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Researchers produced evidence to support what most of us already knew-- that a cup of tea is the answer to any crisis.
Dr. Malcolm Cross, a psychologist at City University London, tested the anxiety situation and revealed that even a single cup of tea has a calming effect. His team gave 42 volunteers a mental
arithmetic exam and offered half of them a cup of tea and the other half a glass of water, the water group’s anxiety levels soared 25 percent compared to the tea group actually reported a four percent reduction in anxiety -- despite the difficult test, they were more relaxed than when they started. According to a survey carried out for the research, 68 percent of Britons tea in a dilemma, making it the nation’s most common responsible to trouble of kind. About 60 percent said the promise of comfort and warmth was the main reason for putting the kettle on. “ The of making and drinking tea--particularly This study shows that the social psychological of tea enhance the effects of its chemical make-up on our bodies and brains. 41. A.light-hearted B.serious 42. A.significant B.rigorous 43. A.previously B.afterwards 44. A.on B.in 45. A.while B.however 46. A.give up B.owe to 47. A.whichever B.whatever 48. A.ceremony B.function 49. A.beginning B.moment 50. A.aspects B.faces
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When people search online, they leave a trail that remains stored on the central
computers of firms such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Analyzing what we're looking for on the Web can offer a remarkable (41) into our anxieties and enthusiasms.
UK writer and Internet expert John Battelle wrote on his blog, "This can tell us (42) things about who we are and what we want as a (43) ." Google's experimental service Google Trends, for example, compares the numbers of people searching for different words and phrases from 2004 to the present. According to these graphs, sometimes people's interests are obviously (44) the news agenda: when the Spice Girls announce a reunion, there's an immediate (45) to find out more about them. Other results are strikingly seasonal: people go shopping online for coats in winter and short pants in summer.
The most fascinating possibility is that search data might help (46) people's behavior. When we search online for a certain brand of stereo system, we are surely indicating we're more (47) to buy that brand.
Perhaps we search for a political candidate's name when we are thinking about (48) him or her. Maybe we even search for "stock market crash" or "recession" just before we start (49) our investments. This information could clearly be useful to a smart marketer--it's already how Google decides which (50) to show on its search results pages--or to a political campaign manager.
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Early in January 2009, the temperature in Tanana, Alaska, fell to 55 below zero F. It was cold that when the airport runaway lights stopped working, crews were from going outside to fix them.
So it was a real concern when Vicky Aldridge, a nurse practitioner at the village health center, realized that 61-year-old Winkler Bifelt was bleeding and needed medical treatment at Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, 150 miles away. The sun was already down when Aldridge made the telephone call to Frontier Flying Service Fairbanks.
“we told them the only way we could fly was if they could find enough vehicles to the runway with headlights so we could land,” said Bob Hajdukovich,
the company’s president. Aldridge’s next calls went to airport and town officials, who, , called villagers. Forty five minutes later, enough cars, trucks, minivans and snowmobiles had lined up so that the runway was .
Pilots Nate Thompson and David Fowler landed without , and then took off again, with Befelt.
“there is this wonderful caring in the village,” Aldridge said, “If anyone .”
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