1、2016春高三英语二轮专题复习（35）任务阅读（5）编写：王友庆 徐素芹 班级_姓名_学号_审核_2012江苏卷“Happiness Advantage” EffectIn July 2010 Burts Bees, a personal-care products company, was going through enormouschange as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries. In this kind of high-pressure situation, many leaders bother their ass
2、istants with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent demands. In doing so, managers lift everyones anxiety level, which activates the part of the brain that processes threats and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex ( 大脑皮层), which is responsible for effective problem solving.Bur
3、ts Beess then-CEO, John Wolfgang, took a different approach. Each day, hed send out an e-mail praising a team member for work related to global marketing. Hed interrupt his ownpresentations to remind his managers to talk with their teams about the companys values. He asked me to further a three-hour
4、 session with employees on happiness in the course of the expansion effort. As one member of the senior team told me a year later, Wolfgangs emphasis on developing positive leadership kept his managers actively involved and loyal as they successfully transformed the company into a global one.That ou
5、tcome shouldnt surprise us. Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set (思维模式), performance on nearly every levelproductivity, creativity, involvementimproves. Yet happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance. For one, most people believe that success comes bef
6、ore happiness. “Once I get a promotion, Ill be happy,” they think. Or, “Once I hit my sales target, Ill feel great. ”But because success is a moving targetas soon as you hit your target, you raise it againthe happiness that results from success does not last long.In fact, it works the other way arou
7、nd: People who have a positive mind-set perform better in the face of challenge. I call this the “happiness advantage”every business outcome shows improvement when the brain is positive. Ive observed this effect in my role as a researcher and lecturer in 48 countries on the connection between employ
8、ee happiness and success. And Im notalone: In an analysis of 225 academic studies, researchers found strong evidence of cause-and-effect relationship between life satisfaction and successful business outcomes.Another common misunderstanding is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of
9、the two determines how happy we are. To be sure, both factors have an impact. But ones general sense of well-being is surprisingly unstable. The habits you form, the way you interact with colleagues, how you think about stressall these can be managed to increase your happiness and your chances of su
10、ccess.信息转换的五种方式：1_2_;3_;4_; 5_随堂检测（句型转换，仅限一词）：ks5uks5uKs5u1. People can also make use of cycles or walk to cover small distances.Go to places _ on foot or by bike.2. Sometimes we are so stubborn about doing things on our own that we dont ask others for help.We should be _ about whether we should ask
11、 for help.3. Tom couldnt agree with his boss decision more. Tom _ his boss decision.4. We should resist negative attitudes and strengthen positives ones.We should resist negative attitudes while _ positive ones.5. Keeping silent can actually make your anger longer.Keeping silent may not help and can
12、 _ your anger.原题重现：2015苏北四市一模 (Title: Disgust leads to cheating; Cleanliness Promotes Ethical Behavior)原文：In turn, the researchers found that cleansing behaviors actually keep the self-serving effects of disgust to a minimum. If you can make people think of cleaning products, the likelihood of cheat
13、ing also goes away. People dont know it, but these small emotions are constantly affecting them. 题目：Cleaning behaviors 74 _ the self-serving effect of disgust.2014扬泰南连淮三模 (Title: Workaholism)原文：Workaholics are occupied with work all the time, which prevents them from maintaining healthy relationship
14、s, hobbies, or even take measures to protect their health.题目：They (75)_ to deal with others properly, enjoy any hobby or manage to keep themselves healthy.2015无锡一模 (Title: Team Sports and Individual Sports)原文：Individual sports keep kids away from comparing themselves to the best players on the team,
15、 a habit that does little to help confidence levels. Instead, it encourages them to compare their skills to their own past performances.题目：Children tend to compare their skills to their own past performances and are likely to 78 _ comparing themselves with the best players.2014扬州一模（Title: Satiation
16、from Sensory Stimulation）原文：In the second experiment, participants who focused on the brightness of the photos were able to enjoy the peanuts more than those who were thinking about the deliciousness of foods while they looked at the images.题目：Focusing on the brightness of photos 78 _ people to eat
17、more peanuts.2014南京三模（Title: Writing Can Help Students Stay Connected）原文：Just as colleges are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges being posed by todays students, students themselves are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges posed by college life.题目：Students with charact
18、er imperfection, learning disabilities, eating disorders, poor relationships, or mental illness are not 75_ equipped for college life.2015南通一模( Title: Attitude Is Everything)原文：People can affect our attitude by teaching us poor thinking habits or unintentionally misinforming us or providing us with
