Bad moods can actually be good for you, with an Australian study finding that being sad makes people less gullible（輕信的）, improves their ability to judge others and also boosts memory.

The study, authored by psychology professor Joseph Forgas at the University of New South Wales, showed that people in a negative mood were more critical of, and paid more attention to, their surroundings than happier people, who were more likely to believe anything they were told.

"Although positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, cooperation, and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger（引發(fā)）more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world," Forgas wrote.

"Our research suggests that sadness … promotes information processing strategies best suited to dealing with more demanding situations."

For the study, Forgas and his team conducted several experiments that started with inducing happy or sad moods in their subjects through watching films and recalling positive or negative events.

In one of the experiments, happy and sad participants were asked to judge the truth of urban myths and rumors and found that people in a negative mood were less likely to believe these statements.

People in a bad mood were also less likely to make snap decisions based on racial or religious prejudices, and they were less likely to make mistakes when asked to recall an event that they witnessed.

The study also found that sad people were better at stating their case through written arguments, which Forgas said showed that a "mildly negative mood may actually promote a more concrete, accommodative and ultimately more successful communication style."

"Positive mood is not universally desirable: people in a negative mood are less prone to judgmental errors, are more resistant to eyewitness distortions（扭曲）and are better at producing high-quality, effective persuasive messages," Forgas wrote.

The study was published in the November/December edition of the Australian Science journal.

The study suggests that when someone is in a bad mood, he ________.

    A. cares more about his surroundings   B. shows less concern about others

    C. is willing to believe what he hears   D. is particular about everything

Which of the following is connected with positive mood?

A. Being careful.           B. New ideas.       

C. Being stubborn.          D. Concentration.

How did the researchers put the subjects in good or bad moods?

    A. By watching sports programs.

    B. By thinking back on their past experience.

    C. By listening to happy or sad stories.

    D. By dealing with demanding situations.

Which of the following statements is TURE according to the text?

    A. Positive mood contributes to better judgment.

    B. Cheerful people were less likely to believe rumors.

    C. People in a bad mood tend to make quick decisions.

    D. Sad people remembered what they saw precisely.

The author intends to convince us that __________.

    A. we should think positively and negatively

    B. the Australian study is of practical value

    C. Joseph Forgas made a great discovery

    D. bad moods can actually be good for us

During the 2008 financial crisis，the French president Nicolas Sarkozy agreed to provide millions of emergency fund aid to help     unemployment．

A．release                    B．resemble                 C．relieve         D．recommend

I would appreciate         you could come to my birthday party.

   A. that       B. that it      C. if     D. it if

A nest is to a bird ______ a house is to a man.

    A. as               B. that             C. which                    D. what

I can not have you _____ ill of my good friend.             

A. to speak         B. speaking         C. speak            D. spoken

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.

His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary, “My own happiness in the past often approached such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”

This Side of Paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged, he continued with the novel The Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial security. Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.

However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda affected his writing. During the 1920s he tried to record his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night (1934) and The Love of the Last Tycoon (1940). While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.

How many novels written by Fitzgerald are mentioned in the passage?

   A. 5             B. 6             C. 7            D. 8

Which is the correct order about Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?

   a. He became addicted to drinking.

   b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.

   c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.

   d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.

   e. He failed to record his life.

   f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

   A. f-c-e-a-b-d     B. b-e-a-f-c-d     C. f-d-e-c-b-a     D. b-f-c-d-e-a

We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald _____.

   A. had made some money when he met Zelda in Alabama

   B. was well educated and well off before he served in the army

   C. would have completed more works if his wife hadn’t broken down

   D. helped his friend get rid of drinking while his wife was in hospital

The passage is probably followed by a concluding paragraph about ______.

   A. Zelda’s personal life

B. Zelda’s illness and treatment 

C. Fitzgerald’s friendship with Graham

D. Fitzgerald’s contributions to the literary world

In the school, some fans even don’t know the _____ of jazz.

origin        B. original       C. discovery       D. resource

I can't make a decision right now. I need________ more time to think it over.

     A. fairly        B. many            C. rather          D. quite

Now Tom with his classmates ________ football on the playground.

A. play                         B. are playing          C. plays                              D. is playing

Three fourths of the homework _________ today.

    A. has done         B. has been done        C. have done       D. have been done