新高考高中英语学习——读名著，学英语，积累作文素材1：Be an Optimist（含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展）

新高考高中英语学习——读名著，学英语，积累作文素材1：Be an Optimist （含生词、难句、语法等知识点拓展） 说明：这些都是精选的美文和分析（主要选自voa, bbc, cnn经典语篇）。 当然，我不仅仅是提供单纯的语篇，一般列出所有的生词、难句并配上相关拓展。 读者：高中或以上（基本上都是经典名篇，我努力选取易懂的）（孙三五编辑） 第1篇： Be an Optimist做一个乐观者 If you change your mind—from pessimism to optimism—you can change your life. Do you see the glass as half-full rather than half empty?Do you keep your eye upon the doughnut, or upon the hole?Suddenly these clichés are scientific questions, as researchers scrutinize the power of positive thinking. Research is proving that optimism can help you to be happier, healthier and more successful. Pessimism leads, by contrast, to hopelessness, sickness and failure, and is linked to depression, loneliness and painful shyness. If we could teach people to think more positively, it would be like inoculating them against these mental ills. 如果你能将悲观情绪转化为乐观情绪,那么你将改变自己的命运。你看到的是杯子中的半杯水,还是空着的另一半？你的眼睛盯着的是炸面包圈,还是它当中的圆洞？当研究者们详细检测积极思维的作用时,突然之间这些陈词滥调都成为了科学问题。研究证实,乐观能够让你更加快乐、更加健康、更加成功。相反,悲观则会导致无望、疾病以及挫败；其与消沉、孤独和使人痛苦的