Psychology（心理學(xué)） has a new application in the field of medicine. Many doctors, together with their patients, are looking for alternative methods of treatment of physical problems. In large hospitals, modern therapy（療法） seems to focus on the physical disease. Patients may feel they are treated like broken machines. Some doctors have recognized this as a problem. They are now using psychological therapy, in which the patient is working with the doctors against the disease with the help of medicine. The patient does not wait for the medicine and treatment to cure him or her, but instead the patient joins in the fight.

The doctor knows that a disease affects a patient's body physically. The body of the patient changes because of the disease. He is not only physically affected, but also has an emotional response to the disease. Because his mind is affected, his attitude and behavior change. The medical treatment might cure the patient's physical problems, but the patient's mind must fight the emotional ones. For example, the studies of one doctor, Carl Simonton, M. D., have shown that a typical cancer patient has predictable attitudes. She typically feels depressed, upset, and angry. Her constant depression makes her acts unfriendly toward her family, friends, doctors, and nurses. Such attitudes and behaviors prevent recovery. Therefore, a doctor's treatment must help the patient change that. Simonton's method emphasizes treatment of the “whole” patient.

The attitude of a cancer patient receiving radiation therapy, an X-ray treatment, can become more positive. The physician who is following Simonton's psychological treatment plan suggests that the patient imagine that he or she can see the tumor（腫瘤） in the body. In the mental picture, the patient "sees" a powerful beam of radiation like a million bullets of energy. The patient imagines the beam hitting the tumor cells and causing them to shrink(萎縮). For another cancer patient, Dr. Simonton asks him to imagine the medicine going from the stomach into the bloodstream and to the cancer cells. The patient imagines that the medicine is like an army fighting the diseased cells and sees the cancer cells gradually dying and his blood carry away the dead cells. Both the medical therapy and the patient's positive attitude fight the disease.

Doctors are not certain why this mental therapy works. However, this use of psychology does help some patients because their attitudes about themselves change. They become more confident because they use the power within their own minds to help stop the disease.

Another application of using the mind to help cure disease is the use of suggestion therapy. At first, the doctor helps the patient to concentrate deeply. The patient thinks only about one thing. He becomes so unaware of other things around him that he is asleep, or rather in a trance（催眠狀態(tài)）. Then the physician makes “a suggestion” to the patient about the medical problem. The patient's mind responds to the suggestion even after the patient is no longer in the trance. In this way, the patient uses his mind to help his body respond to treatment.

Doctors have learned that this use of psychology is helpful for both adults and children. For example, physicians have used suggestion to help adults deal with the strong pain of some disease. Furthermore, sometimes the adult patient worries about her illness so much that the anxiety keeps her from getting well. The right suggestions may help the patient to stop being anxious. Such treatment may help the patient with a chronic（慢性的）diseases. Asthma （哮喘） is an example of a chronic disorder. Asthma is a disease that causes the patient to have difficulty in breathing. The patient starts to cough and sometimes has to fight to get the air that he or she needs. Psychology can help relieve the symptoms of this disorder. After suggestion therapy, the asthma patient breathes more easily.

Physicians have learned that the psychological method is very useful in treating children. Children respond quickly to the treatment because they are fascinated by it. For example, Dr. Basil R. Collison has worked with 121 asthmatic children in Sydney, Australia, and had good results. Twenty-five of the children had excellent results. They were able to breathe more easily, and they did not need medication. Another forty-three were also helped. The symptoms of the asthma occurred less frequently, and when they did, they were not as strong. Most of the children also felt better about themselves. Doctors have also used suggestion to change habits like nail-biting, thumb-sucking, and sleep-related problems.

Many professional medical groups have accepted the medical use of psychology and that psychology has important applications in medicine.

