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On cold days people in Manhattan like to take their children to PlaySpace, an indoor playg

round full of wonderful climbing and sliding contraptions. There's just one irritating detail: when you pay your money, the cashier pulls out a felt-trip marker and an adhesive label tag and asks you your name.

"Frum, I say. "No, your first name." "What do you need my first name for?" To write on the tag, so all the children and the staff will know what to call you. "In that case, write ' Mr. Frum.'"

At which I am shot a look as if I had asked to be called to Duke of Plaza Toro.

In encouraging five-year-olds to address grownups by their first names, PlaySpace is only slightly ahead of the times. As a journalist, I faithfully report that the custom of addressing strangers formally is as dead as the practice of leaving a visiting card. There's hardly a secretary left who does not reply, when I give a message fro her boss, "I'll tell him you called, David." Or a public relations agent, whether in Bangor or Bangkok, who does not begin his telephonic spiel (长篇大论) with a cheerful "Hello, David !"

You don't have to be a journalist to collect amazing first-name stories. Place a collect call, and the operator first-names you. The teenager behind the counter at a fast food restaurant asks a 70-year-old customer for his first name before taking his order.

Habitual first-names claim they are motivated by nothing worse than uncontrollably high-spirited friendliness. I don't believe it. If I asked the fast-food order-takers to lend me $ 50, their friendliness would vanish in a whoosh. The PR man drops all his cheerfulness the moment he hears I won't go along with his story idea. No, it's not friendliness that drives first-namers; it's aggression. The PR agents who call me David uninvited would never, if they could somehow get him on the phone, address press baron Rupert Murdoch that way. The woman at the bank who called me David would never first-name the bank's chairman. Like the mock-cheery staff at PlaySpace, they are engaged in a smile-faced act of belittlement, an assertion of power disguised as good cheer.

"PR" in paragraph 6 stands for ______.

A.personal request

B.personal respect

C.public relations

D.public review

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第1题

We all laugh. We all hurt. We all make mistakes. We all dream, That's life. It's a journey
. Please follow these rules to make the journey of your life a journey of joy!

【C1】______ positive through the cold season could be your best【C2】______ against getting ill, new study findings suggest.

In an experiment that【C3】______ healthy volunteers to a cold or flu virus, researchers found that people with a【C4】______ sunny disposition were less likely to【C5】______ ill. The findings, published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, build on evidence【C6】______ a "positive emotional style" can help【C7】______ off the common cold and other illnesses.

Researchers believe the reasons may be both objective as in happiness【C8】______ immune function and subjective as in happy people being less【C9】______ by a scratchy throat or runny nose. "People with a positive emotional style. may have different immune【C10】______ to the virus," explained lead study author Dr Sheldon Cohen of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. "And when they do get a cold, they may 【C11】______ their illness as being less severe."

Cohen and his colleagues had found in a【C12】______ study that happier people seemed less likely to catch a cold,【C13】______ some questions remained as to【C14】______the emotional trait itself had the effect.

For the new study, the researchers had 193 healthy adults with complete standard measures of personality traits, self-perceived health and emotional "style". Those who【C15】______ be happy, energetic and easy-going were judged【C16】______ having a positive emotional style,【C17】______ those who were often unhappy, tense and hostile had a negative style. The researchers gave them nasal drops【C18】______ either a cold virus or a particular flu virus. Over the next six days, the【C19】______ reported on any aches, pains, sneezing or congestion they had, while the researchers collected【C20】______ data, like daily mucus production. Cohen and his colleagues found that based on objective measures of nasal woes, happy people were less likely to develop a cold.

【C1】

A.Living

B.Staying

C.Pulling

D.Surviving

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第2题

The coldest days in a year come at _______.

A.Minor Cold

B.Major Cold

C.Major Snow

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第3题

White Dew days are _______ than the days of Cold Dew.

A.cooler

B.warmer

C.colder

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第4题

A.The first period of cold, wintry days in autumn.B.The turning of color and falling o

A.The first period of cold, wintry days in autumn.

