C

　　  A new study surprised researchers, finding that for adolescent girls, romantic relationship problems can have serious, negative impacts on their mental health.

　　“I found that girls’ risk of severe depression, thoughts of killing themselves, and self-killing attempt increase, the more their relationships diverge (偏离) from what they imagined,”said the study’s author Brian Soller, Ph.D., an assistant professor of sociology at the University of New Mexico.

　　Soller used data from more than 5,300 high school students from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. From this data he examined the mental health consequences of mismatches between adolescents’ ideal and actual relationships.

　　Soller measured relationship inauthenticity by comparing how adolescents described their ideal relationship in an initial interview with how their first relationship after the interview actually played out.

　　“In the initial interview, researchers provided adolescents with a number of cards describing events that often occur within relationships, including everything from hand-holding and kissing to sex,” Soller said.

　　Respondents kept cards describing events they would engage in within an ideal relationship, and then indicated the order in which the events would occur.

　　Roughly a year later, the respondents repeated the exercise, only this time they indicated which events took place within their relationship, and then provided the order in which the events happened.

　　During both interviews, researchers asked participants about their mental health.

　　As for why relationship inauthenticity increased the risk of mental health problems for girls, but not for boys, Soller said, “Romantic relationships are particularly important components of girls’ identities and are, therefore, strongly related to how they feel about themselves — good or bad.

　　“As a result, relationships that diverge from what girls imagine for themselves are especially damaging to their emotional well-being.”

　　On the other hand, Soller said relationships are not as important to boys’ identities.

　　“Boys may be more likely to build their identities around sports or other after-class activities, so this could be why they are not affected by relationship inauthenticity,” he said.

　　In terms of the study’s policy implications, Soller said parents, educators, and policymakers should think about how to help girls construct identities that are less closely tied to romantic involvement.

　　“Helping girls build their identities around things other than romantic relationships may mitigate the effects of relationship inauthenticity on their mental health,” he said.

59. From the text, we can know that _______________________.

　　A. the mental health results of teens’ ideal relationship matches actual relationship

　　B. in the first interview, teens are asked to state their actual relationship

　　C. thousands of senior school students serve as subjects

　　D. half a year later, the subjects are required to describe their mental problem again

60. Soller may agree that ________________________.

　　A. romantic relationship plays as important a part in girls’ life as in boys’ life

　　B. romantic relationship prevents girls from participating in various activities

　　C. romantic relationship problems can damage teen girls’ mental health

　　D. romantic relationship is strongly related to how boys feel about themselves 

61. The underlined word “mitigate” can be replaced by _______________.

　　A. ease                          B. increase

　　C. protect                        D. prohibit

62. What is the author’s purpose in writing this text?

　　A. To persuade.                    B. To inform.

　　C. To entertain.                    D. To educate.

D

    The Oscar nominations (提名) will be announced tomorrow morning and despite the Academy’s best efforts, it looks like the biggest films of the year will be mostly shut out of competition. Don’t expect big nominations for The Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises or The Hunger Games. 

　　Since 2008, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) has been playing with the scheme for Best Picture in the hopes of getting more popular films nominated (提名) and increasing audience for the Oscar ceremony which last year was watched by fewer people than watched the Grammy Awards. First they increased the number of nominated films from five to ten. This year, to complicate things, there could be as many as ten nominees or as few as five. In order to qualify for a Best Picture nod, a film has to be the top pick of at least 5% of the Academy voters. 

　　　That means there’s room for an unknown factor. Our in-house film expert, Mark Hughes, thinks that could be Skyfall or The Hobbit which would ruin the condition of this post. I think Skyfall has a decent chance of being a spoiler. It has a admirable director in Sam Mendes, it’s earned almost universal praise from critics and it’s the first Bond movie ever to bring in $1 billion at the box office. 

　　But I suspect we’re going to see a very blockbuster（大片）-light list of nominations. The films that are getting the most award are Lincoln, Les Miserables and Zero Dark Thirty. While Lincoln and Les Miz are doing well at the box office (earning $144 million and $172 million so far separately), they aren’t near the top earners of 2012. Zero Dark Thirty has only been playing in a few theaters. It expands into wide release this weekend. 

　　It’s not necessarily a bad thing that big blockbusters don’t get nominated. Films that earn over $1 billion at the box office don’t really need any more publicity or anything else to help increase DVD income. Smaller films, like Zero Dark Thirty, rely on that Oscar boom. Nominations focusing on smaller films is good for the overall Hollywood ecosystem, even if the people running the awards would like to make things interesting a bit. 

　　The awards are scheduled for February 24th on ABC. Seth MacFarlane is this year’s host.

63. The AMPAS made changes to Best Picture to ___________.

　　A. attract more people to watch movies

　　B. keep the biggest films away from it

　　C. make the Oscar ceremony more popular

　　D. increase the number of popular movies

64. The underlined part “Skyfall has a decent chance of being a spoiler” (in Paragraph 3) means _________.

　　A. Skyfall is the best Bond movie

　　B. Skyfall is quite likely to be nominated

　　C. Skyfall is just so-so

　　D. Skyfall has little chance to be nominated

65. Nominations focusing on smaller films is in the hope that __________ .

　　A. smaller films are better than those so-called blockbusters

　　B. more people will go to see smaller films

　　C. blockbusters needn’t any nominations

　　D. blockbusters will have better environment

66. There is a room for an unknown factor in the nominations this year because ____.

　　A. the film has to be selected by at least 5% of the Academy voters

　　B. there could be five to ten nominees

　　C. the biggest films will be mostly shut out of competition

　　D. The Hobbit would ruin the condition of this post
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