Britons Learn to Forgive
LEEDS, England ─ A Leeds University psychology （心理学） professor is teaching a course to help dozens of Britons forgive their enemies．
“The hatred we hold within us is a cancer,” Professor Ken Hart said, adding that holding in anger can lead to problems such as high blood pressure and heart disease．
More than 70 people have become members in Hart’s first 20-week workshop in London ─ a course he says is the first of its kind in the world．
These are people who are sick and tired of living with a memory．They realize their bitterness is a poison they think they can pour out, but they end up drinking it themselves, said Canadian-born Hart．
The students meet in groups of eight to ten for a two-hour workshop with an adviser every fortnight．
The course, ending in July, is expected to get rid of the cancer of hatred in these people．“People have lots of negative attitudes towards forgiveness,” he said, “People confuse forgiveness with forgetting．Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one．”
Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed．
“The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with,” said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project．
Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people “want to get free of the past”．
From this passage we know that _________．
A．high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hatred
B．high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors
C．without hatred, people will have less trouble connected with blood pressure and heart
D．people who suffer from high blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies
In Hart’s first 20-week workshop, people there can ________．
A．meet their enemies B．change their attitudes towards bitterness
C．enjoy the professor’s speech D．learn how to quarrel with others
If you are a member in Hart’s workshop, you’ll ________．
A．pay much money to Hart B．go to the workshop every night
C．attend a gathering twice a month D．pour out everything stored in your mind
The author wrote this passage in order to ________．
A．persuade us to go to Hart’s workshop
B．tell us the news about Hart’s workshop
C．tell us how to run a workshop like Hart’s
D．help us to look at various kinds of angers
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The influence of people using DVRs （Digital Video Recorder） also has led to fewer and fewer viewers watching television commercials．Market research indicates the effectiveness of TV ads is getting weaker as a result．Many DVR owners are fast forwarding and skipping television commercials．With viewers now spending an average of four times longer on the Internet and more viewers avoiding commercials, this trend isn’t good for television’s advertising revenues（收益）．
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For thousands of people involved in Internet marketing, it’s history-making to share the revenue that previously all went to major television networks．There’s already a group of Internet marketers being paid a larger amount of advertising revenue．These are everyday people that work usually from home on their own．Advertisers can direct their advertising to websites where viewer types are more likely to be interested in their product or service．
The development of the Internet and its role and change in our lives cannot be compared to any other form of media created throughout the history of mankind．
People are going to websites for entertainment because _______．
A．they’d like to follow the last trend
B．there are fewer commercials
C．there are more movies and videos
D．they can choose what meets their particular needs
We can learn from the second paragraph that ______．
A．viewers are bored with television commercials
B．the television viewing time should be limited
C．many television commercials are of poor quality
D．there are more commercials on DVRs than on TV
It can be inferred from the passage that _____．
A．people spend time on the Internet mainly for entertainment
B．most people prefer to work at home nowadays
C．the Internet will attract more and more advertisers
D．the appearance of TV changed our lives
The passage mainly tells us ________．
A．the rapid social development
B．the fast development of the Internet advertising
C．the way to advertise on the Internet
D．the influence of television commercials
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People who solve crimes look for patterns that might reveal(揭示) the identity of the criminal. It’s long been believed, for example, that criminals will break the law closer to where they live, simply because it’s easier to get around in their own neighborhood. If police see a pattern of robberies in a certain area, they may look for a suspect(嫌疑犯) who lives near the crime scenes. So, the farther away from the area a crime takes place, the less likely it is that the same criminal did it.
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A. focus on where crimes take place B. seek help from local people
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A. uses math to increase the speed of calculation
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D. knows best how to use math to help solve crimes
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A. Criminals live near where crimes occur.
B. Math could help police find criminals.
C. Crime records could be used to fight crime.
D. Computer software works in preventing crimes.
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