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听力原文:M: A recent survey says that a third of us are living with extreme stress. Well, as the holiday's approaching, the shopping season kicks in. It's not gonna get any easier. It is the year when all of us get so overloadeD.Angela Burt-Murray, the editor in chief of Essence magazine, will give us some advice on stress reducing. Angela, your readers have written in preciously about this topiC.Is that right?
W: Absolutely. I was telling them to calm down to the end of the year. In fact, they are feeling a lot of pressures with work deadlines, financial pressure, family obligations and of course shopping for the holiday.
M: Speaking about the holidays, how does the stress escalate during this time of the year?
W: The bottom-line is women still bear the burden for the holidays. They are still, you know, whether they are working or not working, or single, or whatever the case may be, they are the ones to make the holiday. And family adds a lot of stress, too. A lot of time women tend to bear the burden alonE.You feel like you've got to be the one who has to do it all alonE.You have to make it all the beautiful; you have to make it all the delicious; you have to meet your children's expectations; and you have to manage all those family relationships. And think about it, you don't necessarily see the people during the year all the timE.Yet they all come to your home and you will be together for a long perioD.That can actually add a lot of stress.
M: You said that 'investigating old stories can help manage the families', what do you mean by that?
W: What I mean is that women often feel the expectation, because they are thinking 'I wanna do like I remembered my mother doing it', or 'I wanna do it differently than my mother did it'. These old stories about how perfect it's supposed to be come from somewherE.And if you understand where that expectation is coming from, you have a better chance to be more objective about it. You know, maybe I don't have to bake 100 different varieties of cookies. Maybe that's something my mother chose to do but Vm gonna do it differently.
M: A lot of women feel guilty around this time of the year, too, right? And you say that's the part of thing you have to get rid oF.
W: Right! You have to let go of the guilt. They tell you when you get on an aeroplane that in a case of an emergency when the oxygen masks come down put it on yourself first. You have to save yourself before you can help others. So it's really important that you let go of the guilt, prioritize, and learn a way to notice something that you are just not able to do.
M: And feeling better is another really key topic…
W: Absolutely, during this stressful time, the health issues can become, you know, more prevalent. So you really need to make sure that you are eating right, you are getting enough rest and you are also listening to your body. And give yourself a little time out occasionally. You know, take time to meditate or just to focus on yourselF.
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11.What's the main topic of the interview?
12.Who is the interviewee Angela Burt-Murray?
13.The speaker says that family adds stress to women. Which of the following is NOT a reason mentioned?
14.What does the speaker mean by suggesting that you should put the oxygen mask on yourself first in an in-flight emergency?
15.Which of the following is NOT mentioned on how to keep healthy during stressful time?
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A.Women are more stressed out than men.
B.Stress reducing in holiday seasons.
C.Life with extreme stress.
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听力原文: Do you know what Prince Charles, Seve Ballesteros and Elizabeth Taylor have in common? They all suffer from chronic back pain. In fact, bad back is one of the most common health problems today, affecting people in all walks of lifE.The most recent available figures show that about a quarter of a million people are incapacitated with back pain every day.And many sufferers don't know the cause or the solution to their problem.The majority of our patients at the clinic tend to be women. They are especially vulnerable because of pregnancy but also because of osteoporosis, which I personally believe to be the major cause of problems for women. I have many women patients who say they have completely given up exercise because the pain makes them so miserablE.But of course that starts up a vicious circlE.Bed rest, giving up exercise and pain killers are traditional responses to back pain but, although there are many excellent drugs on the market, at our clinic we are beginning to realise the unique benefits of relaxation therapy. Other specialists in the field make a strong case for certain types of exercise, but in our experience they are easily mishandled and can lead to more harm than gooD.Now, let's look at some of the reasons why back pain is developing into such a unique menacE.In general, the body is pretty good at self-repair. A strain or a blow to a limb, though painful at the time, generally resolves itselF.But the body's response to back injury can be very counter-productivE.When pain strikes, we attempt to keep the back as immobile as possible, which makes the muscles tense up. Research shows that they often go into spasm, which cause further twisting of the spinE.A vicious circle is underway.The second mistake we often make when stricken with extreme back pain is to go to bed and stay therE.Although at the clinic we recognise that a short rest in bed can be helpful… up to two days… any longer makes our back muscles become weaker and unable to hold up our spinE.The pain therefore becomes worsE.Another problem is being overweight. Anyone a stone or more overweight who already has back pain is not doing himself any favours: though it won't actually set it off in the first place, the weight will increase the strain and make things worsE.The British diet could be partially to blame for the increase in back pain: over the last ten years the average weight of men has risen by 11 lbs. and of women by 9 lbs..Questions:16.What is the speaker mainly talking about?17.According to the speaker, what is the main cause of back pain in women?18.What does the clinic mainly recommend as treatment for back pain?19.What is the main difference between back and other parts of the body?20.According to the speaker, which of the following statements about bed rest is true?(36)A.Celebrity lifE.B.Chronic back pain.C.Healthcare for people in all walks of lifE.D.Diet and pain.
