56.
Of
the four books listed above, there are two referring to tragedies. They are
______.
A.
Light on Snow & Breaking Ground
B. In
the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground
C.
Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers
D. New
Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers
E
You
just think you know what will make you happy. Researchers in the new science of
happiness know better. They have evidence that married people on average end up
being no happier than they were before the wedding. Winning the lottery will
probably reduce your pleasure in ordinary events that used to make you happy.
And being in good health isn’t as much of a factor as the right genes when it
comes to satisfaction.
A
couple of years ago, Seligman and Diener studied 222 Illinois college students to find out what
the happiest 10% had in common. It turned out they were extroverts(性格外向), had more
friendships and romantic relationships, but didn’t exercise more and didn’t
feel they had more good events in their lives than those who weren’t as happy.
Some
of the results come as a surprise. A classic study of lottery winners and people
with spinal cord(脊髓)injuries, for instance, found that neither event changed
their lives as much as observers thought they would.
Gilbert
is looking into how accurately people predict what will make them happy. It
turns out, not accurately at all, what we think will bring us pleasure---a new
car, the home teaming winning the NCAA championship, a move to
California---usually doesn’t bring us as much as we expected, and the positive
impact doesn’t last as long. The good news is that we also overestimate the
impact of catastrophic events.
Even
with data from research pouring in, scientists still don’t have an easy answer
to what we all want to know: How do I get long-term life satisfaction? The
answers they do have are often the same ones that philosophers and priests have
been giving us for centuries. It’s just nice to have them backed up with hard
data.