2013届高三六校第二次联考英语试题(5)

attitudes towards forgiveness," he said, "People confuse forgiveness with forgetting. Forgiveness means changing from a negative attitude to a positive one."

Hart and his team have created instructions to provide the training needed.

"The main idea is to give you guidelines on how to look at various kinds of angers and how they affect you, and how to change your attitudes towards the person you are angry with," said Norman Claringbull, a senior expert on the forgiveness project.

Hart said he believes forgiveness is a skill that can be taught, as these people "want to get free of the past". 36. From this passage we know that________.

A. high blood pressure and heart disease are caused by hate B. high blood pressure can only be cured by psychology professors

C. without hate, people will have less trouble connected with blood and heart D. people who suffer from blood pressure and heart disease must have many enemies 37. If you are angry with somebody, you should________.

A. attend Hart s course

B. never meet him or her any longer

C. persuade him or her to have a positive talk with you D. treat him or her positively instead of negatively

38. In Hart's first 20- week workshop, people there can ________.

A. meet their enemies

B. change their attitudes

D. learn how to quarrel with others B. get rid of the illness of cancer

D. pour out everything stored in your mind

C. enjoy the professor's teaching A. meet in eight or ten groups

39. If you are a member in Hart's workshop, you'll________.

C. attend a gathering twice a month

40. The author wrote this passage in order to________.

A. persuade Britons to go to Hart's workshop B. tell us the news about Hart's workshop C. tell us how to run a workshop like Hart's D. help us to look at various kinds of angers

D

The flag, the most common symbol of a nation in the modern world, is also one of the most ancient. With a clear symbolic meaning, the flag in the traditional form is still used today to mark buildings, ships and other vehicles related to a country.

The national flag as we know it today is in no way a primitive artifact. It is, rather, the product of thousands of years development. Historians believe that it had two major ancestors, of which the earlier served to show wind direction.

Early human beings used very fragile houses and boats. Often strong winds would tear roofs from houses or cause high waves that endangered travelers. People s food supplies were similarly to plant grains, they still needed help from nature to ensure good harvests. Therefore they feared and depended on the power of the wind, which could bring warmth from one direction and cold from another.