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【正文】 Margaret is a bit depressed. She need time to e to terms with her business failure ，她想盡辦法幫我們找到了一個解決的辦法。News about one human being helping another … brings out feelings of trust and cooperation. But news about one person actually doing harm to another changes our estimate of other people for the worse.” In an early experiment in 1968, Dr. Hornstein and his associates, who had been dropping wallets (錢包 ) for two years to test the honesty of people, discovered that on June 4, 1968, not one wallet was returned. That was the night Robert F. Kennedy was shot, he recalled. Strangers suddenly seemed dangerous, and nobody wanted to return a lost wallet to a stranger. But good news on the other hand, lifts us up, he stressed, citing the date of July 4, 1976, America’s Bicentennial (兩百年的 ) celebration. On that day, we all felt safe and good. Being American was the thing. We all felt as if we all belonged together. Recent tests support these conclusions. In one experiment, 60 subjects were exposed to good news, bad news or music. Then they were told to play a game with a nonexistent person supposedly in another room. It was a game of choice that emphasized cooperation or petition. After hearing good news, the overwhelming majority, 91 percent, played cooperatively. But after hearing bad news, petitive responses were over three times as high — up to 28 percent, from 9 percent. If we watch television and see a lot of blood, said Dr. Hornstein, we’re probably assuming that the world is a dirtier place than we assumed before we saw that TV violence. And we’ll deal with the next individual we e upon as if he is part of that grim (冷酷的 ) picture of humanity. After the good news, it’s the reverse. 36. According to the findings of researchers at Columbia University, when people hear good news, they feel _______. A. happier B. more kindly toward others C. safer than they really are D. more petitive 37. Dr. Harvey Hornstein found that when people hear news about one person actually doing harm to another, they tend to _______. A. regard other people as worse than they really are B. treat total strangers as suspects of cruel crimes C. bee hostile towards neighbors and friends D. think about the mon problems facing mankind 38. What did Dr. Harvey Hornstein and his associates discover on the night of June 4, 1968? A. Robert F. Kennedy was shot. B. Their wallets were lost. C. People in America suddenly became dishonest. D. Nobody returned the wallets they dropped. 39. We can infer from the passage that on July 4, 1976, most probably _______. A. people drank and sang and danced B. lost wallets were returned to their owners C. everybody wanted to be American D. even criminals were friendly to others 40. We can conclude from the passage that _______. A. violence on TV leads to more violence on the streets B. broadcasters should emphasize good news rather than bad news C. the world is a dirtier place than we assume it to be D. people are more petitive when they are faced with challenges Kaleil Isaza Tuzman moved to the United States from Columbia when he was 15. Within a few years he was pushing to get ahead, hawking (叫賣 ) baseball caps to pay the bills his Harvard scholarship didn39。s view, an ideal educational system should ________. A. be one under which every citizen enjoys equal opportunity B. give everyone the information he needs for conducting his business C. ensure that everyone has a chance to enter an institution of higher learning D. provide students with a natural and unspoiled setting for learning 35. What was made easy by the revolutionized American campus? A. Students39。s dog 29. Judging from the passage, Laura is__________. A. a very rich lady B. a rather poor girl C. an animal protectionist D. a so