来了,新的任务又来了。
岑越崎摩拳擦掌,经过近几日的高强度学习,他的英语终于佳境,这一次的任务来得正是时候。
迫不及待翻开试卷,岑越崎凝神阅读起来。
The lifesaving power of gratitude
A) Gratitude y be re beneficial than we only suppose.
O study asked partits to write a note of thanks to soone and theite (估计)how surprised and happy the recipient would feel an iact that they sistently uited. Audy assessed the health bes of writing thank-you he researchers found that writing as few as three weekly thank-you notes over the course of three weeks iroved life satisfa, increased happy feelings and reduced syto(症状) of depression.
B)While this researto gratitude is relatively he principles involved are anything but.Students of ne in a political philosophy course at Indiana Uy are reading Daniel Defoe''''s 300-year-old Robinson Crusoe, often regarded as the first novel published in English.
Left alone on an unknown island with no apparent prospect of rescue or escape, Crusoe has ent(哀叹). But instead of giving in to despair, he kes a list of things for which he is grateful, including the fact that he is the sole survivor frothe shipwred has been able to salvage ny useful ite frothe wreckage.
C) Defoe''''s sterpiece(杰作), which is often ranked as one of the world''''s greatest novels, provides a portrait of gratitude in a that is as tily and relevant today as it has ever been.It is also oh whiporary(当代) psychology and die are just beginning to catch up.Sily put, for st of us, it is far re helpful to focus ohings in life for which we express gratitude than those that ine us toward rese(愤恨) and lantation.(哀叹)
D) When we focus ohings we regret, such as failed relationships, faly disputes, abacks in career and finance, we tend to beretful.versely, when we focus ohings we are grateful for, a greater sense of happiends to spread through our lives.And while no one would argue for cultivating a false sense of blessedness,(祝福) there