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1、(1)We all like to feel needed. But new research suggests having a sense of purpose is good for our health, too. In a study of 7,000 people, those with the strongest sense of direction in life were over 70 percent less likely to suffer a stroke. The researchers 1 for other aggravating factors such as
2、 blood pressure and alcohol use and believe the 2 comes through regulating the immune system.It has long been thought that 3 meaningful activity after retirement is important for physical and mental healthwhich often declines 4 soon after retirement.But while past research focused on the 5 effects o
3、f negative psychological traits, such as depression and anxiety, new research is investigating how positive traits, such as 6 , protect against illness.In the recent study, men and women aged 50 and over were 7 for four to five years and completed psychological tests while researchers recorded strok
4、es.The results show that the higher someones sense of purpose, the lower their risk of a stroke. Those with the greatest sense of purpose were 73 percent less likely to suffer a stroke compared to those with lowest.Other research has shown that positive mood can lower levels of the stress hormone co
5、rtisol(荷尔蒙皮质醇 ), also 8 in stroke.“This is significant as we have a (n) 9 population and it helps show what behaviors prevent people from getting ill,” says Cary Cooper, professor of health psychology at Lancaster University. “Maybe 10 is not good for some.”A accounted B Aging C ambition D damagingE
6、 decreasing F Dramatically G effect H graduallyI implicated J Optimism K outstanding L pursuingM retirement N Searched O tracked(2)The concept of man versus machine is at least as old as the industrial revolution, but this phenomenon tends to be most acutely felt during economic downturns and slow r
7、ecoveries. Since technology has such a big 11 for eating up human jobs, this phenomenon will continue to structure our economy in ways we cant immediately foresee.When there is exponential (指数的 ) 12 in the price and performance of technology, jobs that were once thought to be 13 from automation sudd
8、enly become threatened. This is a powerful argument, and a scary one. And yet, john Hagel, author of The Power of Pull and other books, says the argument misses the reason why these jobs are so vulnerable to technology in the first place.Hagel says we have designed jobs in the U.S. that tend to be s
9、cripted and highly 14 ones that leave no room for individual initiative or creativity. In short, these are the types of jobs that machines can 15 much better than human beings. That is how we have put a giant 16 sign on the backs of American workers.Its time to 17 the formula for how work is conduct
10、ed, since we are still relying on a very 20th century 18 of work, Hagel says. In our 19 changing economy, we more than ever need people in the workplace who can take initiative and exercise their imagination to respond to 20 events. Thats not something machines are good at. They are designed to perf
11、ume very predictable activities.A appetite B Calculate C competition D distinctE exceedingly F Immune G improvement H normI notion J Perform K rapidly L reinventM standardized N Target O unexpectedTEXT ABefore my many years service in restaurant, I attended a top science university. At that time, I
12、was finishing the project that would win me my professorship. In the end, it resulted in my becoming a kitchen employee.My forty-second birthday had made a lonely visit the week before, and I was once again by myself in the flat. Like countless other mornings, I ordered a donut from the toaster. “Ye
13、s, sir!” it replied with robotic relish, and I began the days work on the project. It was a magnificent machine, the thing I was makingcapable of transferring the minds of any two beings into each others bodies. As the toaster began serving my donut on to a plate, I realized the project was in fact
14、ready foe testing. I took out the duck and the catwhich I had bought for this purposefrom their containers, and set about calibrating the machine in their direction. Once ready, I leant against the table, holding the donut I was too excited to eat, and initiated the transfer sequence. As expected, t
15、he machine whirred and hummed into action, my nerves tingling at its synthetic sounds.The machine hushed, extraction and injection pipes poised, scrutinizing its targets. The cat, though, was suddenly gripped by terrible alarm. The brute leapt into the air, flinging itself onto the machine. I watche
16、d in horror as the nozzles swung towards me; and, with a terrible, dizzy whorl of colours, felt my mind wrenched from its sockets.When I awoke, moments later, I noticed first that I was two feet shorter. Then I realized the lack of mu limbs, and finally it occurred to me that I was a toaster. I saw immediately the solution to the situationthe machine could easily reverse the transferbut was th
