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LEEDS, England ─ A Leeds University psychology (心理学) professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies.
"The hatred we hold within us is a cancer," Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease.
More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London ─ a course he says is the first of its kind in the world.
These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory. They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian-born Hart.
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.
The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hate in these people. "People have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness," he said. "People confuse forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one."
Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.
"The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with," said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people "want to get free of the past".

  1. 1.

    From this passage we know that ______.

    1. A.
      high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred
    2. B.
      high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
    3. C.
      without hatred, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart
    4. D.
      people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies
  2. 2.

    If you are angry with somebody, you should ______.

    1. A.
      try your best to defeat him or her
    2. B.
      never meet him or her again
    3. C.
      persuade him or her to have a talk with you
    4. D.
      try to build up a positive attitude towards the person
  3. 3.

    In Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can ___.

    1. A.
      meet their enemies
    2. B.
      change their minds
    3. C.
      enjoy the professor’s speech
    4. D.
      learn how to quarrel with others
  4. 4.

    If you are a member in Hart’ s workshop, you’ll ______.

    1. A.
      pay much money to Hart
    2. B.
      go to the workshop every night
    3. C.
      attend a gathering twice a month
    4. D.
      pour out everything stored in your mind
  5. 5.

    The author wrote this passage in order to ________.

    1. A.
      persuade us to go to Hart’s workshop
    2. B.
      tell us the news about Hart’s workshop
    3. C.
      tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s
    4. D.
      help us to look at various kinds of angers
CDBCB
1.C 推理判断题，从第二段句子holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease可得知答案。
2.D 情感态度题。从全文主题可推知。
3.B细节推断题。从倒数第二段"The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with,"可得出。
4.C 细节理解题。从文章第五段The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight.得知。每两周去一次，就是一个月两次。
5.B 作者意图题，从文章第一段和全文内容可得出。
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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure , excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all

  1. 1.

    Raising children, in the author’s opinion, is         

    1. A.
      a moral duty
    2. B.
      a thankless job
    3. C.
      a rewarding task
    4. D.
      a source of inevitable pain
  2. 2.

    According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because         

    1. A.
      he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
    2. B.
      he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
    3. C.
      he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
    4. D.
      he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
  3. 3.

    To understand what true happiness is, one must         

    1. A.
      have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime
    2. B.
      make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
    3. C.
      put up with pain under all circumstances
    4. D.
      be able to distinguish happiness from fun
  4. 4.

    From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes results from         

    1. A.
      hatred
    2. B.
      misunderstanding
    3. C.
      prejudice
    4. D.
      ignorance
  5. 5.

    What is the author trying to tell us?

    1. A.
      How to get happiness
    2. B.
      Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain
    3. C.
      The importance of happiness in our lives
    4. D.
      Happiness equals fun

Thirteen vehicles lined up last March to race across the Mojave Desert, seeking a million in prize money. To win, they had to finish the 142-mile race in less than 10 hours. Teams and watchers knew there might be no winner at all, because these vehicles were missing a key part -drivers.
DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, organized the race as part of a push to develop robotic vehicles for future battlefields. But the Grand Challenge, as it was called, just proved how difficult it is to get a car to speed across an unfamiliar desert without human guidance. One had its brake lock up in the starting area. Another began by throwing itself onto a wall. Another got tied up by bushes near the road after 1.9 miles.
One turned upside down. One took off in entirely the wrong direction and had to be disabled by remote (远距离的) control. One went a little more than a mile and rushed into a fence; another managed to go for six miles but stuck on a rock. The “winner,” if there was any, reached 7.8 miles before it ran into a long, narrow hole, and the front wheels caught on fire.
“You get a lot of respect for natural abilities of the living things,” says Reinhold Behringer, who helped design two of the car-size vehicles for a company called Sci-Autonics. “Even ants (蚂蚁) can do all these tasks effortlessly . It’s very hard for us to put these abilities into our machines.”
The robotic vehicles, though with necessary modern equipment such as advanced computers and GPS guidance, had trouble figuring out fast enough the blocks ahead that a two-year-old human recognizes immediately, Sure, that very young child, who has just only learned to walk, may not think to wipe apple juice off her face, but she already knows that when there’s a cookie in the kitchen she has to climb up the table, and that when she gets to the cookie it will taste good. She is more advanced, even months old, than any machine humans have designed.

