1、 White-collar workers going to great lengths for stress reliefA soldier of the South Korean special attack corps paints his eyes during a friendly Taekwondo match at a South Korean Army Base in Pochon, north of Seoul.Stressed out white-collar workers are scaling（攀登） skyscrapers, camping out on rooft
2、ops, smashing up restaurants, pretending to be children and even visiting cemeteries in a bid to relieve the pressure of modern life.As the countrys economy continues to steam ahead, once popular forms of entertainment, such as karaoke, card games and even boxing bars, appear to be losing their appe
3、al.Consider the members of Shanghais Cat Rain club. By day, this group of young women works executive jobs, but by night they climb buildings so they can spend the night on the roof.Its a good way to release our pressure. You feel relaxed when youre sitting on the roof, looking up to the sky and cha
4、tting with intimate（亲密的）friends, said Gong Ying, 25.The stress of work is not just limited to people in Shanghai.A recently opened restaurant in Beijing encourages customers to smash plates - as long as they are willing to pay to replace them.Though there has been some debate about the extravagance（
5、奢侈）of such services, some psychologists say the activity reflects the desire of some white-collar workers to vent their angst.Some workers even appear eager to return to their childhoods. This May, hundreds of people took part in a festival in which adults pretended to be children. It was an adults-
6、only event, and participants could read comics and eat sweets all day.Scenic places such as parks and rivers can also help people relax and put things in perspective. But a cemetery?Cemetery companies in Shanghai organized visits to local graveyards for stressed-out workers in March. The participant
7、s were taken to quiet spots in the cemetery where they could contemplate（考虑、打算）life and their futures.Roof-camper Chen Bin, an IT marketing professional, said she had camped out on a rooftop about 30 times. When shes not sleeping out under the stars, she also has several other adrenalin-fueled inter
8、ests, such as downhill racing and paragliding.Pressure may bring us distress, but it doesnt mean we cant find ways out, Chen says. Life should be imaginative.White-collar workers going to great lengths for _1_ reliefThe ways for white-collar to relieve the pressure of _4_ life.Climbing buildings and
9、 spending the night on the _5_.Going to the restaurants which encourage customers to _6_ plates.Taking part in a festival in which adults _7_ to be children.Scenic places can also help people _8_ and put things in perspective._9_ out under the stars can also help.Old entertainment becomes less popul
10、ar. Once _2_ forms of entertainment, such as Karaoka, card games and boxing bars, which were popular in the _3_, appear to be losing their appeal.Life should be _10_Pressure may bring us distress, but we can find ways out.Keys: 1. stress 2. popular 3. past 4. modern 5. roof 6. smash 7. pretend 8. re
11、lax 9. sleeping 10. imaginative （ 2 ）请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入最恰当的单词。 Do you raise salmon （鲑鱼） in your classroom at school? Do you ever have class while floating down a river in a canoe? Do you ever throw your school lunch leftovers into a compost （混合肥料） bin when you are finished? They are all
12、part of a regular school day at Barnard Environmental Studies Magnet School in New Haven, Connecticut. Known as a “green” school, Barnard attracts students from all over the region who are interested in environmental studies. “We do Earth Day all the year round,” said Marjorie Drucker, Barnards Magn
13、et Resource teacher. With the schools special classes, its 325 students study the environment all day long. “Being green means that everything in the building is designed with the environment in mind,” Drucker told Scholastic News. For example, the lights go off when people leave the room, and speci
14、al windows provide “passive light”, cutting down on the need for electric lighting. When a window is open, the air-conditioning automatically turns off. Conserving energy is not all that students do to help the environment. While learning about the dying salmon population in the Connecticut rivers,
15、students also do something to help out- they raise more salmon. In the classrooms there are fish tanks containing salmon eggs. The eggs are kept in water at two degrees Celsius. After the eggs hatch, students observe the baby salmon through all the stages of development, and then release the adult s
16、almon into Connecticut rivers. Composting is another part of taking care of the environment at Barnard Students deal with their lunches by throwing the remaining food into a compost bin in a greenhouse. The compost is used to help grow plants. At Barnard, almost everything has to do with the environ
