第二节：完形填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）
Anger is good for you, as long as you control it properly, according to new psychology research. A new study from Carnegie Mellon University ___36___ anger may help you ____37___ the negative effects of stress and help you become healthier.
“Here getting emotional is not bad for you if you look at the case of anger.” Said Jennifer Lerner of Carnegie Mellon. “The more you display anger, the lower your ____38___ responses.”
Lerner studied 92 UCLA students by asking them to count back from 6,200. They must say out loud every 13th number. Researchers interfered with them by asking them to ___39____ faster or ask them other questions. If they made any ____40___ , they had to restart from the very beginning. Many students felt depressed about making so many mistakes or got angry ____41____ the researchers were ____42____ them.
Lerner used a ____43____ video camera and recorded all their facial _____44____ during the test. The researchers ____45____ their reactions as fear, anger and disgust. Other members recorded the students’ blood pressure, pulse and production of a high- stress hormone called cortisol.
People whose faces showed more ____46____ during the experiment had higher blood pressure and higher levels of the hormone. Both can have lasting effects such as diabetes (糖尿病), heart disease, depression and weight gain. When people fear, negative impacts ____47____, but when they get angry, those negatives go down, according to the ____48____. “ Having that sense of anger ____49____ people to actually feel some power in what ____50____ is a maddening situation.” Lerner said.
Lerner previously studied Americans’ emotional response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks two months after the incident. He found people who reacted with ____51____ were more optimistic. These people are healthier ____52____ with those who were frightened during the event.
So in maddening ____53____, anger is not a ____54____ thing to have. It’s a ____55____ response than fear.
36.   A.    shows         B.    suggests      C.    expresses     D.    insists
37.   A.    drop         B.    reduce        C.    lose         D.    throw
38.   A.    mistake      B.    sadness       C.    stress          D.    anger
39.   A.    read         B.    write          C.    speak         D.    count
40.   A.    mistakes     B.    decisions     C.    changes      D.    losses
41.   A.    unless         B.    because      C.    if            D.    until
42.   A.    watching     B.    stopping     C.    interrupting    D.    recording
43.   A.    rented        B.    stolen         C.    borrowed     D.    hidden
44.   A.    spots          B.    points         C.    expressions     D.    smiles
45.   A.    chose         B.    regarded     C.    treated        D.    described
46.   A     fear         B.    anger         C.    regret         D.    happiness
47.   A.    decrease     B.    increase      C.    climb         D.    spread
48.   A.    plan         B.    method       C.    study          D.    project
49.   A.    hopes         B.    leads          C.    lets         D.    drives
50.   A.    actually      B.    really         C.    otherwise     D.    luckily
51.   A.    pain         B.    joy          C.    sorrow       D.    anger
52.   A.    compared          B.    comparing      C.    satisfied      D.    connected
53.   A.    situations     B.    conditions       C.    positions     D.    persons
54.   A     bad        B.    good          C.    proper        D.    wonderful
55.   A.    shorter       B.    bigger        C.    faster         D.    healthier