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1、Unit 3 Life in the future .阅读理解AWhy do some people live to be older than others? You know the standard explanations: keeping a moderate diet, engaging in regular exercise, etc. But what effect does your personality have on your longevity? Do some kinds of personalities lead to longer lives? A new st
2、udy in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society looked at this question by examining the personality characteristics of 246 children of people who had lived to be at least 100.The study shows that those living the longest are more outgoing, more active and less neurotic(神经质的) than other people
3、. Longerliving women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span. These findings are in agreement with what you would expect from the evolutionary theory: those who like to make friends and help others can gather enough resources to make it through tough
4、 times.Interestingly, however, other characteristics that you might consider advantageous had no impact on whether study participants were likely to live longer. Those who were more selfdisciplined, for instance, were no more likely to live to be very old. Also, being open to new ideas had no relati
5、onship to long life, which might explain all those badtempered old people who are fixed in their ways.Whether you can successfully change your personality as an adult is the subject of a longstanding psychological debate. But the new paper suggests that if you want long life, you should strive to be
6、 as outgoing as possible.Unfortunately, another recent study shows that your mothers personality may also help determine your longevity. That study looked at nearly 28,000 Norwegian mothers and found that those moms who were more anxious, depressed and angry were more likely to feed their kids unhea
7、lthy diets. Patterns of childhood eating can be hard to break when were adults, which may mean that kids of depressed moms end up dying younger.Personality isnt destiny, and everyone knows that individuals can learn to change. But both studies show that long life isnt just a matter of your physical
8、health but of your mental health.语篇导读本文为说明文，阐述了影响长寿的因素。1According to the author, outgoing and sympathetic people _.Ahave a good understanding of evolutionBare probably more active and neuroticCare more likely to recover from hardshipDgenerally appear more resourceful解析 C细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句可知，那些喜欢交朋友并且喜欢
9、帮助他人的人能够收集到足够的资源，度过艰难时期，故选C项。2What finding of the study might be out of our expectation?AHelpful people can live a relatively long life.BBeing selfdiscipline makes no difference to longevity.CReadiness to accept new ideas offers more possibilities to enjoy longevity.DPersonality characteristics that
10、 prove advantageous actually vary with times.解析 B细节理解题。根据第三段第二句可知，那些自律的人，并没有更大的可能性能够长寿，故选B项。3What does the recent study of Norwegian mothers show?AMothers anxiety may affect their childrens life spans.BPeople with unhealthy eating habits are likely to die at a young age.CMothers may have a longer in
11、fluence on children than fathers.DChildrens personality characteristics are always shaped by their mothers.解析 A推理判断题。第五段主要通过一项针对近28 000名挪威母亲的研究阐述了母亲的性格特征对人的影响，即母亲越焦虑、沮丧和愤怒，就越可能喂给孩子不健康的饮食，孩子由此形成的不良饮食习惯会一直延续到成年之后的生活，这种根深蒂固的不良饮食习惯使得人短寿，故选A项。4What can we learn from the findings of the two new studies?AA
12、nxiety and depression more often than not cut short ones life span.BA persons lifestyle is largely related to his or her health. CPersonality plays a decisive and significant role in how healthy one is.DA mixture of mental and physical health produces longevity.解析 D细节理解题。根据最后一段最后一句可知，两项研究都表明，长寿不仅仅是身
13、体健康的问题，而且是精神健康的问题。也就是说，精神和身体上的健康造就了长寿，故选D项。BWhy do human beings still risk their lives under ground doing one of the dirtiest and most dangerous jobs in the world? Its an increasingly urgent question, given the recent highprofile(引人注目的) mining accidents in Sago, WVa., and Huntington, Utah. A small g
14、roup of engineers and robotics experts envision(展望) a day in the nottoodistant future when robots and other technology do most of the dangerous mining work.One of the first mining robots was developed five years ago at CarnegieMellon Universitys Robotics Institute. It was called Groundhog and it loo
15、ked like a golf cart. It used lasers to “see” in dark tunnels and map abandoned minessome of the most dangerous work in the business. The latest prototype is called Cave Crawler. Its a bit smaller than Groundhog, and even more advanced. It can take photos and videos and has sensors mounted(装置) that
16、can detect the presence of dangerous gases. Incredibly, the robot has a real sense of logic. If it comes across an obstacle, it gets momentarily confused, it has to think through the process and where to go next, and sometimes it _throws_a_fit_ just like a real person.The biggest obstacle，though，is cost. The original research project was federally funded, but tha