72. What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. How to use the mind against disease.

B. How modern therapy focuses on the disease.

C. Responses from the medical world.

D. How suggestion therapy benefits adults and children.

73. What can we learn from the studies of Carl Simonton, M. D.?

A. The medical treatment can cure the patient's mental disease.

B. The treatment of both the body and the mind is necessary.

C. The mental treatment is more important than medical treatment.

D. Few patients have emotional response to the disease.

74. The use of psychological therapy is helpful to some patients in that________.

A. the doctors use medical treatment to cure the patients problems.

B. the patients can see a powerful beam of radiation hitting their tumor cells

C. the patients' attitudes towards themselves have changed

D. the patients are easy to accept the methods the doctors use to treat them

75. According to the passage, which of the following remains unknown so far?

A. The value of mental therapy.

B. The effectiveness of suggestion therapy.

C. The working principle of suggestion therapy.

D. The importance of psychology in medical treatment.

“What is the most important thing you’ve done in your life?” The question was put to me during a presentation I gave to a group of lawyers.

The answer came to me in an instant. It’s not the one I gave, because the situation was not right. As a lawyer in the entertainment industry, I knew the audience wanted to hear some amusing stories about my work with well-known people. But here’s the true answer:

The most important thing I’ve ever done occurred on October 8,1990. I began the day playing tennis with an old friend I hadn’t seen for a while. Between points we talked about what had been happening in each other’s lives. He and his wife had just had a baby boy, who was keeping them up at night.

While we were playing, a car came screaming up the road toward the courts. It was my friend’s father, who shouted to my friend that his baby had stopped breathing and was being rushed to the hospital. In a flash my friend was in the car and gone, disappearing in a cloud of dust.

For a moment I just stood there, paralyzed(呆若木雞). Then I tried to figure out what I should do. Follow my friend to the hospital? There was nothing I could accomplish there, I convinced myself. My friend’s son was in the care of doctors and nurses, and nothing I could do or say would affect the outcome. Be there for moral support? Well, maybe. But my friend and his wife both had large families, and I knew they’d be surrounded by relatives who would provide more than enough comfort and support, whatever happened. All I could do at the hospital, I decided, was to get in the way. Also, I had planned a full day with my family, who were waiting for me to get home. So I decided to head back to my house and check in my friend later.

As I started my car, I realized that my friend had left his truck and keys at the courts. I now faced another problem. I couldn’t leave the keys in the truck. So I decided to go to the hospital and give him the keys.

When I arrived, I was directed to a room where my friend and his wife were waiting. As I had thought, the room was filled with family members silently watching my friend comfort his wife. I went in and stood by the door, trying to decide what to do next. Soon a doctor appeared. He approached my friend and his wife, and in a quiet voice told them that their son had died.

For a long time the two held each other and cried, unaware of the rest of us standing around in pained silence. After they had calmed themselves, the doctor suggested they spend a few moments with their son.

My friend and his wife stood up and walked past their families. When they reached the door, my friend saw me standing in the corner. He came over and hugged me and started to cry. My friend’s wife hugged me, too, and said, “Thanks for being here.”

For the rest of that morning, I sat in the emergency room of that hospital and watched my friend and his wife hold the body of their infant son, and say goodbye.

It’s the most important thing I have ever done.

The experience taught me two lessons.

First: The most important thing I’ve ever done happened when I was completely helpless. None of the things I had learned in university, in three years of law school or in six years of legal practice were of any use in that situation. Something terrible was happening to people I cared about, and I was powerless to change the outcome. All I could do was standing by and watching it happen. And yet it was critical that I do just that—just be there when someone needed me.

Second: The most important thing I’ve done almost didn’t happen because of things I had learned in classroom and professional life. Law school taught me how to take a set of facts, break them down and organize them. These skills are critical for lawyers. When people come to us for help, they’re often stressed out and depend on a lawyer to think logically. But while learning to think, I almost forget how to feel. Today I have no doubt that I should have leapt into my car without hesitation and followed my friend to the hospital.

From that one experience I learned that the most important thing in life isn’t the money you make, the status you attain or the honors you achieve. The most important thing in life is the kids’ team you coach or the poem you write—or the time when you’re just somebody’s friend.

