C

Depression (抑郁症)is a serious problem today. Depression causes workers to be unproductive, causing companies and countries to lose billion of dollars. One expert says that depression is like cancer because it is “widespread, costly and deadly”. Depression hits one person in five around the world.

Although people have believed depression to be a problem among the rich and educated, studies show that depression is a problem among everyone. Over any six-mouth period, between five to seven percent of the world’s population will be suffering from a serious depression.

Suicide (自杀)rates among people suffering from the disease in its extreme, or clinical form were 80 percent higher that in the population at large, and suffers were four times more likely to have heart attacks. People who suffer from depression often have problems sleeping, getting up on time, and doing work productively.

Depression, which researchers agree has its origin in the genes(基因), brings loss of of confidence and ability to concentrate-making it possible for employees and managers to work efficiently.

Depression is made more serious in China by Chinese’s by Chinese inability to face it. Many people believe that depressed people are either weak or lazy. Besides, there is no good treatment, with few specialists available.

“Most patients in China just don’t get help,” a Chinese doctor says. “In my hospital, I have to see 30 or 40 patients in a morning, and just have time to say ‘Hello, how do you feel?’”

In Western countries, people are not afraid to admit that they have depression, but most do not tell it to their boss, because they fear that their boss would fire them.

“In my experience, aging bosses are the most tilling to admit they have it, because they feel the most secure about themselves,” an American doctor says.

Hopefully, in the near future, people around the world will be able to admit that they have depression so that they can get the right treatment.

49.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

       A.It is widely believed that everyone may suffer from depression.

       B.Depression brings great problems to its suffers in their life and work.

       C.Depression is a commonly-existing problem only in rich countries.

       D.The poorer and the less educated a person is, the less he will suffer from depression.

50.Compared to normal people, depressed people are likely to be__________.

       A.very unconfident and often absent-minded   

       B.easy to avoid being hit by heart attacks

       C.working efficiently and productively

       D.either weak or lazy

51.Depression becomes more serious in China because of _________.

       A.the understanding of the problem   B.the lack for treatment and doctors

       C.their unwillingness to tell it to their boss       D.the doctors’ careless work

52.What can we infer from the passage?

       A.People are suffering from depression because of the shortage of specialists.

       B.The aging bosses around the world dare to say they are depressed.

       C.More and more patients will turn to specialists for help.

       D.Western people are braver than Chinese people.

A boy was born to a couple after eleven years of marriage. They were a loving couple and loved the boy very much. When the boy was around two years old, one morning the husband saw a medicine bottle open. He was late for work so he asked the wife to cap the bottle and keep it in the cupboard. The mother, preoccupied in the kitchen, totally forgot the matter.

The boy saw the bottle and playfully went to the bottle and, fascinated with its color, drank it all. It happened to be a poisonous medicine meant for adults in small dosages. When the child collapsed, the mother hurried him to the hospital, where he died. The mother was stunned. She was terrified how to face her husband.

When the distraught father came to the hospital and saw the dead child, he looked at his wife and uttered just four words. The husband just said ‘I am with you, Darling’. The husband's totally unexpected reaction is proactive behavior. The child is dead. He can never be brought back to life. There is no point in finding fault with the mother. Besides, if only he have taken time to keep the bottle away, this will not have happened. No point in attaching blame. She had also lost her only child. What she needed at that moment was consolation and sympathy from the husband. That is what he gave her.

    If everyone can look at life with this kind of viewpoint, there would be much fewer problems in the world. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears and you will find things are actually not as difficult as you think. Sometimes we spend time asking who is responsible or whom to blame, whether in a relationship, in a job or with the people we know. By this way we miss out some warmth in human relationship.

56.The uncapped medical bottle was not put back into the cupboard because         .

        A.the husband was careless         B.the husband was busy

         C.the wife wasn’t informed of the matter   D.the wife ignored the matter

57.What do we know about the bottle?          .

         A.It contained poison only for adults    B.It appeared like a nice drink

         C.It was broken by the child D.It was kept in the kitchen

58.The husband’s attitude towards his wife can be described as           .

         A.optimistic  B.confident   C.considerate        D.generous

59.What did the writer intend to tell us about life?          .

        A.Let go the negative side and we can enjoy life.

         B.It is always useless finding who is responsible

         C.Think of nothing and life will be easy

         D.Life should give way to responsibility

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