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To get your child hooked on reading, set aside a regular time each day to enjoy a book together.

A．The new regulations will be set to get into effect on January 1, 2006.

B．The regulations were set up to supervise alcohol sellers.

C．Those who don't obey the new regulations would be punished according to China Daily's report.

D．According to Shanghai local government's regulation, selling cigarettes and alcohol to minors is banned.

A. Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattem of sleeping and waking

B. The study of sleep is an important part of the evolutionary theory.

C. Sleeping pattems must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.

D. The sleeping pattem of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.

How do you turn an occasional buyer into a regular buyer ?

你怎样把偶然的买主变成固定的买主？

Long-married couples often schedule a weekly "date night"—a regular evening out with friends or at a favorite restaurant to strengthen their marital bond.

But brain and behavior. researchers say many couples are going about date night all wrong. Simply spending quality time together is probably not enough to prevent a relationship from getting stale.

Using laboratory studies, real-world experiments and even brain-scan data, scientists can now offer longmarried couples a simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brought them together in the first place. The solution? Reinventing date night.

Rather than visiting the same familiar haunts and dining with the same old friends, couples need to tailor their date nights around new and different activities that they both enjoy, says Arthur Aron, a professor of social psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. The goal is to find ways to keep injecting novelty into the relationship. The activity can be as simple as trying a new restaurant or something a little more unusual or thrilling—like taking an art class or going to an amusement park.

The theory is based on brain science. New experiences activate the brain's reward system, flooding it with dopamine and norepinephrine. These are the same brain circuits that are ignited in early romantic love, a time of exhilaration and obsessive thoughts about a new partner. (They are also the brain chemicals involved in drug addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder. )

Most studies of love and marriage show that the decline of romantic love over time is inevitable. The butterflies of early romance quickly flutter away and are replaced by familiar, predictable feelings of long-term attachment.

But several experiments show that novelty—simply doing new things together as a couple—may help bring the butterflies back, recreating the chemical surges of early courtship.

Over the past several years, Dr. Aron and his colleagues have tested the novelty theory in a series of experiments with long-married couples.

In one of the earliest studies, the researchers recruited 53 middle-aged couples. Using standard questionnaires, the researchers measured the couples' relationship quality and then randomly assigned them to one of three groups.

One group was instructed to spend 90 minutes a week doing pleasant and familiar activities, like dining out or going to a movie. Couples in another group were instructed to spend 90 minutes a week on "exciting" activities that appealed to both husband and wife. Those couples did things they didn't typically do—attending concerts or plays, skiing, hiking and dancing. The third group was not assigned any particular activity.

After 10 weeks, the couples again took tests to gauge the quality of their relationships. Those who had undertaken the "exciting" date nights showed a significantly greater increase in marital satisfaction than the "pleasant" date night group.

While the results were compelling, they weren't conclusive. The experiment didn't occur in a controlled setting, and numerous variables could have affected the final results.

More recently, Dr. Aron and colleagues have created laboratory experiments to test the effects of novelty on marriage. In one set of experiments, some couples are assigned a mundane task that involves simply walking back and forth across a room. Other couples, however, take part in a more challenging exercise—their wrists and ankles are bound together as they crawl back and forth pushing a ball.

Before and after the exercise, the couples were asked things like, "How bored are you with your current relationship?" The couples who took part in the more challenging and novel activity showed bigger increases in love and satisfaction scores, while couples performing the mundane task showed no meaningful changes.

Dr. Aron cautions that novel

A．To find their friends to chat in a cafe.

B．To have a walk and talk about their future plans.

C．To take a training class together.

D．To go to see a movie they both enjoy.

Hair Care

Whether the hair is long or short, it must be regularly brushed and regularly washeD．For greasy(油性的) hair, especially if the owner lives in a town, it may De necessary to wash the head every four to five days. Those with a dry hair can usually go a little longed, but this is a matter for the individual to decide.

As for style, this must be studied according to what is the latest fashion and also to suit the individual at different times of her life. If a woman is not able .to go to hairdresser very often, it is important that she chooses a style. she can easily manage for herself, and this nearly always means that the first cut must be very standarD． The same applies to permanent waving(烫发). I think that this should be carried out three or four times a year, so that the hair never gets out of hand.

One thing would be remembered though, that is, whatever you apply to the head can have some effect upon the skin and therefore anything strong should be used with care. Or you may use milder products.

Young people who has spots or skin troubles on their face should take particular care to ensure that the .hair is both clean and does not come into contact with the affected piece of skin. Hair is very difficult to keep completely clean and therefore anyone running their hands through their hair and afterwards touching their face, or letting their hair fall over their faces, might spread infection from one place to another.

Good hair does a tot to the effect of a face, so if you want to look charming, please start with your hair.

第 41 题 According to the text, the most basic thing to do in hair care is______

A．to go to hairdressers very often

B．to choose milder products for the hair

C．to wash and brush the hair regularly

D．to keep the hair away from the skin trouble

Under the IALA-A Buoyage System，a green spar buoy with a triangular topmark would indicate that the buoy ______.

A.should be left to port when heading out to sea

B.may be left close aboard on either side

C.is on the north side of a point of interest

D.is marking the preferred channel

Gulangyu is a national-level scenic spot,with many attractions: Sunlight Rock、Shuzhuang Garden、Bright Moon Garden、Yu Garden、Memorial Hall of zheng Chenggong and so on。( )

The manufacturer must warrant the quality of its products according to the regulations.

By about A. D. 500 the Mound Builder culture was declining, perhaps because of attacks from other tribes or perhaps because of severe climatic changes that undermined agriculture. To the west another culture, based on intensive agriculture, was beginning to flourish. Its center was beneath present day St. Louis, and it radiated out to enclose most of the Mississippi watershed, from Wisconsin to Louisiana and Oklahoma to Tennessee. Thousands of villages were included in its orbit. By about A. D. 700 this Mississippian culture, as it is known to archaeologists, began to send its influence eastward to transform. the life or most of the less technologically advanced woodland tribes. Like the Mound Builders of the Ohio region, these tribes, probably influenced by Meso-American cultures through trade and commerce, built gigantic mounds as burial and ceremonial places. The largest of them, rising in four terraces to a height of one hundred feet, has a rectangular base of nearly fifteen acres, larger than that of the Great Pyramid of Egypt. Built between A. D. 900 and 1100, this huge earthwork faces the site of a palisaded(用栅栏围起的)Indian city which contained more than one hundred small artificial mounds marking burial sites. Spread among them was a vast settlement containing some 30,000 people by current estimations. The finely crafted ornaments and tools recovered at Ca-hokia, as this center of Mississippi culture is called, include elaborate ceramics(陶瓷制品), finely sculpted stonework, carefully embossed and engraved copper and mica(云母)sheets, and one funeral blanket fashioned from 12,000 shell beads. They indicate that Cahokia, was a true urban center, with clustered housing, markets, and specialists in tool-making, hide-dressing patting, jewelry-making, weaving, and salt-making.

What is the main topic of the passage? ______

A．The Mississippian culture.

B．The decline of Mound Builder culture.

C．The architecture of Meso-American Indians.

D．The eastern woodlands tribes.