My father died when I was a few months old After his death, my mother moved back to Louisville, Kentucky, where __1__ had grown up We lived in a small house with her older sister, Marion, and their mother This was a time when being a single __2___ was still considered unusual

When I was small, there was a children’s book called The Happy Family, and it was a real piece of work Dad worked all day log at the office, Mom cooked in the kitchen, and brother and sister always had friends sleeping over The image of the family in this book was typical (典型的) of the time It looked __3___ like my family, but luckily that wasn’t the way I heard it The way my Aunt Marion read it to me made the story really __4__

Kind-hearted and open-minded, my aunt was the one who played baseball with me, who took me horseback riding, who took me to the father-son dinners and who gave me lessons on how to drive Believing that anything __5__ was probably good for, she __6__ to get a loan (贷款) so that I could go to Africa to work as a volunteer, which was my most important experience

As a young girl, Aunt Marion always planned to have a large number of children of her own, but she never got marriedThis __7__ that she was free to spend all her time taking care of meMany people say we have a lot in commonShe always __8__ me to do my best She never __9__ to make me believe that I could do anything with my life that I wanted, if I only tried hard enough

For more than sixty years, Aunt Marion didn’t and still don’t think of herself __10__ she is forced to come up to the front, my aunt will stand in the back in family photos, and she doesn’t think that her efforts have made much __11___I honor my aunt, who taught me the things my __12___ couldn’tSo every June for the past 40 years, in growing thankfulness to my Aunt Marion, I’ve sent her a Father’s Day card

1 A I                        B she                     C he                      D we

2 A man                   B family                  C parent                 D child

3 A nothing               B anything              C everything           D something

4 A surprising            B boring                 C sad                     D funny

5 A interesting         B pleasant               C impossible   D unusual

6 A decided               B afforded              C offered               D prepared

7 A said                    B meant                 C proved                D showed

8 A allowed               B afforded              C offered               D forced

9 A hoped                 B agreed                C stopped              D tailed

10 A Unless              B Although             C Since                  D Before

11 A difference          B progress             C trouble                       D sense

12 A Teachers            B mother                       C father                        D friends

It’s 2009You feel sick, so you go to the doctorShe checks your fever, looks at your throat, and asks what you’ve been thinking about lately When you leaveshe gives you some medicine, but also a list of thinking skills that you are supposed to practice daily She says that the way you think is causing some of your illness

Doctors and other scientists who study the human mind and try to explain why people behave in the way that do, called psychologists, are starting to believe itYou know that your brain is connected to every part of your body through your nervous system(神经系统).Now scientists have proved that how you think and feel can have an influence on the health of your body

Stress(压力,紧张) is caused whenever there is a problem or a change in your lifeOf course, everybody has stress more or less; nobody’s life is perfectIn fact, stress is necessary Without stress, we would never learn anything or grow or changeWe would probably be bored to deathBut too much stress can hurt you It can weaken your body’s protection so that you are more likely to catch diseasesIt can even make you more likely to have an accident

When you feel stress, your brain sends a message to your body to produce a chemical called adrenaline(肾上腺素).Adrenaline speeds up your breathing and your heartbeat Today you have a different kind of stressProblems like endless homework or troubles with your family are the kind of things you can’t fight or run away from, so you don’t use up all that adrenalineIt just stays bottled up inside you, and that’s what can do something bad to you

What can you do about stress? First, you can try to find ways to change things so you aren’t under so much stressYou can set up a plan to finish homework or go to a doctor or a psychologist to try to work things out with your family or your friendsBut sometimes you can’t change a stressful situationSometimes you don’t even want to A big change might be a good change, but it will still be stressful

The link(关联) between your body and brain works in two waysYour body can help your mind deal with stressIf you are under stress, you need to take especially good care of your bodyIt’s important to get enough sleep and eat nutritious mealsSome people take a vitamin-mineral pill every dayAnother thing that you can do is daily exercise If you go walking or do aerobic dancing or work out at the gym, you give your body a chance to burn up some of that adrenalineOf course, a person who isn’t used to much physical activity should start slowlyAnyone with a continuing physical problem should check with a doctor before staring any exercise programs

1 A psychologist is a person who may help you with your ______

       A illness and abilities                                     B thoughts and behaviour

       C mind and nervous system                          D physical activity and daily exercise

2 Which of the following is true according to the passage?

       A You shouldn’t go to the gym if you are under stress

       B One can do his homework to burn up adrenaline

       C Diseases and accidents are caused by stress

       D Everyone needs stress to improve himself

3 From the last sentence of Paragraph 5 we can infer that ________

       A it’s difficult to change a stressful situation

       B it’s not stressful when a good change takes place

       C a big change will cause another stressful situation

       D a stressful situation can’t be changed without any effort

4 What is probably the best title for this passage?

       A The body-Brain Link                                 B The Causes of Stress

       C The Advice on Health                                D The Nervous System

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