根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。There are so many expressions in American English that sound pleasant but are not.【小题1】When someone says they have to “face the music” , it does not mean they are going to a concert. “Facing the music” means to accept and deal with the punishment of an action.【小题2】For example, “ I can’t face another night of camping! It’s a cold and rainy”. Or “In life, you must face your fears”. Face used in this way is very common. But now, let’s go back to facing the music. Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful red sports car. She gives you the keys and says, “Thanks so much for watching my car while I’m away. But please, do not drive it. It is an extremely fast car.【小题3】You drive it around town one night. And you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. Bang!When your returns you must tell her what you have done and “face the music”【小题4】 It could be losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her sports to her sports car or both. 【小题5】To “take your medicine” means to accept the results from something bad you have done. And if someone says, “You made your bed. Now lie in it” they mean you created a bad station and now you will experience the results.

Researchers tested how long it took participants to switch from one cognitive(认知的) task to another, something that’s known to take longer for older adults, said lead researcher, Brian Gold, a neuroscientist at the University of Kentucky.

Gold’s team compared task-switching speeds for younger and older adults, knowing they would find slower speeds in the older population because of previous studies. However, they found that older adults who spoke two languages were able to switch mental activities faster than those didn’t . The study only looked at life-long bilinguals, defined in study as people who had spoken a second language daily since they were at least 10 years old.

Gold and his team asked 30 people, either bilingual or monolingual(只懂一种语言的人) , to have a series of tests. They found that bilingual people were not only able to switch tasks faster， they had different brain activity than their monolingual peers.

Kristina called bilingualism "a beautiful natural experiment”, because people grow up speaking two languages,and studies have shown that they get certain cognitive benefits from switching between languages and determining which to respond with based on what's going on around them.

Gold said he grew up in Montreal, where he spoke French at school and English at home, prompting relatives to question whether his French language immersion would somehow hinder his ability to learn English.

“Until very recently, learning a second language in childhood was thought of as dangerous,” he said. “Actually, it’s beneficial.”

How often have you heard decision-makers say, “Just give me the facts.” The assumption? The “facts” alone—delivered without emotion—convey the whole story. But experiments by psychologists have long suggested otherwise.

The data show that emotion plays an essential role in all communication. That’s because people first seek out and prioritize the emotional meaning hidden in the language. They process the emotional content in about 200 milliseconds. The rest of the meaning gets processed in 400-plus milliseconds. When we comprehend, we combine the “hot” component of processing (emotion and feeling) with the “cold” (facts and logic). That’s how we come up with the full meaning. What’s more, hot processing often dominates. And it gains the upper hand well after the cold processing. It doesn’t matter if people are reading or listening. Nor does it matter where they live on the planet or how they grew up.

This means that, when choosing your words, you best consider their emotional associations. Choose the language in which the emotional component agrees with or amplifies your intended meaning. Pioneering psychologist Amos Tversky and a team did a classic experiment that shows the impact of getting the feeling wrong: They gave Harvard Medical School physicians statistics on outcomes for lung cancer treatments. The data came from two sets of patients, some who had surgery, and some who had radiation. The doctors were to decide which treatment was preferred.

Roughly half the doctors got data as “probability of living” after treatment. The rest got the same data as the “probability of dying.” The result? The doctors’ answers depended not on the data alone. Their judgment is also based on whether the wording indicated a happy or sad emotion. The most interesting finding: “The attractiveness of surgery, compared with radiation, was much greater when the problem was described in terms of the probability of living rather than in terms of the probability of dying.”