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¡¾ÌâÄ¿¡¿From a young age, I would climb up and down for fun. My first introduction to gymnastics was through my older sister Arielle, who used to be a gymnast. She taught me how to do my first cartwheel(²àÊÖ·). By the end of the week, I was teaching myself one-armed cartwheels and my sister said to my mom, ¡°You need to put this kid in gymnastics.¡±
At about age 9, I realized that I wanted to pursue the Olympic path. I was used to the public eye, but the Olympic stage was different. The Games teach you to act in a certain way and to be disciplined(ÊؼÍÂɵÄ). They teach you to be a mature young lady, and you grow up fast.
When I started this journey, I never knew what it actually took to get to the Olympics. I thought it was: Training. I had to give up a normal kind of life for gymnastics, but I didn¡¯t mind. I moved from Virginia Beach to Iowa to get a different coach. I sacrificed my privacy. Gymnastics was what I was going to eat, breathe and sleep. It takes a lot to be an Olympic athlete. You may have a talent, but the people who work harder than you will surpass(³¬¹ý) you.
Throughout my career, a lot of people have doubted me. When someone tells you that you can¡¯t do it, especially when there are many people, you start to believe it. It took me years to figure out how great I was at gymnastics. Fear held me back when I hurt my leg in 2011, but I told myself that I had a talent and that I was going to use it. I went to the world championships and got a team gold.
I won three gold medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games and helped Team USA win gold at the 2011 and 2015 world championships. My mom used to say, ¡°Inspire a generation.¡± It¡¯s one thing when you say it, but I never thought that I would be a pioneer and that people would draw inspiration from my story.
¡¾1¡¿Why did the author¡¯s sister suggest putting her in gymnastics?
A. She was talented in gymnastics.
B. She needed to decide her future career.
C. She was too noisy to stay at home.
D. She had fallen in love with gymnastics.
¡¾2¡¿We can learn from Paragraph 3 that the author ________.
A. left school at an early age
B. devoted great efforts to training
C. thought talent was necessary
D. dreamed of being famous one day
¡¾3¡¿What did the author learn from others¡¯ doubt?
A. Failures were unavoidable.
B. She had to improve her skills.
C. She should be confident in herself.
D. What others thought was not important.
¡¾4¡¿What does the author mainly talk about in this passage?
A. Her childhood experience.
B. Her road to success.
C. Her passion for the Olympics.
D. Her performance in gymnastics.
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A psychotherapist once taught me a little trick that helped me feel less angry at my partner and less sad about the failings of our relationship.
She said, "Look at him and imagine him as a very little boy; that way, you separate yourself somewhat from the adult, and you are likely to understand and forgive him."
It actually helped. I couldn't be as mad at or disappointed by a child as I could be with a grown man. So, at least on some occasions, we were both spared the heartache of an uncomfortable silence or a not-so-silent argument. And I sometimes still use versions of that trick whenever I feel frustrated or angry in other relationships or personal exchanges.
But what if you could mentally change the form of the emotion itself? According to scientists at the University of Texas, maybe you can.
Focusing specifically on sadness, the researchers asked two groups of study participants to write about a time in their lives when they felt very sad. They then asked one group to imagine sadness as a person, and write down a description of the person they imagined would be sadness. Not surprisingly, the participants described sadness in such ways as an older person with gray hair and sunken eyes or a young girl holding her head down as she slowly walked along.
The researchers asked the other group of participants to write down a description of sadness with respect to its impact on their moods. When asked to rate their levels of sadness after completing their descriptions, the participants who wrote about the emotion itself and how it affects them reported higher levels of sadness than the group that anthropomorphized (È˸ñ»¯)sadness into a specific type of person with familiar human characteristics. The researchers suggest that by giving life to the emotion, participants can view sadness as something (or someone) separate and somewhat distant from themselves, helping them relieve their negative feelings.
While it's okay to feel sad, many people behave in unconscious and sometimes self-destructive ways to distract or "save" themselves when they are consumed by negative emotions. So in the study authors wanted to know whether or not the group that reported feeling less sad would make smarter shopping decisions.
They tested this by asking participants in both groups to first choose between a salad or a cheesecake dessert to go with the main dish they were having for lunch. The researchers also asked participants to choose between a computer loaded with features for productivity or a computer loaded with features for entertainment. Those study participants who had anthropomorphized their emotions were more likely to choose the salad and the productive computer than those who had simply written about their feelings.
For obvious reasons, then, they say this technique is best for reduce negative emotions.
A Little Trick to Help You Feel ¡¾1¡¿Sad | |
Passage outlines | Supporting details |
The writer's experience | When he was angry with his partner, the writer was able to improve his mood by ¡¾2¡¿ his partner as a little boy, which is sometimes ¡¾3¡¿to both sides. |
This trick can mentally change the form of people's emotion | It is no¡¾4¡¿that the study participants tend to picture sadness as an older person or an unhappy girl. The participants who describe their emotion as a person have a ¡¾5¡¿level of sadness than those who merely describe their emotion itself. |
This trick can ¡¾6¡¿people's consumption decisions | When lost in negative emotions, people may lose ¡¾7¡¿of themselves and behave in self-destructive ways. Participants who give ¡¾8¡¿to the emotion prefer salad while those who don't choose food ¡¾9¡¿in sugar and caloric. |
¡¾10¡¿ | This little trick can help people reduce negative feelings. |