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　　Take die following tips to reduce your stress(压力) to manageable levels! Avoid “Must Thinking. ”Let go of the idea that you must do something in a certain way, for example, “I must get at great score on a test” , or else .This thought pattern only adds to the stress you'll feel . Judge the situation calmly, and not as a “life-or-death” situation. Watch the Mess. Don't study in a messy or crowded area. Clear yourself a nice, open space that's free of distraction. Set Manageable Goals. Break large projects into smaller and practical parts. You'll feel a positive sense of achievement as you finish each part. Ocean Dumping. Imagine yourself walking on a beautiful beach, carrying a sand pail. Stop at a good spot and put your worries into the pail. Drop the pail and watch as it floats away into the ocean. Think Good Thoughts. Close your eyes and remember a real life situation in which you did well. Imagine facing your stressful situation with the same feelings of success. Use Your Bed for Sleeping, Not Studying. Your mind may start to connect your bed with work, which will make it harder for you to fall asleep. Comforting Sounds. If you want to play music, keep it low it the background. Classical music especially, can help the learning process. Take a Walk. Friend. Need a study break. Take a short, brisk walk. Clear your mind.

1．What is the best tide of the passage?

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A．How to Reduce Your Stress

B．How to Set Manageable Goals

C．The Cause of Stress

D．The Study of the Human Mind

2．The phrase Ocean Dumping means that yon should ________,while you are in trouble.

[　　]

A．walk on a beautiful beach

B．drop your thoughts into the sea

C．get rid of the worries of your problem

D．not pay much attention to any of your feeling

3．In order to complete a large project, we can ________.

[　　]

A．set practical goals first

B．build a sense of success

C．accept the large project as a whole

D．finish half of the project first and then the other

4．From the passage we can learn ________.

[　　]

A．you can think clearly while you are in bed

B．rock music can help the learning process

C．thinking your real life success will do you good while facing difficulty

D．you must treat everything as a “life-or-death” situation and consider it carefully

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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　Follow the following tips to reduce your stress(压力)to manageable levels!

　　Avoid“Must Thinking”. Let’s go off the idea that you must do something in a certain way－for example,“I must get a great score on a test, or else.”This thought pattern only adds to the stress you’ll feel. Judge your situation calmly, and not as a“life-or-death”situation.

　　Watch the Mess(杂乱). Don’t study in a messy or a crowded area. Clear yourself a nice, open space that’s free of distraction(注意力分散).

　　Set Manageable Goals. Break large projects into smaller and practical parts. You’ll feel a positive(积 极的)sense of achievement as you finish each part.

　　Ocean Dumping. Imagine yourself walking on a beautiful beach, carrying a sand pail(桶)Stop at a good spot and put your worries into the pail. Drop the pail and watch as it floats away into the ocean.

　　Think Good Thoughts. Make a set of good but brief affirmation(肯定)and repeat them to yourself just before you fall asleep at night. You will feel much better in the morning.

　　Imagine Yourself Succeeding. Close your eyes and remember a real life situation in which you did well. Imagine facing your stressful situation with the same feeling of success.

　　Use your Bed for Sleeping. Not Studying . Your mind may start to connect your bed with work, which will make it harder for you to fall asleep.

　　Comforting Sounds. If you want to play music, keep it low in the background. Classical music especially, can help the learning process.

　　Take a Walk , Friend. Need a study break? Take a short, brisk walk. Clear your mind.

1．What is the best title of the passage?

[　　]

A．How to Reduce Your Stress

B．How to Set Manageable Goals

C．The Cause of the Stress

D．The Study of the Human Mind

2．The words Ocean Dumping in Paragraph 5 mean that you should ________, while you are in trouble.

[　　]

A．walk on a beautiful beach

B．drop your thoughts into the sea

C．throw away your worries

D．not pay much attention to any of your feelings

3．In order to complete a large project, we can ________.

