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【题目】下面文章中有5个段落需要添加首句(第15题)。请从以下选项(A、B、C、D、E和F)中选出适合各段落的首句,并在答题纸上将相应选项的标号涂黑。选项中有一项是多余选项。

A. Be totally engaged.

B. Structure your free time.

C. Learn to enjoy your work.

D. Concentrate on one activity.

E. Avoid working with unhappy colleagues.

F. Look for a job where you have some control.

Five Simplification Steps to Experiencing Happiness

Happiness is never a permanent condition; it is made up of individual conditions that give rise to happiness. The Hungarian-American psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi calls this condition “flow”: becoming so absorbed in an activity that nothing else seems to matter. You cannot manufacture happiness but you can prepare the soil for happiness to grow. Researchers have found the following five qualifications in their studies of happy people.

【1】______ Your working environment has a major influence on your experience of happiness. If you are surrounded by staff who grumble and have a negative attitude, it will be much more difficult for you to experience flow than it would be on a harmonious team. Identify clearly which people in your working environment suffer from chronic unhappiness and might infect you with it on an unconscious level. Keep a greater distance from those people or ask for a transfer.

2____ People who have to devote their attention to several activities at once are unable to get into the flow. You will be able to experience those moments of happiness only when you engage in an activity with your whole being.

3_____ People who experience flow have managed to turn the restrictions of their working environment into opporunities. They see themselves as the criterion (标准) for their quality. Recognition from others or money they earn recede into the background. Among the people who Csikszentmihalyi discovered to be experiencing the greatest degree of happiness, there was a very simple worker in a steel mill who was popular with everyone on account of his specialized knowledge and willingness to help.

4______ People who feel like victims and don’t live but “are lived” lose their ability to enjoy themselves even if their work is exemplary. So change your job, even if the new one doesn’t pay as well or is less prestigious (有声望的) . People who find happiness in their work will work so well that sooner or later they will profit, even on the level of money and prestige.

5______ Astonishingly, work is easier to enjoy than free time. Working life includes goals, rules, and challenges. On the other hand, free time is unstructured and it takes effort to organize it in such a way as to make it enjoyable. So don’t be reluctant to plan your free time and structure it deliberately. People who don’t waste their free time have a more positive awareness of life; they live longer and they are less often sick. However, people who spend their time at work looking forward eagerly to going home and to the weekend seldom experience flow. Only 18% of all those questioned by Csikszentmihalyi experienced flow in the context of free time, and in almost all cases where they did, it was in the context of an organized hobby.

【答案】

【1】E

【2】D

【3】C

【4】F

【5】B

【解析】

试题分析:文章主要讲述开心不是永恒的,介绍了5个小方法:不要和悲观的同事一起工作、一次专注一件事情、享受自己的工作、找一位你能控制的工作以及合理安排时间。

【1】E 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。这一段讲述了工作环境对开心的影响,后句的If you are surrounded by staff who grumble and have a negative attitude就说明了不要和悲观的同事一起工作。与E选项内容Avoid working with unhappy colleagues.相对应,故选E

【2】D 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据后一句People who have to devote their attention to several activities at once are unable to get into the flow.可知有些人一次专注太多活动反而得不到什么。人要一次专注一项活动,与D选项内容Concentrate on one activity.相对应,故选D

【3】C 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力这一段的主旨就是享受你的工作,无论你的工作是什么,与C选项内容 Learn to enjoy your work.相对应,故选C

【4】F 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据后面People who feel like victims and don’t live but “are lived” lose their ability to enjoy themselves even if their work is exemplary. 可知人们感觉自己像幸存者一样被动的或者,所以人们要对自己的工作有一定的掌控力,而不是倍牵着鼻子走,与F选项内容Look for a job where you have some control.相对应,故选F

【5】B 考查对上下文的理解和推理判断能力。根据Astonishingly, work is easier to enjoy than free time.找到了关键字眼free time,与B选项内容Structure your free time.相对应,故选B

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