阅读理解(1) It can be risky these days to suggest that there are any innate differences between men and women, other than those of anatomy

阅读理解Passage C In 776 B

阅读理解Along the Mighty Thames The Thames The Thames is the longest river in England, running 352 kilometers from where it rises in the Costswold Hills in Gloucestershire to the North Sea

阅读理解Passage 3 During my 25 years as a marital therapist, I have seen hundreds of people disappointed over unfulfilling relationships

阅读理解Text 6 The two principal ways in which immigrant groups adjust to the dominant culture of the host country are assimilation and acculturation

阅读理解Passage F The standard of living of any country means the average persons share of the goods and services which the country produces

阅读理解Over the last 25 years, British society has changed a great deal-or at least many parts of it have

阅读理解Text 1 A lot of perfectly respectable small businesses are raking in money from Internet fraud

阅读理解Passage D Petroleum products, such as gasoline, kerosene, home heating oil, residual fuel oil, and lubricating oils, come from one sourcecrude oil found below the earths surface, as well as under large bodies of water, from a few hundred feet below the surface to as deep as 25,000 feet into the earths interior

阅读理解Passage 3 Perhaps there are far more wives than I imagine who take it for granted that housework is neither satisfying nor even important once the basic demands of hygiene and feeding have been met

阅读理解Knowing that Mrs

阅读理解Passage 3 The expansion of universities is one marked feature of the social life in the present age

阅读理解Passage 3 As the merchant class expanded in the eighteenth century North American Colonies, the silversmith and the coppersmith businesses rose to serve it

阅读理解Greece, economically, is in the black

阅读理解Passage H For office innovators, the unrealized dream of the paperless office is a classic example of high-tech hubris

阅读理解Text 4 I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only common people of the world could meet each other at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. For each of them there are four choices marked A.,B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 3People who spend their days glued to networking websites such as Facebook and Twitter are more likely to bedepressed, a new U.K. study has revealed.A team of researchers at the University of Leeds have conducted the first large-scale survey of its kind to find a linkbetween the Internet and depression.“The Internet now plays a huge part in modern life, but its benefits are accompanied by a darker side,” saidpsychologist Catriona Morrison, lead author of the study, which is published in the journal Psychopathology Today.The survey was administered online, with adverts place on social-networking sites, and 1,319 people took the tests.Participants were asked to answer questions in an Internet Addiction Test. Internet Function Test (to see what peopleuse the Internet for most) and the Beck Depression Inventory.Morrison and her team found that 18 respondents were “Internet addicted”. When matched against not-addictedInternet users within the survey, the difference in depression ratings was significant; the addicts showed higher levelsof depression than their non-addicted counterparts.In addition, the team found a correlation between the type of sites visited and the level of user addition. According tothe study, Internet addicts spent more time on “gaming websites and online community chat”, whereas the non-addicted group perused (浏览) a wider range of site.But Morrison acknowledged some caveats (为防止误解而作的说明) to the study. The Internet Addiction Test,although a useful tool in studying this modern age addiction, is not a foolproof method of diagnosis. New testsincorporating (包含) measures of social isolation and loneliness may provide a more accurate measure to continue inthis area.“What is clear”, said Morrison, “is that for a small subset of people, excessive use of the Internet could be a warningsignal for depressive tendencies.”The study also leaves many questions unanswered. Having found a correlation, future studies may try to determinethe cause. Do people become depressed because they are addicted to the Internet or turn to the Internet becausethey’re depressed?Morrison hopes future studies of Internet users will help define what this link might be. “We now need to considerthe wider societal implications of this relationship and confirm clearly the effects of excessive Internet use on mentalhealth.”

阅读理解No one can be a great thinker who does not realize that as a thinker it is her first duty to follow her intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead

阅读理解Passage 2 The other day, I walked into an airport mens room, which was empty except for one man, who appeared to be having a loud, animated conversation with a urinal

阅读理解Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. For each of them there are four choices marked A.,B., C. and D. You should decide on the best choice.Passage 2Of all the components of a good night’s sleep, dreams seem to be least within our control. In dreams, a windowopens into a world where logic is suspended and dead people speak. A century ago, Freud formulated hisrevolutionary theory that dreams were the disguised shadows of our unconscious desires and fears; by the late 1970s,neurologists had switched to thinking of them as just “mental noise”—the random byproducts of the neural repairwork that goes on during sleep. Now researchers suspect that dreams are part of the mind’s emotional thermostat,regulating moods while the brain is “off line.” And one leading authority says that these intensely powerful mentalevents can be not only harnessed but actually brought under conscious control, to help us sleep and feel better. “It’syour dream,” says Rosalind Cartwright, chair of psychology at Chicago’s Medical Center, “if you don’t like it,change it.”The link between dreams and emotions shows up among the patients in Cartwright’s clinic. Most people seem tohave more bad dreams early in the night, progressing toward happier ones before awakening, suggesting that they areworking through negative feelings generated during the day. Because our conscious mind is occupied with daily lifewe don’t always think about the emotional significance of the day’s events—until appears, we begin to dream.And this process need not be left to the unconscious. Cartwright believes one can exercise conscious control overrecurring bad dreams. As soon as you awaken, identify what is upsetting about the dream. Visualize how you wouldlike it to end instead; the next time it occurs, try to wake up just enough to control its course. With much practicepeople can learn to, literally, do it in their sleep.At the end of the day, there’s probably little reason to pay attention to our dreams at all unless they keep us fromsleeping or “we wake up in panic”. Cartwright says. Terrorism, economic uncertainties and general feelings ofinsecurity have increased people’s anxiety. Those suffering from persistent nightmares should seek help from atherapist. For the rest of us, the brain has its ways of working through bad feelings. Sleep-or rather dream-on it andyou’ll feel better in the morning.