Think about the last time you felt a negative emotion—like stress,anger,or_36_.What was going through your _37_as you were going through that negativity?Was your mind cluttered（混乱的）with thoughts?Or was it paralyzed, unable to_38_?

The next time you find yourself in the_39_of a very stressful time,or you feel angry or frustrated,stop.Whatever you're doing,stop and sit for one minute.While you're sitting there,_40_immerse yourself in the negative emotion.

Allow that emotion to_41_you.Allow yourself one minute to truly feel that emotion.Don't_42_yourself here. Take the entire minute—but only one minute—to do_43_else but feel that emotion.

When the minute is over,ask yourself,\I willing to keep_44_to this negative emotion_45_I go through the rest of the day?\

Once you've allowed yourself to be totally immersed in the emotion and really_46_it,you will be surprised to find that the emotion_47_lather quickly.

This exercise seems simple—almost too simple._48_,it is very effective.By allowing that negative emotion the _49_to be truly felt,you are dealing with the emotion_50_stuffing it down and trying not to feel it.You are actually _51_the power of the emotion by giving it the space and attention it needs.When you immerse yourself in the emotion,and realize that it is only emotion,it_52_its control,You can clear your head and proceed with your task.

Try it.Keep a piece of paper with you that says the following:_53_.Immerse for one minute.Do I want to keep this negativity?Breathe deeply,exhale,release.Move on!This will_54_you of the steps to the process.Remember: take the time you need to really immerse yourself in the emotion.Then,when you feel you've felt it_55_,release it—really let go of it.You will be surprised at how quickly you can move on from a negative situation and get to what you really want to do! 36.A.sadness 37.A.heart 38. A.move

B.frustration B.thought B.survive B.end

C.regret

D.sorrow

D.body

C.mind

C.talk D.think D.start D.never D.escape

39.A.beginning 40.A.completely 41.A.destroy

C.middle C.hardly C.consume

B.immediately B.torture

42.A.abandon 43.A.anything 44.A.holding on 45.A.till 46.A.defeat 47.A.clears

B.cheat C.blame D.doubt D.nothing D.adding up D.once D.forget

B.something B.giving in B.as B.fight

C.everything C.looking forward C.before C.feel

B.escapes C.releases D.runs

D.However D.time D.less than D.objecting to D.loses D.Stop D.remind D.long

48.A.Therefore 49.A.space

B.Otherwise B.reason

C.Moreover C.chance

50.A.other than 51.A.adding to 52.A.gains 53.A.Calm

B.more than B.taking away B.takes B.Relax B.warn

C.rather than C.subjecting to C.keeps C.Wait

54.A.inform 55.A.already

C.convince C.gone

B.enough

第三部分 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

请认真阅读下列短文，从每篇短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A

Wall fail,all the time.We might miss a call with a client because of an emergency work meeting,or miss that meeting because another project has suddenly become urgent.And then we (or our families) get sick,and we have to shift priorities around again.

These unsystematic failures are benign,though.They reflect that all of us have limited resources.There simply is not enough time,energy,or money,to do everything you want to do all the time.Part of being a responsible adult is learning to make trade offs: balancing your conflicting goals and trying to get as much done as you can in the time you have.

The thing you really need to watch out for is the systematic failure.The systematic failure happens when there's a particular goal you want to achieve,but never get to.The causes of systematic failures usually boil down to some combination of these three factors:

1.Short-term pressures versus long-term goals.Most of us prefer to achieve pressing short-term goals rather than put time into long-term projects.Lots of research suggests that our

brains are wired to prefer tasks that pay off in the short term rather than those whose benefit is long-term.The people who do manage to accomplish their long-term goals create regular space to make progress on them.

2. Without even realizing it,we often do what is easiest to accomplish rather than what we say is most important.Email is a great example.If you are like most people,you keep your email program open at work all day. Consequently,each new message is an invitation to drop what you are working on to check it.It feels like work and it's much easier than finishing that 100-slide presentation.Simply shutting off email for a few hours a day can remove this source of distraction from the environment.

3.Working for too long.Many workplaces create pressure to stay at the office for more and more hours,which (paradoxically) creates opportunities for systematic failures.Work is not an iron man competition where the last person there wins.Most people have an optimal（最佳的）number of hours they can work each day.For example,I can be productive at work for about 8-9 hours a day.If I spend any more time at work than that,then at some point,I start doing \work.\

The next time you run into trouble,assess whether it's an unsystematic failure or a systematic one.When you notice a systematic failure in your life,you need to make a change in your behavior.If you don't make a change,you will continue to fail.

Finally,if you experience a lot of unsystematic failures,it might be worth rethinking the number of tasks you are taking on.Perhaps you need to offload some responsibilities onto someone else,before you start experiencing more systematic failures. 56.Who was most probably affected by the first factor? A.Andy who put his keep-fit plan aside due to a lack of free time.

B.Sarah who worked overtime till the next morning to finish her work ahead of time.

C.Philip who missed an important appointment because he has been under the weather lately. D.Emily who kept her social networking platform on all day to receive updates about friends. 57.Which of the following could fill in the blank as a subtitle? A.The truth about important goals. B.Environments that are bad for our goals. C.The easiest goals that often bring us little.

D.Ways to remove the source of distraction. 58.What is the main idea of the passage?

A.How to distinguish systematic failures from unsystematic failures. B.When you should worry about failure and when you shouldn't. C.What to do to save yourself from constant systematic failures. D.Why assessing failures you have encountered is important.

B

The ability to speak more than one language certainly has its special benefits.It enables you to work in another country or interact with people whose language is different from your mother tongue.Cognitive（认知的） psychologists have been interested in how bilingualism（双语能力）shapes the mind for almost a century.There are those who suggest that in order to speak one language,bilinguals have to suppress（抑制）the influence of the other.In the past three decades,research had argued that this unique form of language processing trains the brain in the use of abilities known as \（执行的）functions\shifting attention. Bilinguals of different ages and cultural backgrounds have been shown to be faster and more accurate than their monolingual（单语的）peers when performing cognitive tasks demanding these abilities.Furthermore,it has been argued that bilingualism may lead to a delayed onset（发作）of symptoms associated with dementia（痴呆）.

But the scientific community recently has become increasingly skeptical of the bilingual advantage.One of the main points of criticism is that differences between monolinguals and bilinguals when it comes to executive functions are not always apparent.It appears that research on bilingualism is at a turning point.We need to pursue a new approach to understand,beyond those individual examples of executive functions,how the bilingual mind works. We have attempted to address this challenge by testing whether bilinguals and monolinguals differ in terms of how accurately they can assess their own performances.This ability is called meta cognition and is associated with other areas where bilinguals have been shown to have an advantage.

In our research,we presented participants with a situation in which they had to observe two circles on a screen and guess which one contained more dots.Sometimes the difference was obvious,making the decision easy,while at other times the decision was very difficult (for