【题目】C

Many of us still tend to think that emotions can affect reasonablethought,and sometimes land us in trouble.But in recent years psychologists have taken quite a different view.Keith Oatley,Professor of Psychology at Glasgow University,is involved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions.

He believes we_are_very_ambivalent_about_them:we think of our emotions as being unreasonable,but we also consider them as essential to being human.For example,Mr Spock,a character in the television series Star Trek,is superintelligent and he has no emotions at all.However,he is never made captain of the spaceship.Maybe,this is because Mr Spock is not the kind of person you can share your feelings with—a person who shows his emotions.

As Professor Oatley points out,our emotions have very important functions,for example,fear.If we cross the road and a car approaches,we usually stop moving or step back.We stop what we are doing,check what we have done and pay very careful attention to the environment.The emotion of fear makes us take this small series of actions which,on average,help preserve our safety.

On the other hand,if things are going well and small problems come up,we find we can solve them with the resources we have to hand.As a consequence,we tend to feel happy and usually continue doing the job.

Anger is an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing us from doing something.Then this small “kit” of reactions enables us to prepare ourselves to be quite aggressive to that person,or to try harder,and so on.

Professor Oatley believes emotions generally ocur at these important moments in actions.With fear and anger our emotions make us decide to start doing something else,while with happiness they “suggest” we continue what we are already doing.

【1】What’s Keith Oatley’s opinion about emotions?

A.They affect reasonable thought.

B.They get us into trouble.

C.They are helpful to us.

D.They are reasonable.

【2】What does the underlined part “we are very ambivalent about them” in Paragraph 2 mean?

A.We have contradictory feelings towards emotions.

B.We have similar ideas of emotions.

C.We are quite clear about emotions.

D.We can do nothing about emotions.

【3】It can be inferred from the passage that________.

A.we must control our emotions in daily life

B.emotions play a more important part than we realize

C.positive emotions such as love and joy are good for us

D.negative emotions make us continue what we are doing

【题目】阅读理解

阅读下短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳答案。

Thanksgiving Day is a special holiday in the United States and Canada. Families and friends gather to eat and give thanks for God’s blessing.

Thanksgiving Day is really a harvest festival. That is why it’s celebrated in late autumn. But the first Thanksgiving Day in America had nothing to do with a good harvest. On December 4, 1619, the Pilgrims from England landed near what is now Charles City, Virginia. They knelt down and thanked God for their safe journey across the Atlantic.

The first Thanksgiving Day in New England did celebrate a rich harvest. The Pilgrims landed at what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620. They had a difficult time and the first winter was cruel. Many of the Pilgrims died. But the next year, they had a good harvest. So Governor Bradford declared a three-day feast(盛宴). The Pilgrims invited Indian friends to join them for their special feast. Everyone brought food.

After that, other colonies(殖民地)began to celebrate the day of thanksgiving. But it took years before there was a national Thanksgiving Day. During the Civil War, Sarah Josepha Hale persuaded Abraham Lincoln to do something about it. He proclaimed(宣布)the last Thursday of November, 1863 as the day of thanksgiving. Today, Americans celebrate this happy harvest festival on the fourth Thursday in November. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving Day in much the same way as their American neighbours do. But Thanksgiving Day in Canada falls on the second Monday in October.

【1】Thanksgiving Day is celebrated .

A.in spring B.in summer

C.in autumn D.in winter

【2】We can infer from the passage that New England must be________.

A.in America B.in Great Britain

C.in Canada D. on an island off the Atlantic

【3】Which of the following is NOT true?

A. Thanksgiving Day used to be a holiday to celebrate a good harvest.

B. Abraham Lincoln was not the first to decide on a day for celebrating Thanksgiving Day.

C. American and Indian people celebrated Thanksgiving Day to express their thanks to God.

D. There’s little difference in the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day between America and Canada.

【4】The passage mainly tells us .

A. how Thanksgiving Day is celebrated in America

B. how Thanksgiving Day came into being

C. Thanksgiving Day is in fact a harvest holiday

D. how the way to celebrate Thanksgiving Day changed with time and places

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