[单项选择]In our body—conscious society. the pressure has never been greater for students to look beautiful.（）
A. 在当前注重外貌的社会里，容貌美的学生压力更大。
B. 在当前注重外貌的社会里，容貌给学生带来更大压力。
C. 在当前注重外貌的社会里，容貌没有给学生带来任何压力。
D. 在当前注重外貌的社会里，容貌给学生带来的压力比任何时候都大。

[简答题]His body temperature has been abnormal for 3 days， ______(最高达到40.5摄氏度)．

[单项选择]His body temperature has been （　） for 3 days, the highest point reaching 40.5 degree centigrade.
A. uncommon
B. disordered
C. abnormal
D. extraordinary

[填空题]Our identity has a major effect on our communication.

[单项选择]That our environment has little to do with our abilities, characters and behavior （）central to his theory.
A. is
B. are
C. has been
D. have been

[多项选择]Our company has a long tradition. Our letters look old-fashioned. We are trying to modernize the company’s image. All our correspondence should be word-processed.
______

[单项选择]The human body has developed its millions of nerves to be highly aware of what goes on both inside and outside of it. This helps us adjust to the outside world. Without our nerves and our brain, which is a system of nerves, we couldn’t know what’s happening. But we pay for our sensitivity. We can feel pain when the slightest thing is wrong with any part of our body. The history of torture (折磨) is based on the human body being open to pain.
But there is a way to handle pain. Look at the Indian fakir (苦行僧) who sits on a bed of nails. Fakirs can put a needle fight through an arm, and feel no pain. This ability that some humans have developed to handle pain should give us ideas about how the mind can deal with pain.
The big thing in withstanding pain is our attitude toward it. If the dentist says, "This will hurt a little," it helps us to accept the pain. By staying relaxed, and by treating the pain as an interesting sensation (感觉), we can handle the pain without falling apar
A. stay relaxed
B. avoid pain
C. stand torture
D. feel pain

[填空题]
Our Body Operates Like a Clock
[A] As the first rays of sunlight filter over the hills of California’s Silicon Valley, Charles Winget opens his eyes. It is barely 5 a.m., but Winget is raring (渴望) to go. Meanwhile, his wife pulls up the covers and buries her face under the pillow. "For the past fifteen years," says Winget, "We’ve hardly ever gotten up together."
[B] The Wingets’ situation is not uncommon. Our bodies operate with the complexity of clocks, and like clocks, we all run at slightly different speeds. Winget is a morning person. His wife is not at her best until after nightfall.
[C] Behavioral scientists long attributed such differences to personal eccentricities or early conditioning. This thinking was challenged in the late 1950s by a theory labeled chronobiology by physician- biologist Franz Halberg. In a Harvard University laboratory, Dr. Halberg found that c