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.