B.The turning of color and falling of leaves.

C.A large mass of warm tropical air carried northward.

D.The southwestern winds.

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第5题

听力原文: Influenza, or the flu, attacks up to one billion people annually. In the US, it
kills 20,000 annually, most of whom are children or elderly. Occasionally the flu becomes pandemic: in 1918, it killed 20 million people worldwide. (32)The flu is a kind of infection which spreads through the air by coughing, sneezing, or simply talking. It is not caused by getting caught in a rainstorm or by sleeping with the fan or air-conditioning on.

(33)It doesn't sneak up on you for the first few days, like a cold does. All of a sudden, you feel weak, you have a high fever, you have chills, yon cough frequently and forcefully, your throat is sore, and your body aches.

For most adults, the treatment is to simply wait it out: stay home, get lots of bed rest, drink lots of fluids, and take over-the-counter medications such as aspirin and pain-killers. Symptoms usually go away within two weeks. (34) For the elderly and young, it may become a bacterial infection with deadly consequences, because the victim becomes too weak to battle the disease. The death rate for the general population is about one in 1,000. (34) Those most susceptible to severe effects of the flu are people over 65 and people with chronic heart or lung problems.

Flu season in the US is usually from December to March. (35)The best prevention, of course, is to stay away from infected people. Since that is almost impossible, the next best preventive strategy is to get an annual flu shot. This vaccine reduces the number of people who get infected -- and who die -- yearly.

(33)

A.By getting in caught by a rainstorm.

B.By sleeping with the air-conditioning on.

C.By talking with the infected people.

D.By having a bad ventilation system.

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第6题

A.The pressure that people get.B.The cold and darkness.C.The greatest one is breathing

A.The pressure that people get.

B.The cold and darkness.

C.The greatest one is breathing.

D.The beach is not clean.

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第7题

On that bitterly cold winter night, few people walked along the ________ narrow street.A.d

On that bitterly cold winter night, few people walked along the ________ narrow street.

A.deserted

B.disregarded

C.isolated

D.neglected

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第8题

A.It helps people get up early.B.It produces Vitamin D.C.It kills cold viruses.D.It ena

A.It helps people get up early.

B.It produces Vitamin D.

C.It kills cold viruses.

D.It enables us to look healthy.

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第9题

A.How many weeks there are in a month.B.Which days people should work.C.How the week i

A.How many weeks there are in a month.

B.Which days people should work.

C.How the week is divided into days.

D.Which day begins the week.

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第10题

According to the passage before a VCR is cold on the market, its original model sho
uld be tried out ________.

A) among ordinary consumers who are not technically minded

B) among people who are technically minded

C) among experienced technicians and potential users

D) among people who are in charge of public relations

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第11题

听力原文:A critical factor that plays a part in people's susceptibility to colds is age. T

听力原文: A critical factor that plays a part in people's susceptibility to colds is age. The University of the Michigan School of Public Health has done a study that revealed some general rules for the public. It says that infants are the most cold-ridden group. On an average, infants will catch more than six colds during their early years. Besides, boys have more colds than girls when they are under the age of three. When they grow older than three years old, it is easier for girls to catch cold than the boys. Girls might catch three colds, while boys catch two on average.

Generally speaking, the incidents of colds continue to decline while people are growing older. Elderly people who are in good health have as few as one or two colds every year. One exception is found among people in their twenties, especially women, who show a rise in cold infections. This is because people in this age group are most likely to have young babies. Adults who delay having children until their 30s and 40s experience the same sudden increase in cold infections.

The study also found that economics plays an important role. As income increases, the frequency at which colds are reported in the family decreases. Families with the lowest income suffer about a third more colds than families at the upper end. Lower income generally forces people to live in more limited space than those occupied by rich people, and crowding will increase the possibility of cold infections.

(26)

A.Work.

B.Food.

C.Social status.

D.Age.

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