任务型阅读 (共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)

For hundreds of years, scientists have been trying to answer what things have an effect on people’s emotions (情感). How you feel is controlled by many things. Your emotions can be affected by your personality, the actions of others and the events around you. Perhaps you don’t know your emotions can be influenced by the weather as well.

People often say they feel good when the sun is shining and sad when it is cloudy. In fact, sunlight makes us feel good. When sunlight hits our skins, our bodies produce a vitamin. Vitamins are chemical substances (化学物质) which we all need to stay healthy. Sunlight helps our bodies produce vitamin D. Vitamin D helps our bodies make a special chemical substance. This special chemical substance affects our brains(大脑) and makes us feel happy. For example, there are long, dark winters of little sunlight in Sweden and Norway, so many people in these countries often feel sad. Without much sunlight, their bodies produce less vitamin D. Without enough vitamin D, their bodies make less of this special chemical substance which makes them feel good. To help the people in these countries feel better, special “ sunrooms” with artificial(人造的) lights have been built. People can go there and get “sunlight” for an hour or two!

The weather can also affect people’s emotions in other ways. Hot weather can make people angry because people feel uncomfortable when it is hot. In the same way, rain can make people angry because being wet can be unpleasant. As you can see, the weather can have an effect on the chemical substances which control our brains. Through these ways, the weather can influence our emotions. Sadly , while the weather can change us, we can hardly change the weather.

The 1. influences people’s emotions

What influen ces people’s emotions? Your 2. , the actions of others, the events 3.you and the weather 4. are our emotions influenced by the weather ? 5.

Our bodies produce a chemical substance when sunlight hits our skins. Then it makes us feel 6. .

Hot weather

It can make people feel uncomfortable when it is hot.

7. weather

Being wet can be so unpleasant that we feel angry.

8. The weather can influence our emotions 9. it influences the chemical substances that control our brains.

The weather can change us, but we can do 10. to change the weather.

I shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to say a little to me. “I can’t tell you anything,” he finally said. “I never went to college, and none of your brothers went to college. I can’t say don’t do this or do that, because everything is different and I don’t know what is going to come up. I can’t help much with money, either, but I think things will work out.”

He gave me a new chequebook(支票本). “If things get pushing, write a small check. But when you write one, send me a letter and let me know how much it is. There are some things we can always sell.” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than one thousand dollars. My part-time jobs such as reading to the blind students and sitting with the teachers’ kids filled in the financial gaps.

“You know what you want to be, and they’ll tell you what to take,” my father went on. “When you get a job, be sure it’s honest, and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town, and I would miss the cool wind and the life where your thinking was done for you.

Then my dad reached down beside his seat and took out the old, broken Bible that he had read many times, the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours. I knew he would miss it. I knew, though, that I must take it.

He didn’t say “Read this every morning.” He just said, “This can help you if you read it.”

Did it help? I went to college without being a burden(负担) on the family. I had been able to make money since then.

1.What is the writer’s main purpose in writing this passage?

A. To tell readers his life story.

B. To tell people what kind of person his father was.

C. To let people know how poor he was.

D. To tell readers what present he got from his father.

2.Why didn’t the father ask his son not to do this or do that?

A. Because he had never been to college and he didn’t know what was going to come up.

B. Because he was born in a poor family.

C. Because he was a man of few words.

D. Because he didn’t want to be much too strict with his son.

3.What can we learn from this passage?

A. How to live happily.

B. How to stand on one’s own feet.

C. What a good father should do.

D. What self-confidence is.

4.The underlined phrase “financial gaps” means “________” in Chinese.

A. 闲暇 B. 学费 C. 经济不足 D. 精神空虚

5.What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer’s father?

A. It was a book which told you how to get on well with others.

B. There were many good examples for you to copy in it.

C. It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future.

D. It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble.

阅读下面短文,根据提问回答下面的问题。 (10分)

Nowadays people are making themselves beautiful in Korean ways.

“Thank goodness you have double eyelids(双眼皮). Your parents will save a lot of money,” said a friend when I was five years old. Double eyelids, which almost all the white people have, are rare among Northeast Asians. Only 25% of South Koreans are born with double eyelids.

I never quite understood how having double eyelids saved my parents’ money until this summer. When I came back to Seoul, everywhere I noticed cosmetic surgery clinics(整形诊所) and advertisements with South Korean women—tall, thin, with milky skin, long legs, nice big eyes and perfect noses. I found that South Korean beauty meant looking as “white” as possible.

Cosmetic surgery has a kind of magical attraction to women—the promise of beauty. Women are often sure that suffering is necessary and worthy in order to be beautiful. This suffering is not for nothing. It is believed that beauty leads to attracting a better-looking partner, which then leads to a better-looking child and a better life.

Appearance is starting to be more important in workplaces. People with good appearance can have more chance. For example, my 29-year-old brother, who is slim and very tall, gets more job chances than his best friend, who is shorter and heavier, though both of them came from the same college, had the same good marks in their studies. In fact, many South Koreans believe that physical beauty equals happiness.

1.How many South Koreans are born with double eyelids?

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2.When did the writer understand having eyelids saved his parents’ money?

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3. Why do so many women want to have cosmetic surgery?

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4.What kind of people can get more job chances in the passage?

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5.What do many South Koreans believe?

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