Its network even extends to some of the smaller towns and out-of-the-way communities 【B3】______ the great interior of the country. Traveling by bus may 【B4】______ longer than flying by planet but the terminals are located in the center of most cities and there is 【B5】______ to the downtown area.
These buses are comfortable and air-conditioned, they are all equipped with toilets in the rear to 【B6】______ the convenience of the passengers, but there are some very severe 【B7】______ of conduct which are strictly enforced. On all buses 【B8】______ is forbidden and the consumption of alcoholic drinks is not allowed.
【B9】______ bus travel may not be suited to everyone's taste, it affords budget travelers the 【B10】______ to see America in comfort and safety and at a leisurely unhurried pace.
【B1】
A. giving
B. providing
C. offering
D. favoring
In the sequence of events for emotions to occur, which is next to the encounter of an important event?
A. Interpretation made.
B. Responses produced.
C. Feeling stimulated.
D. Action taken.
Emotions are compared to colors because______.
A. they are classified in a similar way
B. they have the same influence on people's life
C. both of them may take on different forms
D. both of them may have basic elements mixed in them
Emotion is a feeling about or reaction to certain important events or thoughts. People enjoy feeling such pleasant emotions as love, happiness, and contentment. They often try to avoid feeling unpleasant emotions, such as loneliness, worry, and grief.
Individuals communicate most of their emotions by means of words, a variety of sounds, facial expressions, and gestures. For example, anger causes many people to frown, make a fist, and yell. People learn ways of showing some of their emotions from members of their society, though heredity(遗传) may determine some emotional behavior. Research has shown that different isolated peoples show emotions by means of similar facial expressions.
Charles Darwin, famous for the theory of natural selection, also studied emotion. Darwin said in 1872 that emotional behavior. originally served both as an aid to survival and as a method of communicating intentions. According to the James-Lange theory of emotions developed in the 1880s, people feel emotions only if aware of their own internal physical reactions to events, such as increased heart rate or blood pressure. But this theory was not upheld by research on cats that had their nervous systems damaged. The cats could not feel their body's internal changes, but they showed normal emotional behavior. John B. Watson, an American psychologist who helped found the school of psychology called behaviorism, observed that babies stimulated by certain events showed three basic emotions—fear, anger, and love. Watson's view has been challenged frequently since he proposed it in 1919.
The most widely accepted view is that emotions occur as a complex sequence of events. The sequence begins when a person encounters an important event or thought. The person's interpretation of the encounter determines the feeling that is likely to follow. For example, someone who encounters a bear in the woods would probably interpret the event as dangerous. The sense of danger would cause the individual to feel fear. Each feeling is followed by physical changes and desires to take action, which are responses to the event that started the sequence. Thus, a person who met a bear would probably run away.
Several American psychologists independently developed the theory that there are eight basic emotions. These emotions—which can exist at various levels of intensity—are anger, fear, joy, sadness, acceptance, disgusts, surprise, and interest or curiosity. They combine to form. all other emotions, just as certain basic colors produce all others.
It can be inferred from the second paragraph that those who are born blind______.
A. have emotions different from those of sighted persons
B. have some facial expression like those of sighted persons
C. depend only on words to express their feelings
D. seldom communicate with other people by means of gestures