07 Unit 1 Fighting Stress单元测试-英语沪外版选择性必修第三册

单元测试 一、用单词的适当形式完成短文 Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank. For parents who send their kids off to college saying, “These will be the best years of your life,” it would be very appropriate to add, “ ____1____ you can handle the stress of college life.” Freshmen are showing up already stressed out, according to the latest research study ____2____ reported students’ emotional health levels at their lowest since the survey started in 1985. While in school, more students are working part-time and near-full-time jobs. At graduation, only 29 percent of seniors ____3____ (offer) jobs. Pressure to excel often creates stress, and many students are not learning how to effectively handle this stress. Let me show five facts that I believe every college student ____4____ know about stress. First, stress can make smart people do stupid things. Stress causes ____5____ brain researchers call “cortical inhibition (皮层抑制).” In simple terms, stress prevents a part of the brain responsible for decision-making and reaction time and can negatively affect other mental abilities as well. Second, the human body doesn’t discriminate between a big stressful event and a little one. Any stressful experience will create about 1,400 biochemical events in your body. If any amount of stress is left ____6____ (uncheck), many things can occur within the body, including premature aging and energy drain. Third, stress can become your new pattern. When you regularly experience negative feelings and high amounts of stress, your brain recognizes this ____7____ your normal state. This then becomes the new norm (常态) for your emotional state. Fourth, stress can be controlled. Countless studies demonstrate that people can restructure their emotional state using emotion refocusin