19、negative sources of influence, but no one can control our attitude unless we voluntarily give in to that control. 题目：Our attitude might be 78_ by others, but we ourselves are the persons in charge.2014苏北四市（Title: Getting Money for College）原文：According to Braintrack, a higher education database with
20、worldwide reach, more than 3 billion US dollars (18 billion yuan) in private scholarships are awarded to college students annually. Average awards range from $2,000 to $3,000.题目：Average awards 73 _ from$2,000 to $3,000 are offered annually.信息归纳：1：句义归纳原题重现2015无锡一模 (Title: Team Sports and Individual S
21、ports)原文：But one hotly debated discussion focuses on the kinds of sports kids should play, with parents mistakenly thinking, “Lizzie is so quite. We should let her join in basketball and soccer to try to get her to open up.” 题目：Parents usually want their children to take part in the team sports whic
22、h dont 73 _ their childrens characters. 2014江苏高考 (Title: What is peer pressure?)原文：This instinct (天性) is why the approval of peers, or the fear of disapproval, is such a powerful force in many peoples lives. It is the same instinct (天性) that drives people to dress one way at home and another way at
23、work, or to answer “fine” when a stranger asks “how are you?” even if it is not necessarily true. 题目：People around will affect how one lives74 _.2：表格信息归纳ks5uks5uKs5u.Com原题重现：Title: New Normal of Chinese Economy71 On societyA new normal of Chinese economy can:l create more more jobsl extend social we
24、lfarel boost innovation2015 泰州一模 Title: The Ebola Virus71_Ebola, a dangerous virus, was named after the Ebola River, on whose bank it was first discovered.Despite its experimental success, people across the world continue to die from the virus.ks5uks5uks5u71_Ebola is a kind of dangerous virus which
25、causes bleeding from many parts of the body and usually causes death.Writing Can Help Students Stay ConnectedWhen students arrive on campus with their parents, both parties often assume that the college will function in loco parentis(处在父母位置), watching over its young charges, providing assistance whe
26、n needed. Colleges and universities present themselves as supportive learning communitiesas extended families, in a way. And indeed, for many students they become a home away from home. Ideally, the college nurtures(养育) its students, guiding them towards adulthood. Lifelong friendships are formed, t
27、eachers become guides, and the academic experience is enriched by social interaction. For some students, however, the picture is less beautiful. For a significant number, the challenges can become overwhelming(压力过大).In reality, administrators at American colleges and universities are often forced to
28、 focus as much on the new generation of students. Public institutions in particular are often faced with tough choices about which student support services to fund. Private colleges are feeling the pinch(棘手) as well. Although tuition and fees can increase as much as 6.6 percent in a single year, as
29、they did in 2007, the high cost of doing business at public and private institutions means that students are not necessarily receiving more support in return for increased tuition and fees. To compound the problem, students may be reluctant to seek help even when they desperately need it.ks5uks5uks5
30、uKS5UJust as colleges are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges being posed by todays students, students themselves are sometimes ill equipped to respond to the challenges posed by college life. Although they arrive on campus with high expectations, some students struggle wit
31、h shyness or perfectionism, learning disabilities or eating disorders. Still others experience failed relationships; some suffer from acute loneliness, or mental illness.Unfortunately, higher education is sometimes more of an information delivery system than a responsive, collaborative(合作的) process.
32、 We have created cities of youth in which students can pass through unnoticed, their voices rarely heard, and their faces rarely seen. As class size grows in response to budget cuts, it becomes even less likely that troubled students, or even severely disturbed, will be noticed. When they are not, t
33、he results can be tragic.As a teacher of creative writing who has worked with many overwhelmed students, I have found that there are ways to communicate more effectively. Most students have stories they want to share, and students in trouble can be desperate to find someone who will listen to them.
34、Parents, as their childrens primary listeners, have a key role to play. Some young people are unable to find their own way out of the dark, and a meaningful dialogue can become a light for them to see by. That is not to say that writing can be used to identify mental illness; rather, I think some of
35、 the approaches writing teachers use to enter into a reflective dialogue with students can be adopted by parents and students who want to learn more about each other. Having witnessed what can happen when a student communicates with himself, I believe this kind of responsive, one-on-one communicatio
36、n is more important than ever. Students in creative writing classes may have no idea that they have revealed so much about themselves because, for them, writing is like speaking inside the pages of a journal. In fact, all of us who write reveal more than we imagine. This is one of the reasons why writing, even more than speaking, can provide us with important insights into ourselves and others. Many of us dont know our students as well as we should, yet it can be easier than we imagine to begin these necessary dialogues.Writing Can Help Students Stay Connectedks5u来版权所有：高考资源网()
