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微阶段刷题过关卷(二)
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Unit 1 Developing ideas & Presenting ideas
第Ⅰ卷(满分25分)
Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共4小题;每小题2.5分,满分10分)
When a friend comes to you after a stressful day, how do you comfort him/her? Do you let him/her complain? Do you pour him/her a glass of coffee? Those could work. But a new study finds that a very effective technique is also simple and easy — hugging.
“Individuals who reported noticing the availability of a network of supportive individuals tend to show better adaptation when faced with stress. But just because you have a support network, it does not mean that you absolutely feel that support,” said Michael Murphy, a psychology expert at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. He wanted to know if people who received hugs regularly could handle anxiety and stress better.
So Murphy and his team interviewed 404 men and women every evening for two weeks. During these interviews, the participants were asked a simple yes or no question — whether somebody had hugged them that day — and a simple yes or no question of whether they had experienced conflict with somebody that day. They were also asked to respond to questions about negative and positive mood states.
And the researchers found that people who experienced a conflict were not as negatively affected if they received a hug that day as participants who experienced conflict and didn't get a hug. And they were also found not to carry the negative effect to the next day, while those who did not receive one would. The findings are in PLoS ONE.
Murphy does include this warning:“So our findings should not be taken as proof that people should just start hugging anyone and everyone who seems upset. A hug from one boss at work or a stranger on the street could be viewed as neither agreeable nor positive.”
【语篇解读】本文是一篇说明文。文章主要介绍了心理学家Michael Murphy和他的团队的一项研究成果——拥抱可以起到使人们积极向上,更好地应对焦虑和压力的作用。研究表明,与他人发生冲突后,那些得到拥抱的人不会受那么多的负面影响,而没得到拥抱的人则不然,当然这不能一概而论。
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