三、阅读理解(本大题共10小题，每小题2分，共20分)

　　阅读下面的短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案填空或答题，错选、多选或未选均无分。

　　Passage 1

　　Shopping-bag ladies don’t beg publicly, but they do not refuse what is offered. Once a shopping-bag lady appears where you live, it is as hard to pass her by without giving her some money as it is to pay no attention to the collection box in church. And although you may not like it, if she chooses your doorway as her place to sleep in the night, it is as morally hard to turn her away as it is to do with a lost dog.

　　Most shopping-bag ladies seem to be between the ages of 40 and 65. They wear layers of clothes even in summer time, with newspapers filled between the layers as something against bad weather.

　　No one knows how many shopping-bag ladies there are in New York. The number is going up. Some persons and researchers spend a great deal of time taking care of or observing shopping-bag ladies and doing what they can to better the life lady hermits(隐士) who’re down.

　　31.Shopping-bag ladies are ______.

　　A. lady beggars

　　B. ladies who sell shopping-bags

　　C. ladies who make shopping-bags

　　D. Those who go hungry

　　32.They fill newspapers between the layers of their clothes because ______.

　　A.they are so poor

　　B.they have no place to put them

　　C.they want to hide them

　　D.they have to use them to keep the cold out

　　33.Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A.There are more and more shopping-bag ladies in the United States.

　　B.Shopping-bag ladies appear only in New York.

　　C.Some people are helping shopping-bag ladies.

　　D.Some people are engaged in their research on these shopping-bag ladies.

　　Passage 2

　　Relaxation therapy (=treatment). If you read the sentence out loud, your blood pressure will go up. If you talk to another person, it will go still higher. If the talk is with your boss, your pressure will go even higher. If you speak to someone of the opposite sex, your pressure may show less change if you’re married than if you’re single.

　　Dozens of times each day, your blood pressure changes with what you’re feeling and doing. These “ups and downs” take place in everyone, but they are more severe in people with high blood pressure. That discovery is the basis for the newest therapy: controlling blood pressure by learning skills to control everyday stress.

　　Many patients control their blood pressure with the relaxation response. This takes four simple things: a quiet environment, a comfortable position(sitting or lying down), the repeating of a word, prayer or phrase each time you breathe and having none of other thoughts.

　　Something remarkable happens when you do this, according to research in Boston. Relaxation of the mind and body has the effect that some blood-pressure pills would have. What’s more, the blood pressure stays lower, just as it would with a pill, after you have stopped the relaxation and have returned to the stress of daily life.

　　34. The first paragraph tells us the reason why your blood pressure goes up is that ______.

　　A. you read aloud a sentence

　　B. the man you talk to is your boss

　　C. you’re not married

　　D. you’re nervous

　　35. Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A. One’s blood pressure changes many times every day.

　　B. Your blood pressure changes with your feelings.

　　C. When you’re doing different things, your blood pressure, perhaps, is different.

　　D. The changes of blood pressure only happen to people with high blood pressure.

　　36. The second paragraph shows us the basis of relaxation therapy is______.

　　A. to reduce the going up of the pressure

　　B. to control everyday stress

　　C. to do less and say less

　　D. to think less and sleep more