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ides, when you watch a sad movie, you’ re more likely to e away from it thinking about loved ones and feeling happy about what you have. Watching movies can make you creative. A study shows that young children, who watched the use of magic in Harry Potter, score significantly higher in a creative thinking test than children who watched something else. Moreover, movies are very useful for strengthening people’ s mental health. They enable people to take time to really relax and temporarily fet about their daily concerns and problems. However, watching movies aren’ t always beneficial. Studies have shown that some people get real pleasure out of being scared by horror movies, but in various ways they may be risking their physical and mental health without even knowing it. When you watch a tense scene in a movie, your heart rate and blood pressure increase. Meanwhile this change in your brain chemistry reminds you of times when you were in a similar state, even if you have no idea you even had those memories. So if something horrible happens to you, being scared again by a movie can unintentionally make you experience it once more. Scientists, politicians and parents have debated for decades if being exposed to movie violence leads to actual reallife violence. Overall the answer to that is probably still up in the air,but a new study seems to prove that watching aggression on screen can contribute to being a bully(土霸 )in real life, even if it is just in the short term. In conclusion, certain movies play a positive role, but not all movies do. It depends pletely on the subject of the movie. So it’ s always advisable to choose the movies concerning something positive. 28. How does watching sad movies benefit us according to the text? A. It makes us content with our lives. B. It rids us of unhappy memories. C. It reduces our risk of illness. D. It develops our creativity. 29. What can we infer about watching horror movies from the text? A. It has more advantages than disadvantages. B. It has gained popularity around the world. C. Plenty of people ignore its health benefits. D. All people don’ t realize its disadvantages. 30. What does the underlined part“ up in the air” in Paragraph 4 mean? A. Meaningless. B. Attractive. C. Uncertain. D. Obvious. 31. What does the author advise us to do to reduce the passive effect of movies? A. Enjoy movies with more panions. B. Make a wise choice of what to watch. C. Try our best to watch movies less often. D. Raise our ability to tell right from wrong. D Anger itself is neither good nor bad. It’ s what we do when we’ re angry that matters. Anger is a tool that helps us to read and respond to the social situations that bother us. But how can we keep it under control? It’ s normal to think that getting angry is bad and many times we punish ourselves for doing so. But contrary to popular belief, research indicates that anger increases optimism, creativity and efficiency(效率 ). In addition, studies suggest that anger can lead to more successful negotiations at work, as well as in our personal lives. In fact, suppressing(抑制 )anger can be very bad for your health. In this sense, Dr. Ernest Harburg performed a study by monitoring a group of adults and their capacity(最大容量 )for anger. What he found is that the men and women who suppressed their anger as a response to an unfair attack had a higher risk of developing bronchitis(支氣管炎 )or suffering from heart attacks,and were more likely to die before their colleagues who let their anger surface(顯現(xiàn) )when they felt bothered. When anger arises, we feel the need to either prevent or put an end to this powerful feeling for the benefit of our welfare or the welfare of those we care about. But this act of kindness,mercy, love or justice isn’ t beneficial in this way. However, it’ s certainly a good thing to be cautious when anger begins to surface. Expressing your anger can be appropriate with certain people at certain times. The question lies in how to do it without losing contro1. The key to ex