28.What encouraged Jin Yucheng to continue writing in dialect? A. The netizens’ posts. B. The netizens’ praise. C. The citizens’ comments. D. Other writers’ encouragement.
C
Tea is obviously a big deal in Britain, but have you ever wondered how it became a thing?
Tomato sauce is not Italian; the tomato is native to South America and was not introduced to Europe until the 16th century. Tea isn’t British, it wasn’t even all that popular for Britons until the 17th century. But now it is as British as dull weather and red phone booths.
Tea is of such great importance that it was featured in the Evening Standard written by George Orwell back in 1946. The famous author describes the beverage(饮品) thusly \country.\
The year was 1662, a mere 111 years before insurgents(茶党) from the soon-to-be ruling champions of the Revolutionary War dumped a whole bunch of tea into Boston Harbor. Catherine of Braganza of Portuguese royalty married King Charles II of England, and then went on to make teatime a thing.But the thirst for tea fell at one time—the costs to transport it from the Far East were far more than Britons could afford. However, when Catherine started to make tea consumption a daily practice, it passed on to the other nobles.
Not long after the practice was initially adopted by the upper class,the East India company began to import more tea to meet the demand. With the prices lowered,everybody could afford to have a good taste, and suddenly tea was the drink of the every man.
After centuries of ritual(习惯), it has become entirely rooted in the British identity itself. Turkey may consume the most tea annually, but the British still hold the title of association. 29. The best tile for the passage is probably . A. Why the British drink so much tea B. Why tea is so popular across the world C. How tea was introduced into Europe D. Which kind of tea is the most favored
30. The underlined word \ . A. tomato B. tomato sauce
C. tea D. a thing
31. According to Paragraph 4, Britons' interest in tea once dropped because . A. it was not drinkable B. they were not used to it C. it was not affordable D. they refused anything foreign 32. What can we know from the passage?
A. George Orwell promoted tea sales across England. B. King Charles II of England drank tea on a daily basis. C. The Turkish produce the most tea every year. D. People may associate tea with Britons a lot.
D
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has shown that chronic (长期的) stress of being poor, lacking care and physical abuse in early life may shrink the parts of a child' s developing brain responsible for memory, learning and processing emotion.
While early life stress already has been linked to anxiety, heart disease，cancer and a lack of educational and employment success,researchers have long been seeking to understand what part of the brain is affected by stress so as to help guide interventions(干预).
Seth Pollak, co-leader of the study and a UW professor of psychology,says the research focused on two brain areas—the hippocampus (HC:海马体) and amygdale (AG: 杏仁体).
For the study, Pollack’s team had 128 children around age 12 and divided them into four groups after interviews with the children and their caregivers，documenting behavioral problems and their accumulated life stress.
One group had experienced physical abuse,another group was ignored before being adopted from a foreign country, and a third group came from low-income families. The fourth group of children came from middle-class families and had not experienced any of the three types of chronic early stress.
Researchers did MRI scans (核磁共振扫描) of the children' s brains, focusing on the HC and AG. Then they painstakingly tracked those areas of the brain by hand on paper.
The hand measurements showed that children who had experienced poverty, neglect or physical abuse had a