题目内容
This March is a busy moth in
Live Music Late Night Jazz
Enjoy real American jazz from Herbie Davis, the famous trumpet player. He’s coming with his new 7 piece band, Herbie’s Heroes. Herbie is known to play well into the early hours, so don’t expect to get much sleep. This is Herbie’s third visit to
PLACE: The Jazz Club DATES:15 23 March PRICE:￥80 TIME: 10:00 p.m. till late! TEL:6466 8736 |
Scottish dancing
Take your partners and get ready to dance till you drop. Scottish dancing is fun and easy to learn. Instructors will demonstrate the dances. The live band, Gordon Stroppie and the Weefrees, are also excellent.
PLACE: Jack Stein’s DATES: every Monday PRICE:￥60 including one drink TIME: 7:00 00:00 p.m. TEL:6402 1877 |
Exhibitions
There are 120,000 pieces on show here. You can see the whole of Chinese history under one roof. It’s always interesting to visit, but doubly so at the moment with the Egyptian Tombs exhibition. There are lots of mummies and more gold than you’ve ever seen before. Let us know if you see a mummy move!
PLACE: Shanghai Museum PRICE:￥30（￥15 for students） TEL:6888 6888 DATES: daily TIME: Monday Friday 9:00 a. m. 5:00 p. m., Weekends 9:00 a. m. 9:00p.m. |
Dining Sushi chef in town
Sushi is getting really big in
PLACE: Suhai Scene in the Shanghai Hotel DATES: all month PRICE:￥200 TIME: lunchtime TEL: 6690 3211 |
For a full listing of events, see our website.
50．Suppose you are going to attend an activity at 11:00 p.m. on Saturday, which one can you choose?
A．Live Music Late Night Jazz B．Scottish dancing
C．Exhibitions Shanghai Museum D．Dinning Sushi chef in town
51．From the text we may learn that Sushi is .
A．a cook B．a kind of food C．an instructor D．an artist
52．Which is not true about the ads?
A．Yuki Kamura will stay in
B．A family of parents with 15 year old twins should pay 75 yuan for the
C．You will probably be taught to dance if you go to Jack Stein’s.
D．American jazz from Herbie Davis is popular in
53．Where are the ads available to people?
A．Newspaper B．Magazine C．TV D．Internet
愉快的寒假南京出版社系列答案A German study suggests that people who were too optimistic about their future actually faced greater risk of disability or death within 10 years than those pessimists who expected their future to be worse.
The paper, published this March in Psychology and Aging, examined health and welfare surveys from roughly 40,000 Germans between ages 18 and 96. The surveys were conducted every year from 1993 to 2003.
Survey respondents (受访者) were asked to estimate their present and future life satisfaction on a scale of 0 to 10, among other questions.
The researchers found that young adults (age 18 to 39) routinely overestimated their future life satisfaction, while middle-aged adults (age 40 to 64) more accurately predicted how they would feel in the future. Adults of 65 and older, however, were far more likely to underestimate their future life satisfaction. Not only did they feel more satisfied than they thought they would, the older pessimists seemed to suffer a lower ratio (比率) of disability and death for the study period.
“We observed that being too optimistic in predicting a better future than actually observed was associated with a greater risk of disability and a greater risk of death within the following decade,” wrote Frieder R. Lang, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Lang and his colleagues believed that people who were pessimistic about their future may be more careful about their actions than people who expected a rosy future.
“Seeing a dark future may encourage positive evaluations of the actual self and may contribute to taking improved precautions (预防措施),” the authors wrote.
Surprisingly, compared with those in poor health or who had low incomes, respondents who enjoyed good health or income were associated with expecting a greater decline. Also, the researchers said that higher income was related to a greater risk of disability.
The authors of the study noted that there were limitations to their conclusions. Illness, medical treatment and personal loss could also have driven health outcomes.
However, the researchers said a pattern was clear. “We found that from early to late adulthood, individuals adapt their expectations of future life satisfaction from optimistic, to accurate, to pessimistic,” the authors concluded.
【小题1】According to the study, who made the most accurate prediction of their future life satisfaction?
| A．Optimistic adults. | B．Middle-aged adults. |
| C．Adults in poor health. | D．Adults of lower income. |
| A．to fully enjoy their present life |
| B．to estimate their contribution accurately |
| C．to take measures against potential risks |
| D．to value health more highly than wealth |
| A．They will earn less money. |
| B．They will become pessimistic. |
| C．They will suffer mental illness. |
| D．They will have less time to enjoy life. |
| A．Pessimism guarantees chances of survival. |
| B．Good financial condition leads to good health. |
| C．Medical treatment determines health outcomes. |
| D．Expectations of future life satisfaction decline with age. |