Modcm inventions have speeded up people’s lives amazingly. Motor-cars cover a bundred miles in little more than an hour. Aireraft cross the world a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed, this love of speed seems never-ending. Every ycar motor-cars are produced which go even faster each new computer boasts(吹嘘)of saving preeious seconds in handling tasks.

         All this saves timc, but at a prick.When we lose or gain half a day in speeding aeross the world in an airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfoerable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel tlru they have been left bebind in anot ar nine zoors Again pending too long at compulers resul’s in painti ninrts and fingers. Mobile phones also to dange according to some seientists; too much uss may thesmit h bul radiation into our brains, a we do not like to think about.

         Howave, what do we do with the time we have saved?Certainly not or so it seems. We are so accustomed to constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing, or even just one thing at a time. Pcrhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imavination take us into another world.

         There was a time when some people’s lives were devotcd simply to the cultivation of the land or the eare of eattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives wenl on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so ,we must think of the hard tasks our ancestors faeed;:they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from wood and stone. Modem machinery has freed peope fre that primitive existcnee.

1.The new rooucts opcome more and more time-saving beeause_________.

         A.our love of speed secure never-ending

         B.time is limited

         C.theprices are increasingly high

         D.the manufacturers boast a lot

2.What does“the days”in Paragraph 3 refer to?

         A.I maginary life               B.Simple life in the past

         C.Times of inventions           D.Time for constant activity

3.What is the author’s attitude towards the modem teehnology?

         A.Critical            B.Objective        C.Optimistic            D.Negative

4.What does the pa mge mainly diseuss?

         A.The present and past times             B.Machinary and human beings

         C.Imaginations and inventions            D.Modem technology and its influenec

 

We don’t plan to cry, but it just happens. In fact when we feel sad or angry, a good cry is almost impossible to resist. But if you didn’t know what crying was, you’d have to wonder why some strong feelings started water streaming from people’s eyes and why they seemed to feel better afterwards.
Now a US researcher had found there may be more in crying than we think. William H. Frey II, author of “Crying: The Mystery of Tears,” believes it may really be one of the body’s clever self-repair mechanisms. Crying may be a way of getting rid of the by-products of stress, he says.
He has found that tears contain some chemicals which can cause stress. One of these is the hormone prolactin (激素), which is set free when one is feeling stressed. Since women have more of this than men, that might explain why they usually cry more, he suggests.
Unsurprisingly, Dr Frey’s study seemed to prove that most people feel better after a good cry. And sex has nothing to do with it ––– the result was true for women and men. So, next time you feel like bursting into tears, go ahead. If Dr Frey is right, you’ll be doing yourself a favour

  1. 1.

    The best title of this passage would be ________

    1. A.
      Why Do We Cry
    2. B.
      Crying and Tears
    3. C.
      Dr Frey and Crying
    4. D.
      Tears and Chemicals
  2. 2.

    According to the author, we feel like crying because________

    1. A.
      crying is one of our habits
    2. B.
      we can’t control it
    3. C.
      crying is one of the body’s self-repair mechanisms
    4. D.
      we can get the by-products of stress by crying
  3. 3.

    According to the passage, men seem less likely to cry than women because_______

    1. A.
      their bodies contain less hormone prolactin
    2. B.
      their tears contain more chemicals
    3. C.
      they are not so full of feelings as women
    4. D.
      the chemicals in their tears can’t cause stress
  4. 4.

    The author advised us________

    1. A.
      to plan to cry very often
    2. B.
      not to cry any more
    3. C.
      to go outdoors without hesitation
    4. D.
      to cry as we want to
  5. 5.

    Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

    1. A.
      Good cries can make most people feel better
    2. B.
      Only women can feel better after crying
    3. C.
      It is easy to understand that people feel better after a good cry
    4. D.
      Crying is sometimes impossible to resist

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