  1. 1.

    Watchers doubted if any of the vehicles could finish the race because        .

    1. A.
      they did not have any human guidance
    2. B.
      the road was not familiar to the drivers
    3. C.
      the distance was too long for the vehicles
    4. D.
      the prize money was unattractive to the drivers
  2. 2.

    DARPA organized the race in order to         .

    1. A.
      raise money for producing more robotic vehicles
    2. B.
      push the development of vehicle industry
    3. C.
      train more people to drive in the desert
    4. D.
      improve the vehicles for future wars
  3. 3.

    From the passage we know “robotic vehicles” are a kind of machines that         .

    1. A.
      can do effortlessly whatever tasks living thing can
    2. B.
      can take part in a race across 142 miles with a time limit
    3. C.
      can show off their ability to turn themselves upside down
    4. D.
      can move from place to place without being driven by human beings
  4. 4.

    In the race, the greatest distance one robotic vehicle covered was          .

    1. A.
      about eight miles
    2. B.
      six miles
    3. C.
      almost two miles
    4. D.
      about one mile
  5. 5.

    In the last paragraph, the writer implies that there is a long way to go         .

    1. A.
      for a robotic vehicle to finish a 142-mile race without any difficulties
    2. B.
      for a little child who has just learned to walk to reach the cookie on the table
    3. C.
      for a robotic vehicle to deal with a simple problem that a little child can solve
    4. D.
      for a little child to understand the importance of wiping apple juice off its face

The Florida sun baked my shoulders as I worked along the I-595 freeway near Fort Lauderdale, picking up rubbish. I paused to1the sweat off my forehead and look up at the cloudless blue sky.“2can’t it rain?” I thought. That would3things down.
I thought about my4, who were probably sitting in an air-conditioned5right now. I’d had some problems in school,6my parents decided to let me7full-time with my dad, We both worked for my uncle, who had taken8of a maintenance(道路养护)company. It was up to us to keep the roads9of rubbish. The job was10and dirty, especially on hot days11this. I wondered why I ever agreed to do it.
We continued our12route along the I-595,13for the overpass bridge. Then I noticed an area where some14were broken on the ground. It wasn’t like that before.
“Dad! Pull over! I want to15something out.”
I jumped off the truck and rushed to the bridge. Something was telling me to16…there wasn’t much time.17I saw a Toyota that18upside down in the tree. Maybe it was a stolen car that somebody19there, I thought. Then, just at that20, I noticed something moving. It was a bloody leg poking out of the driver’s side window!
“Heeeelp!”a lady moaned.

  1. 1.
    1. A.
      wipe
    2. B.
      cut
    3. C.
      put
    4. D.
      send
  2. 2.
    1. A.
      When
    2. B.
      How
    3. C.
      Why
    4. D.
      Where
  3. 3.
    1. A.
      turn
    2. B.
      keep
    3. C.
      make
    4. D.
      cool
  4. 4.
    1. A.
      parents
    2. B.
      school-times
    3. C.
      friends
    4. D.
      school yards
  5. 5.
    1. A.
      office
    2. B.
      classroom
    3. C.
      restaurant
    4. D.
      living room
  6. 6.
    1. A.
      but
    2. B.
      or
    3. C.
      for
    4. D.
      so
  7. 7.
    1. A.
      work
    2. B.
      study
    3. C.
      stay
    4. D.
      spend
  8. 8.
    1. A.
      business
    2. B.
      possession
    3. C.
      position
    4. D.
      place
  9. 9.
    1. A.
      away
    2. B.
      from
    3. C.
      far
    4. D.
      clear
  10. 10.
    1. A.
      easy
    2. B.
      lonely
    3. C.
      smelly
    4. D.
      noisy
  11. 11.
    1. A.
      for
    2. B.
      like
    3. C.
      after
    4. D.
      as
  12. 12.
    1. A.
      regular
    2. B.
      common
    3. C.
      unusual
    4. D.
      normal
  13. 13.
    1. A.
      reaching
    2. B.
      going
    3. C.
      looking
    4. D.
      heading
  14. 14.
    1. A.
      cars
    2. B.
      bottles
    3. C.
      branches
    4. D.
      glasses
  15. 15.
    1. A.
      check
    2. B.
      help
    3. C.
      take
    4. D.
      bring
  16. 16.
    1. A.
      decide
    2. B.
      hurry
    3. C.
      consider
    4. D.
      stop
  17. 17.
    1. A.
      Above
    2. B.
      Behind
    3. C.
      Ahead
    4. D.
      Below
  18. 18.
    1. A.
      hung
    2. B.
      trapped
    3. C.
      caught
    4. D.
      fell
  19. 19.
    1. A.
      stored
    2. B.
      deserted
    3. C.
      lost
    4. D.
      hid
  20. 20.
    1. A.
      bridge
    2. B.
      tree
    3. C.
      moment
    4. D.
      way

