大学英语六级（2013年12月考试改革适用）模拟试卷409
作文
1.For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write an essay that begins with the sentence \\
Nowadays more and more people take delight in offering help to the needy. Opinions vary as to why a growing number of people offer help to others, but I think there are two major reasons.
The primary reason is that education, including parenting and schooling, raises public awareness of helping others. Nowadays, parents attach greater importance to children’s social responsibility, and they try to involve their children in helping others to help them learn to be socially responsible. At school, young children are also taught the value of being helpful. For instance, there are volunteering activities such as unpaid community service that are aimed to make students realize how important it is to help others.
Another major factor is technological advancement. The Internet and social apps make it easier for us to help a wider community of people, including those who we even do not know. A good illustration is that we can help people on the other side of the world rather than only those physically near us. Connecting to people of a different culture is a delightful experience.
In conclusion, education and technological development encourage more people to lend a helping hand to those in need.
解析：本题要求考生以“越来越多人乐于帮助贫穷的人”作为开头句写一篇文章。根据题目要求，可以解释这一现象的原因。文章可采用以下结构：
第一段：以题目给出的句子开头并点出文章结构：
第二段：给出第一个原因一一教育培养了大家的助人意识。
第三段：给出第二个原因一一科技进步让帮助别人变得更加容易。
第四段：总结文章。
词汇理解
Thinking kind thoughts about yourself and your loved ones can prove beneficial for your overall wellbeing, empirical evidence has shown. Researchers carried out an investigation to explore the【C1】________ between having kind thoughts and a person\’s psychological state.
For the study, five groups of participants were presented with a different set of audio instructions, some of which encouraged the participants to think【C2】________about themselves and others which persuaded them to think in a self-critical manner. After listening to the audio instructions, the participants were asked to answer a series of questions. These included whether they felt agitated, how likely they were to show kindness to themselves and how【C3】________they felt to other individuals.
The participants who were instructed to think kindly about themselves were more likely to exhibit a bodily response associated with being relaxed and feeling safe. Their heart rates also dropped, which is a healthy sign of a heart that can respond flexibly to situations. Yet,【C4】________, those who listened to the critical audio clips were noted as having a higher heart rate and sweat response afterwards, both of which【C5】________feelings of threat and distress.
Having the ability to switch off the body\’s natural threat response can【C6】________a person\’s immune system. This, in turn, gives them a greater likelihood of recovering quickly from illness. These findings help us to further understand some of our clinical trials research findings, where we show that individuals with【C7】________depression benefit particularly from self-awareness-based【C8】________therapy. They essentially learn to become more sympathetic to themselves.
The sense is that for people【C9】________to depression, meeti
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