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2010年12月英语四六级考试阅读提高练习(3)2800字 阅读理解在大学英语四级考试中占有很大比重，提高阅读速度和效率是决胜英语四级考试阅读理解题的关键。为了帮助广大考生有效提高阅读速度，毕业特整理了以下资料，供考生复习。 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 accidentan easy recuperation (挽回损失) , a fat check from your insurer? Or do you worry that your neck will hurt forever? 作文 /zuowen/ Optimistic people tend to feel that bad things wont last long and wont affect other parts of life, .Seligman says. Pessimists tend to believe one negative incident will last and undermine everything else in their lives. 简历大全 /html/jianli/Also important, researchers say, is the story you construct about why things happenyour explanatory style. Optimists believe that bad events have temporary causesThe boss is in a bad mood. Pessimists believe the cause is permanentThe 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 theyre doomed, no matter what. A young wife whos told shes incapable of handling household finances might later become a divorce 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/woman who cant balance a checkbook.Such learned helplessness causes much harm on health. Studies show that optimists are better at coping with the distress associated with everything from sore throat to heart surgery. Furthermore, scientists at U. C. L. A. discovered that optimists have more disease-fighting T cells. 毕业论文Pessimists also dont believe in preventive care. Visit a doctor and you might find out youre sick! My father was rushed to the emergency room for medical conditions that would have been easily treatable if hed seen a doctor sooner. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/21. The word undermine(Para. 2) most probably means 简历大全 /html/jianli/A. go below B. weaken 毕业论文C. affect D. destroy 2-2. The boss is a jerk. These words are used here to show_. 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/A. how some bosses act displeasingly 毕业论文B. how optimists explain some bad events 论文代写C. how pessimists think about the unhappy things around them 作文 /zuowen/D. how the writer suggests people should do when facing something unpleasant 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/23. The example given about a young wife shows that_. 毕业论文 A. the dividing line between optimists and pessimists 毕业论文B. young women today suffer a lot in doing houseworkC. most of young wives are pessimists 总结大全 /html/zongjie/ D. the pessimists are used to thinking of everything negatively 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/24. Which of the following statements is TRUE of my father? 简历大全 /html/jianli/A. My father was an optimist.B. My father didnt like to take any preventive measures. 思想汇报 /sixianghuibao/C. My father often visited doctors. 总结大全 /html/zongjie/D. My father was wise enough to mind his own health.25. It can be inferred from the passage that Seliman should be_. 开题报告 /html/lunwenzhidao/kaitibaogao/A. an optimist B. a pessimist 毕业论文C. a psychologist D. the writer of this passage 毕业论文
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