17、ment. Students sing songs about the environment; their artworks have something to do with the environment; even their math classes are focused on protecting the environment. Barnard offers chances that students cant get in a regular school. The schools goal is to teach children to be good environmen
18、tal role models. They also learn to live in a different way. To attend the school, students have to apply and express their interest in protecting the environment. “Students come here because they care about the environment,” said Drucker.答案：1. that 2. off 3. avoided 4. Keeping 5. raised / kept 6. s
19、maller 7. making 8. on / about 9. Different 10. certain3When people talk about the civilization of ancient Babylon, the Hanging Gardens must be brought into their discussion. It was not until the reign （统治时期） of Naboplashar （625605 BC） of the Neo-Babylonian Dynasty that the Babylonian civilization r
20、eached its top honor. The ancient city of Babylon must have been a wonder to travelers. Nebuchadnezzar II （604-562 BC）, son of Naboplashar, then came to power and ruled for 43 years. It is he who is believed to have built the legendary Hanging Gardens. The Gardens were built to please his homesick w
21、ife. She found the dry, flat ground of Mesopotamia boring. In the place where she grew up, there was green grass and mountainous plains. The King wanted to recreate her homeland. A lot of people still believe in the existence of the Hanging Gardens, despite the fact that most descriptions of the Gar
22、dens come from Greek historians while Babylonian records remain silent on the Hanging Gardens. Even the historians who gave detailed descriptions of the Hanging Gardens never saw them. Modern historians argue that it was Alexanders soldiers that made up the story. When they reached the rich land and
23、 saw Babylon, they were impressed with the beautiful scenery. When they later returned to their poor homeland, they told about the amazing gardens in Babylon. And it was the imagination of poets and ancient historians that mixed up all these elements to produce one of the worlds wonders. Some of the
24、 mysteries surrounding the Hanging Gardens were not solved until the twentieth century. Archaeologists are still struggling to gather enough evidence before reaching the final conclusions about the location of the Gardens, their water supplying system, and their true appearance. Some recent research
25、ers even suggest that the Hanging Gardens were built by Senaherib who ruled 100 years earlier than Nebuchadnezzar II did.1. under 2. have 3. where 4. existed 5. rather 6. returning 7. imagined 8. before 9. like 10. 462 BC4. Have you ever been in a meeting while someone was making a speech and realiz
26、ed suddenly that your mind was million miles away? You probably felt sorry and made up your mind to pay attention and always have been told that daydreaming is a waste of time. “On the contrary,” says L. Giambra, an expert in psychology, “Daydreaming is quite necessary. Without it, the mind couldnt
27、get done all the thinking it has to do during a normal day; you cant possible do all your thinking with a conscious （有意识的） mind. Instead, your unconscious mind is working out problems all the time. Daydreaming then may be one way that the conscious and unconscious states of mind have silent dialogue
28、s.” Early experts in psychology paid no attention to the importance of daydreams or even considered them harmful. At one time daydreaming was thought to be a cause of some mental illnesses. They did not have a better understanding of daydreams until the late 1980s. Eric Klinger, a professor of psych
29、ology, is the writer of the book Daydreaming. Klinger says, “We know now that daydreaming is one of the main ways that we organize our lives, learn from our experiences, and plan for our futures; daydreams really are a window on the things we fear and the things we long for in life.” Daydreams are u
30、sually very simple and direct, quite unlike sleep dreams, which may be hard to understand. Its easier to gain a deep understanding of your life by paying close attention to your daydreams than by trying to examine your sleep dreams carefully. Daydreams help you recognize the difficult situations in
31、your life and find out a possible way of dealing with them. Daydreams cannot be predicted; they move off in unexpected direction which may be creative and full of ideas. For many famous artists and scientists, daydreams were and are a main source of creative energy.5. Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have something to worry about. Host family accommodation i
