環球卓越：2010年同等學力英語考點特訓之閱讀（二）

　  考點特訓之閱讀二

    Stress Level Tied to Education Level

　　People with less education suffer fewer stressful days, according to a report in the current issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

　　However, the study also found that when 1ess-educated people did suffer stress it was more severe and had a larger impact on their health.

　　From this, researchers have concluded that the day-to-day factors that cause stress are not random. Ⅵr11ere you are in society determines the kinds of problems that you have each day, and how well you will cope with them.

　　The research team interviewed a national sample of 1 031 adults daily for eight days about their stress level and health. People without a high school diploma reported stress on 30 percent of the study days, people with a high school degree reported stress 38 percent of the time, and people with college degrees reported stress 44 percent of the time.

　　“Less advantaged people are less healthy on a daily basis and are more likely to have downward turns in their health,” lead researcher Dr. Joseph Grzywacz, of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, said in a prepared statement. “The downward turns in health were connected with daily stressors and the effect of daily stressors on their health is much more devastating for the less advantaged.”

　　Grzywacz suggested follow-up research to determine why less-educated people report fewer days of stress when it is known their stress is more acute and chronic.

　　“If something happens every day, maybe it's not seen as a stressor” Grzywacz says. “Maybe it is just 1ife.”

　　1. Stress level is closely related to ______.

　　A. family size.

　　B. social status.

　　C. body weight.

　　D. work experience.

　　2. The 1 031 adults were interviewed ______.

　　A. on a daily basis for 8days.

　　B. during one of eight days.

　　C. all by Grzywacz.

　　D. in groups.

　　3. Which group reported the biggest number of stressful days?

　　A. People without any education.

　　B. People without high school degrees.

　　C. People with high school degrees.

　　D. People with college degrees.

　　4. The less advantaged people are, the greater ______.

　　A. the impact of stress on their health is.

　　B. the effect of education on their health is

　　C. the level of their education is.

　　D. the degree of their health concern is.

　　5. Less—educated people report fewer days of stress possibly because ______.

　　A. they don't want to tell the truth.

　　B. they don't want to face the truth.

　　C. stress is too common a factor in their life.

　　D. their stress is more acute.

答案及解析

　　1．B. 從文章題目便可得知，一個人的緊張程度與其受教育的程度掛鉤，而受教育的程度又直接影響一個人的社會地位。因此，文章第三段提到，一個人的社會地位決定了其每日所面臨的問題和處理這些問題的能力。由此可見，緊張程度與社會地位密切相關。

　　2．A. 文章第四段提到，研究人員對全國抽樣的1 031名成人連續八天每天進行采訪。

　　3．D. 從文章第四段可以得知，調查對象學歷越高，自己所報告的緊張天數便越多。

　　4．A. 文章第五段提到，一個人的社會地位越低，緊張對其健康造成的危害也就越大。

　　5．C. 文章最后兩段提到，受教育程度越低者所報告緊張天數越少的原因有可能是他們對緊張因素己司空見慣，視其為生活的一部分，而不是什么特別值得注意的。