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'THE French constitute the most brilliant and the most dangerous nation in Europe and the best qualified in turn to become an object of admiration, hatred, pity or terror but never indifferencE.' Thus did a young Alexis de Tocqueville describe his motherland in the early 19th century. His words still carry a haunting truth. Over the past few years, as other western democracies have shuffled quietly along, France has by turns stunned, exasperated and bemuseD.This week's massive one-day protest, drawing 1m-3m people on to the streets, was no exception. This particular stand-off, between the centre right government of Dominique de Villepin and those protesting against his effort to inject a tiny bit of liberalism into France's rigid labour market, may be defuseD.The Constitutional Council was due to rule on the legality of the new law on March 30th. But the underlying difficulty will remain: the apparent incapacity of the French to adapt to a changing worlD.On the face of it, France seems to be going through one of those convulsions that this nation born of revolution periodically requires in order to break with the past and to move forwarD.Certainly the students who kicked off the latest protests seemed to think they were re-enacting the events of May 1968 their parents sprang on Charles de GaullE.They have borrowed its slogans ('Beneath the cobblestones, the beach!') and hijacked its symbols (the Sorbonne university). In this sense, the revolt appears to be the natural sequel to last autumn's suburban riots, which prompted the government to impose a state of emergency. Then it was the jobless, ethnic underclass that rebelled against a system that excluded them.Yet the striking feature of the latest protest movement is that this time the rebellious forces are on the side of conservatism. Unlike the rioting youths in the banlieues, the objective of the students and public-sector trade unions is to prevent change, and to keep France the way it is. Indeed, according to one astonishing poll, three quarters of young French people today would like to become civil servants, and mostly because that would mean 'a job for life'. Buried inside this chilling lack of ambition are one delusion and one crippling myth.The delusion is that preserving France as it is, in some sort of formaldehyde solution, means preserving jobs for lifE.Students, as well as unqualified suburban youngsters, do not today face a choice between the new, less protected work contract and a lifelong perch in the bureaucracy. They, by and large, face a choice between already unprotected short-term work and no work at all. And the reason for this, which is also the reason for France's intractable mass unemployment of nearly 10%, is simple: those permanent life-time jobs are so protected, and hence so difficult to get rid of, that many employers are not creating them any morE.This delusion is accompanied by an equally pernicious myth: that France has more to fear from globalisation, widely held responsible for imposing the sort of insecurity enshrined in the new job contract, than it does to gain. It is true that the forces of global capitalism are not always benign, but nobody has yet found a better way of creating and spreading prosperity. In another startling poll, however, whereas 71% of Americans, 66% of the British and 65% of Germans agreed that the free market was the best system available, the number in France was just 36%. The French seem to be uniquely hostile to the capitalist system that has made them the world's fifth richest country and generated so many first-rate French companies. This hostility appears to go deeper than resistance to painful reform, which is common to Italy and Germany too; or than a desire for a strong welfare state, which Scandinavian countries share; or even than a fondness for protectionism, which America periodically betrays.The choice belongs to FrancE.A bold effA.France is the most smart and distinguished nation in EuropE.B.France evokes complicated and contradictory feeling by other European nations.C.France is a hazardous nation in EuropE.D.France never meets with indifference from other western countries.
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