【正文】 增加：在此處加一個漏字符號 (∧ )，并在其下面寫出增加的詞 。 If something that you’re doing doesn’t challenge you, then it doesn’t change you. We all need some normal stress in our lives, after all. 16 So challenge the following limits: 1. Figure out what you’re scared of and do it continuously . If you’re a salesman, and you’re scared of talking to people personally or over the phone, now, instead of being scared and thinking you’ll fail, spend at least five minutes a day to pick up the phone and make a call. 17 But don’t stop on the first try! Eventually, you can look at fear in the eyes and say, “Go on, I’m not scared!” 2. 18 Make sure this hobby is not linked to your career。 注意： 1. 短文開頭已給出，但不計入總詞數(shù)； 2. 文中不能出現(xiàn)考生的具體信息； 3. 詞數(shù) 100左右。 they may eat more healthily and have better quality dental equipment. How often should you visit the dentist, then? Bodies like Nice, which provides guidance for the National Health Service in England and Wales, say that the frequency of dental visits all depends on the individual. They remend that children go at least once a year because their teeth can decay (蛀蝕 ) faster, while adults without problems can wait as long as two years. They even go as far as to say that longer than two years is OK for people who have shown mitment to caring for their teeth. Where does this leave the rest of us the next time we receive a card in the mail reminding us our next dental visit is due? We’d all like an excuse to go less often, and the good news is that if you don’t have any problems you can probably wait a little longer than six months between visits. But exactly how long you can wait before your appointment with the dentist’s chair will depend on the assessment you and your dentist make of your own risk. 8. Who supports sixmonthly dental checkups? A. All the dentists. B. Many anizations. C. Aubrey Sheiham. D. The National Health Service. 9. We can learn from the last two paragraphs that ______. A. people often find excuses to avoid the next dental visit B. people should decide when to go to the dentist by themselves C. the frequency of dental visits varies for different people D. the healthier a person is, the less frequent the dental visits are 10. The research may not prove the idea of sixmonthly checkups because ______. A. the researchers are not qualified B. the number of the subjects was big C. there was a lack of quality dental equipment D. there might be other factors at work 11. What is the best title for this passage? A. How Often Do We Need to Visit Our Dentist? B. Why Do We Need to Visit Our Dentist? C. Who Should Go to the Dentist Frequently? D. How Can We Go to the Dentist Less? D It’s a saying favored by grandparents, a eback beloved enough to make an appearance on countless Tshirts, “I’ve fotten more than you know.” Now, a team of researchers has offered some support for the idea that the sloweddown recall we associate with getting older may sometimes be a side effect of a mind that’s filled with decades of information not a symptom of certain cognitive (認(rèn)知的 ) decline. The findings are based on a series of puter simulations (模擬 ) of learning and memory, not tests of actual people. The basic idea is that “the larger the library you have in your head, the longer it usually takes to find a particular word,” Benedict Carey says. The researchers propose that over time, you store more and more data in your mind, making recalling a needed item (條目 ) whether that’s a word, a name, or information to make a decision harder and slower as you get older. But Michael Ramscar, a famous scientist, says puter simulations can only be trusted after years of testing on thousands of humans. “We not only found that a researcher’s choice of test can determine whether cognitive functioning appears to decline or improve with age, we also found that the results of the same cognitive test can suggest agerelated declines or improvements.” Patrick Rabbitt says even the study’s idea “that old brains contain more information than young brains” is unfounded. “It is also arguable becaus e it requires an extra assum