68. When he was asked about the most important thing he had done in life at a presentation, the author __________.

A. felt it was not an interesting question　　　　　

B. thought for a while and spoke his mind

C. gave an answer from a lawyer’s point of view　

D. didn’t give the real answer

69.　 What can we infer from the author’s description of the scene at the hospital?

A. He found out that he was in the way.　　　　　　

B. He would have felt guilty if he had not been there.

C. He regretted that he went too later.

D. His friend would have felt better if he had not been there.

70.　 The author learned from his own experience that__________.

A. what is taught in school is usually of no use.

B. a lawyer cannot learn much in classrooms

C. a lawyer should know people’s feeling first

D. he needs to be able to feel as well as think logically

71.　 The underlined sentence in the last paragraph suggests that the author_________.

A. feels it the most important to write his favorite poems

B. feels it the most important to coach the kid’s team

C. is determined to make friends with everybody he likes

D. is fully aware of the importance of being helpful to those in need

To Whom It May Concern:

Your address was forwarded to us by Why Brother Magazine. All of us here think The International Institute of Not Doing Much is the best organization in the world. You know how to avoid unnecessary activities!

We closely followed the advice in your article. First, we replaced all our telephones with carrier pigeons. Simply removing the jingle of telephones and replacing them with the pleasant sounds of birds has had a remarkable effect on everyone. Besides, birds are cheaper than telephone service. After all, we are a business. We have to think of the bottom line. As a side benefit, the birds also fertilize the lawn outside the new employee sauna.

Next, we sold the computers off to Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty, a firm of lawyers nearby. Our electricity bill went way down. Big savings! The boss is impressed. We have completely embraced paper technology. Now that we all use pencils, doodling is on the increase, and the quality of pencilwomanship is impressive, as you can tell from my handwriting in this letter. By the way, if you can, please send this letter back to us. We can erase and reuse it. Just tie it to Maggie’s leg and she’ll know where to take it.

Now it’s very calm and quiet here. You can notice the difference. No more loud chatter on the telephones! All we hear is the scratching of pencil on paper, the sound of pigeons, and the delivery of inter-office correspondence by paper airplane.

Wonderful! I’ve always wanted to work for an insurance company ever since I was a little girl. Now it’s perfect.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Sincerely yours,

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Eleanor Lightly

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 Spokeswoman and Company Hair Stylist

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 ABC Activity Insurance: Insure against overdoing it

64.　　 Which of the following best describes the life the author is leading?

A. A simple, slow-paced life.　　　　　　　 B. A life of hard work and security.

C. A religious, peasant-like life.　　　　　　　　　 D. A life away from paper and pencils.

65.　　 Where is Eleanor’s letter sent to?

A.　　 Why Brother Magazine.

B.　　 ABC Activity Insurance Company.

C.　　 Stab, Grab, Grit, and Nasty Law Firm.

D.　　 The International Institute of Not Doing Much.

66.　　 Which of the following is practiced in the author’s company?

A.　　 Replacing the manual work system with modern technology.

B.　　 Turning off lights in the daytime to save electricity.

C.　　 Recycling paper resources whenever possible.

D.　　 Buying birds and pets as company for the staff.

67.　　 What is true about Maggie?

A.　　 She works as a manager in the author’s company.

B.　　 She sometimes helps fertilize the lawn outside the sauna.

C.　　 She often helps with inter-office correspondence using e-mail.

D.　　 Her handwriting has improved a lot after entering the company.

I take the firm position that parents do not owe their children a college education. If they can afford it, they can certainly send them to the best universities. But they must not feel guilty if they can't. If the children really want to go, they'll find a way. There are plenty of loans and scholarships for the bright and eager ones who can't afford to pay.

When children grow up and want to get married, their parents do not owe them a down payment(首付) on a house. They do not have the duty to baby-sit their grandchildren. If they want to do it, it must be considered a favor not an obligation(duty).

Do parents owe their children anything? Yes, they owe them a great deal.

One of their obligations is to give their children a personal worth. A child who is constantly made to feel stupid and unworthy, constantly compared with brighter brothers, sisters, or cousins will become so unsure, so afraid of failing that he (or she ) won't try at all. Of course they should be properly corrected when they do wrong, but it's often better to let children learn their mistake by themselves in time. All our parents should do is to trust them, respect them, tolerate them and give them chances to try and fail. They must learn to stand failure. When criticisms are really needed, they should be balanced with a smile and a kiss. That is the way children learn.

Parents owe their children a set of solid values around which to build their lives. This means teaching them to respect the rights and opinions of others; it means being respectful to elders, to teachers, and to the law. The best way to teach such values is by deed. A child who is lied to will lie. A child who sees no laughter and no love in the home will have difficulty laughing and loving. 　　  

