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[单项选择] To understand why someone becomes an optimist or a pessimist, it helps to understand what distinguishes them. Say you crash your car. Do you expect good things to happen after the accident ― an easy recuperation(挽回损失), a fat check from your insurer Or do you worry that your neck will hurt forever
"Optimistic people tend to feel that bad things won’’t last long and won’’t affect other parts of life," Seligman says. Pessimists tend to believe one negative incident will last and undermine every- thing else in their lives.
Also important, researchers say, is the story you construct about why things happen -- your explanatory style. Optimists believe that bad events have temporary causes ― "The boss is in a bad mood." Pessimists believe the cause is permanent ― "The boss is a jerk."
This sense of control distinguishes one type from the other. Positive thinkers feel powerful. Negative thinkers, Seligman says, feel helpless because they have learned to believe they’’re doomed, no
A. how some bosses act displeasingly
B. how optimists explain some bad events
C. how pessimists think about the unhappy things around them
D. how the writer suggests people should do when facing something unpleasant
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Scientists do not understand why women should outlive men by five years.
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When trying to understand why some people have trouble living within their means, we tend to blame factors such as high interest rates and irresponsible spending. Now researchers have found another possible factor to add to the list: a gene linked to credit-card debt.
Earlier work has shown that genetics plays a role in how we handle money. But a recent study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the London School of Economics looked at genetic data and questionnaires already collected from more than 2,000 young adults aged 18 to 26 as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. In particular, they looked at whether these young adults said they had any credit-card debt and what version of the MAOA gene they had.
Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) (甲型单胺氧化酶) is an enzyme that breaks down the signaling chemicals called neuro-transmitters in
A. credit-card debt is mainly attributed to high interest rates
B. reckless spending is a major cause of a person’ s debt
C. young adults tend to spend more money than they earn
D. whether we overspend or not is probably determined by a particular gene
[填空题]To understand why we should be concerned about how young people read, it helps to know something about the way the ability to read evolved. Unlike the ability to understand and produce spoken language, the ability to read must be painstakingly (36) by each individual. The "reading circuits" we construct in the brain can be (37) or they can be robust, depending on how often and how (38) we use them.
The deep reader enters a state of hypnotic trance (心醉神迷的状态). When readers are enjoying the experience the most, the pace of their reading (39) slows. The combination of fast, fluent decoding of words and slow, unhurried progress on the page gives deep readers time to enrich their reading with reflection and analysis. It gives them time to establish an (40) relationship with the author, the two of them (41) in a long and warm conversation like people falling in love.
This is not reading as many young people know i
