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The types of daydreams, whether they are pleasant and hopeful or filled with despair take shape in childhood when everyone develops one of three basic daydreaming styles: positive, negative and scattered, American Health reports. Although everyone lapses occasionally into each of these types, positive daydreamers are more likely to imagine happy, playful or entertaining scenarios. (2)Negative daydreamers tend to dwell on life’s darker side imagining dangerous and/or life threatening situations, such as the appearance of a fatal or weakening disease or becoming a victim of violence. Scattered daydreamers are easily bored and distracted. "Their mental images tend to be fleeting, repetitive and shallow, like variations on the same fairy tales," explains Yale psychologist Ron Tower.
(3)While all three types are common, positive imaginations are likeliest to serve as springboards (跳板) for problem solving, while negative and s

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All types of stress study, whether under laboratory or real-life situations, study mechanisms for increasing the arousal level of the brain.
The brain blood flow studies show that reciting the days of the week and months of the year increases blood flow in appropriate areas, whereas problem solving which demands intense concentration of a reasoning type produces much larger changes in the distribution of blood in the brain.
Between these basic studies of brain function and real life situations there is still a considerable gap, but reasonable deduction seems possible to try and understand what happens to the brain. Life consists of a series of events which may be related to work or to our so-called leisure time. Work may be relatively automatic—as with typing, for instance, it requires intense concentration and repetition during the learning phase to establish a pattern in the brain. Then the typist’s fingers automatically move to hit the appropriate k
A. increases blood flow in some areas of the brain
B. causes changes in the distribution of blood in the brain
C. demands intense concentration of blood in certain areas
D. is based on the ability to recite the time

[填空题]If the management provides pleasant background music and beautifies the dull setting,_________________ (工厂的生产效率就可以大大提高).

[填空题]Pleasant, polite or harmless sounding words or expressions used to mask harsh, rude or infamous truths are （）.

[单项选择]"Was the driving pleasant when you vacationed in Beijing last summer"
"No, it （　） for four days when we arrived. So the roads were very muddy."
A. was mining
B. would be raining
C. had been raining
D. have rained

[单项选择]—Was the driving pleasant when you vacationed in Mexico (墨西哥) last summer
—No, it（　） for four days when we arrived so that the roads were very muddy.
A. was raining
B. had been raining
C. would be raining
D. have rained

[单项选择]—Was the driving pleasant when you went to Mexico last summer
—No, it ______ for four days when we arrived, so the roads were very muddy.
A. was raining
B. had been raining
C. would be raining
D. rained

[单项选择]Woman: What a pleasant surprise! Last week we bumped into each other here too!
Man: You and I must share the idea that the only way to beat the crowds when you do weekend shopping is to be here at the morning opening hour.
Question: What does the man imply
A. There is a far bigger crowd in the shop on weekdays.
B. You can get bargains when you do shopping at opening hour on weekends.
C. You can avoid the crowd when you do shopping at an earlier hour on weekends.
D. At opening hour on weekends the shop is usually swamped with peopl