No child asks to be born. If you bring a life into the world, you owe the child something.

61. According to the author, ____________

A. parents must support their children even after they married as a duty.

B. if they can't afford, parents should take loans to send their children to go to college.

C. parents needn't feel guilty if they are unable to send them to university.

D. parents should give their children a down payment on a house.

62. The author mainly talks about in this passage________.

A. the duties of the parents

B. the best way to teach their children

C. the reason why children feel stupid and unworthy

D. why parents owe their children something

63. According to the author what should parents do when children make mistakes?

A. They should criticize and correct them immediately.

B. They should let children learn their mistake by themselves in time.

C. They should tolerate them and tell them not to do that again.

D. They should compare them with brighter brothers, sisters.

All our dreams have something to do with our feelings, fears, longings, wishes, needs and memories. But something on the “outside” may affect what we ___41___. If a person is hungry or tired or cold, his dream may include a feeling of this kind. If the ___42___ on your body has slipped off your bed, you may dream that you are ___43___ or resting on the ice and snow. The material for the dream you will ___44___ tonight is probably to come from the experiences you have today.

___45___ the subject of your dream usually comes from something (feeling of cold, a noise, a discomfort, etc.) that has an effect on you ___46___ you are sleeping and it may also use your past experiences and the wishes and interests you have now. This is ___47___ very young children are likely to dream of fairies(仙女), older children of school examinations, ___48___ people of food, homesick soldiers of their families and prisoners of freedom.

To show you how that is ___49___ while you are asleep and how your wishes or needs can all be joined together in a dream, ___50___ is the story of an experiment. A man was asleep and the back of his ___51___ was rubbed ___52___ a piece of cotton. He would dream that he ___53___ in a hospital and his girlfriend was visiting him, ___54___ on the bed and feeling gently his hand!

There are some scientists who have made a special ___55___ of why we dream, what we dream and what those dreams ___56___. Their explanation of dreams, though a bit reasonable, is not accepted by everyone, but it ___57___ an interesting approach to the problem. They believe that dreams are ___58___ expressions of wishes that didn’t ___59___. In other words, a dream is a way of having your wishes ___60___ out.
41. A. want                 B. dream               C. think                        D. wish
42. A. blanket              B. book                        C. cap                          D. trousers
43.   A. working            B. running                    C. sleeping                    D. studying
44. A. have                 B. meet                        C. see                          D. think
45. A. But                   B. For                          C. Because                   D. So
46.   A. before        B. while                        C. after                        D. during
47. A. why                  B. because                    C. how                         D. what
48. A. happy               B. sad                          C. hungry                     D. old
49. A. taking               B. happening          C. dreaming                  D. carrying       
50. A. that                   B. it                             C. here                         D. this
51. A. leg                    B. head                         C. body                        D. hand            
52. A. in                     B. of                            C. with                         D. off
53. A. left                   B. lived                         C. studied                     D. was
54. A. waiting              B. sitting                       C. smiling                     D. speaking
55. A. study                B. watch                      C. observation        D. way
56. A. stand                B. do                            C. form                        D. mean
57. A. makes        B. offers                       C. finds                        D. demands
58. A. any                   B. almost               C. mostly                     D. hardly
59. A. get                    B. arrive                       C. come true                 D. believe in
60.   A. carried              B. taken                        C. kept                         D. called

       He hasn’t slept at all for three days. ___________ he is tired out.

       A. There is no point                                   B. There is no wonder

       C. It is no wonder that                               D. It is no doubt that

       Which of the following words is not an adjective?

       A. likely                 B. friendly                    C. heavenly            D. instantly

I suggested to my father that we ________to Dalian for a holiday this winter，but the expression on his face suggested that he ________to it.

A. should go; shouldn’t agree B. would go; shouldn’t agree

C. go; didn’t agree　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. would go; didn’t agree

      It’s easy for people to _______ bad habits such as smoking and drinking, which are not so easy to get rid of.

A. look into            B. slide into                   C. break into          D. knock into

      After he retired from office, Rogers _____ painting for a while, but soon lost interest.

A. took up             B. saved up                   C. kept up             D. drew up