are also given pre-boarding walks and bathroom breaks. And at each of the five airports it serves, the company has created a Pet Lounge for future fliers to wait and sniff before flights.

A trip from New York to Los Angeles, for example, will take about 24 hours. On that route, pets will stop in Chicago, have a bathroom break, play time, dinner, and bunk for the night before finishing the trip the next day.

Amanda Hickey of Portland, Ore. is one of the new airlines first customers. Her seven-year-old terrier-pinscher mix Mardi and two-year-old puggle Penny are taking their first flight soon.

Hickey said the service was a welcome alternative to flying her dogs in cargo when she transplants them from her soon-to-be Denver home to Chicago to stay while she and her fiance travel to Aruba to get married.

For a little bit more money, I have peace of mind, she said.

【1】Jack Russell is probably ______.

A. a baby

B. a little boy

C. a pet

D. the couples child

【2】 Which would be the best title of the passage?

A. The first-ever all-pet airline hits skies

B. A better option to get their pets from one city to another

C. Flights on Pet Airways

D. Alysa Binder and Dan Wiesel

【3】 What does the underlined word savvy in the fourth paragraph probably mean?

A. Fund.

B. Information.

C. Knowledge.

D. Mind.

【题目】 Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩)and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggested that the

heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said, Our study show for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr. Garfinkel said, The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we dont see---and guide whether we see fear.

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪)to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a persons feeling of fear.

We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain speak to each ther to change our feelings and reduce fear Dr. Garfinkel said.

We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.

【1】 What is the finding of the study?

A. Ones heart affects how he feels fear.

B. Fear is a result of ones relaxed heartbeat.

C. Fear has something to do with ones health.

D. Ones fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

【2】The study was carried out by analyzing .

A. volunteers heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

B. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

C. volunteers reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

【3】 Which of the following is closest in meaning to mechanism in Paragraph 6?

A. Order

B. System

C. Machine

D. Treatment.

【4】 This study may contribute to .

A. treating anxiety and stress better

B. explaining the cycle of fear and anxiety

C. finding the key to the heart-brain communication

D. understanding different fears in our hearts and heads

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