Good news: stress brought on by day-to-day events can actually help your health, and may even extend your life. Skeptical? So were we—recent studies have linked short-term stress to a reduced risk of a wide variety of diseases, including cancer.
The results seem incredible: after all, don’t we usually hear that high blood pressure and heart attacks are often brought on by stress? For people with constantly stressful jobs, or difficult family situations, that is indeed the case. But incidents of short-term stress that are quickly resolved have the opposite effect, inspiring the body to quickly repair itself.
Periodic bursts of stress won’t just help you recover more quickly from illnesses. It stands to reason that it would slow down aging.
So how can you make sure that you're enduring the right sort of stress? Here are the tips:
1. Keep track of your stress level on a 1–10 scale each day.
If it comes in at 5 or higher for two straight days, make some time to take part in relaxing activities that you enjoy.
2. Have an adventure.
New and exciting activities can stimulate short bursts of stress, which will have a positive effect on your body.
3. Create a "What-I've-done" list.
Make sure that you remind yourself of your accomplishments regularly to lighten your mood.
4. Try new sensations.
Try the spiciest dish that you can handle and it's a great way to kick-start your immune system into overdrive.
5. __________________.
You don't need to run a marathon to see the effects—any exercise that makes you sweat will give you the stress you need to fix the damage in your body.
1. What is the traditional view about stress? （Please answer within 15 words.）
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2. Please fill in the blank following No.5 with proper word（s）. （Please answer within 5 words.） ____________________________________________________________________________
3. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
Stress with regular outbreaks will mean more than helping your sickness recover sooner. ____________________________________________________________________________
4. Please translate the underlined sentence in the second paragraph into Chinese.
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5. Please add one more tip to the list and explain it briefly. （Please answer within 30 words.）
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名校课堂系列答案科目：高中英语 来源： 题型：阅读理解
As nanny(保姆), cook, cleaner, shopper, driver, and gardener, she has one of the most demanding jobs in Britain today. And paying someone else to do the chores(家务活) which take the average housewife 71 hours a week would cost ?349.
At over ?18,000 a year that’s more than the earnings of 70 percent of the population, including train drivers, firemen, prison officers, and social worker. Looking after a baby less than a year old takes a housewife into a even higher pay league. According to a study, she earns ?457 a week – at nearly ?24,000 a year, the same as teachers, engineers, and chemists.
Researchers put a price on each chore, then tried to find out how long the average person takes doing them. They found housewives spend an average 70.7 hours a week on housework – with looking after the children (17.9hours) and cooking and cleaning (12.9 hours each) the most time-consuming(费时).
A wife with a part-time job still works and average of 59 hours a week at home. Those in full-time employment put in longer hours at home than in the workplace. The good news is that these hours sharply decrease as children get older. While the average mother with child under one puts in 90 hours weekly, the figure drops to 80 hours from one to four and to 66 hours from five to ten.
Mother-of-four Karen Williams from London said, “Paying the housewives may not be practical, but the government should recognize the value of housework, perhaps through the tax. Running a house takes a lot of time and most husbands don’t understand this. For example, my husband only puts a shelf up now and again. He never cleans the kitchen – that’s the real test.”
Who earns most according to the text?
A. A social worker. B. A fireman. C. A gardener. D. A teacher.
We lean from the text that looking after children ______.
A. takes more time than doing any other housework
B. means more duties than being a teacher
C. requires the mother to be well-educated
D. prevents the mother from working outside
According to the text, a housewife with a baby less than one year old may work _____.
A. 66 hours a week B. 71 hours a week C. 80 hours a week D. 90 hours a week
By mentioning her husband, Karen Williams wants to show that ______.
A. housework is no easy job B. her husband has no time to clean the kitchen
C. a housewife needs to be paid for cleaning D. the kitchen is hard to clean
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年广西桂林市、崇左市、防城港市高考第一次联合模拟考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Good news! The price of all those second-hand goods is ______ before.