Once the 2008 Olympic Games finishes, the drums and trumpets(喇叭) of the competitions would also stop. But would the city remain as lively as it would be after this world event? Investment sustainability and high demand are two highly invaluable economic concepts(概念) that can be looked at in order to ensure post-Olympics flourish, or perhaps, an even better future for Beijingers.
Naturally, an economic downturn occurs in an Olympic host city once the major event finishes. Renmin University Professor Jin Yuanpu noted that a global event like this would put Beijing into a position of large importance in the international stage. But after this event, who would use the heavily-funded equipment and public and private investments left in the city? Various economists argued that a meltdown (彻底垮台) is highly unlikely. Jonathan Anderson, UBS Asia economist, suggested that the negative effects of the end of Beijing Olympics 2008 on the entire country aren’t important compared to previous host cities. China is such a huge economy that the conclusion of the Olympics games is the same as an ant-bite on a dragon.
But what about post-Olympics Beijing? Retired Headmaster of Peking University, Li Yining, noted that a long-term civil demand growth and a popular desire by companies to adopt careful financial management decisions can lead to continued investment growth. Even though demand in some departments of the economy would drop in the short-run, creativity, practicality and innovation(创新) would be the key factors that would continually enhance the city's image and flourish long after the Olympics in the city has ended.
So what's next for Beijing after the Olympics? Well, it's business as usual...

  1. 1.

    Which one of the followings is the author’s idea?

    1. A.
      Beijing’s economy will have a downturn after the 2008 Olympic Games.
    2. B.
      The 2008 Olympic Games have no effects on Beijing’s economy.
    3. C.
      Beijing’s economy will go on as usual.
    4. D.
      Beijing’s economy will go worse after the 2008 Olympic Games.
  2. 2.

    What’s the Jin Yuanpu idea about Beijing’s economy after the 2008 Olympic Games according to the passage?

    1. A.
      to have a downturn
    2. B.
      to develop as usual
    3. C.
      to develop more rapidly
    4. D.
      all of the above
  3. 3.

    Why did Jonathan Anderson believe that the negative effects of the end of Beijing Olympics 2008 on the entire country aren’t important?

    1. A.
      The negative effects are small.
    2. B.
      The Chinese government has many measures to take.
    3. C.
      The Chinese economy has developed at a certain level so that the negative effects can’t affect it too much.
    4. D.
      Jonathan Anderson liked China very much so he didn’t want China to go worse.
  4. 4.

    Choose a best title for this passage.

    1. A.
      Beijing After the Olympics
    2. B.
      The negative effects of the end of Beijing Olympics
    3. C.
      Can Beijing get through the difficult period after the 2008 Olympic Games
    4. D.
      Beijing’s economy after the 2008 Olympic Games

Shopping is not as simple as you may think! There are all sorts of tricks at play each time we reach out for that particular brand(品牌) of product on the shelf.
Colouring, for example, varies according to what the producers are trying to sell. Health foods are packaged(包装) in greens, yellows or browns because we think of these as healthy colours. Ice cream packets are often blue and expensive goods, like chocolates, are gold or silver.
When some kind of pain killer was brought out recently, researchers found that the colours turned the customers off because they made the product look weak and ineffective. Eventually, it came on the market in a dark blue and white package—blue because we think of it as safe, and white as calm.
The size of a product can attract a shopper. But quite often a bottle doesn’t contain as much as it appears to.
It is believed that the better-known companies spend, on average, 70 percent of the total cost of the product itself on packaging!
The most successful producers know that it’s not enough to have a good product. The founder of Pears soap, who for 25 years has used pretty little girls to promote (推销) their goods, came to the conclusion: “Any fool can make soap, but it takes a genius(天才) to sell it.”

  1. 1.

    Which of the following may trick a shopper into buying a product according to the text?

