I’m a professor of sports and exercise so I often deal with nervousness in my research with sports people. In fact, most people experience nervousness at some time or another.

If you are feeling anxious, my advice is to first find the cause or causes. Make a list of those things that are making you nervous and work out which ones you can do something about. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes that you control.

Most people can’t tell the difference between controllable and uncontrollable causes. So things they can’t control become a big reason for nervousness. Dealing with this is very important if people want to keep a healthy mind.

Simply try to accept the uncontrollable cause of nervousness. You might be worried about the weather on a big day, an accident or an attack on the train, or perhaps just things that other people are doing at work. The results may be very important but there is still no use worrying because you can’t control any of these things. Accept that you can’t control everything. Once you understand this, it become easier not to worry.

If a situation, such as swimming, is causing you to be anxious, try to face it as often as possible so that you can get used to it.

It can often help to think about yourself doing the thing that makes you－nervous then close your eyes and imagine it going well. Imagine how the flight or job interview is going to happen so that you can get used to it. This will help you understand that the thing you fear most is probably not going to happen.

51.If you are feeling anxious, the first thing you should do is________.

A. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes you can control.

B. Focus all of your efforts on the causes you can’t control.

C. Find the cause or causes that make you nervous.

D. Make a list of those things that can’t control.

52.Why does the writer think you needn’t worry about some causes of nervousness? Because________.

A. most are not important at all

B. they are not the real causes of the problem

C. it’s better to deal with one cause at a time

D. they can’t controlled by people

53 What should you do if you are anxious about swimming according to the writer?

A. Never go to the swimming pool.

B. Find a swimming teacher.

C. Imagine watching others swim.

D. Go swimming often to get used to it.

54.What is true about nervousness according to the passage?

A. It is usually caused by people.

B. People can easily manage.

C. Most people suffer from it.

D. People should solve the uncontrollable.

55. What is the main purpose for writing the passage?

A. To attract more people to exercise.

B. To advise on how to deal with nervousness.

C. To help people remember their nervousness.

D. To explain the dangers of nervousness.

I’m a professor of sports and exercise so I often deal with nervousness in my research with sports people. In fact, most people experience nervousness at some time or another.

If you are feeling anxious, my advice is to first find the cause or causes. Make a list of those things that are making you nervous and work out which ones you can do something about. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes that you control.

Most people can’t tell the difference between controllable and uncontrollable causes. So things they can’t control become a big reason for nervousness. Dealing with this is very important if people want to keep a healthy mind.

Simply try to accept the uncontrollable cause of nervousness. You might be worried about the weather on a big day, an accident or an attack on the train, or perhaps just things that other people are doing at work. The results may be very important but there is still no use worrying because you can’t control any of these things. Accept that you can’t control everything. Once you understand this, it become easier not to worry.

If a situation, such as swimming, is causing you to be anxious, try to face it as often as possible so that you can get used to it.

It can often help to think about yourself doing the thing that makes you－nervous then close your eyes and imagine it going well. Imagine how the flight or job interview is going to happen so that you can get used to it. This will help you understand that the thing you fear most is probably not going to happen.

51.If you are feeling anxious, the first thing you should do is________.

A. Focus all of your efforts on managing the causes you can control.

B. Focus all of your efforts on the causes you can’t control.

C. Find the cause or causes that make you nervous.

D. Make a list of those things that can’t control.

52.Why does the writer think you needn’t worry about some causes of nervousness? Because________.

A. most are not important at all

B. they are not the real causes of the problem

C. it’s better to deal with one cause at a time

D. they can’t controlled by people

53 What should you do if you are anxious about swimming according to the writer?

A. Never go to the swimming pool.

B. Find a swimming teacher.

C. Imagine watching others swim.

D. Go swimming often to get used to it.

54.What is true about nervousness according to the passage?

A. It is usually caused by people.

B. People can easily manage.

C. Most people suffer from it.

D. People should solve the uncontrollable.

55. What is the main purpose for writing the passage?

A. To attract more people to exercise.

B. To advise on how to deal with nervousness.

C. To help people remember their nervousness.

D. To explain the dangers of nervousness.

  Do  you know who shaped President Obama? It was his unconventional（非凡的）mother——Ann Soetoro. She was charming（有魅力的）and liked to laugh. She was a tireless and hardworking woman. When Obama was young, his mother said, “He can do anything he wants in the world, even be president of the USA.” And she was right.

