任务型阅读理解限时训练
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A 阅读表达：阅读下面短文， 按照要求完成阅读任务。 The Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco Bay is one of the world’s most popular suicide spots. Since 1937, bridge officials say, more than 1,300 people have made the jump. Only 16 have survived, and John Kevin Hines is lucky to be one of them. Hines is now part of a task force asking officials to build a suicide barrier on the landmark bridge, which he believes would prevent bridge suicides. "Most people see the bridge’s unbelievable beauty; the mentally ill see an opportunity for a romantic way out," he said. The Golden Gate Bridge opened on May 28, 1937. Within weeks, Harold Wobber, who was a soldier in World War I, became the first to kill himself there. Other jumpers include Roy Raymond, founder of Victoria‘s Secret, and the eldest son of former White House press secretary Pierre Salinger. In 1995, Duane Garrett, a fund-raiserand friend of Al Gore, was found floating under the bridge. The fall from the bridge is like jumping off a 25-story building — it lasts only four seconds, says psychologist Richard Seiden, the leading researcher on suicide at the Golden Gate. Like Hines, survivors regret in midair their decision to jump. Still, depressed (消沉的) people seem drawn to the span. A 16-year-old boy showed Hines a photograph of the Golden Gate Bridge he had just purchased at a silent auction (拍卖) for $300. The youth had considered the same jump. He wanted Hines to sign his picture. Hines autographed the back of the photo — at that moment he was glad to be alive. "Stay up," he wrote."And never look down." 1. What is the main idea of the passage? (No more than 20 words) 2. Please explain the underlined word "suicide" in English. (No more than 5 words) 3. Why do depressed people feel drawn to the bridge? (No more than 15 words) 4. What did Hines want to do with those words to the 16-year-old boy? (No more than 15 words) 5. What do you think of Hines? (No more than 20 words) B 根据短文内容，从所给的A-F选项中选出最能概括每个部分的?晏馓钊肟瞻状ΑＱ∠钪杏幸幌钗嘤嘌∠睢? A. Look out for role models. B. Expect the best from every situation and every one that you meet. C. Look for opportunities to improve. D. Question your beliefs. E. Direct your brain. F. Focus on what you can control. If you wish to experience less stress and more joy, you have to develop a positive outlook about things and people. When you feel optimistic, it affects your behavior and actions in positive ways. How to develop an optimistic attitude Give instructions to your brain to think positive thoughts and create constructive mental pictures. Use words that build up confidence and make you feel good. Your focus on the pictures, sounds and sensations in your head will determine your responses to what goes on in your external (外部的) world. Recognize and interrupt your patterns of thoughts that are ineffective. Keep yourself aware, redirect your thinking and practice habitually. How you look at situations and respond to them are based mostly on your belief systems. In order to have a positive outlook, you will have to forget your bad thoughts and only focus on the good ones. The next time you feel that a bad attitude is trying to step in and your confidence decreasing, ask yourself questions that will help change your focus. If you always question your beliefs, you will start to doubt them. Unexpected things turn out in everyone’s life and people disappoint every now and then. Accept responsibility and understand that you have within you the power to control your thoughts, actions and responses. Get rid of the helplessness feeling. Put your focus on the things that you can control instead of on the things that aren’t working or on people who are uncooperative. Your personal growth and success depend on where you place your concentration most. An optimist feels hopeful and inspired most of the time and finds the positive in things and people. The law of attraction works best when you have an affirmative view about life. You will move people toward you and attract better luck and fortunate events. If you keep repeating success habits and expect the best, you can’t help but produce victory in the end. Read, especially autobiographies of successful men and study how they overcome their challenges through efforts and idealistic views. Listen and watch inspirational and motivational video and audio programs. C 请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。 Want to stay away from colds? Put on a happy face. Compared to people with bad attitudes, people who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds, according to a new study done by the researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh. As the study’s lead researcher, psychologist Sheldon Cohen, with his colleagues made a lot of experiments to test the possibility. They put cold-causing viruses into the noses of 334 healthy adults. People who tended to be cheerful and lively were least likely to develop sniffles, coughs, and other cold symptoms (症状). People who showed positive feelings were also less likely to mention symptoms to their doctors. Those findings were interesting, but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects whether he or she gets sick. It was still possible that a person’s underlying personality plays a big part. To figure out which mattered more (personality or emotions), the CMU team interviewed 193 healthy adults. The researchers talked to each person over the phone every evening for 2 weeks. During the interviews, participants told the researchers about the positive and negative feelings they had experienced that day. At the end of the interviewing period, people got nose drops that contained either cold or flu viruses. Then, each person stayed in an isolated (隔离的) room for 5 or 6 days. The results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected (感染). Their symptoms, however, differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous 2 weeks. Among those who reported good moods, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy (不通的) noses, and it was 41 percent for people who had been less cheerful. In a related study, Cohen found that people who experience positive emotions might become healthier because of a substance in the body called interleukin-6. This substance fights infections, and it seems to work more efficiently in cheerful people. Scientists argue about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger impact on how healthy we are. For now, it can’t hurt us if we often look on the bright side.
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