Crying is Good
1. A recent Netherlands study showed participants really sad movies and then noted who cried and who didn’t. Those who didn’t cry felt no different emotionally after the movie, while the criers felt worse. However, within 20 minutes, the criers returned to pre-movie levels, and after 90 minutes, the criers felt much better than those who didn’t cry.
2. William Frey, a U.S. Ph.D. also made his study participants cry by showing sad movies. His theory was that crying removes chemicals that build up during stress. “We don’t know what those chemicals are, but we do know that tears contain one chemical called ACTH. It is known to be increased in stress,” reports Dr. Frey.
3. Non-emotional crying has health benefits, too. You know how you tear up when you’re cutting onions? A chemical from the onion is released, hits the surface of the eye, and creates sulfuric acid (硫酸). In order to get rid of it, your eyes produce a lot of tears to wash the chemical out of the eye.
4. Tears travel internally to the nose, where they meet a thick liquid produced inside the nose. When enough tears mix with the liquid, it loosens and flows out. This keeps the nose wet and bacteria free.
5. Women cry an average of 5.3 times a month, while men 1.3 times. Part of that difference is because testosterone (睾丸素) (higher in men) may prevent crying, while the hormone prolactin (催乳素) (higher in women) may encourage it. No matter how different it is between men and women, it’s healthy for both sexes to cry.

Task 1

16. Paragraph ①:
17. Paragraph ②:
18. Paragraph ③:
19. Paragraph ④:
20. Paragraph ⑤:

A. Tears clean the eye.
B. Tears help relieve stress.
C. Tears keep the nose healthy.
D. Crying makes people feel better.
E. Men differ from women in crying.
F. Researchers advise people to cry often.

Task 2
21. Those who didn’t cry during a sad movie were found to ______.
22. Crying can help people in stress ______.
23. Crying caused by onion cutting is ______.
24. When you cry, your nose may be ______.
25. The hormone prolactin makes women ______.

A. much worse
B. non-emotional
C. cry more often
D. protected from bacteria
E. reduce certain chemicals
F. remain emotionally the same