[简答题]Second after the roof blew off the Koshak house, John yelled, "Up the stairs—into our bedroom! Count the kids." The children huddled in the pouring rain within the circle of adults. Grandmother Koshak implored, "Children, let’s sing!" The children were too frightened to respond. She sang alone for a few notes, then her voice trailed away. Debris flew as the living-room fireplace and its chimney collapsed. With two walls in the bedroom sanctuary beginning to disintegrate, John ordered, "Into the television room!" This was the room farthest from the direction of the storm. For an instant, John put his arm around his wife. Janis understood. Shivering from the wind and rain and fear, clutching two children to her, she thought, Dear Lord, give me the strength to endure what I have to. She felt anger against the storm. We won’t let it win.

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TV unplugged after they are switched off can be dangerous.

[单项选择]After Susan Joyce was laid off from Digital Equipment Corp., she was horrified to hear of two suicides in her layoff group. Such cases may sound (62) , but being fired or laid off is undeniably one of life’s biggest blows and can lead to clinical depression, violence and alcohol (63) , and so forth. Even the fear of losing a job (64) more doctor visits and health worries. (65) , the recent news about rising unemployment and job insecurity may be bad news for our health.
Layoffs create a sense of hopelessness. Stress-related complaints such as insomnia (失眠) and headaches tend to follow, (66) even after victims find new jobs, says University of Michigan psychologist Richard Price.
Your health can (67) simply from fear of losing your job, says Sarah Burgard, a sociologist at the University of Michigan. After (68) data from two large national storeys, she concluded that (69) job insecurity over a two-year peri