64. What do the underlined words in the second paragraph refer to?

A. The economic interests.    B. The anxious neighbors.

C. The stubborn Japanese.     D. The Diaoyu Islands.

65. Which of the following is TRUE?[来源:学,科,网]

A. Most of the Chinese citizens hope to handle the dispute in a peaceful way.

B. Only the United States has the ability to guarantee the peace of the Pacific.

C. The reason for Japan’s claim to the islands lies in its aggressive ambitions.

D. Even the Philippines were involved in the dispute of the Diaoyu Islands.

C

Some students get so nervous before a test, they do poorly even if they know the material. Sian Beilock has studied these highly anxious test-takers.[来源:学§科§网]

SianBeilock: “They start worrying about the consequences. They might even start worrying about whether this exam is going to prevent them from getting into the college they want. And when we worry, it actually uses up attention and memory resources. I talk about it as your cognitive horsepower that you could otherwise be using to focus on the exam.”

Professor Beilock and another researcher, Gerardo Ramirez, have developed a possible solution. Just before an exam, highly anxious test-takers spend ten minutes writing about their worries about the test.

Sian Beilock: “what we think happens is when students put it down on paper , they think about the worst that could happen and they reappraise the situation. They might realize it’s not as had as they might think it was before and, in essence(本质上), it prevents these thoughts from popping upwhen they’re actually taking a test.”

The researchers tested the idea on a group of twenty anxious college students. They gave them two short math tests. After the first one, they asked the students to either sit quietly or write about their feelings about the upcoming second test.

The researchers added to the pressure. They told the students that those who did well on the second test would get money. They also told them that their performance would affect other students as part of a team effort.

Professor Beilock says those who sat quietly scored an average of twelve percent worse on the second test. But the students who had written about their fears improved their performance by an average of five percent.

Next, the researchers used younger students in a biology class. They told them before final exams either to write about their feelings or to think about things unrelated to the test.

Prefessor Beilock says highly anxious students who did the writing got an average grade of B+, compared to a B- for those who did not.

SianBeilock: “What we showed is that for students who are highly test-anxious, who’d done our writing intervention, all of a sudden there was no relationship between test anxiety and performance. Those students most likely to worry were performing just as well as their classmates who don’t normally get nervous in these testing situations.”

But what if students do not have a chance to write about their fears immediately before an exam or presentation? Professor Beilock says students can try it themselves at home or in the library and still improve their performance.

66. What may happen if students have the problem of test anxiety?

A. Test anxiety can improve students’ performance to some degree.

B. Students’ attention and memory resources run out when worried.

C. Students may not be admitted into their favorite college if worried[来源:Z&xx&k

D. Test anxiety is sure to cause students to fail the test.

67. Which of th #FormatImgID_7#e following if TRUE?

A. In the first math test, students who sat quietly performed better.

B. In the second math test, students who wrote about their feelings did worse.

C. Some college students are highly anxious test-takers while others are not in the tests.

D .The result in the math test agrees with that in the biology test.

68. What does the und #FormatImgID_8#erlined phrase “popping up” mean?

A.Giving out                 B.Fading away

C.Becoming clearly           D.Appearing suddenly

69. what is most probably Sian Beilock?

A  psychology professor.         B. A philosophy researcher.

A  politics professor                D. A tutor

70. What is the main idea of the passage?

A . It is a common practice for students being worried before a test.

B. Being worried before tests does harm to students’ performance.

C. Anxious students overcome test anxiety by writing down fears.

D. It is important for students to overcome test anxiety.

D

Teenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside other traditional subjects such as math and languages.

The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and they count from one to ten: someone starts，the next voice comes from the far right，a third from the other side.

The aim of the game is to listen for an opportunity to shout out the number without clashing (冲突) with another voice or leaving a pause. On the first try，most of the young Germans try to be first，while a few are too shy to join in，but by the fifth time round，they develop a rhythm. The message: give other people space but also confidently claim your own. This is a requirement for social well-being.

The Willy Hellpach School in Heidelberg is the first in the nation to develop a happiness course. It is intended for students preparing for university entrance exams.

“The course isn’t there to make you happy，”Ernst Fritz-Schubert，the school principal，warned pupils，“but rather to help you discover the ways to become happy.”

Cooking a meal together is one of the class exercises. Improving body language under the guidance of two professional actresses is another.

The course is taught for three periods a week. Despite the happy subject，the pupils themselves insist it is not a laughing matter.

“In the first period，we had each say something positive about another member of the class and about ourselves. No laughing at people，”said Fanny,17.

Research by the school shows it is not the first to start happiness classes: they also exist at some US universities，but are mainly based on positive thinking and using findings from studies of depression.

“That would be too one side for us. We want to show how delicious food or exercise can help，too” the principal said.