Question

When you feel sick, you go to the doctor. She checks your fever, and asks what you’ve been thinking about recently. When you leave, she gives you not only some medicine but also a list of thinking skills that you are supposed to practice daily. She says that the way you think is causing some of your illness.

Doctors and scientists who study the human mind and try to explain why people behave in the way they do are called psychologists (心理學家). They are starting to believe that your brain is connected to every part of your body through your nervous system ( 神 經 系 統 ). Now scientists have proved that how you think and feel can have an influence on the health of your body. Stress can help us better understand this link(關聯).

Stress is caused whenever there is a problem or a change in your life. In fact, stress is necessary, so everybody has stress more or less. Without stress, we would never learn anything or grow or change. But too much stress can hurt you. It can weaken your body’s protection so that you are more likely to catch diseases. It can even make you more likely to have an accident.

When you feel stressed, your brain sends a message to your body to produce a chemical thing that speeds up your breathing and your heartbeat. And that’s what can do something bad to you. Therefore, how can you deal with stress? First, you can try to find ways to change things so you aren’t under so much stress. You can set up a plan to finish homework or go to a doctor or a psychologist to try to work things out with your family or your friends. But sometimes you can’t change a stressful situation. Sometimes you don’t even want to. A big change might be a good change, but it will still be stressful.

The link between your body and brain works in two ways. Your body can help your mind deal with stress. If you are under stress, you need to take especially good care of your body. It’s important to get enough sleep and eat nutritious ( 有 營 養(yǎng) 的 ) meals. Some people take a vitamin-mineral pill every day. Another thing that you can do is daily exercise. You can go running or jogging or do aerobic(有氧的) dancing or work out at the gym.

根據短文內容，選擇最佳答案。

1.What does a psychologists often do?

A.Explain your nervous system like a teacher.

B.Treat all your diseases and improve your abilities.

C.Study your mind and try to explain your behavior.

D.Encourage you to do things.

2.What does the underlined word “weaken” mean?

A.減弱 B.保護 C.鞏固 D.預防

3.How can we deal with the stress from the passage?

A.Set up a plan to finish the things you need to do such as homework.

B.Try to work things out with families or friends.

C.Get enough sleep and do daily exercise.

D.All above.

4.Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Everyone doesn’t need stress at all.

B.Stress can make people more likely to catch diseases.

C.We shouldn’t do any exercise if we are not under stress.

D.We can always change the stressful situation.

5.What is the main idea of the passage?

A.The causes of disease B.Introduce the psychologist

C.Good ways to keep healthy. D.The connection between the body and brain.

Answer 1