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            • 1. 阅读下列短文,从每题所给四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
                  How far would you be willing to go to satisfy your need to know? Far enough to find out your possibility of dying from a terrible disease? These days that’s more than an academic question, as Tracy Smith reports in our Cover Story.
                  There are now more than a thousand genetic tests, for everything from baldness to breast cancer, and the list is growing. Question is, do you really want to know what might eventually kill you? For instance, Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson, one of the first people to map their entire genetic makeup, is said to have asked not to be told if he were at a higher risk for Alzheimer’(老年痴呆症).
                  “If I tell you that you have an increased risk of getting a terrible disease, that could weigh on your mind and make you anxious, through which you see the rest of your life as you wait for that disease to hit you. It could really mess you up.” Said Dr. Robert Green, a Harvard geneticist.
                  “Every ache and pain,” Smith suggested, could be understood as “the beginning of the end.” “That ’s right. If you ever worried you were at risk for Alzheimer’s disease, then every time you can’t find your car in the parking lot, you think the disease has started.”
                  Dr. Green has been thinking about this issue for years. He led a study of people who wanted to know if they were at a higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s. It was thought that people who got bad news would, for lack of a better medical term, freak out. But Green and his team found that there was “no significant difference” between how people handled good news and possibly the worst news of their lives. In fact, most people think they can handle it. People who ask for the information usually can handle the information, good or bad, said Green.
            • 2. Anne Frank's life was short and tragic. Yet her brave spirit has survived in her dairy. She wrote this diary while hiding from the Nazis during World War Ⅱ.
                    Anne's father prepared a hiding place for his family. He sealed off several rooms at the back of his office building, and covered the entrance with a movable bookcase. In July 1942, Anne, her mother and her father, her sister Margot, and four Jewish friends stepped behind the bookcase into the hidden rooms. The Frank family and their friends stayed shut away in secret for over two years. Brave friends risks their lives to bring them food. But constant fear and loss of freedom were hard to bear. For comfort, Anne started to write a diary. She was very good at expressing her thoughts and feelings in words.
                   Anne’s was 13 when she stared to write. Her diary shows that, just like other teenagers, she looked forward to adult life. She hoped to have career as a writer, and she longed to find love. She had a high ideal and wished "to be used or give pleasure to people around me." Throughout her time in hiding, Anne kept her faith in human nature. She wrote," In sprite of everything, I still believe that human beings are really good at heart."
                   In 1944, the Frank family's hiding place was given away to the Gestapo(German secret police). Anne was sent to the Bergen-Belsen prison camp in Germany. She died at the camp in 1945 at the age of 15.
                  Otto, Anne's father, was the only member of the Frank family to survive the war. He published her diary in 1947. Since then it has been published in more than 50 languages. Millions of people have visited the family's hiding place in Amsterdam. Anne Frank's story still inspires people to fight against all kinds of race discrimination(歧视).  
            • 3. Worry can make even the most strong-willed person ill. General Grant discovered that during the closing days of the American Civil War (1861-1865). The story goes like this: Grant had been besieging (包围) Richmond, Virginia, for nine months. Richmond served as the capital of the Confederate States of America , which supported slavery and wanted to separate from the United States of America . The Confederate States Army, led by General Lee, was beaten. The soldiers were hungry. Many of them ran away from the city at night. The end was close.
                   Grant, half blind with a violent sick headache, fell behind his army and stopped at a farmhouse. “I spent the night,” he records in his memoirs (传记), “in bathing my feet in hot water and putting mustard plasters (芥子膏) on my wrists and the back part of my neck, hoping to be cured by morning.”
                   The next morning, he was cured instantaneously. And the thing that cured him was not a mustard plaster, but a horseman riding down the road with a letter from Lee, saying he wanted to stop fighting.
              “When the officer bearing the message reached me,” Grant wrote, “I was still suffering with the sick headache, but the instant I saw the things written in the note, I was cured.”
                  Obviously it was Grant's worries, tensions, and emotions that made him ill. He was cured instantly the moment he saw the sure signs of victory.
                  To learn more about the negative effects of worry, you may find an influential book about it in your public library. The book is Man Against Himself by Dr. Karl Menninger. Dr. Menninger's book will not give you any rules about how to avoid worry, but it will offer you true facts about how we destroy our bodies and minds by anxiety, frustration, hatred, anger, and fear.
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