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People who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds. It’s possible that being full of vim and vigor helps the body fight illnesses, say the researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh.
“We need to take more seriously the possibility that a positive emotional style is a major player in disease risk,” says psychologist Sheldon Cohen, the study’s lead researcher. 
In a previous study, Cohen and his colleagues found that people who tended to be cheerful and lively were least likely to develop sniffles, coughs, and other cold symptoms(癥狀).   
Those findings were interesting, but they didn’t prove that a person’s attitude affects whether he or she gets sick. Instead, it was still probable that a person’s underlying personality is what matters.
Evidence suggests, for instance, that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing and optimistic, with high self-respect and a sense of control over life. This would mean that who we are, not how we feel, finally decides our chances of catching colds.
To figure out which mattered more (personality or emotions), the CMU team interviewed 193 healthy adults. The researchers talked to each person over the phone every evening for 2 weeks. They told the researchers about the positive and negative feelings they had experienced that day.
The results showed that everyone in the study was equally likely to get infected. Their symptoms, however, differed depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the previous 2 weeks.
Among those who reported good moods and had been infected with the flu virus, for example, 28 percent developed coughs and stuffy(堵塞)noses. On the other hand, those symptoms struck 41 percent of people who had been less positive. Scientists argue about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger effect on how healthy we are. For now, it can’t hurt to look on the bright side more often than not!
小題1:What is the text mainly about?

A．how to get rid of colds	B．Attitude determines life
C．Smiles turn away colds	D．Different opinions about colds

小題2:The word “full of vim and vigor” underlined in Paragraph 1 probably means_______.

A．ignorant

B．well-informed

C．energetic

D．in low spirits

小題3:According to the finding a leading factor of catching colds should be one’s _______.

A．health.

B．personality.

C．quality

D．mood

小題4:By saying the last paragraph, the writer intends to suggest_______.

A．positiveemotionsareasgoodasnegativeemotions

B．itisnotnecessarilygoodforyouifyoualwayslookatproblemspositively

C．itwillbegoodforyourhealthtoalwayskeepupanoptimisticstateofmind

D．thesaying---everycoinhastwosides.

Answer 1

小題1:C
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:C

試題分析:CMU大學的研究人員經研究表明快樂放松的人們更不容易患感冒，他們與旁人比較起來很少會有咳嗽、鼻塞等感冒癥狀。研究人員指出這可能是因為人們內在的性格影響著身體健康狀況，并且建議人們?yōu)榱私】狄�保持積極樂觀的心情。
小題1:C主旨大意題。本文是一篇科學研究類短文，文章開頭提出中心People who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds.，然后在下文進行詳細講述，所以文章主要是關于快樂能夠抵抗感冒的問題，答案選C。
小題2:C 詞義猜測題。根據文章首句People who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds和第二段的首句We need to ……. a positive emotional style is a major player in disease risk,”可知文章主要介紹快樂、積極的情緒對健康的作用，由此判斷full of vim and vigor指精力充沛，積極樂觀，答案選C。
小題3:B細節(jié)理解題。從文章第二段帶頭從事這項研究的Sheldon Cohen 所說的“We need to take more seriously the possibility that a positive emotional style is a major player in disease risk,” 可以判斷人的性格是人們是否容易患感冒的主要因素，答案選B。
小題4:C細節(jié)理解題。在文章末段作者給出了一些數字來證明積極樂觀的心態(tài)對感冒的影響，而且最后提出it can’t hurt to look on the bright side more often than not! ，由此判斷作者的目的是要建議人們?yōu)榱私】档木壒室�保持愉悅的心情，答案選C。