[填空题]STRESS
▲ Good stress
Good stress enables high performers to (1)
People have a period of (2) each day.
▲ Bad stress
Causes of bad stress include:
· too few (3)
· too many (4)
· too much (5)
· not having proper (6)
▲ Recent survey results
· more complaints about amount of (7)
· fewer complaints about lack of (8)
· small organisations have higher (9)
· large organisations have difficulties with (10)
▲ Before going on holiday
Email information about (11) to colleagues.
Talk about (12) to a line manager.

[填空题]STRESS
▲ Good stress
Good stress enables high performers to (1)
People have a period of (2) each day.
▲ Bad stress
Causes of bad stress include:
· too few (3)
· too many (4)
· too much (5)
· not having proper (6)
▲ Recent survey results
· more complaints about amount of (7)
· fewer complaints about lack of (8)
· small organisations have higher (9)
· large organisations have difficulties with (10)
▲ Before going on holiday
Email information about (11) to colleagues.
Talk about (12) to a line manager.

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High Stress May Damage Memory

According to a report issued in May 1998, elderly people who have consistently high blood levels of cortisol don’t score as well on memory tests as their peers with lower levels of the stress hormone. What’s more, high levels of cortisol are also associated with shrinking of the hippocampus, a region of the brain that plays a key role in learning and memory.
The findings suggest that even cortisol levels in the normal, "healthy" range can actually acceIerate brain aging.
The study results "now provide substantial evidence that long-term exposure to adrenal stress hormones may promote hippocampal aging in normal elderly humans", write Nada Porter and Philip Landfield of the University of Kentucky in Lexington in their editorial. Cortisol is a hormone released in response to stress by the adrenal glands, which sit on top of the kidneys.
Over a 5 to 6-year period. Dr. Sonia Lupien and his
A. the cortisol
B. the adrenal glands
C. the stress hormones
D. the hippocampus

[单项选择]
As the HIN1 swine flu virus spreads rapidly through the Northern Hemisphere, doctors and other health care professionals face a heavier - than - usual workload. Even without a flu pandemic, studies show, up to 60 percent of physicians in the United States suffer to some degree from" burnout" - physical and emotional exhaustion: The stress on doctors can cause medical mistakes even errors that could cost people their lives, so the universities that train America’ s doctors are looking for ways to prevent burnout.
At a hospital in Tennessee, Dr. William May tries to diagnose his patients as quickly as he can. "We don’ t like to have to add that extra space. We’ re just busy. Very, very busy, "he says. Even without a pandemic to add to the workload, doctors are busier than ever In Rochester, New York, primary -care physician Michael Schneider has seen the stress from his work increase steadily over the
A. Medical mistakes.
B. Errors that could lead to the patients’ death.
C. Do harm to the doctors’ physic and emotion.
D. Add to the doctors’ workloa