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   Some young Cambodians are learning a new sport — skateboarding. The country’s first skateboard park is located on the grounds of a local charity group at the edge of Phnom Penh, the capital.
Sports like Khmer boxing and soccer are wildly popular in Cambodia. But Chea,who has been skating for 6 months,says skating has already become his favorite sport.
The skaters are learning tricks like launching off a jump or half-pipe and flying through the air on their narrow wooden boards.
A non-governmental organization called Skateistan Cambodia organizes weekly programs at the park. Skateistan started its work in Afghanistan years ago. Rory Burke is working with the group which expanded to Cambodia last year.
Rory Burke points out, “Yeah, it’s definitely not a typical Cambodian pastime (消遣). And I think the idea of ‘why skateboarding’is that it’s not been done before here. We want to use skateboarding as something saying, ‘Hey,this is new,this is something different.’And that kind of itself becomes a little bit of hook. People see it and they think and they say, “Wow, ‘what is that?’,and they want to get involved. ”
Skateistan partners with local groups that work with young people. The park is on the grounds of the group known as PSE, where children attend school and learn a trade. There are almost one hundred twenty participants. They all come from troubled lives.
Seventeen-year-old Sang Rotha is a student at PSE. “Sometimes I don’t do well on subjects like math,”he says, “I feel bad when I find it hard to keep up with my lessons. So that is why I skateboard—to improve my bad feelings. ”
He says he began skateboarding more than a year ago. Before he started training, it seemed very easy. But it was very difficult to learn tricks, and he got hurt a lot from falling off.
Rory Burke says learning to deal with the difficulties is part of the lesson for these young skateboarders.
【小题1】According to the passage, PSE is a group _________.
A.that works with Cambodian students
B.for young Cambodians to learn a trade
C.for young Cambodians in troubled lives
D.for young Cambodians taking skateboarding
【小题2】What is said about skateboarding in the passage?
A.It is easy for young Cambodians to learn.
B.It is a good sport to help regain good feeling.
C.It originated in Afghanistan years ago.
D.It is as popular as Khmer boxing in Cambodia.
【小题3】The underlined part a little bit of hook probably means ______.
A.something strangeB.something quite new
C.something differentD.something attractive
【小题4】It can be inferred from the passage that skateboarding is becoming _______.
A.a sport liked by most young Cambodians
B.an increasingly popular sport in Cambodia
C.a sport used to better young Cambodians’ life
D.a good way to train young Cambodians’ learning skills
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   A good joke can be the hardest thing to understand when people are studying a foreign language. As a recent article in The Guardian noted,“There's more to understanding a joke in a foreign language than understanding vocabulary and grammar.”

Being able to understand local jokes is often seen as an unbelievable icebreaker for a language learner eager to form friendships with native speakers.“I always felt that humor was a ceiling that I could never break through,”Hannah Ashley,a public relations account manager in London,who once studied Spanish in Madrid,told The Guardian.“I could never speak to people on the same level as I would speak to a native English speaker. I almost came across as quite a boring person because all I could talk about was facts.”

In fact,most of the time,jokes are only funny for people who share a cultural background or understand humor in the same way. Chinese-American comedian Joe Wong found this out first-hand. He had achieved huge success in the US,but when he returned to China in 2008 for his first live show in Beijing,he discovered that people didn't think his Chinese jokes were as funny as his English ones.

In Australia,meanwhile many foreigners find understanding jokes about sports to be the biggest headache. “The hardest jokes are related to rugby because I know nothing about rugby,”said Melody Cao,who was once a student in Australia.“When I heard jokes I didn't get,I just laughed along.”

In the other two major English-speaking countries,the sense of humor is also different. British comedian Simon Pegg believes that while British people use irony(反话)一basically,saying something they don't mean to make a joke—every day,people in the US don't see the point of using it so often.“British jokes tend to be more subtle and dark,while American jokes are more obvious with their meanings,a bit like Americans themselves,”he wrote in The Guardian.

【小题1】It is implied in the noted sentence in Paragraph 1 that __________.
A.making jokes is a possible way for one to learn a foreign language better
B.humor is always conveyed to foreigners through vocabulary and grammar
C.vocabulary and grammar help you understand jokes in a foreign language
D.there tends to be something behind the words of a joke in a foreign language
【小题2】What can we learn about Hannah Ashley?
A.She thought that Spanish people generally did not have much of a sense of humor.
B.She believed that one had better rely on facts when speaking a foreign language.
C.She found that humor was a barrier to her to get along well with Spanish people.
D.She had a better command of Spanish language than English language.
【小题3】Joe Wong is used as an example to ___________.
A.suggest that there are cultural differences in humor
B.show that it's hard to put jokes into another language
C.prove that local people have different taste in humor
D.show that expressing ability affects the sense of humor
【小题4】From the text we can learn that ___________.
A.jokes about sports are difficult for all foreigners to understand
B.Americans are generally more humorous than British people
C.not all English speakers can understand English jokes easily
D.British people's dark jokes often make people uncomfortable

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Fear may be felt in the heart as well as in the head, according to a study that has found a link between the cycles of a beating heart and the chance of someone feeling fear.
Tests on healthy volunteers found that they were more likely to feel a sense of fear at the moment when their hearts are contracting(收缩)and pumping blood around their bodies, compared with the point when the heartbeat is relaxed. Scientists say the results suggest that the heart is able to influence how the brain responds to a fearful event, depending on which point it is at in its regular cycle of contraction and relaxation.
Sarah Garfinkel at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School said: “Our study shows for the first time that the way in which we deal with fear is different depending on when we see fearful pictures in relation to our heart.”
The study tested 20 healthy volunteers on their reactions to fear as they were shown pictures of fearful faces. Dr Garfinkel said, “The study showed that fearful faces are better noticed when the heart is pumping than when it is relaxed. Thus our hearts can also affect what we see and what we don’t see and guide whether we see fear.”
To further understand this relationship, the scientists also used a brain scanner(扫描仪)to show how the brain influences the way the heart changes a person’s feeling of fear.
“We have found an important mechanism by which the heart and brain ‘speak’ to each other to change our feelings and reduce fear,” Dr Garfinkel said.
“We hope that by increasing our understanding about how fear is dealt with and ways that it could be reduced, we may be able to develop more successful treatments for anxiety disorders, and also for those who may be suffering from serious stress disorder.”
【小题1】What is the finding of the study?
A.Fear is a result of one’s relaxed heartbeat.
B.One’s heart affects how he feels fear.
C.Fear has something to do with one’s heart health.
D.One’s fast heartbeats are likely to cause fear.
【小题2】The conclusion was drawn by analyzing  .
A.volunteers’ heartbeats when they saw terrible pictures
B.the time volunteers saw fearful pictures and their health conditions
C.volunteers’ reactions to horrible pictures and data from their brain scans
D.different pictures shown to volunteers and their heart-brain communication
【小题3】Which of the following is closest in meaning to “mechanism” in Paragraph 6?
A.OrderB.Treatment
C.MachineD.System