1、 Three British soldiers were killed in ______.
spacedA．the tanker attack
应对英文B．a fighting happened in a Shia city
C．a blast happened in al-Amarah
D．the battle with Shia gunmern
2、We sometimes think humans are uniquely vulnerable to anxiety, but stress ems to affect the immune defens of lower animals too. In one experiment, for example, behavioral immunologist Mark Laudenslager, at the University of Denver, gave mild electric shocks to 24 rats. Half the animals could switch off the current by turning a wheel in their enclosure, while the other half could not. The rats in the two groups were paired so that each time one rat turned the wheel it protected both itlf and its helpless partner from the shock. Laudenslager found that the immune respon was depresd below normal in the helpless rats but not in tho that could turn off the electricity. What he has demonstrated, h
e believes, is that lack of control over an event, not the experience itlf, is what weakens the immune system.
Other rearchers agree. Jay Weiss, a psychologist at Duke University School of Medicine, has shown that animals who are allowed to control unpleasant stimuli don't develop sleep disturbances or changes in brain chemistry typical of stresd rats. But if the animals are confronted with situations they have no control over, they later behave passively when faced with experiences they can control. Such findings reinforce psychologists' suspicions that the experience or perception of helplessness is one of the most harmful factors in depression.
One of the most startling examples of how the mind can alter the immuue respon was discovered by chance. In 1975 psychologist Robert Ader at the University of Rochester School of Medicine conditioned mice to avoid saccharin by simultaneously feeding them the sweetener and injecting them with a drag that while suppressing their immune systems caud stomach upts. Associating the saccharin with the stomach pains, the
mice quickly learned to avoid the sweetener. In order to extinguish this dislike for the sweetener, Ader reexpod the animals to sac charin, this time without the drug, and was astonished to find that tho mice that had received the highest amounts of sweetener during their earlier conditioning died. He could only speculate that he had so successfully conditioned the rats that saccharin alone now rved to weaken their immune systems enough to kill them.
Laudenslager's experiment showed that the immune system of tho rats who could turn off the electricity ______.
A.was strengthened
B.was not affected
C.was altered
D.was weakened
3、SECTION B INTERVIEW
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Directions: In this ction you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are bad on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 conds to answer each of the following five questions.
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Now listen to the interview.
听力原文：INTERVIEWER: Newspapers em sort of impersonal.., but radio and TV—there are personalities involved. Isn't there a lot more possibility that since there are personalities involved it will have a greater impact on people's reactions?
DANIEL: Well, I think you have to first start with the understanding that no person is unobjective. We're all striving to be objective, but we have our own prejudice. It's build in. And so, even the person who writes the story in the newspaper lets that bias come through in his pen. Of cour, when we arc personally on camera, we're trying to stick pretty cloly to a script. that we have already written.
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DANIEL: But sometimes, perhaps in an ad, although we try to avoid as much of that as possible—some of our prejudice or bias will show, even though we're striving not to let it show.
INTERVIEWER: Uh... but when people read a newspaper article, it's kind of cold.
DANIEL: Right, that's true.
heart and soul>vicepresidentINTERVIEWER: It it could be a real exciting story, and all you can do is put exclamation marks. But when you e a
DANIEL: I e what you're saying.
INTERVIEWER: I started to say that the particular bias of a person can come through more readily.26个英文字母手写体
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DANIEL: I think it's something you have to guard against. It would be wrong for that to happen. But, yes, I think what you're saying is true—that in trying to interpret the words th
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at are on the script, I might.., in my voice or in my expression show some type of reaction to it. Uh... probably, would be more of a reaction than it would of an interpretation—although the voice implies an interpretation when you read any group of words.
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INTERVIEWER: Right.
DANIEL: I guess the idea is to make that ntence not so bland, but so—leave out adjectives, leave out adverbs so that you deal just with nouns and verbs, and in that way, you keep it as straight as you possibly can.
INTERVIEWER: How do you e yourlf, primarily—other than reporting the news?
Uh... are you an entertainer?
DANIEL: No. No, I don't think I'm an entertainer. I think, perhaps, the sports man might be an entertainer of sort—although he has a journalistic function too. I e mylf as a public rvant. Uh... the a policeman or a mayor might be providing information to people that they need in their to live their life, to make decisions and so forth.
INTERVIEWER: But you are conscious, of cour,... when you go before the cameras, that you're in