[　　]

A．set practical goals first

B．build a sense of success

C．accept the large project as a whole

D．finish half of the project first and then the other

4．How many tips does the writer give us in this passage?

[　　]

5．From the passage we can learn ________.

[　　]

A．you can think clearly while you are in bed

B．rock music can help the learning process

C．thinking your real-life success will do you good while facing difficulty

D．you must treat everything as a“life-or-death”situation and consider it carefully

When you go shopping，you are given at least one plastic bag to carry what you’ve bought.They are so common that we don’t often give them a second thought.But the beginning of the end may have come for the plastic bag.

A small town in Tasmania，an island off the south coast of mainland Australia，is making itself an environmental role model (模范) by becoming the country’s first plastic­bag­free town.

Since April 28，Coles Bay’s population of 175 and its tourist shoppers have been using reusable paper or cloth bags to carry their shopping.

Coles Bay sits on the edge of the beautiful Freycinet national park.Around 180,000 tourists pass through the town and the park every year.

Ben Kearney，a local businessman who supports the bag ban，said it would cut the amount of waste and prevent damage to native wildlife who try to eat the plastic.

“Most of the business here comes from the tourism and that’s all based on the environment，so people were pretty supportive.”he said.

Every year Australians use more than 6 million plastic bags.More than half of these come from supermarkets.Since_it_takes_years_for_the_bags_to_biodegrade_(生物分解)，tens_of_millions_end_up_polluting_the_environment.They kill about 100,000 seabirds and animals，which mistake the bags for food，every year.

Only in the past few months have major Australian supermarkets begun cutting down on their use of plastic bags.Environmental groups are pushing for a plastic bag fee (费) like that in Ireland.There，since plastic bags cost 10 pence (about 1 yuan) each，their use has been cut by 90 percent.

Pollution caused by plastic bags is a big headache for countries all over the world.As early as 1999，Beijing said that only plastic bags of certain thickness could be used.This was to encourage them to be used again and again.In China’s capital alone，an average of 6 million plastic bags are used every single day.

36．What’s meant by“the beginning of the end may have come for the plastic bag”in the first paragraph?

A．It’s possible for the war against plastic bag use to have been started.

B．It’s likely that plastic bag use has been stopped.

C．It won’t be long before an end is put to plastic bag use.

D．Once started，plastic bag use will never end.

37．We can know from the passage that Coles Bay________.

A．is a small coastal city

B. is a place where you can see far more visitors than natives

C. was the first to offer plastic bags to shoppers free of charge

D．is a place where reusable plastic bags are used

38．According to Ben Kearney，the natives welcome the change in bag use because they________.

A．need to make money

B．are short of energy supply

C．don’t want to waste money

D．want to do something good for mankind

39．Judging from the underlined sentence in the Paragraph 7，“end up doing sth.” means“________”．

A．stop doing sth.                                     B．begin doing sth.

C．do sth.as a result                                  D．disappear while doing sth.

40．Which country or area is more polluted by plastic bags than the others?

A．Ireland.                                              B．Mainland Australia.

C．Coles Bay.                                          D．Beijing.

（陕西省宝鸡中学2010届高三适应性训练）

There is a wonderful fable about a young girl who had no family and no one to love her．One day, feeling sad and  26  , she was walking through a meadow （草地） when she noticed a small   27  caught in a thorn （荆棘）bush．The more the butterfly   28   to free itself, the deeper the thorns cut into its body．The young girl carefully released the butterfly   29   the thorns．   30   flying away , the little butterfly changed into a beautiful fairy ．The young girl rubbed （搓） her eyes in  31 ．

       “For your wonderful kindness,” the good fairy said to the girl, “I will grant（准予，实现） you any word you  32  like．”

       The little girl thought   33   and then replied, “I want to be happy!”

