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课时作业八 七选五提分练4
Passage 1 (2023·山东济南·模拟预测)
The power of positive thinking
Is your glass of milk halffull or halfempty? __1__ Do they focus on the positives (a halffull glass) or the negatives (a halfempty one)? Thinking positively, with a belief that most things will turn out well, is called optimism—and it's known to boost your wellbeing. The good news is that everybody can learn to think more positively.
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Research shows that people who are optimistic and think positively tend to experience less stress and cope well when faced with life's challenges. People who are more pessimistic (expect that the worst will happen) may find it hard to believe that these challenges will pass.
Worrying is like a fire alarm.
Everybody can worry from time to time. Worrying can help to keep you safe—if you were never worried and were overly positive about how things would turn out, you wouldn't recognize risks. “__3__ It's like a fire alarm,” says child psychotherapist Rachel Melville Thomas. “The trouble is that sometimes it goes off when there isn't a huge danger to face.” When this happens, you can feel anxious and hopeless about what lies ahead.
Learn to think positively.
Optimism is shaped by your genes which carry characteristics inherited from your parents and by what happens to you. __4__ Research has shown that it can help to draw or write an outcome that's positive—for example, an image of you playing guitar, having passed your next grade. __5__
A.Your genes will in turn help obtain it.
B.This question makes you lost in thought.
C.Why is thinking positively good for you?
D.Imagining this can motivate you to work to achieve it.
E.Worrying is our brain warning us of something threatening.
F.However, whatever your starting point is, everyone can learn it.
G.This saying is often used to test people's outlook in a situation.
【语篇解读】 本文是说明文。主要介绍了积极的思考带来的好处,以及怎么样学会积极的思考。
1.【答案】 G 根据前文“Is your glass of milk halffull or halfempty?(你的牛奶是半满的还是半空的?)”以及后文“Do they f