5. Which is NOT true according to the article?

　　　 A.It’s important for all people and families to know how to prevent suicides.

　　　 B.It’s necessary to send those who suffer from psychological troubles to the centre.

　　　 C.Professor Zhai is in charge of the centre.

　　　 D.Professor Zhai may be a psychologist.　　　　　　　　　 (DBADB)

W

Betty and Harold have been married for years. But one thing still puzzles old Harold. How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they’re still on the sofa? Talking?

“What in the world,” Harold wonders, “do they have to talk about?”

Betty shrugs(耸肩)。　

“Talk? We’re friends.”

Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men. No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear: women have more friendships than man, and the difference in the content(内容)　and the quality(质量) of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable.”

More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend. Those who could were likely to name a woman. Yet three quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman. More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they could turn to in time of emotional distress(感情危机). “Most women,” says Rubin, “identified(认定)　at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives.”

“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women’s friendship with each other rest on shared　emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says, interaction(交往) between men are emotionally controlled – a good fit with the social requirements of　 “manly behaviour”.

“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Robin writes, “the two share little about their innermost(最深处) feelings. However, a woman’s female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

4. The centre’s services will certainly work because ___________ .

　　　 A.it spreads knowledge of life-saving

　　　 B.one tenth of the people may suicide

　　　 C.many people are suffering

　　　 D.there must be some psychological explanations for suicides

3. According to the news, _______ .

　　　 A.a marked increase in suicide has happened in China.

　　　 B.Professor Zhai founded the first suicide-prevention centre in the world.

　　　 C.You’d better report to the centre on anyone’s suicide

　　　 D.Only Jiangsu Province has such a centre

2. What do you learn about the centre?

　　　 A.It sends telephones to those who try to suicide.

　　　 B.It helps to stop suicide.

　　　 C.It writes for those who have suicided.

　　　 D.It often telephones those who live in Nanjing, advising them to prevent suicide.

1. When did the centre open?

　　　 A. On July 1 every year.　 　　　　　　　　　　　　

　　　 B. On Children’s Day..

C. Three days before the news was published.　

D. On the first Monday of July in 1991.

4.Which of the following statements about the real poet is NOT true?

　 　　 A.He is no more than a master of words

　 　　 B.He can convey his ideas in words which sing like music

　 　　 C.His style is always charming

　 　　 D.His poems can move men to tear　　　　　　　　　 (BCDA)

V

Nanjing (Xinhua)-Suicides(自杀)　are on the increase in China, but anyone who feels like taking that route(路) and who lives in Nanjing can now dial 632977 to talk about it.

China’s first-ever-suicide-prevention centre opened on July the first in the capital of EastChina’s Jiangsu Province.

Professor Zhai Zhutao, head of the centre, said, about 10 percent of the population suffer from

psychological(心理上的) troubles of various kinds, and that suicides are on the rise.

The centre offers telephone, mail and face-to-face advising services while spreading knowledge on how to prevent suicides among people and families.

China Daily

Friday, July 5, 2002

3.In expressing their thoughts, great writers are able ______

　 A.to confound the readers　　　　　　　　 B to move men to tears

　 C.to move us to action　　　　　　　　　　 D to confuse our feeling

2.One of the reasons why men invented certain sounds to express thoughts and actions was

　 that_______.

　　　 A.they could agree upon certain signs　　　

　　　 B.they could write them down

　 　 C.they could communicate with each other　

　　　 D. they could combine them

1.The origin of language is_______

　 　　 A a legend handed down from the past　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B.a matter that is hidden or secret

　 　 C a question difficult to answer　　　　　 D.a problem not yet solved

3. What kind of life would Oliver lead?

A. A happy life　　　 B. A simple life　　　　 C. A quiet life　　 D. A terrible life(BAD)

U

How men first learned to invent words is unknown, in other words, the origin of language is mystery. All we really know is that men, unlike animals, somehow invented certain sounds to express thoughts and feelings, actions and things, so that they could communicate with each other, and that later they agreed upon certain signs, called letters , which could be combined to represent those sounds and which could be written down. Those sounds, whether spoken, or written in letters, we call words.

　 The power of the words, then, lies in their associations--- the things they bring up before our minds. Words become filled with meaning for us by experience, and the longer we live , the more certain words recall us the glad and sad events of our past, and the more we read and learn, the more the number of words that mean something to us increases.

　 Great writers are those who not only have great thoughts but also express these thoughts in words is what we call literary style. Above all, the real poet is a master of words. He can convey his meaning in words which sing like music, and which by their position and association can move men to tears. We should, there, learn to choose our words carefully and use them accurately, or they will make our speech silly and vulgar.