       The fairy said, “Very well,” and leaned toward her and   34   in her ear．Then the good fairy suddenly disappeared．

       As the little girl  35  , there was no one in the land as  36 as she．Everyone asked her the  37  of her happiness．She would only smile and answer, “The reason for my happiness is   38    I listened to a good fairy when I was a little girl．”

       When she was very old and on her deathbed, the  39  all came together around her, being  40  that the fabulous （传说的） secret of happiness would  41 her．“Tell us, please,” they begged．“Tell us what the good fairy said．”

       The lovely old woman   42   smiled and said, “She told me that everyone,  43  old or young, rich or poor they seemed, had  44  of me．”

       Happiness is the most precious thing in the world, which can be obtained in different ways．And happiness is also the simplest thing if you just do what you should do．It’s   45   that if you love and help others you’ll get it．

26．A．alone             B．lonely            C．hopeless         D．helpful

27．A．bird           B．ant            C．worm           D．butterfly

28．A．struggled       B．stuck          C．struck             D．stretched

29．A．of              B．from              C．away              D．off

30．A．In spite of      B．In place of                                      C．Instead of      D．In short of

31．A．disbelieve        B．disbelief            C．belief          D．believe

32．A．had             B．will             C．would               D．should

33．A．for a moment      B．in a moment       C．at the moment     D．over the moment

34．A．said           B．told             C．whispered      D．talked

35．A．turned up        B．brought up         C．came up           D．grew up

36．A．rich             B．beautiful         C．happy            D．elegant

37．A．key             B．secret                                          C．resource     D．way

38．A．that              B．because        C．why               D．for

39．A．families        B．friends         C．neighbors         D．guests

40．A．afraid               B．frightened      C．concerning     D．glad

41．A．die off         B．die out         C．die away       D．die with

42．A．simply           B．justly          C．rightly         D．quitely

43．A．how            B．however            C．whenever        D．when

44．A．need            B．request              C．require           D．demand

45．A．sure           B．certain         C．possible        D．impossible

The findings come ___36___ a study of nearly 1,000 US people that looked at diet, calorie intake and body mass index (BMI) - a measure of obesity.___37___ is found that those who ate chocolate a few times a week were, on ___38___, slimmer than those ___39___ ate it occasionally. Even though chocolate is loaded with calories, it contains ingredients（材料）that may favour weight loss ___40___ than fat synthesis, scientists believe.___41___ boosting calorie intake, regular chocolate consumption was related to lower BMI in the study, ___42___ is published in Archives of Internal Medicine. The link remained even when other factors, like how ___43___ exercise individuals did, were taken into ___44___.And it appears it is how often you eat chocolate that is important, rather than how much of it you eat. The ___45___ found no link with quantity consumed.

___46___ to the researchers, there is only one chance in a hundred that their findings could be explained by chance alone. Lead author Dr Beatrice Golomb, from the University of California at San Diego, said: "Our findings appear to add to a body of information suggesting that the composition of calories, not just the number of them, matters for determining their ultimate impact on weight."This is not the first time scientists ___47___ that chocolate may be healthy for us. Other studies have claimed chocolate may be good for the heart. Consumption of certain types of chocolate has been linked to some favourable changes in blood pressure, insulin（胰岛素）sensitivity and cholesterol（胆固醇）level. And chocolate, ___48___ dark chocolate, does contain antioxidants（抗氧化剂）which can help to mop up harmful free radicals - unstable chemicals that can damage our cells.

Dr Golomb and her team believe that antioxidant compounds, called catechins（儿茶素）, can improve lean muscle mass and reduce weight  ___49___ studies in rodents would suggest this might be so. Mice ___50___ for 15 days with epicatechin (present in dark chocolate) had improved exercise performance and observable changes to their muscle composition.They say clinical trials are now needed in humans to see ___51___ this is the case.

But before you reach ___52___ a chocolate bar, there are still lots of unanswered questions. And in the absence of conclusive evidence, experts advise caution.While there's no harm in allowing yourself a treat like ___53___ now and again, eating too much might be harmful because it often ___54___ a lot of sugar and fat too.And if you are looking to change your diet, you are ___55___ to benefit most from eating more fresh fruits and vegetables.