    1. A.
      The cost of its package
    2. B.
      The price of the product
    3. C.
      The colour of its package
    4. D.
      The brand name of the product
  2. 2.

    The underlined part “the colours turned the customers off” (in Para.3) means that the colours _________

    1. A.
      attracted the customers strongly
    2. B.
      caused the customers to lose interest
    3. C.
      tricked the customers into shopping
    4. D.
      had weak effects on the customers
  3. 3.

    Which of the following is the key to the success in product sales?

    1. A.
      The way to promote goods
    2. B.
      The discovery of a genius
    3. C.
      The team to produce a good product
    4. D.
      The brand name used by successful producers
  4. 4.

    According to the passage, we know that _________

    1. A.
      making soap is so easy that any fool in the world can make it
    2. B.
      greens, yellows or silver are considered to be healthy colours
    3. C.
      25 years ago, the founder of Pears soap was a pretty girl herself
    4. D.
      the size of a product can have an effect on the shoppers
  5. 5.

    Which of the following would be the best title for this text?

    1. A.
      Choice of Good Products
    2. B.
      Disadvantages of Products
    3. C.
      Effect of Packaging on Shopping
    4. D.
      Brand Names and Shopping Tricks

Made In The USA: An Export Boom
In his State of the Union address two years ago, President Obama argued that in order to recover from the economic recession, one of the few things the U.S. needed to do was to export more goods around the world. That night, the president unveiled a new goal: to double U.S. exports over the next five years. It would be an increase that the president said would “support two million jobs in America.”
Most economists dismissed the promise at the time as something unrealistic, but two years later, the U.S. is on pace to meet that goal. American exports are up 34 percent since the president gave that speech, and the number continues to rise.
Competitive In A Global Market
Marlin Steel, a metal working business in Baltimore, makes parts that ship all across the world.“We export to 36 countries，” owner Drew Greenblatt tells All Things Considered Host Guy Raz.“We're working around the clock, and we're growing.”
It's not just advanced manufacturing exports on the rise, but pork, cattle and all kinds of agricultural exports are up as well. Even American craft beer has found an export market.
Flying Dog CEO Jim Caruso says that increasingly, people all over the world are trying the beer from the Maryland-based brewery. Caruso says，“Even in those top beer-producing countries, a competitive American product is finding a market.”
Services Are Exports, Too
Another place exports are coming from is New York City—in particular, the 30th floor of a Manhattan skyscraper on 5th Avenue and 52nd Street. That's where the consulting firm Kurt Solomon lies. It doesn't actually produce a product for export; it provides management advice and strategy.
“Four out of every five Americans is now employed in the service industry，” the nation's top trade official, Ron Kirk says, “Services are a significant part of our exports, and make up about a quarter of our exported goods.” These services can include everything from legal consulting, finance, information technology and even engineering.
And There Are Other Factors
So why has there been an increase of more than 30 percent for exports in almost everything? Part of the increase, at least for the manufacturing side, is due to better technology, says Tyler Cowen, an economist.“A lot of it is being driven by smart machines，” he tells Raz，“The U.S. has high wage rates, which is a disadvantage, but if machines are doing a lot of the work, that doesn't matter.”
China factors a lot in America's export economy, too.“Wages in China have been going up as the country becomes more productive. Thus China is losing the cheap labor advantage it has held for some time.” Cowen says.
Will Jobs Grow, too?
“Companies have become more productive by dismissing workers and lowering costs.”Cowen says.“So I don't view exporting as a way of creating a very large number of jobs, but it will create more profits.”
So not every business or worker is necessarily benefiting from the export boom in the U.S., and Cowen says that could ultimately lead to a polarization(两极) of economic outcomes.
Made In the USA: An Export Boom
Outline
Details
The purpose of  increasing exports
*To help America make a

  1. 1.

    ______ from the economic recession
    *To help raise the nation's

  2. 2.

    ______ rate
    The current situation
    *American exports have risen

  3. 3.

    ______ thirty-four percent up to now
    *There has been an increase in exports in everything
    *The export boom does not necessarily

  4. 4.

    ______ every business or worker

  5. 5.

    ______ contributing to the export boom

  6. 6.

    ______products
    Even in those top beer-producing countries, people try craft beer from Flying Dog, a brewery

  7. 7.

    ______ in Maryland
    Various products
    A variety of products are provided around the world，services

  8. 8.

