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It seems that great artists and scientists often suffer from mental problems. Both Einstein and Dickens had mental illness. Now scientists have started to look at whether mental illness and genius are linked.

Dr Adele Juda studied 5，000 creative people in Germany. She found there were more people with mental illness in this group than in the general population. Poets had the highest rate of mental illness， followed by musicians， with lower numbers for painters and architects.

Other scientists did research which also showed a strong link between mental problems and creativity. But， it did nothing to explain it.

Dr Ruth Richards of Harvard University made a break-through. Instead of studying creative people， she took a group of psychiatric （精神病的） patients and tested them for creativity. The patients got much higher scores than a normal group. Also， the patients close relatives were much more creative than the patients and a normal group. This suggests that the key to the link between creativity and mental illness is in our genes. But this is a problem. According to Darwinism， harmful genes should be removed. Some scientists believe that evolution has created a balance， where the madness of a few people leads to the development of the whole human race.

Geniuses may be mad， bad or just difficult to understand， but their discoveries have improved the world we live in. It seems that a little creative madness is good for us all.

1. According to Dr Adele Juda， who have the lowest rate of mental illness？

A. Poets. B. Painters.

C. Musicians. D. Bus drivers.

2. What can we conclude from the research of Dr Ruth Richards？

A. Poets had the highest rate of mental illness.

B. Great artists often suffer from mental problems.

C. Psychiatric patients have more creativity than the average people.

D. It is our genes that determine the link between creativity and mental illness.

3. Which of the following statements is TRUE？

A. Geniuses may be easy to understand.

B. There is a weak link between mental problems and creativity.

C. The key to the link between creativity and mental illness is in our genes.

D. Psychiatric patients make greater contributions than common people.

4. What is the writers attitude toward madness？

A. All the talented people are mad.

B. Madness is harmful to the whole society.

C. A little creative madness is good for us all.

D. Only the people with mental illness have more creativity.

B

The temperature of your body should always be the same if you are fine， no matter whether the weather is hot or cold. That is why the doctor tests your temperature with a thermometer （体温表） when you are sick. Normally， your body temperature is ninety-eight point six degrees Fahrenheit （华氏的）. If it is higher than that， it is a sure sign that something is wrong with your body.

Your body keeps the same temperature all the time， because it balances the heat it produces and gives off. It is always burning up food and producing heat. It can produce heat faster when the body needs or give off heat faster when the body becomes too warm. Lets see how this works.

The heat of your body is given off mainly through the skin. When you feel cold， your skin is tight and shows “goose flesh”. When you feel cold， you must jump around to keep warm. Then your muscles begin to work， burn up fuel and produce more heat. It is not pleasant to shiver （颤抖）， so you usually prefer warming up by taking exercise， or putting on more clothes to keep warm.

When you get warm， the skin is soft. It is so supplied with blood that heat is given off rapidly. If you get too warm， you begin to sweat （出汗） and more body heat is used in evaporating the moisture （蒸发水分） in your body. In warm weather or warm rooms， you wear less clothing so that heat can be given off freely. You prefer less exercise because your body is warm enough， and the extra heat produced by taking too much exercise makes you uncomfortable.

Now you see why you feel differently in different kinds of weather. In summer， when it is hot， you feel tired and lazy. You do not care to work or play， but enjoy lying down and doing nothing. When you get out of door in winter， the cold air makes you feel lively. You want to run and play.

5. How does the body keep the same temperature all the time？

A. It balances the heat it gets and loses.

B. It is always producing heat from food.

C. It stops producing heat when it needs to.

D. It gives off the heat that the body produces.

6. A person sweats in order to ___ .

A. make the skin soft

B. give off heat quickly

C. evaporate the moisture

D. get the blood to move faster

7. From this passage we know that we feel differently in different kinds of weather because ___ .

A. we have different emotions in different kinds of weather

B. the body temperature is always changing in different kinds of weather

C. we feel tired and lazy in summer and lively in winter when we are outside in cold air

D. our bodies deal with different kinds of weather in different ways to keep the same temperature

单词训练营

从下列方框里10个单词中选择8个适当单词的正确形式填入下列各句中，使其句意完整。每个单词只使用一次。

afterwards arm despite disagree eventually

liberate personnel toil vengeful worthwhile

1. Bob Beamons longstanding record for the long jump was ____ broken.

2. ____ ， he became the first Westerner to open a martial arts school in Japan.

