【正文】 far finer artist C. a much more famous person D. a far more gifted artist 25. ____ led to Frida’s terrible pain. A. polio B. her bent spine C. the back injuries D. the operations on her 26. Frida’s style had bee increasingly independent since the _____. A. 1970s B. 1950s C. 1940s D. 1930s 27. What is the author’s attitude towards Frida? A. Sympathy B. Encouragement C. Devotion D. Worry C During Tom’s growing up, other kids felt sorry for him. His parents always had him do all kinds of housework. But when Tom reached adulthood, he was better off than his childhood playmates. He was more satisfied with his job, his marriage, and his health. For him, life seems easy. A study that followed the lives of 450 teenage boys from New York revealed the finding, which showed that those who had worked as boys enjoyed happier and more productive lives than those who had not. “Boys who worked in the home or munity gained petence (能力 ) and came to feel they were worthwhile members of society,” said Gee Smith, the psychologist (心理學(xué)家 ) who made the discovery. “And because they felt good about themselves, others felt good about them.” Smith’s study followed these males in great detail. Interviews were repeated at ages 25, 31 and 47. Under Smith, the researchers pared the men’s mentalhealth scores with their boyhoodactivity scores. Points were awarded for parttime jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems. The finding revealed the link between childhood activities and adulthood job is sharp. Workingat any ageis important. Childhood activities help a child develop responsibility, independence, confidence and petencethe underpinnings (基礎(chǔ) ) of emotional health. They also help him understand that people must cooperate and work toward mon goals. The most petent adults are those who know how to do this. Yet work isn’t everything. As Tolstoy once said, “One can live meaningfully in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work.” 28. Tom is a person who ______. A. received little love from his family. B. had few childhood friends. C. enjoyed his life when he grew up. D. was envied by others in his childhood. 29. Smith’s words in Paragraph 2 serve as _____. A. a description of personal values and social values B. an analysis of how work was related to petence C. an example for parents’ expectations of their children D. an explanation why some boys grew into happy men 30. Smith’s team got their findings by _____. A. recording the boys’ effort in school B. evaluating the men’s mental health C. paring different sets of scores D. measuring the men’s problem solving ability 31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. petent adults know more about love than work. B. Emotional health is important to a wonderful adult life. C. Love brings more joy to people than work does. D. Independence is the key to one’s success. D This is a very strange point. While fighting world hunger continues to be the matter of importance, as is reported and shown great concern by WHO, more people now die from being overweight, or say, from being extremely fat, than from being underweight. It’s the good life that’s more likely to kill us these days. Worse, nearly 20 million children under the age of five around the world are estimated to be overweight. What’s going on? We really don’t have many excuses for our weight problems. Because we’ve already known them well. The dangers of the problem have been drilled into us by publichealth campaigns(運(yùn)動(dòng) ) since 2021 and the message is getting through—up to a point. In the 1970s, Finland, for example, had the highest rate of heart disease in the world and being overweight was its main cause. Not any more. A publichealth campaign has greatly reduced the number of heart disease deaths by 80 per cent over the past three decades. Maybe that explains why the p