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当代商务英语综合教程 2 (第2版)
Unit 8
What's Your Spiritual IQ?
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What's Your Spiritual IQ?
Language in Use
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Warm-up Questions:
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Warm-up Questions:
1. What would you do to make yourself feel happy when you are depressed?
2. Do you know what spiritual IQ is? Try to explain it.
Pre-class Task 1
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Pre-class Task 1
Read the text once for the main idea(s). Do not refer to the notes, the glossary or dictionaries.
Text A What's Your Spiritual IQ?
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It's the secret weapon that will help you cope with the hassles of life. Here's how to put spiritual intelligence to work for you.
Her ex had done it again. After missing their 10-year-old daughter's dance recital, he showed up the following day with a bouquet of roses. “My first impulse was to tear into him,” admits my friend Jennie. Then some phrases popped into her mind:“He loves her. She needs him. Let it be.” Taking a deep breath, she listened to this inner voice and said, “Natalie's going to love the flowers.” And for at least one brief, shining moment, there was a little more peace on earth.
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What happened? Without consciously realizing why or how, Jennie had reached beyond reason to a deeper level of understanding, a newly recognized way of knowing that psychologists have dubbed “spiritual intelligence”. Our spiritual intelligence quotient, or SQ, helps us understand ourselves, and live fuller, happier lives.
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Text A What's Your Spiritual IQ?
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Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to sense, understand and tap into the highest part of ourselves, of others and of the world around us. This source of inner serenity may be our best defense against the hassles that barrage us every day.
While we're all born with SQ, most of us aren't even aware that we have it. Fortunately, you don't have to sign up for classes to learn how to enhance your SQ. Here are some simple steps that can lead you to this new level of understanding:
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