Global warming could make humans shorter, warn scientists who are said 【小题1】（find）evidence that it caused the world’s first horses to shrink nearly 50 million years ago.

In fact, a team from the universities of Florida and Nebraska says it has found a link between the earth 【小题2】（heat）up and the size of mammals — horses. The scientists used fossils to follow the evolution（进化）of horses from their earliest 【小题3】（appear）56 million years ago.

“As temperatures went up, 【小题4】（they）size went down, and vice versa; at one point they were as small as a house cat,” said Dr. Jonathan Bloch, curator of the Florida Museum of Natural History. The scientists say that the current warming could have the same effect 【小题5】 mammals — and could even make humans 【小题6】（small）.

Horses 【小题7】（start）out small, about the size of a small dog like a miniature schnauzer.【小题8】 is surprising is that after they first appeared, they then became even smaller and then dramatically increased in size, and that 【小题9】（exact）agrees with the global warming event. “It had been known that mammals were small when it was warm,【小题10】 we hadn’t understood that the temperature really was driving the evolution of body size,” Dr. Bloch said in the Science journal.

   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.

   As the pace of life continues to increase, we are fast losing the art of relaxation. _______ you are in the habit of rushing through life, being on the go（忙碌）from morning till night, it is hard to _______. But relaxation is _______ for a healthy mind and body.

Stress is a（n）_______ part of everyday life and there is no way to _______ it. In fact, it is not the bad thing that it is often supposed to be. A _______ amount of stress is important to provide motivation and give _______ to life. It is only when stress gets out of control that it can lead to poor performance and _______ health.

The amount of stress a person can bear _______ very much on the individual. Some people are not afraid of stress, and such a ________ is obviously chief material for managerial responsibilities. Others lose heart at the ________ of unusual difficulties. When exposed to stress, in whatever form, we ________ both chemically and physically. In fact we make a choice between ________ and fight. And in more ancient days the choices made the ________ between life and death. The crises we meet today are ________ to be so extreme, but however little the stress, it requires the same response. It is when such a reaction ________ long, through continued exposure to stress, that health becomes ________. Such serious conditions as high blood pressure and heart disease have ________ links with stress. Since we cannot ________ stress from our lives we need to find ways to ________ it.

So what do you think of stress? What is your way to deal with it?

   Experts believe that the best time to teach kids language skills is when they are babies. Most times the task is easily accomplished with parents reading or talking to their babies. However，in some cases that is not possible due to parents' busy work schedules or when kids are born deaf. Now，a blue-eyed robot，a human image，and some high-tech neuroscience may be able to assist parents with this important developmental task.

The Robot AVatar thermal-Enhanced system，or RAVE，is the brainchild of a team of researchers led by Laura-Ann Petitto，an educational neuroscientist. The learning process begins when the robot's camera，which is focused on the baby's face，notices tiny changes in his/her body temperature. This，combined with the baby's facial expression，causes the robot to turn its head and guide the baby's attention to a computer screen，on which a human image starts to communicate with the baby. For example，if the baby points towards the screen，the image might respond，“Are you pointing to me？”and follow that up with a nursery rhyme or fairy tale，all in American Sign Language（ASL）. The“conversation”continues until the kid loses interest.

The researchers found that babies as young as 6 to 8 months old began to move their hands in a rhythm similar to ASL after communicating with RAVE for just a few minutes. Petitto says natural language，whether communicated through speech or sign，activates（激活）the same parts of the brain and believes the rhythmic motion proves the babies are learning the essential elements of communication.

What sets this technique apart from other methods，such as showing educational videos or television shows，is its interactive（互动的）nature and real-time response to the baby's actions. The researchers say that while it is too early to determine the system's long-term influence on baby communication, the initial response has been very encouraging. Next, they plan to introduce a robot that can both sign and speak to babies.