    ______ for 25%
    Lower costs
    *

  9. 9.

    ______ take the place of labor, helping companies reduce wages
    *China, who used to take

Hallmark arrived in my hometown of Calcutta, India when I was 16. On Valentine’s Day(情人节), I waited in line with many other teenagers just for a chance to get into the store. I remember wishing two things. One of them is that the good-looking boy whom I could see through the store window was picking out a gift for me. Unfortunately, Valentine’s Day passed and I received nothing but a lecture from my father on how Western capitalism(资本主义) was ruining your culture.
The next Valentine’s Day, I still didn’t have a boyfriend, but I did receive a greeting card from a secret admirer. I can’t remember what it exactly said inside the card, but it hardly mattered. I know I’m not the only one who’s had the blues because of being single on Valentine’s Day.
It’s not just on Valentine’s Day that I’m reminded of these feelings. One night, my friend and I were at the subway station in New York City waiting for the local to arrive. The station was mostly full of college students, and later an older couple walked in. Just at that moment, a street musician started playing She’s Only a Woman to Me. The couple began dancing around the station and lost in their own world. On the train, I found myself recalling the time when I was with a date at the subway station, and there he picked me up in his arms like I was a ballerina(芭蕾舞女演员).
My view of romance has changed from when I was 16 in Calcutta to now, 23, and living in Manhattan. This year, I won’t focus all my romantic expectations on one particular day. I’ll spend Valentine’s Day with friends in New York City. But I won’t try to hide somewhere or turn off my cellphone. Instead, I’ll help my coupled-up friends pack for their weekend trips to Rome.

  1. 1.

    The underlined word “Hallmark” in Paragraph 1 probably refers to a              .

    1. A.
      city
    2. B.
      street
    3. C.
      store
    4. D.
      man
  2. 2.

    We can infer that in the opinion of the writer’s father                           .

    1. A.
      his daughter should have received a gift
    2. B.
      people in India shouldn’t celebrate Valentine’s Day
    3. C.
      people in India should welcome Western culture
    4. D.
      his daughter should know more about capitalism
  3. 3.

    According to Paragraph 2, if someone has the blues, he or she is probably           .

    1. A.
      lucky
    2. B.
      angry
    3. C.
      excited
    4. D.
      sad
  4. 4.

    What is implied in the passage?

    1. A.
      The writer now has a boyfriend.
    2. B.
      The writer now is afraid of Valentine’s Day.
    3. C.
      The writer will go to Rome with her coupled-up friends.
    4. D.
      The writer’s attitude towards Valentine’s Day has changed.

Bill Jenkins worked in a big office in the city, and he used to go to the barber’s during working hours to have his hair cut, although this was against the rule: clerks (职员) had to have their hair cut in their own time.
While Bill was at the barber’s one day, the manager of the office came in by chance to have his own hair cut. Bill saw him and tried to hide his face, but the manager found him.
“Hello, Jenkins,” the manager said, “ I see that you are having your hair cut in office time.”
“Yes, sir, I am,” admitted Bill calmly, “You see, sir, it grows in office time.”
“Not all of it,” said the manager at once, “some of it grows in your own time.”
“Yes, sir, but I’m not having it all cut off.”

  1. 1.

    Clerks in the office where Bill worked were ________.

    1. A.
      not allowed to leave the office in office time
    2. B.
      told to go to the barber’s in their free time
    3. C.
      not allowed to go to the barber’s for a hair cut
    4. D.
      told that only the manager could break the rules
  2. 2.

    Bill often went to have his hair cut during office hours because __________.

    1. A.
      he didn’t have to wait long      
    2. B.
      he had no idea of the office rule
    3. C.
      he couldn’t be found by the manager
    4. D.
      he just wanted to save his own time to do other things
  3. 3.

    When the manager saw Bill at the barber’s, he was _________.

    1. A.
      unhappy    
    2. B.
      excited      
    3. C.
      sad       
    4. D.
      anxious
  4. 4.

    The sentence “I’m not having it all cut off,” really means _________.

    1. A.
      Bill wanted to have his hair cut, which grew in office time
    2. B.
      Bill was just against the rule about hair cut
    3. C.
      Bill would like to have his hair cut, which grew both in his office time and in his own time
    4. D.
      Bill didn’t like to have his hair cut, which grew in his own time

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