What’s on TV?

60.If you were a housewife, which program would probably interest you most?

  A. Let’s Talk!                   B. Wall Street Today.

  C. Cooking with Cathy.           D. Farm Report.

61. If you’d like to watch a game show, you could turn on the TV to      .

  A. Channel 5 at 6:00             B. Channel 8 at 7:00

  C. Channel 3 at 7:30             D. Channel 3 at 8:00

62. Which is most probably the News Channel?

  A.3.           B.5.         C. 8.         D. 9.

When I was small and my grandmother died I couldn’t understand why I had no tears. But that night when my dad tried to cheer me up, my laugh turned into crying.

   So it came as no surprise to learn that researchers believe crying and laughing come from the same part of the brain. Just as laughing has many health advantages, scientists are discovering that so, too, does crying.

Whatever it takes for us to reduce pressure is important to our emotional  health, and crying seems to study found that 85 percent of women and 73 percent of men report feeling better after crying.

Besides, tears attract help from other people. Researchers agree that when we cry, people around us become kinder and friendly and they are more ready to provide support and comfort. Tears also enable us to understand our emotions better; sometimes we don't even know we' re very sad until we cry. We learn about our emotions through crying, and then we can deal with them.

Just as crying can be healthy, not crying ― holding back tears of anger, pain or suffering ― can be bad for physical health. Studies have shown that too much control of emotions can lead to high blood pressure, heart problems and some other illnesses. If you have a health problem, doctors will certainly not ask you to cry. But when you feel like crying, don't fight it. It's a natural  ― and healthy ― emotional response .

56. Why didn't the author cry when her grandmother died?

A. Because her father did not want her to feel too sad.

B. Because she did not love her grandmother.

C. Because she was too shy to cry at that time.

D. The author doesn’t give the explanation.

57. It can be inferred from the text that ______.

A. there are two ways to keep healthy

B. crying does more good to health than laughing

C. crying and laughing play the same roles

D. emotional health has a close relationship to physical health

58. According to the author, which of the following statements is true?

A. Crying is the best way to get help from others.

B. Fighting back tears may cause some health problems.

C. We will never know our deep feelings unless we cry.

D. We must cry if we want to reduce pressure.

59. What might be the most suitable title for the text?

A. Power of Tears         B. How to Keep Healthy

C. Why We Cry           D. A New Scientific Discovery

During my second year of college I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.

To be   36   , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the   37    would be ― a very low figure that   38   one home―cooked meal a day. I thought about the    39    and decided to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to find     40    living place, since the daughter was to    41     home. To my delight, they   42   that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their   43   ―her people became my people.  I    44   accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be   45    to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I    46    that she was more independent than I first      47     .

We finally fell in love,   48    , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more    49   than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go    50   largely because we knew that we are deeply    51     .

It isn’t about marriage… it’s about   52   . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as     53   as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be   54   ―you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.”

Is there somebody you can depend on? And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is     55    to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

―_____________?－ Yes, a bit cold, though .
　A. Nice day, isn’t it?　　　　　　　　　 B. Freezing, isn’t it
　C. Bad weather, don’t you think 　　　　 D. Cold weather, isn’t it

Our city has developed into a big city, which is _____ it used to be.

A. four times larger than that            B. four times the size larger than what 

 C. four times the size of what          D. as four times the size as that

― Why did she spend so much time searching shop after shop only for a blouse?

― Oh, she was very _____ about her clothes.

   A.          special       B. curious         C. concerned             D. particular

We can’t wait. We have to_____ the direction and the distance before we take action.

  A. pull out        B. figure out         C. think out             D. turn out

______ full preparations, we decided to put off the meeting till next week.

  A. We did not make                   B. Having not made

  C. We had not made                   D. Not having made

 It is useless trying to ____ her that she doesn’t need to lose any weight.

A. believe      B. convince         C. warn         D. ensure

―It’s a long time        I saw you last.

―Yes，and what a pity，it will be a long time         we see each other again.

A. before; since             B. since; before             C. when; when             D. since; when