Celebrities  are more in love with themselves than the average person,according to a new study. In case anyone needed proof, a new study supports the widely held perception:Famous people are more narcissistic ,which means they are more in love with themselves than the average person is.That is the conclusion drawn by Drew Pinsky and S.Mark Young of the University of Southern California,whose study of 200 celebrities will appear in the Journal Of Research in Personality. It is not the entertainment industry that turns stars into narcissists,the study found.Rather, it suggests,the self-adoring people seek jobs in show business.The study, whose subjects were a11 celebrities from Pinsky's'Loveline'radio show, found that reality TV stars were the most narcissistic of all celebrities.Female stars were also more likely than the male stars to exhibit narcissistic characteristics. It's "common sense" that celebrities are narcissists,said Jeremy Ritzlin,a longtime Hollywood psychologist who has not seen the study."Everyone knows famous people are really in love with themselves,"he said."So it would be natural for narcissists to be attracted toward the stage and spotlight,where other people will also think highly of them." Pinsky, an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at USC'S Keck School of Medicine,said narcissists desire attention,are overconfident,behave strangely and lack sympathy."However, they are easily-liked,especially on first meeting,are outgoing and perform well in public," added Pinsky, who has hosted the radio show"Loveline"for 20 years. Celebrity guests appearing on the program were randomly chosen to participate in the study.They anonymously took the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test.which rates self-love levels based on seven components:superiority, exhibitionism,entitlement,vanity,authority, exploitativeness,and self-sufficiency. How were the celebrities surveyed in the study? A) They were interviewed by Drew Pinsky and S.Mark Young. B) They were invited to the University of Southern California. C) They appeared on Pinsky's'Loveline'radio show. D) They took the Narcissistic Personality Inventory test.
D

According to the Daily Telegraph on February 10, a British woman who was "pushed to the edge" by a  _ fire alarm that sounded non-stop for several days discovered that the sound was in fact made by a parrot in her garden. Shanna Sexton, 25, from Devon, UK, even called in workmen to try and solve the problem. But she was amazed to see an African Grey Congo parrot stopped on a water bucket     The noisy parrot, called Sammi, had escaped from neighbor Louise Ledger's house a week earlier and spent seven days in the garden imitating a smoke alarm. Ledger, 38, was worried and spent hours searching for her beloved pet and she even pasted the neighborhood with missing posters hoping for Sammi's return. " _ . I am going to give Shanna a huge bunch of flowers. When I found out where he was I could not have got there any faster. He is always making funny noises from anywhere and everywhere. I think he must have heard me burning the toast once so he made the smoke alarm noise," said Ledger. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A) Shanna Sexton was amazed to see a parrot in her garden. B) Ledger loved her parrot very much and worried for his missing. C) The parrot has been missing for a week. D) The parrot imitated the fire alarm at Shanna's house.
D

If you are afraid of the dark,it's not a big deal.It's perfectly normal to feel afraid After all,animals do too. "Fear matters,"says Karen Warkentin,an ecologist."It's a good thing," she adds, "because fear makes you do things that keep you alive." Like kids,many animals experience fear and they respond to the feeling in variety of ways.A frightened turtle pulls its head and legs inside its shell.A  small fish will swim away when a big,hungry fish approaches. Some animals respond to fear in ways you might not expect.The first example is that the fear of being eaten can scare some frogs right out of their eggs. Warkentin made the surprising discovery while studying red--eyed tree frogs in Costa Rica. In this species,female frogs attach jellylike clumps of their eggs to the undersides of leaves.The leaves hang on branches that dangle over ponds.After they hatch from the eggs,the tadpoles then fall into the water,where they eventually grow into adult frogs. Tree frog eggs usually grow for 6 days before hatching.If they sense that a hungry snake is about to attack,however,they can hatch up to 2 days ahead of schedule. As the snakes are unable to swim,by falling into the water early,the tadpoles can escape. If hatching early helps protect red--eyed tree frogs from snakes,you might wonder why their eggs don't always hatch sooner.It turns out that hatching early brings its own danger.Once tadpoles land in the water,hungry fish and other animals like to eat them too.Staying in their eggs for a full 6 days,then,allows frog embryos to grow big and strong.This extra growth improves their chances of surviving in the water. We are told in the passage that tree frogs  _  . A) face danger both inside their eggs and in the water B) will grow fast if they fall into the water later C) are surprisingly clever when inside their eggs D) stay in their eggs longer if they are frightened

A