5、America’s No.1 health problem? A report published by the American Institute of Stress claims the biggest threat to health today is neither cancer nor AIDS. The report says: “It has been estimated that 75—90 percent of all visits to primary care physicians are for stress related problems.”   

It is no exaggeration to say that people today are being attacked by stress. According to the National Consumers League, “Work is the top source of stress for adults who have problems and stress in their lives (39%), followed by family (30%). Other sources include health (10%), concern about the economy (9%) and concern about international conflict and terrorism (4%).”

However, stress is hardly unique to the United States. A British survey in 2005 estimated that “over half a million individuals in Britain believed in 2004 that they were experiencing work-related stress at a level that was making them ill.” As a result of “work-related stress, depression or anxiety,” there are “an estimated thirteen and a half million reported lost working days per year in Britain.”  

The picture is no less bleak (荒凉的) in mainland Europe. According to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, “work-related stress has been shown to affect millions of European workers across all types of employment sectors.” One survey revealed that there are “about 41 million workers affected by work-related stress each year.”  

What about Asia? A report issued by a conference held in Tokyo concluded: “Job stress is a common concern among many countries in the world, both developing and industrialized countries.” The report observed that “several countries in East Asia, including China and Korea, have rapidly industrialized and economically grown. These countries now have a lot of concerns on job stress and its harmful effects on workers’ health.”

1.The author quoted “America’s No.1 Health Problem.” (Para. 1) in order to ______. 

       A.talk about health problems in America 

       B.introduce the topic of stress               

       C.emphasize the stress in America         

       D.tell readers something about American Institute of Stress

2.Which of the followings is NOT true? 

       A.The threat of stress is bigger than cancer and AIDS. 

       B.Stress is always from working and living pressure. 

       C.Some of Americans care about international conflict and terrorism. 

       D.A lot of English people become ill as a result of stress. 

3.We can infer from the last paragraph that ______. 

       A.Asian people are more willing to develop their countries

      B.the rapid economic development is the main reason for stress   

       C.some people in Asian countries have health problems from employment stress 

       D.Asian countries have a better situation of stress than Europe

4.What’s the best title for this passage? 

       A.America’s No.1 Health Problem             B.Working Stress around the World 

       C.How to Deal with Stress                       D.Attacked by Stress

2、此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断:如无错误,在该行右边横线上画一个钩(√);如有错误(每行只有一个错误),则按下列情况改正:

此行多一个词:把多余的词用斜线(/)划掉, 在该行右边横线上写出该词,并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词:在缺词处加一个漏词符号(/\),在该行右边横线上写出该词。

此行错一个词:在错的词下面划一横线,在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

原行没有错的不要改。

A person’s age no longer tells you something about                   1.________

his social position, marriage or healthy. There’s no longer,                2.________

a particular year which one goes to school or goes to                       3.________

work or gets married or start a family. The social clock                    4.________

that keeps us on time and tells us when go to school, get                  5.________

a job, or stop working isn’t as strong as it was used to be.               6.________

It doesn’t surprise us to hear a 28-year-old university                      7.________

president or a 35-year-old grandmother, or 70-year-old                    8.________

man who has become a father for the first time. What we                9.________

all know, public’s ideas are changing nowadays.                             10.________

38、Alfred Korzybski believes that all human beings lead a kind of double life. First, people live in an internal (内在的) world of ideas, feelings, etc. The happenings in this world are patterns of events in the human nervous system . Secondly , people live in a world outside their skins, the external(外在的)world of “reality”. The happenings in this world are patterns of events best known to science.

The first world, the patterns of events inside our skins, Korzybski called the INTEN- SIONAL areA.The second, the patterns of events outside our skins, he called the EXTEN- SIONAL area . Think for a moment about the two worlds in which you live. Look , for example, at the following diagram:

INTENSIONAL PATTERNS           EXTENSIONAL PATTERNS

“cat”                             An object we call “cat”.

The word "cat ".                        A pattern of physical and

The image of this cat.                    chemical events best

Ideas about cats.                        known to science.

Feelings about cats.

Physical tensions aroused

by the cat: the urge to

pick it up, to kick it, etc.

Thinking along these lines , Alfred Korzybski began to see what was wrong with the great number of people: they confused intensional events with extensional “reality”. He believed that too many people mistake the events in their own nervous systems for events in the outside world . When they get lost in a strange city , more often than not they are angry at the map they use. In fact, it’s the maps of words in their heads that are to blame.

1.According to Alfred Korzybski, we human beings live in__________.

    A.the world of ideas

    B.the world of reality

    C.either the world of ideas or that of reality

    D.both the world of ideas and that of reality

2.The INTENSIONAL area in the passage refers to the patterns of events__________.

       A.outside our skins                                  B.best known to science

       C.in the human nervous system          D.in the external world of reality

3.Which of the following belongs to EXTENSIONAL pattern?

       A.A computer on the shelf.               B.A computer is useful.

C.I like the computer.                    D.I want to buy the computer.

4.According to what Alfred Korzybski states in the last paragraph, you get lost because of _  .   

    A.the map you bring with you             B.the maps of words in your head

       C.the reality world before you                  D.the strange city you visit

 

 

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