05-冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题（上海专用）

冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题（上海专用）05 （一） When it comes to a meaningful life, we might think of love, happiness and health. A life filled with meaning is what most of us want for o____1____. Then, what makes a meaningful life? Many researchers agree that a meaningful life comes down to three factors（因素）: having long-term goals, believing that one’s life is i____2____, and feeling that one’s life fits together and “makes sense”. But we believe there is more to consider. Sometimes life enables us to experience small moments of beauty. When people are willing to appreciate such experiences, these moments may i____3____ how they see their own life. We call this experiential appreciation（EA）. EA is about the person feeling connected to events and being able to appreciate the value within the connection. It shows the discovery of and admiration for life’s beauty. We recently set out to better understand EA in studies. We were interested in w____4____ EA was also connected with general judgment of meaning in life. If so, it could be a factor for meaningfulness. In the first study, we had people rate（评估） their support for different methods of reducing stress. We found that people who m____5____ stress by focusing on their appreciation for life’s beauty also reported experiencing life as highly meaningful. In the next study, we asked people to rate the degree to which they agreed with various statements, such as “I appreciate the beauty of life” and “I appreciate little things in life,” as well as other statements that related to the three factors and a general sense of meaning in life. Our results showed that the more people reported that they were “appreciating life” and its many experiences, the more they felt their life was valuable. In the f____6____ studies, we further looked at the connection between EA and meaningfulness. For example, we found that people who were asked to look back on the most meaningful event of the past week generally reported high EA in those moments. A