UNIT 2 Period Ⅰ TOPIC TALK & LESSON 1（word教参）-【优化探究】2021-2022学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第一册配套教参（北师大版）

导语：希望是成功的关键，有希望才会有更大的成就。心理学家斯奈德博士对此做了研究。 “Hope has proved a powerful predictor of outcome in every study we've done so far.” said Dr.Snyder, a psychologist. In research with 3,920 college students, Dr.Snyder found that the level of hope among freshmen at the beginning of their first term was a more accurate predictor of their college grades than were their SAT scores or their grade point averages in high school.“Students with high hope set themselves higher goals and know how to work to attain them，” Dr.Snyder said.“When you compare students with equal learning ability and past school achievements, what sets them apart is hope.” In seeking a way to assess hope scientifically, Dr.Snyder went beyond the usual belief that hope is merely the sense that everything will turn out all right.“This idea is not concrete enough; it fails to clarify two key components of hope.” Dr.Snyder said. “Having hope means believing you have both the will and the way to accomplish your goals, whatever they may be.” Despite the wisdom in the old saying “where there's a will, there's a way”， Dr.Snyder has found that the two are not necessarily connected.In a study of people from 18 to 70 years old, Dr.Snyder discovered: only about 40% of people are hopeful in the technical sense of believing they typically have the energy and means to accomplish their goals; about 20% of the people believed in their ability to find the means to attain their goals, but said they had little will to do so; another 20% have the opposite pattern, saying they had the energy to motivate themselves but little confidence that they would find the means; the rest had little hope at all, reporting that they typically had neither the will nor the way. “It's not enough just to have the wish for something，” said Dr.Snyder.“You need the means, too.On the other hand, all the skills to solve a problem won't help without the willpower to do it.” 【词海拾贝】 1．powerful adj.强大的；强有力的 2．at the beginning of 在……的开始 3．average n．平均；平均数