13.As an anger-management specialist,it never stops to surprise me what people get worked up about these days.Mother Teresa got angry about being poor.Widespread hunger made Gandhi's blood boil.Martin Luther King was fired up by social injustice (不公).Yet many people seem to fly into strong anger at all kinds of small things:trousers that only have small sizes,leaders who have made unimportant mistakes,families reported in the newspapers with ten kids.Are these things really worth the heated anger they seem to cause?Or could it be that we have nothing better to get angry about any more?
Anger,like all emotions,has played a valuable role in human history.The strong anger helped our ancestors live on thousands of years ago.If they'd never been worried about others stealing their food or animals trying to kill them,they wouldn't have taken necessary action.
In fact,research suggests that the development of our anger response (反應(yīng)) has been part of our evolution (進化).If we're shown pictures of angry faces,for example,we're more excited and then choose something to make us satisfied.So anger makes us get the things we really need.
Anger also helped us work in close social groups.Losing our cool showed that we were displeased with others,and that they needed to make changes to their behaviour.
However,life-threatening (威脅生命的) injustice is less likely to happen in our modern societies.The angry response,which plays no real role in keeping us alive,is still kept in our brain.It leads us to get cross about the smaller,unnecessary things.
Recent examples include a road-anger incident (事件) that left a man dead and a fight that started with two trolleys accidentally running into each other in a supermarket.It seems that anger is becoming a usual communication method.
Part of the problem is that where we were once worried about keeping a roof over our heads and having a warm meal,now all our basic needs are met and our expectations have risen.We expect everything is prefect.When it isn't,we stamp our feet.
The good news is that if we have known our anger is often over the top,we might be better able to deal with it.We can check the anger in our brain by asking a simple question:is this matter threatening my life?If not,we could forget it-by finding something really worth getting angry with instead.
56.What role did anger play in man's history?A
A.It once helped humans live on.
B.It brought man what he needed.
C.It threatened human beings life.
D.It caused troubles to our society.
57.What is the problem now,according to the passage?C
A.There are still many things making us angry.
B.Human being's evolution has not developed well.
C.Anger has become a usual communication method.
D.We are very worried about our basic needs now.
58.How can we deal with our anger response?C
A.By trying to give up our expectations.
B.By studying why we get angry so easily.
C.By thinking quietly over the matter we face.
D.By finding something really worth getting angry.
59.The underlined sentence in the second last paragraph may meanD.
A.we put stamps on our feet
B.we kick somebody else heavily
C.we make marks with our feet
D.we knock the ground with our feet.
分析 文章大意:憤怒和所有的情感一樣,在人類歷史上扮演了一個重要的角色,強烈的憤怒幫助我們的祖先生活在幾千年前,如果他們從來沒有擔(dān)心別人偷了他們的食物或動物試圖殺死他們,他們就不會采取必要的行動.
事實上,研究表明,我們的憤怒反應(yīng)的發(fā)展一直是我們的進化的一部分,如果我們展示了憤怒的面孔的圖片,例如,我們更興奮,然后選擇一些讓我們滿意的東西,所以憤怒使我們得到我們真正需要的東西.
好消息是,我們也許能夠更好地處理憤怒.我們可以確認憤怒在我們的大腦以問個簡單的問題:這件事威脅我的生命嗎?如果沒有,我們可以找到一些真正值得生氣而忘了它.
解答 56-59:ACCD
56題答案:A考查細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)文中的Anger,like all emotions,has played a valuable role in human history.The strong anger helped our ancestors live on thousands of years ago可知憤怒和所有的情感一樣,在人類歷史上扮演了一個重要的角色,強烈的憤怒幫助我們的祖先生活在幾千年前,故答案是A.
57題答案:C考查細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)文中的It seems that anger is becoming a usual communication method.可知看來,憤怒已經(jīng)成為一種常見的溝通方法,故答案是C.
58題答案:C考查細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)文中的We can check the anger in our brain by asking a simple question:is this matter threatening my life?If not,we could forget it-by finding something really worth getting angry with instead.可知 我們可以確認憤怒在我們的大腦以問個簡單的問題:這件事威脅我的生命嗎?如果沒有,我們可以找到一些真正值得生氣而忘了它.故答案是C.
59題答案:D考查細節(jié)理解題,根據(jù)文中的we stamp our feet可知 我們跺跺腳,故答案是D.
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