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1、一、阅读理解(30分)1(6分) Dont tell anyone. We hear these words when someone tells a secret to us. But it can be hard to keep a secret. Were often tempted to spill the beans, even if we regret it later. According to Asim Shah, professor in the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Bay
2、lor College of Medicine, US, keeping a secret may well become a burden. This is because people often have an obsessive and anxious urge to share it with someone. An earlier study, led by Anita E. Kelly, a scientist at the University of Notre Dame, US, suggested that keeping a secret could cause stre
3、ss. People entrusted (受委托的) with secrets can suffer from depression, anxiety, and body aches, reported the Daily Mail. But with secrets so often getting out, why do people share them at all? Shah explained that people often feel that it will help them keep a person as a friend. Another reason people
4、 share secrets is guilt over keeping it from someone close to them. A sense of distrust can develop when people who are close do not share it with each other. Keeping or sharing secrets often puts people in a position of either gaining or losing the trust of someone, according to Shah. He added that
5、 talkative people could let secrets slip out (泄露). But this doesnt mean that it is a good idea only to share secrets with quiet people. A quiet person may be someone who keeps everything inside. To tell such a person a secret may cause them stress, and make them talk about the secret. Shah said that
6、 to judge whether to tell someone a secret, youd better put yourself in their position. Think about how you would feel to be told that you mustnt give the information away. Shah also recommended that if you accidentally give up someones secret you should come clean about it. Let the person know that
7、 their secret isnt so secret anymore.(1)What does the underlined expression spill the beans in Paragraph 1 mean?A.Feeling anxious and excited.B.Keeping the promise.C.Letting out the secret.D.Getting something to eat.(2)According to Shah, _.A.quiet people keep secrets better than talkative onesB.peop
8、le tend to share secrets with someoneC.its no harm to give away secrets accidentallyD.we can let out the secrets if in others position(3)The passage mainly talks about _.A.keeping secrets is a burdenB.sharing secrets causes distrustC.giving away secrets is shamefulD.making no secrets improves friend
9、ship2(8分) In the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants people to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wants people to think that he is. That is what keeping up with the Joneses is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbors. The expression w
10、as first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighborhood outside New York City. When he saw that rich p
11、eople rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors. It was like a race, but one could never finish his race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ende
12、d for Momand and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City. Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to writ
13、e a series of short stories. He called it Keeping up with the Joneses because Jones is a very common name in the United States. Keeping up with the Joneses came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momands series appeared in different newspapers across the country for ove
14、r 28 years. People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Joneses. And there are Jonses in every city of the world. But one must get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead.(1)Some people want to keep up with the Joneses
15、 because they _.A.want to be as rich as their neighborsB.want others to know or to think that they are richC.dont want others to know they are richD.want to be happy(2)It can be inferred (推断) from the story that rich people like to _.A.live outside New York CityB.live in New York cityC.live in apartmentsD.have many neighbors(3)Arthur Momand used the name Jones in his series of short stories because Jones is _.A
