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Scientific experiments have demonstrated incredible ways to kill a guinea pig, a small furry animal. Emotional upsets generate powerful and deadly toxic substances. (12) Blood samples taken from persons experiencing intense fear or anger when injected into guinea pigs have killed them in less than two minutes. Imagine what these poisonous substances can do to your own body. (13) Every thought that you have affects your body chemistry within a split second. Remember how you feel when you are speeding down the highway and a big truck suddenly brakes twenty meters in front of you. A shock wave shoots through your whole system. (15-1)Your mind produces instant reactions in your body. The toxic substances that fear, anger, frustration and stress produce not only kill guinea pigs but kill us off in a similar manner. (14) It is impossible to be fearful, anxious, irritated and healthy at the same time. It is not just difficult, it is impossible. Simply put, your body’s health is a reflection of your mental health. Sickness will often then be a result of unresolved inner conflicts which in time show up in the body. (15-2) It is also fascinating how our subconscious mind shapes our health. Do you recall falling sick on a day when you didn’t want to go to school? Headaches brought on by fear? The mind-body connection is such that if, for example, we want to avoid something, very often our subconscious mind will arrange it. Once we recognize that these things happen to us, we are half way to doing something about them.

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预览四道题各选项,由 restless、 upset、 lose consciousness mind、 feeling irritated和 frustration等 词可推测,短文内容与人的心理有关;再结合 has an instant effect on your body chemistry、 closely connected reinforce each other等可以进一步推测,短文内容涉及与人的心理紧密相关的另一事物,有 可能是人的身体。

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12. What happens to guinea pigs when blood samples of angry people are injected into them?

短文提到,当把从极度愤怒或恐惧的人身上提取的血液样本注射到豚鼠体内时,它们不到两分钟就死亡了。因此答案为D)。


13. What does the speaker say about every thought you have?

短文中提到,你的每一个想法都会在一瞬间对你体内的化学物质产生影响。因此答案为A)。


14. What does the speaker say is impossible?

短文中提到,恐惧、焦虑、愤怒和健康是不可能同时并存的。简单来说,身体健康是心理健康的反映。由此可知,人们在情绪不好时依然能保持身体健康是不可能的。因此答案为D)。


15. What does the passage say about our mind and body?

短文中提到,我们的心理会在我们的身体里产生即时的反应,同样,我们的潜意识也会影响我们的健康。由此可判断,我们的心理和健康有着紧密的联系。因此答案为A)。