A．30% as lower as B．30% lower than
C．lower 30% than D．as 30% low as
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科目：高中英语 来源：2012-2013学年山东省济宁市高二上学期期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Good news! The price of all those second-hand goods is ________ before.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年江苏省高三年级学情调研测试（英语） 题型：填空题
请认真阅读下列短文，并根据短文的内容要点完成文章后的表格。注意：补全填空应符合语法和搭配要求，每空只填一个单词。
Happiness is U-shaped, for we are happier at the start and end of our lives but hit a slump when we are middle-aged, British and US researchers say.
Economists from the University of Warwick, central England, and from Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, looked at data on the mental health of two million people from 80 countries.
In Britain, the probability of depression for men and women peaks at around 44 years of age, Warwick University said in a press release.
In the United States, though, there was a big difference between men and women.
Among women, unhappiness peaked at around the age of 40, whereas among men, it was about 50.
But the U-shape of happiness is constant around the world, and mid-life depression takes place regardless of marital status, changes in job or income.
The study appears in Social Science & Medicine, published by the Dutch publishing house Elsevier.
"It happens to men and women ,to single and married people, to rich and poor and to those with and without children." said co-author Andrew Oswald.
One possibility may be that people realize they won't achieve many of their aspirations at middle age, the researchers said.
Another reason could be that after seeing their fellow middle-aged peers begin to die, people begin to value their own remaining years and embrace life once more.
But the good news is that if people make it to aged 70 and are still physically fit, they are on average as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old.
"For the average persons in the modern world, the dip in mental health and happiness comes on slowly, not suddenly in a single year," Oswald said. "Only in their fifties do people emerge from this low period,"
Title: People happiest at start and end of lives, but slump in middle
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Happiness is in the (1) of U, for we are happier when are young and old but unhappy when we are middle-aged. |
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For (2) men and women, depression is most (3) to peak when they are about 44 years old. |
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For American people, men and women are very (4) . Most women feel (5) at around the age of 40. Among men, unhappiness peaks at about 50. |
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The U-shape of happiness is constant around the world, and mid-life depression (6) regardless of marital status, changes in job or income. |
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Possibly because people realize they are (8) to achieve many of their aspirations at middle age. |
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Possibly because after they have seen their fellow middle-aged peers’ deaths, people begin to value their own years (9) and embrace life once more. |
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If people are still in good (10) when they reach 70, they are on average as happy and mentally healthy as a 20-year old. |
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科目：高中英语 来源：2011-2012学年广东省高三上学期11月月考英语题（解析版） 题型：书面表达
阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
No wonder English poses (构成) such a challenge to non-native speakers. This most global of languages has more words than any other, over 1 million according to the Global Language Monitor. Out of this number, the average American college student has mastered between 8,000-15,000.
Realizing that words are the building blocks of language, many Chinese students try hard to catch up. They make out long lists of words – often in alphabetical order – and simply memorize their definitions(释义) and Chinese meanings.
The bad news is that definition memorization does them little good when it comes to college entrance tests like the SATs. For these tests, a student needs to understand, not simply parrot words studied.
The good news is that there are better ways to build an academic English vocabulary.
Vocabulary learning system
The first thing to do is to develop an organized, but easy means of collecting and learning new words. We recommend a card system that includes the following information:
Word – Simple Definition in English – Phrase or Sentence – Related Words – Synonyms (同义词) and Antonyms (反义词) – with a Chinese translation on the reverse (背面) of the card.
The advantage of this system is that with a single card, a student can learn not just one word but a group of related words.
Keep your cards on a detachable (可分离的) metal ring, so you can carry them around and add to your collection daily.
【写作内容】
1. 以约30词概括以上短文的主要内容：
2. 然后以约120个词以“有什么记单词的好办法?”为主题写一篇短文，并包括如下要点：
1）举例说明你的英语老师教给你某种记忆单词的好方法；
2）说明好的记忆单词方法的重要性;
3）为应对高考你将如何加强单词记忆？
【写作要求】
1. 你可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用阅读材料中的句子
2. 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称
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