【高考专题辅导】江苏省2014版高考英语 专题检测卷（二十七）任务型阅读.docVIP

任务型阅读(建议用时: 20分钟) 1 (2013·徐州模拟) The Nature of Stress We are often faced with stresses that are outside of our control, from rare natural disasters to everyday traffic jams. There is a good deal of evidence that uncontrollable events are particularly stressful. This has been shown in studies of “executive rats” in which two rats receive exactly the same electric shock, but one is given a lever that could be used to turn the shock off after it occurs. Over a long series of such trials, the partner rat, helpless to do anything about its pain, is more likely to develop ulcers(溃疡)than is the “exec