We all know that we need some degree of smarts to make it in the business world. The measure of this " smarts" is IQ. You were born with your IQ and it stays relatively the same throughout life. So it is pretty hard to become an Einstein if you were born with an average IQ. People often associate someone's IQ with his or her ability to be successful. While important to you, IQ becomes less important as you grow in your career. Actually, there are other ingredients that are important to ensure career or business success, which account for about 80% of adult success.

EQ is one of the key ingredients. Your EQ is really about soft skills. It means being able to relate to others and make things happen. According to Susan Dunn, the EQ coach, “The higher up you go in your career, the more EQ matters. Eventually you'll find yourself in a playing field where everyone has skills as good as yours, and then what makes you stand out? It's how you handle yourself and others , your leadership and communication skills and other emotional intelligence competencies （能力）. ” The great news about EQ is that you can improve it. Unlike IQ, you can work on different EQ competencies so that you can increase your EQ score.

But to succeed, combining a high EQ and IQ is not enough. You also need to think about your RQ. The term RQ was coined by Dr. Charles who found the most successful companies all have one thing in common - strong reputations or high RQs. But RQ is not just for companies. We as individuals can combine it with our IQ and EQ to ensure career success. To succeed you need to be known for something. You must stand out from countless （无数的） others with similar skills and experience. Like EQ, your RQ can be improved with personal work. Understanding, building and communicating your personal brand will help you increase your RQ and your ability to take control of your career.

【小题1】What does the underlined word “ingredients”in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．Scores.	B．Factors.
C．Careers.	D．Measures.

【小题2】According to the passage, which cannot be improved?

A．IQ.	B．EQ.
C．RQ.	D．Not mentioned.

【小题3】____________ if you want to move up in your career.

A．You will have to spend more time on your working field

B．Little importance should be attached to the matter of IQ

C．You are supposed to apply more soft skills to your career

D．You don't have to take communication skills seriously

【小题4】Which of the following can be learned from the passage?

A．A high EQ and IQ will certainly guarantee your success.

B．All the most successful companies have average reputations.

C．You need to make your skills and experience advertised.

D．To succeed you need a winning combination of IQ, EQ and RQ.

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Even after centuries of 【小题1】(science) research, no one knows for sure why human beings laugh.
Charles Darwin guessed that laughter, 【小题2】 begins in infants as young as three months old, served as a"reward"to parental care-giving. Laughter of infants sounded and felt so different from crying, and he believed that even prehistoric(史前的) parents must have regarded it 【小题3】 a sign of well-being. The parents enjoyed the laughter, which encouraged them 【小题4】(continue) caring for the child.
One of the most interesting things researchers have learned is the powerful healing effect of laughter. Well,actually they're re-learning it after centuries of neglect:in the Middle Ages, doctors "treated" their 【小题5】(patient) by telling them jokes.
Scientists 【小题6】(learn) a lot about laughter so far.You use 15 different muscles in your face to laugh. The sound of laughter is created when you breathe in deeply 【小题7】 then breathe out the air. The typical laugh is made up of pulses(节奏)of sound that are about 1/15th of a second long and 1/5th of a second apart.When tape-recorded and 【小题8】(play) backward,laughing sounds 【小题9】(virtual) the same as it does when it is played forward. 【小题10】 was also found that the most laughter took place when males were talking and females were listening, and the least took place when females were talking and males were listening.

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Some people think that they will get ill if they will use their brains too much. It is not truly. Through many studies，scientists show us that the less you use your brains，the better they will be，but the cleverer you will become. Of course，if you want to keep your mind clear and active，you must take proper rest and study properly. To the teenagers，use their brains in the morning is good for your health.

There are various ways to rest. One of them is a peaceful rest. Sleep is a perfect example. As we all know，lack of sleep can do great damage for our health. Another is an active rest. For example，take a walk outdoors，and do more exercises every day. In everyday life，eating some eggs，meat，fresh vegetables and fruit are also good for the brains.

_【小题1】___ .Being angry doesn’t really solve much, but what people do when they feel angry is important. The goal is to calm down and try to solve what is bothering you. This is hard for some kids and adults, too. Instead of calming down, some kids might keep getting more and more upset until they explode like a volcano!【小题2】___ .Their anger might be so strong that they lose control of their temper. They may act in ways unacceptable and hurtful. People may say that someone has trouble controlling their temper.【小题3】Some kids might get so angry that they scream at their parents, break something , or even worse , hit their brothers or sisters.【小题4】.However, it’s not OK for a kid to do any of those things .Kids don’t want to act in this way , but sometimes angry feelings can be hard to manage. So what to do?Well, the good news is that kids don’t just have to keep making the same mistakes over and over again.【小题5】.Imagine your temper as a puppy inside you that needs some training. The puppy is not bad ---- it will probably turn out a great dog. It just needs to learn some rules because, right now, that puppy is causing some problems to you.

A．In fact, they usually mean that a kid behaves badly when feeling angry. B．You don’t want to cause trouble. C．Kids should be allowed to express their feelings, even angry ones. D．Some kids get angry more often or more easily than some other kids. E．You can train you temper. F．Instead of thinking of the person you’re angry with, think of something else. G．Everybody gets angry sometimes.

 

   It is a familiar scene these days: employees taking newly laid-off co-workers out for a drink for comfort. But which side deserves more sympathy，the jobless or the still employed？On March 6，researchers at a conference at the University of Cambridge suggested it was the latter.

Brendan Burchell，a Cambridge sociologist，presented his analysis based on various surveys conducted across Europe. The data suggest that employed people who feel insecure in their jobs show similar levels of anxiety and depression as those who are unemployed. Although a newly jobless person's mental health may“bottom out”after about six months，and then may even begin to improve，the mental state of people who are continuously worried about losing their own job“just continues to get worse and worse”, Burchell says.

Psychologists support this theory by arguing that human beings feel more stressed during times of insecurity because they sense an immediate but invisible threat. Patients have been known to experience higher levels of anxiety, for example, while waiting for examination results than knowing what they are suffering from—even if the results are cancer. It's better to get the bad news and start doing something about it rather than wait with anxiety.  When the uncertainty continues, people stay in a nonstop“fight or flight”response, which leads to damaging stress.

But not every employee in insecure industries has such a discouraging view, Burchell says. In general, women get on better. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women score lower in stress on the 12-item General Health Questionnaire, even when they have a job they feel insecure about losing.  As Burchell explains,“For women, most studies show that any job—it doesn't matter whether it is secure or insecure—gives psychological improvement over unemployment.”He supposes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also to be the primary breadwinners, and that more of a man's self-worth depends on his job.

【小题1】Why do researchers think the still employed deserve more sympathy?

A．They have to do more work since then.

B．They have no chance to find better jobs.

C．They have to work with inexperienced workers.

D．They constantly worry about losing their jobs.

【小题2】What is most likely to cause a“fight or flight”response?

A．Not having a paid job.

B．Poor job conditions.

C．Not knowing what will happen.

D．Pressure to work longer hours.

【小题3】What will the writer talk about following the last paragraph?

A．Advice on preparing for a job interview.

B．Advice on handling pressure from insecure industries.

C．Some knowledge of psychology.

D．Difference in men and women.

【小题4】What is the main idea of the passage?

A．Is it less stressful to get laid off than staying on?

B．Should more sympathy be given to the jobless?

C．Do employees bear more stress than ever before?

D．Do men or women show higher levels of anxiety?