Chess Club        The Chess Club is open to anyone interested in chess, including the _ , the expert, or anyone in between! Club meetings include opportunities to play others as well as to plan tournaments .  Advisor: Behrooz Vakil               Telephone: 636-922-8347 Communications Club        The Communications Club seeks, provides and promotes insight about the practical uses of communication amongst the campus community through education and opportunity. One of our club activities is to invite practitioners to our meetings to make presentations on communication activities (e.g. case studies such as information campaigns, international communications, public relation efforts). Advisor: Lee Ann Nelson             Telephone: 636-922-8327 Global Student Network        Global Student Network (GSN) provides the opportunity for international students and others to share their experiences and cultures with each other. GSN hopes to educate the college and local community about their cultures and countries and to learn more about American culture from the college and local community. Advisor: Michelle Killeen            Telephone: 636-922-8566 Soccer Club        The Soccer Club provides opportunity for both men and women. During the fall, the men's team plays in the Mid-America Collegiate Soccer League and the women's team plays in the Clayton City League. Students are required to take part in tryouts in order to participate in league or tournament competition. Tryouts or practices begin in August. In the spring, the club scrimmages on Friday afternoons from 1-3 p.m. and hosts a fundraiser soccer competition. The spring season begins in April and ends in May. A student must have a copy of his primary medical insurance policy and a copy of a current physical examination before participation. Advisor: Darren Osburn             Telephone: 636-922-8564 Li Yan, a Chinese girl hoping to learn communication skills, might call   _  . A) Behrooz Vakil B) Lee Ann Nelson C) Michele Killeen D) Darren Osbrun
B


Sadness is unpleasant, and in a society where personal happiness is prized above all else, there is little tolerance for falling in despair. Especially now we've got drugs for getting rid of sad feelings -- whether it's after losing a job, the break-up of a relationship or the death of a loved one. So it's no surprise that more and more people are taking them. But is  _ really such a good idea? A growing number of voices from the world of mental health research are saying it isn't. They fear that the increasing tendency to treat normal sadness as a disease is playing fast and loose  . Sadness, they argue, serves a useful purpose--and if we lose it, we lose out. Yet many psychiatrists   insist not. Sadness has a nasty habit of turning into depression , they warn. Even when people are sad for good reason, they should take drugs to make themselves feel better. So who is right? Is sadness something we cannot live without or something horrible never to touch?  There are lots of ideas about why feeling sad should become part of human life. It may be a self-protection strategy, as other primates   also show signs of sadness. A losing monkey that doesn't show sadness after it loses a fight may be seen as continuing to challenge the winning monkey -- and that could result in death. In humans sadness has a further function: we may display sadness as a form of communication. By acting sad, we tell other community members that we need support. Then there is the idea that creativity is connected to dark moods. There are plenty of great artists, writers and musicians who have suffered from depression or disorder. Scientists found that people with signs of depression performed better at a creative task, and negative moods make people think deeply over the unhappy experience, which allows creative processes to come to the front. There is also evidence that too much happiness can be bad for your career. A doctor found that people who scored 8 out of 10 on a happiness test were more successful in income and education than 9s... The author believes sadness is   _  . A) a good thing for people's health B) something horrible never to touch C) a necessary function of humans' D) always to be treated as depression
C


Q: While engineers have made out fantastic products for sitting still--Munchery instead of walking to lunch, Uber instead of walking to the bus stop--services to make you move have been less appealing for consumers. Fitbit's stock price fell 18% after they announced their latest Apple Watch-like product named Fitbit Force. And new data suggests that, for the first time, death rates for large parts of the American population are rising, with signs pointing to inactivity and weight gain as the reasons. Our digital lifestyles and desk-based workplaces are contributing to serious health problems and could be shortening our lives, wellness firms want us to believe. Northrup, president and co-founder of the connected exercise device TAO-Wellness, was in Las Vegas to promote TAO's small device that encourages exercises. He lifts the device, about the size of an apple, and says workplaces should start encouraging on-site exercise. Nick Mokey, the managing editor of Digital Trends, agrees. "I hate to break it to you, a room full of people sitting down, but sitting is killing you," he says to the audience. They shift in their seats. In the health section of the Sands Exposition Hall, people are selling devices made by LifeSpan Fitness. They say they're the largest seller of treadmill desks in the US. At the center of their exhibition area is a Bike Desk, which looks like three gym bikes attached to a table. That's for people who just want to sit and enjoy conversation. Treadmill desk-related shame is their biggest obstacle, they say when LifeSpan installs two in opposite ends of the same building, neither tends to get used. If the company installs two next to each other, people will use them. "You don't want to be so noticeable, especially at work," company spokesman James Lowe says. What's more, what if we get sweaty using a treadmill in the office? What is the biggest problem with the treadmill desk? A) It takes up too much space. B) It is not comfortable to use C) It may cause awkwardness D) It will make employees tired
A: C


Q: With its 190 million inhabitants, Brazil has the largest population in Latin America and ranks fifth in the world.  However, Brazil's population growth rate has dropped greatly and Brazilian women now have only 2.7 children on average. This achievement really becomes the envy of many other Third World countries. Brazil has become one of the developing world's great successes at reducing population growth-----but more by accident than design. While countries such as India have made joint efforts to reduce birth rates, Brazil has had a better result without really trying, says George Martine at Harvard. Martine  _ , among other things, soap operas(TV series) and installment  plans introduced in the 1970s. Both played an important, although indirect role in lowering the birth rate. Brazil is one of the world's biggest producers of soap operas. Globo, Brazil's most popular television network, shows three hours of soaps six nights a week, while three others show at least one hour a night. Most TV series are based on wealthy characters living the high life in big cities. "Although they have never really tried to work in a message towards the problems of reproduction , they describe middle and upper class values-----not many children, different attitudes towards sex, women working," says Martine. "They sent this image to all parts of Brazil and made people conscious of other patterns of behavior and other values, which were put into a very attractive package." Meanwhile, the installment plans tried to encourage the poor to become consumers. "This led to an enormous change in consumption patterns and showed that consumption was in contradiction with unlimited reproduction," says Martine. The phrase "puts it down to"(Line1, Para. 3) is closest in meaning to "  _  ". A) attributes it to B) finds it a reason for C) sums it up as D) compares it to

A: A