responsibilities? Do we have a right balance of work and leisure(闲散) in our lives? Are our relationships with family, friends or fellow workers all that they should be?

All these things can be a cause of stress, and it is best to face them directly, and to bring our frustrations(失意) into the open. People who have a good row and then forget it are doing their health more good than those who bottle up their feelings.

If our self-examination has brought any causes of stress to light, let us consider what we can do about them. It is possible to change jobs. We can make more leisure and fill it more happily, if we will accept a different living standard. We can improve our personal relationships by a different attitude. It is we who allow other people to make ourselves unhappy. Often the little things that disturb us are not worth an hour's anger. The teaching in the Bible "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath(愤怒)" is good advice from the health point of view as well as religion.

41. Which of the following statements is true?

A. Freedom from responsibilities helps reduce stress.

B. Stress is the direct cause of cancer.

C. The causes of stress are worth serious study

D. Cancer is the number one killer is our society today.

42. According to the passage, which of the following types of people is more likely

to suffer from stress?

A. People who have cancer.

B. People who like to quarrel with others.

C. People whose living standard is low.

D. People who have more responsibilities than they can deal with.

43. Judging from the context, the underlined word "row" in the third paragraph

most probably means______.

A. a noisy quarrel B. a very loud noise

C. a neat line of things side by side D. a journey in a boat

44. Which of the following is not mentioned as a way to reduce our stress?

A. Changing our jobs.

B. Changing our attitude about little things that make us unhappy.

C. Speaking out about our frustrations.

D. Reading the Bible.

45. "Let not the sun go down upon your wrath" probably means "______".

A. Don't let your anger last long.

B. Don't get angry while the sun is going down.

C. Don't get angry easily about little things.

D. Don't watch the sun set while you are angry.

C

Put an ice cube from your fridge into a glass of water. You have a piece of string(线) 10 centimeters long. The problem is to take out that piece of ice with the help of the string. But you must not touch the ice with your fingers.

You may ask your friends to try to do that when you are having dinner together. There is a saltcellar on the table. You must use salt when you carry out this experiment.

First you put the string across the piece of ice. Then put some salt on the ice. Salt