Autumn is a time when nature prepares to test and it is just the same with many people.With less energy or strength they have no desire to meet with friends after work,preferring to sit still in front of the television before going to bed early.And the next morning they find it hard to get up, too.

For most people, this period of time passes without any major effects, but a small minority suffer from complete winter depression(压抑).Apart from tiredness and without energy, the latter often has the following symptoms(症状).

They have an increased need for sleep and also for sweet food like chocolate.Normally, depression is along with difficulty in falling asleep and loss of appetite(胃口).

True winter depression exists when the symptoms occur repeatedly in autumn and winter.Moreover, they have to last at least two weeks.Symptoms of winter depression begin for northern hemisphere(北半球)countries in October, November or December, and reduce in January.The symptoms decrease when the days grow longer again.

Lack of light during the cold months is the cause of people's depression.

To reduce the bad effect of the winter depression, sufferers should spend as much time outdoors as possible.Exercise is also a tested cure for depression.A regular sleep wake cycle can help too, and sufferers should stick to it even at weekends.By getting up early, they can receive more daylight regardless of the weather.

Title

Light up your life

Main idea

People who 1. from winter depression can light up their life.

2.

·Feel tired.

·Lack 3..

·Need more sleep and sweet food.

·Find it 4. to go to sleep.

·Have no 5. to have meals.

Occurrence

·Winter depression exists with the symptoms occurring over and over again in autumn and winter, and

6. two weeks or longer.

·Winter depression starts for northern hemisphere countries in October, November or December and 7. in January.

Cause

·8. to lack of light in cold weather

Solutions

·Spend as much time outdoors as 9..

·Take exercise.

·Go to bed and get up

10. every day.

“Look,it’s Baldy!” A boy shouted in my direction across the playground. Even though I was used to regular insults (侮辱) because of the ______ on my head, it was ______ horrible to hear. I sighed as I headed back to the class.

When I was just 20 months old, I suffered serious _____ after a bowl full of hot oil fell on my head. I was ______ to hospital and had to stay there for weeks while the doctors ______ to save my life. “Holly’s very ______ to be alive,’”they told Mum and Dad. “But she’ll be ______ with scars on her head, and of course her hair won’t grow there. ”

As a child,I cared much about my scars,so I ______ wore a scarf to cover them up when I left home. ____ I didn’t,people would call me horrible names like Baldy. Although my friends were always comforting me, they never _____understood how it felt.

Then through the hospital I was ____ to a children’s burns camp, where children like me can get any help. There, I ____ 14-year-old Stephanie, whose burns are a lot more serious than mine. But she is so ____ that she never lets anyone put her down.“You shouldn’t _____ what people say about what you look like because we're not different from anyone else, Holly,” she ____ me. “And you don’t need to wear a scarf because you look great _____ it! ” For the first time in my life I could speak to someone who’d been through something _____ .So weeks later, at my 13th birthday party, ____ by her bravery, I gave up my scarf and showed off my scars. It felt amazing not having to ______ away behind my scarf.

Now,I am____ of what I look like and much happier, because I have realized it is your personality(个性) that decides who you truly are.

1.A. hat B. scarf C. scars D. cuts

2.A. still B. just C. never D. seldom

3.A. hunger B. cold C. defeats D. burns

4.A. rushed B. led C. invited D. forced

5.A. learned B. fought C. returned D. decided

6.A. happy B. lucky C. lonely D. poor

7.A. pressed B. occupied C. left D. painted

8.A. possibly B. usually C. finally D. nearly

9.A. Although B. Since C. If D. Before

10.A. correctly B. roughly C. easily D. really

11.A. promoted B. introduced C. reported D. carried

12.A. met B. recognized C. remembered D. caught

13.A. honest B. strong C. active D. young

14.A. write down B. agree with C. pass on D. listen to

15.A. promised B. encouraged C. ordered D. calmed

16.A. in B. for C. without D. beyond

17.A. similar B. strange C. hard D. important

18.A. allowed B. required C. guided D. inspired

19.A. hide B. give C. keep D. put

20.A. sick B. aware C. tired D. proud

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