3. At the beginning of ____ ， the factory was in an awful mess.

4. The teacher introduced some really ____ novels to his students.

5. An ____ battle is likely to break out between the two countries.

6. His ____ with his family was well known.

7. Training courses are provided for all company ____ .

8. ____ the fact that she is short， she is an excellent basketball player.

单句改错

下列各句每句有1个错误。

1. It refers to a disagreement with young people and their parents. ____

2. The history shows that we know how to keep peace， to keep it without surrender. ____

3. Generally， those closely involving cannot see as clearly as those outside. ____

4. Despite my education and experience， but I couldnt get a job. ____

单句翻译

1. 尽管病得很重，他还是来参加了会议。

2. 你记得曾经和他到日本旅行过吗？

3. 她鼓励学生们在学习中互相帮助。

4. 他是位警察，他的职责就是维护当地的治安。

单项选择

1. We want to rent a bus which can ___ 40 people for our trip to Beijing.

A. include B. contain

C. hold D. load

2. The government plans to bring in new laws ___ parents to take more obligation for the education of their children.

A. forced B. having force

C. to be forced D. forcing

3. He hasnt come yet. What do you suppose ___ to him？

A. happening B. has happened

C. happened D. to happen

4. Professor White has written some short stories， but he is ___ known for his stage plays.

A. best B. more

C. better D. most

5. The poem is hard to understand. Can you make ___ of this poem？

A. understanding B. knowledge

C. sense D. idea

6. Teddy came to my ___ with a cheque of $200 to pay my room rate， after I phoned him that my wallet had been stolen by some strangers.

A. mind B. rescue

C. astonishment D. safety

7. Always acting in a strange way， Einstein must have ___ to people around to be mad.

A. shown B. imagined

C. appeared D. thought

8. In his early days Lun Xun abandoned medicine ___ literature.

A. to B. with

C. for D. on

完形填空

When my son was 11 years old， he got a small job helping out with a traveling carnival in our town. He didnt come home at lunch time， phoning 1 to tell me he was fine and had found a few days work 2 out at an exhibit. However， after he finished work he 3 for supper as usual.

I asked him how he had 4 at lunch and he told me he had made some new 5 at the carnival， some young men who were twin brothers， and their mom and dad. They had 6

him a few dollars and invited him for lunch 7 for helping them set up their exhibit and wanted him to 8 the next day to help with other chores （杂务）.

I was glad he had found new friends but a little 9 about the type of people who might be traveling in a carnival. “Oh， Mom， they are just 10 everyday people like anyone else. They 11 work at a carnival instead of in a store or something”. “Come down tomorrow and 12 them yourself，” he said.

So the next day I went to the carnival and to the exhibit he had 13 me to. The twin brothers 14 out to be Siamese （连体的） twins， joined at the chest. He hadnt thought this 15

was noteworthy enough to mention. When I brought it to him， he said， “yes， I 16 that， too. Do you know that their mom has to make all their clothes 17 its so difficult to find anything to fit them？ Theyre also really good 18 . Today， Joe， the one on the right， made me spaghetti （意大利面） for lunch.”

What others see first in a person is not what a child considers 19 . Where I saw Siamese twins， he saw people having difficulty buying clothes that fit， and young men who were good cooks. It was a 20 I have thought about many times over the years.

1. A. instead B. even C. also D. besides

2. A. leaving B. helping C. taking D. showing

3. A. did up B. gave up C. took up D. turned up

4. A. sought B. managed C. worked D. acted

5. A. clothes B. friends C. choices D. differences

6. A. paid B. charged C. lent D. owed

7. A. in advance B. in return C. by turns D. by chance

8. A. return B. promise C. consider D. decide

9. A. excited B. regretful C. worried D. optimistic

10. A. humorous B. obvious C. particular D. normal

11. A. just B. never C. hardly D. always

12. A. teach B. meet C. affect D. join

13. A. ordered B. directed C. forced D. persuaded

14. A. worked B. left C. came D. turned

15. A. expression B. change C. fact D. idea

16. A. understood B. made C. noticed D. formed

17. A. although B. if C. unless D. because

18. A. cooks B. doctors C. artists D. singers

19. A. necessary B. important C. impossible D. unlucky

20. A. lesson B. festival C. task D. match