  When Obama was a little boy, his mother paid much attention to manners（礼仪）. So Obama was very polite. He got up to study at 5 a．m. every morning. His mother typed and corrected his homework for him. Besides, his mother let him know the sense of duty to the world, the importance of hard work and the need to give back. Just as Obama said, “Like most of my values(价值观)，I learned about empathy(同情) from my mother.” When he was nine, his mother sent him to Hawaii, where she soon joined him. In 1975, his mother left him to grandparents, so as to return to Indonesia(印度尼西亚) to begin her PH．D. field work(为博士学位做实地考察)。

  Obama’s mother was optimistic and easygoing. This great mother produced an excellent son.

 47. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Great Mother Made Obama Succeed

B. Hardworking Obama.

C. Ann Soetoro Got Ph．D。

D. Obama’s Mother Was Easygoing.

 48. Which of the following is true?

A. When he was nine, his mother and he went to Hawaii together.

B. Obama didn’t study hard when he was  young.

C. In 1975, Obama’s mother returned to Indonesia to begin her Ph．D. field work.

D. His mother didn’t want him to become President of the USA.

 49. According to the passage, we know that his mother       .

A. was a great mother and she knew how to educate her children.

B. didn’t like to study herself.

C. was so busy that she had no time to look after her children.

D. wasn’t hopeful about the future.

 50. The underlined word “optimistic” means       .

A. 消极的       B. 乐观的       C. 自私的      D. 善良的

 51. When Obama was young, his mother let him know         .

A. the sense of duty to the world

B. the importance of hard work

C. the need to give back

D. A, B and C

YUXI, China — Many people of this city in southwester China spent Saturday night in tents, too scared to sleep in their homes after an earthquake which killed 188 people early that morning.
Countless homes were destroyed and lots of people became homeless after the earthquake which is believed to have a magnitude of 7.
The quake was not as serious as the 7.9-magnitude earthquake in 2008 that left more than 70,000 people dead in the Wenchuan area. But villagers who work in Chengdu, about 100 miles away, hurried back home Sunday morning, many on foot, the lucky ones on motorbikes, to check on their homes.
Song Yuanqing, 43, a worker, arrived back after a 22-hour trip and found his house was still there but had already been very unstable(摇摇欲坠). “We would like to do something, but we can’t do anything,” Mr. Song said as he sat with neighbors around an outdoor fire built by the village leader in his backyard.
In all, the government sent about 7,000 soldiers and People’s Armed Police officers to the earthquake-hit area. By Saturday evening, there were so many rescue workers in the area that the government asked volunteers to stop coming.
Li Keqiang, China’s prime minister, flew to the area and slept in a tent on Saturday evening in Lushan County.
The earthquake shook Sichuan Province at 8 a.m., when people were getting up a little later than usual because schools and universities were closed.
“We were just getting up and getting dressed in our dormitory when the building shook, and I looked outside from our window and saw a row of houses had collapsed,” Xu Yan, 22, a student at the Agricultural University in Ya’an, said in a telephone interview. “I had never flew down the stairs faster.”
The Chinese government said early Sunday that the death toll was 174, and about 5,700 people had been injured.
The earthquake was also felt in Chengdu, one of China’s biggest cities and the capital of Sichuan Province. People described water getting out of home aquariums and things like balls falling to the floor.
In the town of Longmen, another hard-hit area near Ya’an, a local man, Zhang Yan, said 90 percent of the buildings had collapsed.
“About 100 people died around here,” Ms. Zhang said in a telephone interview. “Rescue teams have not yet arrived. There is no water or electricity.”
In the 2008 quake, many schools of poor quality collapsed and killed thousands of students. This time, many people also expressed their worries about students on their micro-blogs.
Sichuan Province is also one of China’s best-known hometowns for pandas, and at the Bifengxia reserve, about six miles north of Ya’an, workers said that 20 pandas in the park were safe. “We examined the panda area after the quake, and they were not affected,” said Chen Yong, an officer of the reserve.
【小题1】When did the quake take place in Ya’an? On_______________________.