Acquiring happiness needs fighting with anguish and the result is beyond our control.A.YB.
Acquiring happiness needs fighting with anguish and the result is beyond our control.
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Acquiring happiness needs fighting with anguish and the result is beyond our control.
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第1题
A Simple Truth about Happiness
After I gave a talk on the subject of happiness, a woman in the audience stood up and said, "I wish my husband had come." "Much as I loved him." she explained, "it wasn't easy being married to someone so unhappy." This woman enabled me to put into words what I had been searching for—altruistic, as well as the personal, reasons for taking happiness seriously. I told her that each of us owes it to our spouse, our children, our friends to be as happy as we can.
I was not a particularly happy child, and like most teenagers, I took pleasure in my anguish. One day, however, it occurred to me when I was taking the easy way out. Anyone could be unhappy, it took no courage and efforts. True achievement lay in struggling to be happy. The notion that we have to work at happiness comes as news to many people. We assume it's a feeling that comes as a result of good things that just happen to us, things over which we have little or no control. But the opposite is true: happiness is largely under our control. It is a battle to be fought and not a feeling to be awaited. To achieve a happy life, it's necessary to overcome some stumbling blocks, three of which are:
Comparison with Others Most of us compare ourselves with anyone we think is happier—a relative, an acquaintance or, often someone we barely know. I once met a young man who struck me as particularly successful and happy. He spoke of his love for his beautiful wife and their three daughters, and of his joy at being a radio talk-show host in a city he loved. I remember thinking that he was one of those lucky few for whom everything goes effortlessly right. Then we started talking about the Internet. He blessed its existence, he told me, because he could look up information on multiple sclerosis the terrible disease afflicting his wife. I felt like a fool for assuming nothing unhappy existed in his life.
Images of Perfection Almost all of us have images of how life should be. The problem, of course, is that only rarely do people's jobs, spouses and children live up to these imagined ideals. Here's a personal example: no one in my family had ever divorced. I assumed that marriage was for life. So when my wife and I divorced after five years of marriage and three years after the birth of our son, my world collapsed. I was a failure in my own eyes. I later remarried and confided to my wife that I couldn't shake the feeling that my family life had failed. She asked me what was wrong with our family now (which included her daughter from a previous marriage and my son). I had to admit that, aside from the pain of being with my son only half the time(my ex-wife and I shared custody), our family life was wonderful. "Then why don't you celebrate it?" she asked. That's what I decided to do. But first I had to get rid of a "perfect" family.
"Missing the" Syndrome One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest flaw. It's like looking at the tiled ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is missing. As a bald man told me, "whenever I enter a room, all I see is hair." Once you've determined what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will really make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different tile, or forget about it and focus on the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have had a relatively easy life yet are essentially unhappy. And we know people who have suffered a great deal but generally remain happy. The first secret is gratitude. All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is realizing that happiness is a byproduct of something else. The most obvi
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第2题
此题为判断题(对,错)。
第3题
A.meanings.
B.phrases.
C.longer expressions.
D.unfamiliar sounds.
第4题
r usually “holds back” a portion of the purchase price in a bank escrow account for 1-3 years.对于购买私人企业(或上市公司的一个部门)的买方,买方通常会“保留”一部分购买款项,留在银行托管账户1–3年。()
此题为判断题(对,错)。
第5题
A.one-word, two-word and three-word
B.one-word, two-word and multiword
C.one-word, multiword and sentence
D.one-word, two-word, three-word and multiword
第6题
(The candidate chooses one topic and speaks about it for one minute.)
A. Career development: the importance of acquiring a range of skills throughout your career
B. Customer relations: the importance of customer services in maintaining a company's competitiveness
C. Finance: how to ensure effective financial controls in a company
第7题
Piaget's main academic interest was in
A.how human beings learn through observations.
B.the genetic and cognitive basis for humans' cognitive development.
C.analyzing research data through scientific method.
D.behaviorists' views on acquiring knowledge.
第8题
第9题
Which of the following is TRUE about Ford?
A.Its last year's acquisition of Chrysler led to a panic of talks.
B.It is planning to acquire British luxury automaker Jaguar.
C.It has acquired Nissan by constantly paying debt for Nissan.
D.It has failed in acquiring financially troubled Kia of Korea.
第10题
It Can be inferred from Para. 3 that at present ______.
A.a country can never expect to reconstruct its debts
B.a country can reconstruct its debt with the permission of IMF
C.a country in default cannot reconstruct its debts without the permission of all of its creditors
D.a country in default can reconstruct its debts by acquiring the permission of most of its creditors