On the morning of the first of September, Scarlett awoke with suffocating sense of dread upon her, a dread she had taken to her pillow the night before. She thought, dulled with sleep: ‘What was it that I was worrying about when I went to bed last night? Oh, yes the fighting. There was a battle, 【小题1】,yesterday! Oh, who won?’ She sat up【小题2】, rubbing her eyes, and her worried heart took up yesterday’s load again.

The air was【小题3】 even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun. The road outside lay silent. No wagons【小题4】 by. No troops raised the red dust with their tramping feet, no pleasant sounds of breakfasts being prepared, for all the near neighbors except Mrs. Meade and Mrs. Merriwether had sought【小题5】in Macon. And she could hear nothing from their houses either. Farther down the street the business section was quiet and many of the stores and offices were locked and boarded up, while their occupants were somewhere about the countryside with rifles in their hands.

The 【小题6】that greeted her seemed even more sinister this morning than on any of the mornings of the queer quiet week preceding it. She rose quickly, without her usual preliminary burrows and stretches, and went to the window, hoping to see some neighbor’s face, some heartening sight. But the road was empty. She noted how the leaves on the trees were still dark green but dry and heavily coated with red dust, and how 【小题7】and sad the untended flowers in the front yard looked.

As she stood, looking out of the window, there came to her ears a far-off sound, faint and sullen as the first distant thunder of a(n)【小题8】storm.

‘Rain,’ she thought in the first moment, and her country-bred mind added, ‘We certainly need it.’ But, in a split instant: ‘Rain? No! Not rain! Cannon!’

Her heart racing she leaned from the window, her ear cocked to the far-off roaring, trying to discover from which direction it came. But the dim 【小题9】was so distant that, for a moment, she could not tell. ‘Make it from Marietta,’ she prayed. ‘Or Decatur. But not from the south! Not from the south!’ She【小题10】the windowstill tighter and strained her ears and the far-away booming seemed louder. And it was coming from the south.

Stress reduces all of the things that help productivity - mental clarity, short-term memory, decision-making and moods. One-third of employees experience lasting stress 【小题1】 to work, a survey from the American Psychological Association found. Fifty-four percent of the 1,501 employed adults surveyed say that feel they are paid too little for their contributions, and 60% said their jobs don’t offer adequate opportunities to 【小题2】. Only half of the adults said they feel valued at work.

Besides, women’s stress is rising as families rely on women’s earnings. An employed wife’s 【小题3】 to family earnings has reached. On average, 47% since 2019, so women feel especially stuck and tense. Thirty-two percent of women said their employers don’t provide 【小题4】 opportunities for internal advancement, compared with 30% of men.

They body responds 【小题5】 to stress by secreting hormones into the bloodstream that stimulate accelerated heart rate and breathing and tensing of muscles. People who experience stress as a positive often have increase blood flow to the brain, muscles and limbs, similar to the effects of aerobic exercise. Those who feel frightened or 【小题6】, however, often have an unstable heart rate and constricting blood vessels. Their blood pressure rise and hands and feet may grow cold. They may become upset or experience errors in judgment.

Women tend to “【小题7】“, which contributes to their stress. Many women hesitate to speak up for themselves or 【小题8】 behavior they see as unfair. Kay Keaney, interior designer, 40, rose fast at a California medical group, taking on responsibility for interior and facility planning. With her 60-hour workweeks, plus early-morning and late-night meetings and a 1.5-hour commute each way, she seldom had time with her two small children. Whether stuck in traffic on her way to a 6 p.m. pickup at day care, or 【小题9】 between her children and urgent work emails, “I just wanted to 【小题10】 out of my skin,” she says. “I was overwhelmed.” Yet she hesitated to complain. “There was too much work to be done, and playing the Mommy card was bad form.”

The term “culture shock” describes the emotional upheaval many people experience when they move to a country 【小题1】 a different culture from what they are used to. Here is how culture shock can 【小题2】. When you first arrive in a 【小题3】 country, you will probably be excited about living in a new place, meeting new people and starting your new course or job. Everything will seem 【小题4】 and fascinating. After this initial enthusiasm wears off. all the new experiences may begin to overwhelm you. Things that you found exciting first may now seem strange and a little frightening. Even minor differences such as being unable to buy your usual kind of soap, can 【小题5】 to the sense of strangeness. You may experience sudden mood changes and strong reactions, feeling lost, disoriented 【小题6】 even irritated and resentful. Above all, you may wish you were back among the 【小题7】 people and places at home. All international students or workers 【小题8】 experience culture shock in some form—even those coming from countries with very similar lifestyles. So 【小题9】 is important to understand that this reaction of “culture shock” is entirely normal and that it will pass. Don't worry too much and try to look at everything different in a 【小题10】 way. Take it easy and then you will enjoy the new environment soon.