Decide True or False: Stimulating music can make us feel relaxed and less stressed.

A、Music can affect us physiologically, physically and emotionally.

B、Stimulating music can make us feel relaxed and less stressed.

C、Organizers of basketball games use music to excite the crowd and encourage the team.

D、It is uncertain that listening to Mozart makes us smarter.

Any idea of genetics being responsible for the way we are can make us feel().

A.sad

B.a lack of control

C.happy

D.a lack of satisfaction

听力原文： Researchers have found that "cool" colors, such as blues and greens, can make us feel calm and relaxed. Blue and green surroundings can also lower blood pressure, pulse rate, and breathing rate. "Warm" colors, such as reds, yellows, and oranges, affect us differently than "cool" colors do. "Warm" colors can actually make us feel warmer and excited. They stimulate heartbeat, raise blood pressure, and quicken breathing.

Yellow, a bright, sunny color, often makes people feel happy and more active. Yet it makes some people feel hot and restless. Red often makes people feel energetic. But not everyone feels good wearing red.

If some colors can make us feel better, might certain colors also help us think better? According to a 3year study in Germany, the answer seems to be yes. Scientists studied how various colors affect school children. And they found that certain colors could raise I. Q. as much as 12 points. In the experiment, rooms with low ceilings were painted in different colors. The more popular colors were light blue, yellow, yellow-green, and orange. Less popular colors such as white, black, and brown caused a drop in I. Q. The study found that the color orange in particular improved social behavior, cheered up children's spirits and made them feel less hostile and irritable.

Do people's color preferences tell us anything about their personalities? Some researchers think they do. According to these researchers, people who are more out-going usually prefer "warm" colors. People who are quieter, less people-oriented, often prefer "cool" colors.

If you live in a room painted light blue, you may feel________.

A．happy and energetic

B．warm and excited

C．calm and relaxed

D．hot and restless

Light from the sun can make both good weather and bad days.

A．True.

B．False.

Passage E 　　 Bullying can take various forms, from the verbal to the physical as well as indirect forms like being excluded from social groups. A survey I conducted with Irene Whitney found that in British primary schools up to a quarter of pupils reported experience of bullying, which in about one in ten cases was persistent. There was less bullying in secondary schools, with about one in twenty-five suffering persistent bullying, but these cases may be particularly recalcitrant. Bullying is clearly unpleasant, and can make the child experiencing it feel unworthy and depressed. In extreme cases it can even lead to suicide, though this is thankfully rare. Victimised pupils are more likely to experience difficulties with interpersonal relationships as adults, while children who persistently bully are more likely to grow up to be physically violent. 　　Until recently, not much was known about the topic, and little help was available to teachers to deal with bullying. Perhaps as a consequence, schools would often deny the problem. ‘There is no bullying at this school’ has been a common refrain, almost certainly untrue. Fortunately more schools are now saying: ‘There is not much bullying here, but when it occurs we have a clear policy for dealing with it.’ 　　Three factors are involved in this change. First is an awareness of the severity of the problem. Second, a number of resources to help tackle bullying have become available in Britain. For example, in Ireland, Guidelines on Countering Bullying Behaviour in Post-Primary Schools was published in 1993. Third, there is evidence that these materials work, and that schools can achieve something. This comes from carefully conducted ‘before and after' evaluations of interventions in schools, monitored by a research team. In Norway, after an intervention campaign was introduced nationally, an evaluation of forty-two schools suggested that, over a two-year period, bullying was halved. Evidence suggests that a key step is to develop a policy on bullying, saying clearly what is meant by bullying, and giving explicit guidelines on what will be done if it occurs. Other actions can be taken to back up the policy. There are ways of dealing with the topic through the curriculum, using video, drama and literature. These are useful for raising awareness, renewing the policy for new pupils, or revising it in the light of experience. But curriculum work alone may only have short-term effects; it should be an addition to policy work, not a substitute. Work in the playground is equally important. One helpful step is to train lunchtime supervisors to distinguish bullying from playful fighting, and help them break up conflicts. With these developments, schools can expect that at least the most serious kinds of bullying can largely be prevented. The more effort put in and the wider the whole school involvement, the more substantial the results are likely to be. The reduction in bullying is surely a worthwhile objective. 25. What does the writer think of the declaration ‘There is no bullying at this school’? (Answer in no more than 10 words) (3 points) 26. What were the findings of research carried out in Norway? (Answer in no more than 10 words) (3 points) 27. What actions can we take in order to tackle the issue of bullying? (Answer in no more than 30 words) (6 points) 28. What might be a suitable title for this passage? (Answer in no more than 10 words) (4 points)

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Human Heart Can Make New Cells

Solving a longstanding mystery, scientists have found that the human heart continues to generate new cardiac cells throughout the life span, although the rate of new cell production slows with age.

The finding, published in the April 3 issue of Science, could open a new path for the treatment of heart diseases such as heart failure and heart attack, experts say.

"We find that the beating cells in the heart, cardiomyocytes, are renewed," said lead researcher Dr. Jonas Frisen, a professor of stem cell research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

"It has previously not been known whether we were limited to the cardiomyocytes we are born with or if they could be renewed," he said.

The process of renewing these ceils changes over time, Frisen added. In a 20-year-old, about 1 percent of cardiomyocytes are exchanged each year, but the turnover rate decreases with age to only 0.45 percent by age 75.

"If we can understand how the generation of new cardiomyocytes is regulated, it may be potentially possible to develop pharmaceuticals that promote this process to stimulate regeneration after, for example, a heart attack," Frisen said.

That could lead to treatment that helps restore damaged hearts. "A lot of people suffer from chronic heart failure," noted co-author Dr.Ratan Bhardwaj, also from the Karolinska Institute.

"Chronic heart failure arises from heart cells dying," he said.

With this finding, scientists are "opening the door to potential therapies to having ourselves heal ourselves," Bhardwaj said. "Maybe one could devise a pharmaceutical agent that would make heart cells make new and more cells to overcome the problem they are facing."

But barriers remain. According to Bhardwaj, scientists do not yet know how to increase heart cell production to a rate that would replace cells faster than they are dying off, especially in older patients with heart failure. In addition, the number of new cells the heart produces was estimated using healthy hearts--whether the rate of cell turnover in diseased hearts is the same remains unknown.

The human heart stops producing cardiac cells____________. 查看材料

A.when a person is born

B.when a person becomes old

C.when a person gets sick

D.when a person dies

If you can make readjustments in your fitness plan as you age, you can stay strong and flexible and ______.

What can make a woman less likely to have a child?

A．Better government, better institutions, better labor and better schools.

B．Improving people"s access to insurance, pensions and welfare institutions.

C．Providing a means of saving for the next generation of children.

D．Increasing the value of women"s time and the cost of caring for a child.