中石油、中石化职称英语考试参考用书
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第一部分 通用英语
Part One
English for General Purposes
UNIT 1 How to be Happy如何获得幸福
Text
Read the text. Answer the given questions and translate the
underlined sentences or paragraphs into Chinese.
In the past two weeks we have looked at the happiness
formula defined by positive psychologist Martin Seligman, where H
(happiness) = S (your biological set point for feeling happy) + C (the
conditions of your life) + V (the voluntary choices you make). This
week we look at the conditions in life that can improve our
happiness quotient.
Step 1: Peace and quiet
Jonathon Haidt in his excellent book, The Happiness
Hypothesis, notes that research shows that we can never completely
adapt to new or chronic noise pollution. Loud noises trigger one of
our most primitive fear responses (the other is the fear of falling) and
we can never fully relax if we are surrounded by intrusive noise. It is
essential to have some peace and quiet every day. If you are
unfortunate enough to live somewhere noisy, persist with
complaining to your local council. Additionally, try wearing wax
earplugs to have some respite. If you need your TV, radio or music
up loud, wearing headphones demonstrates altruism to your
neighbours, which will make you and them feel good.
Step 2: Relationships
This is the most important of all the external conditions that
can improve your happiness quotient. Often our deepest sources of
unhappiness are found in poor relationships with others. A cruelly
conflictual relationship with a partner or lover leaves us feeling
betrayed and abandoned. A relationship with our parents or children
which is not based on compassionate, unconditional regard creates
isolation and misery. When faced with such relationships, the most
positive thing we can do is to either mend the relationship by
confronting what is going wrong or learn to move on.
Step 3: Share
If you have discovered conditions or choices in life that have
significantly improved your wellbeing, remember to share them with
friends. Passing on what works is essential to improve the wellbeing
of our own and others.
1. What's the happiness formula according to the passage?
2. Why can we never completely adapt to new or chronic
noise pollution?
3. How could we make both ourselves and the neighbors feel
good?
4. Where does the unhappiness come from?
5. What is the positive way to face with the cruelly
conflictual relationship?
Exercises
A. Translate the following sentences into English.
1.吵闹的邻居的确对我们家庭不和(domestic upset)有很大影响。
2.在职场上,如果一个同事对我们表示威吓的话,会造成难以言表的抑郁情绪(unwretchedness)。
3.我们不可能适应这种敌对关系,这种不良的人际关系会损害身心健康。
4.如果这种坏情绪长时间留在人们的心里,会让人陷入无法解决的恶性心理困境。
5.我们不应当回避这些问题,而是要正确面对它们。
B. Read the text and translate it into Chinese.
There are many benefits to being happy. Happier people tend to
be healthier, live longer and eam more. They also tend to volunteer
more, be better at relationships and smile more of what
psychologists call “Duchenne" or genuine smiles. What is less well
understood is why happiness is contagious.
According to James Fowler and Nicholas Christakis, authors of
the international bestseller Connected, people surrounded by many
happy friends, family members and neighbours who are central to
their social network become significantly happier in the future. More
specificallyi they say we will become 25 per cent happier with our
life if a friend who lives within a mile of us becomes significantly
happier with his or her life.
Similar effects are seen in co-resident spouses (8 per cent
happier); siblings who live within a mile of each other (14 per cent);
and next-door neighbours (34 per cent). What this implies is that the
magnitude of happiness spread seems to depend more on frequent
social contact (due to physical proximity) than on deep social
connections. Alas, for some reason this doesn't translate to the
workplace.
So, why is happiness contagious? One reason may be that
happy people share their good fortune with their friends and family
(for example, by being pragmatically helpful or financially
generous). Another reason could be that happy people tend to change
their behaviour for the better by being nicer or less hostile to those
close to them. Or it could just be that positive emotions are highly
contagious.