After an intense hour of class, I must say I really can't think of any questions.
Some people seem to lose all their energy and drive, wanting only to sleep. Others react in exactly the opposite way. Becoming so over energized that they can't find enough activity to burn off their excess energy. For instance, one woman said she cleaned out all her closets completely and was ready to go next to start on her neighbor's. Both these extremes, however, eventually, the symptoms may be intense for two or three days, but within 10 to 14 days after quitting, most subside (平静下来). The truth is that after people quit smoking, they have more energy, they generally will need less sleep, and feel better about themselves.
Quitting smoking not only extends the ex-smoker's life. but adds new happiness and meaning to one's current life. Most smokers state that immediately after they quit smoking, they start noticing dramatic differences in their overall health and vitality.
Quitting is beneficial at any age, no matter how long a person has been smoking. The death rate of an ex-smoker decreases after quitting. If the patient quits before a serious disease has developed, his/her body may eventually be able to restore itself almost completely.
Which of the following is the main psychological symptom of smokers who quit? ______.
A.Being light-headed
B.Being anxious
C.Being easily annoyed
D.Being violet
A decade of intense civil rights activity was launched in 1954 when the United States Supreme Court declared segregated schools to be unconstitutional. In 1955, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , effectively organized the Blacks of Atlanta, Georgia, in a bus boycott. The boycott lasted two years, and when it was over, Blacks no longer were degraded by being forced to sit or stand in the rear of buses.
In 1960, a group of Black college students decided that they, sis well as white persons, had the right to eat at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit-in sparked an aggressive national movement and, in the next few years, thousands of young men and women -- Black and white, North and South -- overturned local laws and customs that had maintained segregation. Sit-ins, prayins, freedom rides, freedom marches and demonstrations to open all schools to Black children took place across the nation.
Several important actions took place to change the status of black people ______.
A.after World War Ⅱ
B.in 1954
C.before 1945
D.in 1960
Heart failure, for example, appears to have seasonal and temporal patterns. A higher percentage of heart attacks occur in cold weather, and more people experience heart failure on Monday than on any other day of the week. In addition, people are more susceptible to heart attacks in the first few hours after waking. Cardiologists first observed this morning phenomenon in the mid-1980, and have since discovered a number of possible causes. An early-morning rise in blood pressure, heart rate, and concentration of heart stimulating hormones, plus a reduction of blood flow to the heart, may all contribute to the higher incidence of heart attacks between the hours of 8:00 AM and 10:00 AM.
In other studies, both birthdays and bachelorhood have been implicated as risk factors. Statistics reveal that heart attack rates increase significantly for both females and males in the few days immediately preceding and following their birthdays. And unmarried men are more at risk for heart attacks than their married counterparts. Though stress is thought to be linked in some way to all of the aforementioned risk factors, intense research continues in the hope of further comprehending why and how heart failure is triggered.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
A.Risk factors in heart attacks.
B.Seasonal and temporal patterns of heart attacks.
C.Cardiology in the 1980s.
D.Diet and stress as factors in heart attacks.
Which of the following may be regarded as potential crises?
A.An alarming rise in local housing prices
B.The availability of skilled workers in the region
C.The lack of skilled workers in the region
D.The public's changing values and priorities
Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A ,B,t2 or D on ANSWER SHEET I. (10 points)
Black death that drove Newton from his college and into a momentous discovery, (1) England in 1665. Astronomical records of the time show that (2) was a year of intense sun-spot activity, and studies of annual tree (3) , which are wider when the sun is disturbed (4) that the terrible plague of 1348 was (5) accompanied by an active sun.
This sounds incredible, (6) we now have evidence that the sun has a direct effect on some of our body (7) . Over 120 ,000 tests made on people in a Black Sea (8) to measure the number of lymphocytes in their blood. These small cells normally (9) between 20 and 25 percent of man's white blood cells, but in years of great solar activity this (10) decreases. There was a biff drop during the sunspot years of 1986 and 1987, and number of people (11) from diseases caused by a lymphocyte deficiency (12) doubled during the tremendous solar explosion of February 1986.
Many of the body's (13) seem to be influenced by sun-induced changes in the earth' s magnetic (14) . If this is so, one (15) to find that the nervous system, which depends on electrical stimuli, would be the most (16) . A study of 5,580 coal—mine accidents (17) the Ruhr river shows that most occurred on the day following solar activity. Studies of traffic accidents in Russia and in Germany show that these increase, by as much as four (18) the average, on days after the (19) of a solar flare. This suggests that accidents may be (20) a disturbance deeper than a simple decrease in reaction time. These results make it clear that man is, among other things, a remarkably sensitive living. sundial.
1. A) blanketed
B) swept
C) covered
D) spread
The crisis in our industry was ______ by intense competition from foreign producers.
A.brought on
B.brought forward
C.brought up
D.brought round
It can be inferred from the last paragraph of the text that______.
A.strong and intense response derive from the mass media
B.the attempts to be made can no longer be justified by their intention
C.public panic would be diluted by politicians' promise
D.the only remedy is to spend lavishly against a threat
By "outraged rhetoric" (Paragraph 3), the author is talking about
A.an intense lobby blitz shown in corporate behavior.
B.the indignation displayed by some congressmen.
C.a decision left up to Justice Dept. prosecutors.
D.the message embodied in the President's actions.