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1、1 / 10 1、How northern Europeans beat the winter blues Ask a child from northern Europe to draw two picturesone on a rainy day and a second in the sunshine and this is what you will get: in the first, as raindrops fall from the top of the page, the man behind the window has an unhappy expression. Whe
2、n a yellow sun sends out some light from the corner, the man is smiling. Northern Europeans associate rain with sadness and sunshine with happiness. They think this is true because they are so aware of how their environment affects them. _1_In October 2019, a group of researchers examined the influe
3、nce of different daily weather factors, including temperature, wind and sunlight, on 1,200 participants. The conclusion was that good or bad weather had little effect on people s feelings._2_ A person who is upset on dark or cold days suffers from a negative mood(情绪 ), and he will be likely to exper
4、ience a sad winter. This is the basis of an illness called Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). _3_ AniKalayjian, professor of psychology at Fordham University, advises that we should take steps to strengthen the brains system against weather-driven mood changes. Research on SAD has been focused on th
5、e brains response to darkness and light. When our eyes detect darkness, the brain gives off melatonin, which starts sleep cycles. _4_It takes over to help us wake up and feel better when we detect light. “We can encourage people to take charge of their feelings,” says Kalayjian. “We tell them to lea
6、ve the computers and the indoor games and get out there in the sun. _5_” A day of rain can potentially destroy your plan and affect your mood. But as the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly once said: “There is no such thing as bad weather, only the wrong clothing.” A. Yet that link has no scientific b
7、asis. B. It is seriously doubted among the people who suffer from SAD. C. It affects about10% of the population of northern Europe each year. D. Another chemical called serotonin, however, can make people happy. E. That s when peo ple can recharge their serotonin and get a better mood. F. Most studi
8、es prove that a negative feeling is associated with bad weather. G. They determined that people actually differ in their sensitivity to weather changes. 32、You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. The spelling of English has always been a problem. 1 Then peopl
9、e could spell words in different ways which you might find interesting. But it made reading English much more difficult. So dictionaries were invented to encourage everybody to spell the same. In 2 / 10 fact, an English dictionary like the kind you use today wasnt made until the time of the late Qin
10、g Dynasty. 2 They are Samuel Johnson, Noah Webster, and James Murray. These men spent nearly all of their lives trying to collect words for their dictionaries. For them, it was not only a job; it was a wonderful journey of discovery. The largest dictionary in the world is the Oxford English Dictiona
11、ry, or OED for short. 3 At the age of fourteen, he left his village school in Scotland and taught himself while working in a bank. Later he became a great teacher. After Oxford gave him the job, Murray had a small house built in the garden behind his house to do his work. Part of it was one meter un
12、derground. 4 He had to wear a heavy coat and put his feet in a box to keep warm. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o clock and worked several hours before breakfast. 5 Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years. But after five years, he was still adding words for the letter A!
13、 Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary. A. In winter it felt like a barn. B. Murray had never been to college. C. He worked on the dictionary until he was very old. D. Often he would work by candle light into the evening. E. But it was more of a problem in the days b
14、efore a dictionary. F. Three men did most of the important early work on dictionaries. G. The idea of this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. 3、 Choosing the right job is probably one of the most important decisions we have to make in life, and it is frequently one of the
15、hardest decisions we have to make. One important question that you might ask yourself is: “How do I get a good job?” _1_. There are people who can answer an insignificant advertisement in the local paper and land the best job in the world; others write to all sorts of places all over the country, an
16、d never seem to get a reply at all. Still others believe that the in person, door-to-door approach is by far the best way to get a job; and then there are those who, through no active decision of their own, just seem to be in the right place at the right time. _2_. He used to spend a lot of his free time down by the sea watching the tall ships, but never thinking that he might one day sa
