【正文】 en so often．Other people would be bored of the same daily routine．3） Do you enjoy working with puters？ I do see this as a kind of personality characteristic．There are people who are happy to spend more than 40 hours a week on a puter, while there are others who need a lot of human interaction throughout the day．Again, these are extremes and you39。t know immediately to a smaller setting where you39。ve seen it over and over again with people that they make more money over time when they do something they love．It may take you a little longer, but making a move to do what you have a passion for can change the course of your life for the better．4．What is unnecessary in your job hunting? A．Assessing your skills B．Going to different areas C．Matching your skills with a position D．taking your personality into consideration5．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A．Isolating jobs usually drive people mad． B．Interactive jobs make people shy easily． C．Extreme people tend to work with others． D．Almost everyone has a tendency in jobs．6．What is the missing word about a job search in the following chart? A．Design． B．Changes． C．Cooperation． D．Hobbies．skillsJobs Environment MotivationStability ?7．What is the best title for this passage? A．Lifestyles and Job Pay B．Jobs and Environment C．Job Skills and Abilities D．Personalities and JobsC As the human brain evolved, humans were able to laugh before they could speak, according to a new study．But here’s the punch line: Laughter and joy are not unique to humans, the study says．Ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals long before humans began laughing． “Human laughter has its roots in our animation past,” said Jaak Panksepp, a professor of psychobiology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio．Panksepp has studied rats and found that when they “play,” they often chirp （唧唧叫） – an early – stage form of laughter, according to the scientist．In an article to be published tomorrow in the journal Science, he makes the argument that animal laughter is the basis for human joy． In studying laughter, scientists have focused mostly on related issues – humor, personality, health benefits, social theory – rather than laughter itself．New research, however, shows that “circuits” （電路） for laughter exist in very ancient regions of the human brain．As humans have included language into play, we may have developed new connections to joyous parts of our brains that evolved before the cerebral cortex（大腦皮層）, the outer layer associated with thought and memory． There is plenty of evidence that many other mammals make play sounds, which are like human laughter．Indeed, animals are capable of many emotional feelings, just like humans, some scientists say．The recognition by neuroscientists（神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)科學(xué)家）that the brain systems for pain, pleasure, and fear are the same in humans and other mammals underline our similarity to other species and is extremely important, said Tecumseh Fitch, a psychology lecturer at the University of St．Andrews in Scotland．In a 2003 study Panksepp and Bowling Green State University neurobiologist Jeff Burgdorf showed that if rats are tickled （呵癢） in a playful way, they readily chirp．Rats that were tickled developed a relationship with the researchers and became rapidly conditioned to seek tickles．Understanding the chirping of the rats may help scientists better understand human laughter． Robert Provine, a psychology professor at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, agrees there is an evolutionary continuity of laughter．Its origin is in tickling play, he says．Provine has studied chimpanzees and found a link between their laughter like noises and human laughter．Laughter is actually the sound of play, with the original’ pant – pant’（ 喘氣） the heavy breathing of physical play being the human ‘ha ha,’” Provine said．By studying the shift from the panting of chimps to the human ha ha, he discovered that breath control is the key to the appearance of both human laughter and speech．8．The 2003 study about rats being tickled are mentioned in paragraph 4 in order to show that ． A．rats are such smart aromas that they can laugh like humans B．a(chǎn)nimals have emotional feelings as human beings do C．a(chǎn)nimals39。s research? A．It focuses on animals39。s personalities are involved in the research． C．The research studies human brain as well． D．The research deals with laughter itself．10．We can infer from the above text that____________． A．Tecumseh Fitch and Robert Provine disagree with each other on laughter B．rats’ chirping and chimp’s panting are basically the same C．most animals are able to laugh but need to be trained first D．human beings have now fully understood animals’ behaviorsCAD BDCD BDB閱讀下列短文，從每題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中，選出最佳選項。 Kamba men are mainly farmers and are not a danger to elephants．In an experiment conducted by animal scientists, elephants were first presented with clean clothing or clothing that had been worn for five days by either a Maasai or a Kamba man．When the elephants detected the smell of clothing worn by a Maasai man, they moved away from the smell faster and took longer to relax than when they detected the smells of either clothing worn by Kamba men or clothing that had not been worn at all．Garment color also plays a role, though in a different way．In the same study, when the elephants saw red clothing not worn before, they reacted angrily, as red is typically worn by Maasai men．Rather than running away as they did with the smell, the elephants acted aggressively toward the red clothing．The researchers believe that the elephants’ emotional reactions are due to their different interpretations of the smells and the sights．Smelling a potential danger means that a threat is nearby and the best thing to do is run away and hide．Seeing a potential threat without its smell me