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1、1A It seems hard to watch someone yawn(打哈欠) and not to yawn ourselves. Even reading about yawning can make you do it. Now, a new study has found why yawning has such a powerful force.Yawning when others yawn, the study suggests, is a sign of pity and a form of social connection. Kids dont develop th
2、is deeply rooted behavior until around age four, the study found. Kids with autism (自闭症) are less likely to catch yawns. In the most serious cases, they never do. Yawning might help doctors to see whether the children are developing rightly. The work could also lead to a better understanding of the
3、ways that people communicate and connect.“Emotional infection seems to be a born thing that connects us together,“ said Molly Helt, a graduate student in psychology at the University of Connecticut. “Yawning may be part of that.“ Inspiration for her study came when she tried to get her own autistic
4、son to clear his ears on an airplane. She repeatedly yawned at him, hoping he would yawn back. He never did.“The fact that autistic kids dont do it might mean theyre really missing out on that emotional connection with people around them,“ she said. “The biggest thing people try to figure out after
5、birth is how we become humans and understand that humans have minds that are different from others,“ she added. “Autistic people never seem to understand that.“Like infectious (有感染力的)laughter and crying, scientists have found that yawning is a shared experience that promotes social connection. Helt
6、said it could fight stress after a period of being nervous and spread a feeling of calm through a group.28. What does the new study suggest, according to the first two paragraphs? A. Yawning is a form of communication. B. It is easy to stop yawning when you see others yawn. C. Children follow others
7、 in yawning just after they are born. D. Yawning has some mysterious force which is related to God. 29. According to Molly Helt, _. A. humans differ from animals because they communicate with others B. yawning is a kind of emotional connection among humans C. emotions are infectious, but yawning is
8、not D. yawning helps clear ears on planes 30. Which of the following is NOT true about yawning?A. It is natural to yawn back if people around you yawn. B. Some kids are too young to yawn after others. C. Yawning can be used to test childrens development. D. Kids with autism yawn easily when others y
9、awn. 31. The author implies in the last paragraph that _. A. yawning is different from infectious laughter and crying in theory B. it is bad manners to yawn on some social occasions C. the more you yawn, the happier you will be D. yawning can make people feel relaxed 2BFor anyone who is determined t
10、o be a fashion designer, it is not enough to have succeeded in college. The real test is whether they can survive, and become established during their early 20s, making a name for themselves in the real world where business skills can be as important as talent and creativity. Fashion is a hard busin
11、ess. There is a continuous amount of stress because work is at a constant and extremely fast speed to prepare for the next seasons collections. It is extremely competitive and there is the constant need to make attractive advertisements of the latest fashion in newspapers and magazines. It also requ
12、ires continual freshness because the appetite for new ideas is hard to satisfy. “We try to warn people before they come to us about how tough it is.” says Lydia Kemeny, the Head of Fashion at St. Martins School of Art in London. “And we point out that drive and determination are absolutely necessary
13、.” This may seem far removed from the popular opinions of fashionable young people spending their time designing pretty dresses. That may well be what they do in their first year of study but a good college wont be slow in introducing students to commercial realities. “We dont walk our foot on the b
14、lossoming(绽放的)flower of creativity but in the second year we start introducing the restrictions of price, producing ability, marketing and so on.” Almost all fashion design is done to a belief. It is not a form of self-expression as such, although there is certainly room for imagination and creativi
15、ty. Most young designers are going to end up as employees of a producer or a fashion house and they still need to be able to work within the characteristic style of their employer. Even those students who are most modern in their own taste of clothes may need to adapt to producing designs which are
16、right for the mainstream of market. They also have to be able to work at both the expensive and the cheap end of the market and the challenge to produce good design inexpensively may well be demanding. 57. Which of the following is mainly discussed in the passage? A. Talent in fashion. B. Good marks at college. C. Ability to create new designs. D. Business skills in fashion industry. 58. What can