Are you in a bad mood? Don’t worry! According to a new Australian study, a bad mood can actually be good for you. The study showed that being sad could help people to judge others more correctly and was also good for the memory.
The study was carried out by Professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales.“People in a bad mood paid more attention to the people and things around them than happy people .Happy people were more likely to believe anything they were told,”said Forgas
For the study, Forgas and his team did a lot of experiments. During the experiments, they made the participants(参加者) feel happy or sad by watching films and thinking about good or bad things of the past.
In one of the experiments, happy and sad participants were asked to judge whether some wrong things were true or not. The results showed that people in a bad mood were less likely to believe that these things were true.
People in a bad mood were also less likely to make mistakes when they were asked to remember the things that they saw.
The study also showed that sad people were better at talking about their thoughts in written style. In fact, the study said that a slightly bad mood could help to make communication more successful.
【小题1】The study was completed by _______________.

Are you angry when your classmates sing loudly while you are trying to study or your best friend does not wait for you after school ?

If your answer is “Yes”, you need to learn how to control your feelings . Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends .

Gary Egeberg , an American high school teacher , has written My Feelings Are like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings . It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen . The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse . It can never make them better .

“Getting angry is not a natural way to act ,” the book says . It is just a bad habit , like smoking .

The book says you can control your anger easily—all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry .

The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily . Here are the top three:

※Keep a record . Every time you get angry , write down why you are angry . Look at it later when you are calm and you will see you get angry too easily .

※Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry . This will teach you not to be angry .

※Do something different . When you get angry , walk away from the problem and go somewhere else . Try to laugh .

6. If you often get angry , _________________ .

A. you will do worse in your study　　　 B. you will have fewer friends

C. smoking can be a good help　　　　 D. nobody will wait for you after school

7. Gary Egeberg is someone who ___________ .

A. knows how to control your feeling　　 B. gets angry easily with his students

C. likes to keeping wild animals　　　　 D. teaches in a secondary school

8. According to Gary’s book , you can control your anger by _________ .

A. never talking with friends　　 B. singing loudly to calm down

C. staying away from others　　 D. reminding yourself not to get angry

9. From the first tip we can draw the conclusion(得出结论) that __________ .

A. Writing helps to control one’s feelings B. one’s anger is built upon one’s experience

C. people think better when they are calm　 D. a good habit helps to take away a bad one

10. From this passage we know that ___________ .

A. there are more than three tips in Gary’s book　

B. Gary never gets angry in his life

C. getting angry easily can’t be changed easily　　

D. school kids often get angry with each other

　　Xiao Yi, a Junior 2 student at Weiyu Middle School in Shanghai, gave Harry a sister in one story, Xiao changes lots of Harry Potter stories to make them more interesting. Xiao doesn't think there are enough bad people in the stories, so she made Harry's new sister Jenny, bad. Harry's, parents adopted（收养）Jenny before their own only child Harry was born and now she wants to be against him. Xiao puts her classmates at Weiyu Middle School into the stories, too. Some of her new characters（人物）are a lot like her friends.“It seems my classmates and I are students at Hogwards with Harry,”Xiao said.

　　Often students at Weiyu also like to change their favorite stories. One third of Xiao's 60 students have written stories like The Lord of Rings in their own way. Xu Qingru, also a Weiyu student, enjoys writing new stories for the Japanese cartoon films Let's Go. In Xu's story, her classmates live together with the brothers Lie and Hao. When Xu finishes part of a story, she usually puts it online for others to read. Xu is happy when classmates and friends online tell her they like her stories. Liu Yun, her Chinese teacher, likes them, too.“This girl's novel is full of imagination,”Liu said.

A．Xiao Yi likes bad people in the story.

B．Xiao Yi changes few of Harry Potter stories.

C．Xiao Yi's classmates are put into Harry Potter stories by Xiao Yi.

D．Harry Potter's parents want to be against Harry in Xiao Yi's story.

A．change their favorite stories

B．haven't changed the Lord of Rings

C．don't like writing in their own way

D．haven't written new stories for Let's Go

A．In the classroom.

B．Online.

C．In the teacher's office.

D．In her bedroom.

A．the life of the students at Weiyu Middle School may be rich and interesting

B．their teachers worry about their study

C．all of the students at Weiyu change their favorite stories

D．Liu Yun is Xu Qingru's best classmate