题目内容
【题目】The way to lift up your mood
Everyone has periods in their lives when everything seems very hard, when there’s nobody to talk to and the mood (情绪) is just getting worse and worse. 【1】
The first thing you should try is socializing and thinking positively. It’s very hard, because usually when we feel sad we lock ourselves at home and try to think about all the bad things we have. But if you’ll try to force yourself and call a friend for a cup of coffee, the chances for changing your mood into better are very good. Just try to avoid bad thoughts. 【2】
【3】 It could be something you wanted for a long time — a short trip, a coat, a ring or anything that could lift up your mood. It doesn’t have to be costly, but it has to be good to yourself.
Not only giving gifts to yourself can lift up your mood. 【4】 Think of your friends, family, relatives or even local charities (慈善机构), choose one person and give him a gift. It doesn’t have to be something expensive or big. It may be just a little toy to your poor neighbor’s child. Making another person feel happy will make you feel good in your heart and mind.
Take control of your feelings. Don’t let them control you. 【5】 Just follow the advice above, and start doing something.
A. Cry aloud if you feel it is necessary.
B. Here are some things that may help you lift up your mood.
C. Making yourself feel better isn’t that hard.
D. Buying things to others may be a perfect way to feel happy.
E. Do your best to find someone to talk to.
F. Instead, try to think about the bright side of your life.
G. You should also try doing something only for yourself, something totally selfish.
【答案】
【1】B
【2】F
【3】G
【4】D
【5】C
【解析】
试题分析:本文介绍了改善情绪的方法。每个人都会有情绪不好的时候,作者提出几种改善情绪的方式,如:乐观思考,善待自己,帮助他人等等。
【1】B 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。前句说到每个人都会有情绪不好的时候;后文内容提出几种改善情绪的方式,由此判断B选项内容恰好符合语境,起到承接作用,故选B。
【2】F 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。前一句提出要努力避免“bad thought”,而F选项中的bright正好与bad相对应,判断F选项符合语境。
【3】G考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。本段提出一个短途旅行、一件外套、一个戒指等都可以改善情绪,再根据下一段第一句Not only giving gifts to yourself can lift up your mood.可知G选项在此可以起到统领本段的作用,故选G。
【4】D考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据空格后内容可知给他人买礼物也可以改善情绪,故选D。
【5】C考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据空格后内容可知要改善情绪并不是那么难,只要遵循上面的建议开始行动即可,故选C。
【题目】请阅读下面短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。
注意: 请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。 每个空格只填一个单词。
People select news in expectation of a reward. This reward may be either of two kinds. One is related to what Freud calls the Pleasure Principle, the other to what he calls the Reality Principle. For want of better names, we shall call these two classes immediate reward and delayed reward.
In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest. Delayed reward may be expected from news of public affairs, economic matters, social problems, science, education, and health.
News of the first kind pays its rewards at once. A reader can enjoy an indirect experience without any of the dangers or stresses involved. He can tremble wildly at an axe-murder, shake his head sympathetically and safely at a hurricane, identify himself with the winning team, laugh understandingly at a warm little story of children or dogs.
News of the second kind, however, pays its rewards later. It sometimes requires the reader to tolerate unpleasantness or annoyance — as, for example, when he reads of the threatening foreign situation, the mounting national debt, rising taxes, falling market, scarce housing, and cancer. It has a kind of “threat value.” It is read so that the reader may be informed and prepared. When a reader selects delayed reward news, he pulls himself into the world of surrounding reality to which he can adapt himself only by hard work. When he selects news of the other kind, he usually withdraws from the world of threatening reality toward the dream world.
For any individual, of course, the boundaries of these two classes are not stable. For example, a sociologist may read news of crime as a social problem, rather than for its immediate reward. A coach may read a sports story for its threat value: he may have to play that team next week. A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party. In any given story of corruption or disaster, a thoughtful reader may receive not only the immediate reward of indirect experience, but also the delayed reward of information and preparedness. Therefore, while the division of categories holds in general, an individual’s tendency may transfer any story from one kind of reading to another, or divide the experience between the two kinds of reward.
What news stories do you read? | |
Division of news stories | ● People expect to get【1】from reading news. |
【2】ofthe two classes | ● News of immediate reward will seemingly take their readers to the very frightening scene without actual【3】. |
● News of delayed reward will make readers suffer, or present a【5】to them. | |
Unstable boundaries of the two classes | ● What readers expect from news stories are largely shaped by their【8】. |