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　　A new study suggests that the more teenagers watch television, the more likely they are to develop depression.

　　The researchers used a national long-term survey of teenagers’ health to investigate the relationship between media use and depression. They based their findings on more than four thousand teenagers who were not depressed when the survey began in nineteen ninety-five.

　　As part of the survey, the young people were asked how many hours of television or videos they watched daily. They were also asked how often they played computer games and listened to the radio.

　　Media use totaled an average of five and one-half hours a day. More than two hours of that was spent watching TV.

　　Seven years later, in two thousand two, more than seven percent of the young people had signs of depression. The average age at that time was twenty-one.

　　Brian Primack at the University of Pittsburgh medical school was the lead author of the new study. He says every extra hour of television meant an eight percent increase in the chances of developing signs of depression.

　　The researchers say they did not find any such relationship with the use of other media such as movies, video games or radio. But the study did find that young men were more likely than young women to develop depression.

　　The study was just published in the Archives of General Psychiatry this Monday. In December, the magazine Social Indicators Research published a study of activities that help lead to happy lives. They found that people who describe themselves as happy spend less time watching television than unhappy people. The study found that happy people are more likely to be socially active.

72. How many years has the mentioned survey lasted till 2009?

　 A. 7       B. 21         C. 14           D. 19

73. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

　 A. Young women were less likely than young men to develop depression.

　 B. Happy people spend more time in watching TV.

　 C. Playing computers has nothing to do with the depression.

　 D. Teenagers spend about five and a half hours a day on media use.

74. The topic the author wanted to express through the passage is____.

　 A. Teens, television and depression    B. Teens, media and depression

　 C. adults, television and happiness     D. women , media and happiness  

75. It can be inferred from the passage that________.

　 A. teenagers should be prevented from using media

　 B. depression is increasing at a speed of 8% a year

　 C. watching TV is part of teenagers’daily life

　 D. TV has ill effect on social life

 —Madam, your clothes are ready now.

—Thanks. And how much shall I　　　　for them？

A. cost              B. take                 C. spend              D. pay

 

 

Just listen

    I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our  1, and especially if it’s given from the  2. When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but  3them. Just take them   4. Listen to what they’re saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than  5it.

One of my patients told me that when she  6to tell her story, people often  7to tell her that they had once had something just like that happen to her. Subtly her pain became a story about themselves.  8she stopped talking to most people. It was just too  9. We connect through listening. When we interrupt what someone is saying to let them know that we understand, we move the  10of attention to ourselves. But when we listen, they know we care.

I have ever learned to  11to someone crying by just listening. In the old days I used to reach for the tissues(纸巾)  12I realized that passing a person a tissue may be just another way to shut them  13, to take them out of their  14of sadness and pain. Now I just listen. When they have cried all they need to cry, they find me there  15them.

　　This  16thing has not been that easy to learn. It certainly went against everything I had been  17since I was very young at school. I thought people listened only because they were too  18to speak or did not know the answer. A loving silence often has far more  19to connect than the most well-intentioned  20.

1.A．introduction     B．instruction    C．attention      D．relaxation

2.A．head             B．memory         C．mind           D．heart

3.A．talk to          B．listen to      C．object to      D．stick to

4.A．in               B．up             C．off            D．away

5.A．denying          B．remembering    C．questioning    D．understanding

6.A．managed          B．tried          C．hoped          D．expected

7.A．encouraged       B．interrupted    C．discouraged    D．urged

8.A．Eventually       B．Immediately    C．Completely     D．Especially

9.A．impolite         B．meaningless    C．lonely         D．selfish

10.A．middle          B．focus          C．center         D．choice

11.A．respond         B．compare        C．link           D．regret

12.A．unless          B．if             C．until          D．when

13.A．down            B．away           C．in             D．off

14.A．experiment      B．mixture        C．judgment       D．experience

15.A．with            B．against        C．for            D．among

16.A．complex         B．simple         C．complicated    D．single

17.A．mentioned       B．published      C．taught         D．proved

18.A．shy             B．greedy         C．active         D．proud

19.A．strength        B．energy         C．power          D．force

20.A．gestures        B．praise         C．criticism      D．words

 

 

 

　　Michael was walking along the street other           1.___________

day. Then he felt someone shouting his name.             2.___________

He stopped and looked around. He was Jack              3.___________

Events were running after him. Michael and              4.___________

Jack went to the same school and then to the              5.___________

same university. So they hadn’t met each other            6.___________

since then. They decide to have lunch together.            7.___________

They went to the nearest restaurant and sat by the         8.___________

table near the window. Then they talked about that         9.___________

they had done since they graduated university.             10.___________

 

 

 

  Even plant can run a fever, especially when they’re under attack by insects or diseases. But unlike humans, plants can have their temperature taken from 3, 000 feet away - straight up. A decade ago, adopting the infrared（红外线）scanning technology developed for military purposes and other satellites, physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take the temperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress. The goal was to let farmers precisely target pesticide（杀虫剂）spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field, which invariably includes plants that don’t have pest（害虫）problems.

　　Even better, Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems before they became visible to the eye. Mounted on a plane flown at 3, 000 feet at night, an infrared scanner measured the heat emitted by crops. The data were transformed into a color-coded map showing where plants were running “fevers”. Farmers could then spot-spray, using 50 to 70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would.

　　The bad news is that Paley’s company closed down in 1984, after only three years. Farmers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find. But with the renewed concern about pesticides on produce, and refinements in infrared scanning, Paley hopes to get back into operation. Agriculture experts have no doubt that technology works. “This technique can be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States, ” says George Oerther of Texas A & M. Ray Jackson , who recently retired from the Department of Agriculture, thinks remote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade. But only if Paley finds the financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago.

1.Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are________.

　 A. sprayed with pesticides              B. facing an infrared scanner

　 C. in poor physical condition            D. exposed to excessive sun rays

2.In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely, we can use infrared scanning to____.

　 A. estimate the damage to the crops       B. measure the size of the affected area

　 C. draw a color -coded map                D. locate the problem area

3.Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by________.

　 A. resorting to spot – spraying           B. consulting infrared scanning experts

　 C. transforming poisoned rain           D. detecting crop problems at an early stage

4.The application of infrared scanning technology to agriculture met with some difficulties due to ________.,

　 A. the lack of official support               B. its high cost

　 C. the lack of financial support              D. its failure to help increase production