问题 阅读理解
Stress is everywhere in our everyday life. Not only men have it, but also women and young people.
The most important reasons of stress are: death, diseases(疾病), exams, making money, getting married(结婚), moving houses, changing jobs, ending friendship and so on.
How do you know whether you have stress? Could you give your answers to the following questions?                      
Stress                                    Test
Do you
Yes
No
easily get angry?
 
 
often sleep badly?
 
 
get headache a lot?
 
 
take sleeping pills?
 
 
find it difficult to relax?
 
 
smoke and drink a lot to keep quiet?
 
 
find it difficult to put your heart into something?
 
 
 
 
 
If you answer “Yes” to more than two of these questions, you are one of those people with stress. So what can you do about it?
Doing relaxing exercises, talking with friends and listening to light music are all usual ways of relieving(减轻)stress. However, doctors now say that there are easier ways—people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes. They also say that people, especially men, should  X_ more often ,because crying is the natural way of relieving stress.
小题1:Which of the followings is NOT the reason of stress?
A.Taking exams.B.Changing jobs.
C.Taking sleeping pills.D.Making money.
小题2:According to the passage, which of the followings is true?
A.Women and young people never have stress
B.Stress is everywhere in our everyday life.
C.People who answer “No” to all of the questions have great stress.
D.People who answer “Yes” to more than two of the questions have no stress.
小题3:What’s the easier way to relax your body?
A.Talking with friends.B.Listening to light music.
C.Doing relaxing exercises.D.Laughing , smiling and crying.
小题4:“X” in the passage should be the word  “         ”。
A.cryB.laughC.smileD.smoke
小题5:The main idea of the passage is          .
A.about stress and how to relieve stress.
B.that there are many reasons for having stress.
C.that laughing and smiling more can help relieve your stress.
D.that doing the Stress Test is a good way to help you to live better.
答案

小题1:C

小题2:B

小题3:D

小题4:A

小题5:A

题目分析:压力是我们日常生活中无处不在。不仅男性,而且还有女性和年轻人。压力的最重要的原因是:死亡,疾病,考试,赚钱,结婚,搬家,换工作,结束友谊等。做放松练习,与朋友聊天,听轻音乐是减轻应力方式的。然而,现在医生说有更简单的方法的人应该经常的微笑。当你大笑或微笑时,你的身体放松。他们还说,尤其是男人要哭,因为哭是一种自然缓解压力的方式。

小题1:细节理解题。问题:下列描述中哪一个不是压力的原因?分析原句:The most important reasons of stress are: death, diseases(疾病), exams, making money, getting married(结婚), moving houses, changing jobs, ending friendship and so on.句意:应力的最重要的原因是:死亡,疾病,考试,赚钱,结婚,搬家,换工作,结束友谊等。分析中得知只有第三项没有出现,故选:C

小题2:细节理解题。问题:通过对短文的阅读,哪句是正确的?联系原文:Stress is everywhere in our everyday life.句意:压力是我们日常生活中无处不在。故选:B

小题3:细节理解题。问题:什么是更简单的方法用来放松你的身体?分析原文:doctors now say that there are easier ways—people should laugh and smile more often. When you laugh and smile, your body relaxes.句意:现在医生说有更简单的方法的人应该经常的微笑。当你大笑或微笑时,你的身体放松。同时最后一句也提到了哭也是一种更简单的方法,故选:D

小题4:细节理解题。问题:本文中出现少单词的地方,应填写哪个单词?结合下文:because crying is the natural way of relieving stress.句意:因为哭是一种自然缓解压力的方式。从而得知上文提到的方法是哭,故选:A

小题5:细节理解题。问题:短文的主要内容是什么?在完成阅读后总结出全文内容是有关于压力和如何解决问题。故选:A

解答题
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Since the 1930s, the idea that creatures might advertise their " fitness " as mates through symmetry has been around. It rests on the notion that factors ranging from bad genes to coming off worse in too many fights will lead to asymmetries others can see. And over the past few years, experiments with animals and humans seemed to support the idea that symmetry in features such as plumage and facial characteristics influences mate selection.

But no one had actually checked that the animals in these experiments can actually see the subtle differences in symmetry, typically of between 1 and 2 percent. Now the first such experiment has been carried out. The results are worrying for advocates of symmetry detection as a powerful factor in mate selection.

John Swaddle, an ethnologist at the University of Bristol, performed the experiment using wild starlings, which have excellent eyesight. He trained them to hit keys marked with bar patterns with varying levels of asymmetry in order to receive food rewards. This showed the starlings could easily detect asymmetries of between 5 and 10 percent. But at between 1 and 2 percent, their performance plummeted to no better than random guessing.

" This suggests that the levels of asymmetry that birds encounter in nature will often be just too small to be detected, " says Swaddle. He says experiments that linked small asymmetries to fitness may have produced misleading correlations, and says the only direct evidence that birds use asymmetry as a cue to mate fitness involves levels of asymmetry of at least 10 percent. " I think signaling by asymmetry will probably only occur when species show such very large asymmetries—and this doesn’t occur that often. "

This raises questions about research suggesting that humans are influenced by visual asymmetry in their choice of partner. Michael Butt of the Perception Laboratory at the University of St. Andrews, who has carried out such experiments, concedes that no one has ever checked if humans have a threshold to asymmetry detection. He thinks a conclusive test of this would probably involve manipulating complex three-dimensional images: " It would be a very difficult experiment to do "

Burt adds that the abilities of animals to detect asymmetry in bar patterns may not reflect their talent for spotting asymmetries in body shape. " The visibility of an asymmetry may well depend on its type, " he says. Swaddle agrees, and is planning further experiments. " But I suspect that asymmetry is used as a visual cue less often than most people appear to presume, " he warns.

According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE()

A. Swaddle thinks asymmetry and fitness are associated

B. Asymmetry is generally visible

C. Species use asymmetry as a cue to mate fitness

D. Nobody has checked human’s dependence on asymmetry