大学英语四六级密训班讲义
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1.深度阅读
传统阅读
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2.句法是关键
(1)Bill Gates, the billionaire Microsoft chairman without asingle earned university degree, is by his success raising new
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doubts about the worth of the business world’s favorite
academic title: the MBA (Master of Business Administration)
(2)Since the 1980s, America has been increasingly clinging tothe ideology of uncontrolled free markets and dismissing the roleof government---following Ronald Regan’s idea that“government is not the solution to our problem; government isthe problem.
3.解题技巧
【思路练习】
Passage One
The $11 billion self-help industry is built on the idea that youshould turn negative thoughts like "I never do anything right" intopositive ones like "I can succeed." But was positive thinkingadvocate Norman Vincent Peale right? Is there power in positivethinking?
Researchers in Canada just published a study in the journalPsychological Science that says trying to get people to think morepositively can actually have the opposite effect: it can simply
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highlight how unhappy they are.
The study's authors, Joanne Wood and John Lee of theUniversity of Waterloo and Elaine Perunovic of the University ofNew Brunswick, begin by citing older research showing that whenpeople get feedback which they believe is overly positive, theyactually feel worse, not better. If you tell your dim friend that he hasthe potential of an Einstein,you're just underlining his faults. Inone 1990s experiment, a team including psychologist Joel Cooper ofPrinceton asked participants to write essays opposing funding for thedisabled. When the essayists were later praised for their sympathy,they felt even worse about what they had written.
In this experiment, Wood, Lee and Perunovic measured 68students' self-esteem. The participants were then asked to writedown their thoughts and feelings for four minutes. Every 15 seconds,one group of students heard a bell. When it rang, they were supposedto tell themselves, "I am lovable."
Those with low self-esteem didn't feel better after the forcedself-affirmation. In fact, their moods turned significantly darker thanthose of members of the control group, who weren't urged to thinkpositive thoughts.
The paper provides support for newer forms of psychotherapythat urge people to accept their negative thoughts and feelings rather
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than fight them. In the fighting, we not only often fail but can makethings worse. Meditation (静思) techniques, in contrast, can teachpeople to put their shortcomings into a larger, more realisticperspective. Call it the power of negative thinking.62. What do we learn from the first paragraph about theself-help industry?
A. It is a highly profitable industry.
B. It is based on the concept of positive thinking.C. It was established by Norman Vincent Peale.D.It has yielded positive results.
63. What is the finding of the Canadian researchers?A.Encouraging positive thinking may do more harm than good.B. There can be no simple therapy for psychological problems.C. Unhappy people cannot think positively.
D.The power of positive thinking is limited.
64. What does the author mean by "… you're just underlininghis faults" (Line 4, Para. 3)?
A. You are not taking his mistakes seriously enough.B. You are pointing out the errors he has committed.C.You are emphasizing the fact that he is not intelligent.D. You are trying to make him feel better about his faults.65. What do we learn from the experiment of Wood, Lee and
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