Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.

Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting（收縮）and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.

Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”

The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don’t see and guide whether we see fear.”

To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner（掃描儀）to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person’s feeling of fear.

“We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear,” Dr Garfinkel said.

“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”

1.What is the finding of the study?

A. Fear is a result of one’s relaxed heartbeat.

B. One’s heart affects how he feels fear.

C. Fear has something to do with one’s heart health.

D. One’s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.

2.The conclusion was drawn by analyzing .

A. volunteers’ heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures

B. the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions

C. volunteers’ reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans

D. different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication

3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?

A. Order B. Treatment

C. Machine D. System

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The concept of taking selfies gained great popularity. It soon exploded on the Internet, and people started crazily to take images that had them as the primary item of focus. The trend became so popular that it even inspired a song,“SELHE” by the Chainsmokers, which racked up 267 million views on YouTube. In fact, Twitter declared 2014 as “the year of the selfie”.

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But the selfie enthusiasts must be prepared to share their photos, as organizers said a critique(評(píng)論）of students’ work would form an important role in the learning process.

1.Learning to take selfies at universities isn't a surprise because .

A. taking selfies is popular nowadays

B. many people take photos crazily

C. the perfect selfie has exploded on the Intenet

D. courses on some famous persons have been offered

2.City Literary Institute offers courses on taking selfies to .

A. attract people to study there

B. teach people to master the art

C. follow the latest fashion

D. be the first to offer such courses

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A. It makes students get to know the concept of beauty.

B. It offers the steps on how to take photos.

C. Students taking the course are likely to take better selfies.

D. Students’ critical understanding of selfie is promised to improve.

4.Who can have access to the course on taking selfies?

A. Anyone who shows passion for taking selfies.

B. Anyone who is a full-time student of the college.

C. Only young photographers who are interested in it.

D. Only those who are good at taking photos.

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As you are probably aware, the latest job markets news isn’t good: Unemployment is still more than 9 percent, and new job growth has fallen close to zero. That’s bad for the economy, of course. And it may be especially discouraging if you happen to be looking for a job or hoping to change careers right now. But it actually shouldn’t matter to you nearly as much as you think. That’s because job growth numbers don’t matter to job hunters as much as job staff-turnover(人員流動(dòng))data. After all, existing jobs open up every day due to promotions, resignations(辭職), and retirements. (Yes, people are retiring even in this economy.)In both good times and bad, staff-turnover creates more openings than economic growth does. Even in June of 2014, when the economy was still booming along, job growth was only 132，000, while staff-turn over was 4.7 million!

And as it turns out, even today—with job growth near zero—over 4 million job hunters are being hired every month.

I don’t mean to imply that overall job growth doesn’t have an impact on one’s ability to land a job. It’s true that if total employment were higher. It would mean more jobs for all of us to choose from(and compete for). And it's true that there are currently more people applying for each available job opening, regardless of whether it’s a new one or not.

But what often distinguishes those who land jobs from those who don’t is their ability to stay motivated. They’re willing to do the hard work of identifying their valuable skills; be creative about where and how to look；learn how to present themselves to potential employers; and keep going, even after repeated rejections. The Bureau of Labor Statistics data show that 2.7 million people who wanted and were available for work hadn’t hunted for it within the last four weeks and were no longer even classified as unemployed.

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C. It gives a ray of hope to the unemployed.

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A．They clearly indicate how healthy the economy is.

B．They don’t include those who have stopped looking for a job.

C．They provide the public with the latest information.

D．They warn of the structural problems in the economy.

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增加：在缺詞處加一個(gè)漏字符號(hào)（∧），并在其下面寫出該加的詞。

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Dear Sir，

Thank you for your offer of invite me to the summer English course in your school. As for your choice between the two courses, I prefer the four-week course for 60 hours of study. Because of this would allow me more times to do some travelling and make a few new friends either. Of all the subjects I’m learning at school, I like English best. I had been learning English for 6 years but my spoken English remains poorly. So I hope to take this chance to improve it. If is possible, I’d like to stay with a family for a couple of days in order I can know some customs in England. I believe I will have wonderful time this summer.

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Alexandra Scott was born to Liz and Jay Scott in Manchester, Connecticut on January 18, 1996, the second of four children. Shortly before her first birthday, Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma, a type of childhood cancer.

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B. They provided free stands for her.

D. They donated stem cells for her operation.

4.Which of the following can best describe Alex?

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According to the National Museum of China, the volume of the Japanese museum Sen-oku Hakuko Kan is coming out soon and the museum will seek more cooperation from museums worldwide to accelerate(加速) the project.

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A. worthwhile but expensive

B. reasonable but worthless

C. meaningless but hard

D. meaningful but difficult

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B. A great many ancient Chinese artifacts have been distributed(分散) worldwide due mainly to wars and smuggling.

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D. At present, collecting information for every piece from each museum is to some degree tough.

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