单选题7. Not all the new drugs have been sufficiently tested for safety.
单选题In fact the purchasing power of a single person's pension in Hong Kong was only 70 per cent of the value of the ______ Singapore pension.
单选题Her __________ tothejobleftherwithverylittlefreetime.
单选题Anything to do with old myths and legends ______ me.
单选题A: I'm anxious to get started on our project. Can we meet sometime before the weekend? B: ______
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单选题Although the economy seemed, after a few tense months, to ______ the storm without serious long-term damage, the banks were hit hard. A. wipe out B. rub out C. sniff out D. ride out
单选题______ did I feel they were being unreasonable.
单选题You'll find that the community has ______ great changes since you were here last time.
单选题Some readers may find it ______ that a book arguing for greater literacy and intellectual discipline should lead to a call for less rather than more education.
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单选题 Letting it out may be bad for your emotional health.
Many people assume that sharing feelings openly and often is a positive ideal
that promotes mental health. But some social critics and psychologists now
conclude that repressing one's feelings may do more good than venting
emotions. "A small number of researchers are taking an
empirical look at the general assumption that speaking out and declaring one's
feelings is better than holding them in," writes Christina Sommers, a resident
fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. At Suffilk
University, psychologist Jane Bybee classified high-school students on the basis
of their self-awareness: "sensitizers" were extremely aware of their internal
states, "repressors" focused little on themselves, and "intermediates" occupied
the middle range. Bybee then collected student evaluations of themselves and
each other, along with teacher evaluations of the students. On the whole, the
repressors were more socially and academically successful than their more
"sensitized" classmates. Bybee speculated that repressed people, not emoters,
may have a better balance of moods. In a study at Catholic
University in Washington, D.C., researcher George Bonarmo tested the assumption
that, in order to recover mental health, people need to vent negative emotions
by discussing their feelings openly. Bonanno and other researchers found that,
among adolescent girls who had suffered sexual abuse, those who "showed
emotional avoidance" were healthier than those who more openly expressed grief
or anger. One study of Holocaust survivors supports Bonanno in
suggesting that verbalizing strong emotions may not improve a person's mental
health. Researchers found that Holocaust survivors who were encouraged to talk
about their experiences in the war fared worse than repressors. They concluded
that repression was not pathological response to Holocaust experience and that
"talking through" the atrocities failed to being closure to the
survivors. Sommers note that in many societies it has been
considered normal to repress private feelings, and that "in most cultures
stoicism and reticence are valued, while the free expression of emotions is
deemed a personal shortcoming." She is concerned that pushing someone to be
"sensitizers" may also create a preoccupation with self that excludes outside
interests. Sommers is particularly critical of educational approaches that
attempt to encourage self-discovery and self-esteem through excessive
"openness". Healthy stoicism should not be confused with the
emotional numbness that may be brought on by post-traumatic stress disorder.
Most people experiencing such traumas as war, assault, or natural disaster can
benefit from immediate counseling, according to the National Institute of Mental
Health.
单选题Few people would defend the Victorian attitude to children, but if you were a parent in those days, at least you knew where you stood: children were to be seen and not heard. Freud and company did away with all that and parents have been bewildered ever since. The child's happiness is all-important, the psychologists say, but what about the parents' happiness? Parents suffer continually from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good "old-fashioned" spanking is out of the question: no modern child-rearing manual would permit such barbarity. The trouble is you are not allowed even to shout. Who knows what deep psychological wounds you might inflict? The poor child may never recover from the dreadful traumatic experience. So it is that parents bend over backwards to avoid giving their children complexes which a hundred years ago hadn't even been heard of. Certainly a child needs love, and a lot of it. But the excessive permissiveness of modern parents is surely doing more harm than good. Psychologists have succeeded in undermining parents' confidence in their own authority. And it hasn't taken children long to get wind of the fact. In addition to the great modern classics on childcare, there are countless articles in magazines and newspapers. With so much unsolicited advice flying about, mum and dad just don't know what to do any more. In the end, they do nothing at all. So, from early childhood, the kids are in charge and parents' lives are regulated according to the needs of heir offspring. When the little dears develop into teenagers, they take complete control. Lax authority over the years makes adolescent rebellion against parents all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for instance, parents are asked to leave the house. Their presence merely spoils the fun. What else can the poor parents do but obey'? Children are hardy creatures (far hardier than the psychologists would have us believe) and most of them survive the harmful influence of extreme permissiveness which is the normal condition in the modern household. But a great many do not. The spread of juvenile delinquency in our own age is largely due to parental laxity. Mother, believing that little Johnny can look after himself, is not at home when he returns from school, so little Johnny roams the streets. The dividing-line between permissiveness and sheer negligence is very fine 'indeed. The psychologists have much to answer for. They should keep their mouths shut and let parents get on with the job. And if children are knocked about a little bit in the process, it may not really matter too much. At least this will help them to develop vigorous views of their own and give them something positive to react against. Perhaps there's some truth in the idea that children who have had a surfeit of happiness in their childhood appear like stodgy puddings and fail to make a success of life.
单选题I hadn't expected James to apologize but I had hoped ______.
单选题When his wife didn"t believe what he had said, he tried to ______ her of his honesty.
单选题On the giant plane there are ______ the jet needs.
单选题I've told you ______ fire. A. don't play B. don't play with C. not to play with
单选题 To be a good friend or partner
单选题While researchers may not ______ the expansive claims of hard-core vitamin enthusiasts, evidence suggests that the nutrients play a much more complex role in assuring vitality and optimal health than was previously thought.
单选题The none of students in the class likes the mistress, who is used to being ______ of everything they do. A. emotional B. optimistic C. interested D. critical
