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
3、根据下列句子所给单词的首字母,在答题纸上按题号写出各单词正确的完全形式(每空限写一词)
1.In the o__________ of many people, the film is well worth seeing.
2.The life boat was sent out to r__________ the sailors from the sinking ship.
3.C __________ should complain if they are not satisfied with the products they buy or the service they receive.
4.Nowadays more and more Chinese students choose to further their study a__________.
5.It’s hard to get all the villages together, because they live s__________.
6.It’s bad m__________ to break in when others are talking.
7.More natural resources should be developed to meet the i__________ need of energy.
8.The shy girl won the speech contest. It was really a c__________ surprise to me.
9.He has d___________ all his life to helping the poor in Africa.
10.You can hardly imagine the difficulty the woman had b__________ up her children.
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.________
1、随着科技的发展,智能型机器人因其功能完善,价格不贵等优势,越来越受到人们的青睐,在人们生活中起了很大作用,比如:可以代替人们从事一些危险工作,帮助人们做家务,甚至照看病人和小孩等,请你就未来机器人是否会完全代替人类表达自己的观点。
要求:1.文章开头已给出,不记入总词数,词数:120左右。
2.为使行文连贯,可适当增加细节。
3.参考词汇:智能型机器人 intelligent robots
With the development of science and technology, more and more intelligent robots are being used in……
________________________________________________________________________??______
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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
36、Be confident my boy, _____ you are born rich or poor.
A.if B.that C.which D.whether
35、你的澳大利亚笔友Tom发来电子邮件,向你询问国家体育馆“鸟巢”的有关信息。请你根据下列提示给Tom回一封电子邮件,简单介绍“鸟巢”。
地 点
北京北部
建筑面积
5.8万平方米,可容纳9万多名观众
开工/竣工时间
2003年12月-2007年
外 观
犹如用树枝搭成的“鸟巢”
用 途
奥运会期间可举办田径、足球比赛
奥运会后将用于各类大型活动
Kofi Annan
的评价
“鸟巢”将成为奥运历史上一个建筑奇观
注意:1.词数100左右; 2.短文的开头已为你写好; 3.短文须包括表中所提供的要点。
提示词语: 田径: track and field events 观众: spectators 建筑: architecture
Dear Tom,
In your last e-mail, you showed a great interest in our National Stadium — the Bird’s
Nest. Now I’d like to introduce it to you.
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Yours faithfully,
Li Ming