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课时作业(十一) UNIT 5 MUSIC
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(2022·浙江五校联考)
The Science of Fear
Home alone at night, you hear a loud crash. In an instant your heart starts racing, your muscles tense and your breath quickens. You are immediately alert, prepared to fight or flee the source of the sound, which turns out to be a pile of books falling off that shelf you've been meaning to fix. __1__
Fear is one of our strongest and most basic emotions. It's a big bad world out there, and being afraid of certain things protects us from potential danger to make sure we survive. Some evolutionary fears are hardwired into our brains, but we can also develop new fears throughout our lives. As children we pick up on what makes our parents anxious, and we may also learn to fear certain things after negative experiences. __2__ We can enjoy the view from the top of a skyscraper rather than worry about falling, or turn out the lightsafe in the knowledge that a wolf won't swallow us in the night.
However, people with phobias have an extreme fear response that causes both physical and psychological suffering. __3__ Agoraphobia is generally referred to as the fear of open spaces, but it applies to the dread of any situation that is difficult to escape from, or where help would not be available if something went wrong. Social phobia is the intense fear of interacting with people or performing, while specific phobias are the fear of a particular situation, activity or thing. __4__ Somebody with acrophobia—an extreme fear of heights—may experience a panic attack, simply trying to walk across a bridge. Depending on the cause of their phobia, sufferers often try their best to avoid situations that could affect them.
__5__ For example, somebody may develop cynophobia—the fear of dogs—after being bitten. But whether the cause is rational (理性的) or irrational, as soon as the brain notices a scary stimulus (刺激物), it activates the fightorflight response, thus preparing the body for action.
A.Then, how can it be overcome