1、新概念英语第一册课文重点 新概念英语第一册课文重点vickey新概念英语新概念英语第一册视频免费下载：vickey新概念英语视频Searching for Smiles1Ask most people anywhere in the world what they want out of life and the reply will probably be: to be happy. Ed Deiner, an American psychology professor, has spent his whole professional life studying what makes pe
2、ople happy, comparing levels of happiness between cultures and trying to find out exactly why we enjoy ourselves.2Many people would say that this question does not need an answer. But Professor Deiner has one anyway. If youre a cheerful, happy person, your marriage is more likely to last, and youre
3、more likely to make money and be successful at your job. On average, happy people have stronger immune 免疫的 systems, and there is some evidence that they live longer.3So who are the worlds happiest people It depends on how the word is defined. There is individual happiness, the sense of joy we get wh
4、en we do something we like. But there is also the feeling of satisfaction we get when we know that others respect us and approve of how we behave. According to Professor Deiner, the Western world pursues individual happiness while Asia prefers mutual satisfaction.4In the West, the individualistic 个人
5、主义的 culture means that your mood matters much more than it does in the East. People ask themselves, what can I do thats fun or interesting They become unhappy when they cant do any of these things. If you ask people from Japan or China if they are happy, they tend to look at what has gone wrong in t
6、heir lives. If not much has gone wrong, then they are satisfied.5People from Spain and other Spanish-speaking countries had the happiest culture, Professor Deiner found. The biggest cultural difference is to do with pride and shame. Hispanic 西班牙语言的 cultures report much more pride and much less shame
7、 than others.6Income also made a big difference to peoples happiness, but only at the lowest levels. Average income earners in the US were much happier than people in poverty. But millionaires were only a little bit happier than people on average incomes. It seems that money makes us happy when we h
8、ave enough to feel secure.7But can we be too happy You get people who are actually happy, but they think happiness is so important that they try to be even happier. This desire to be always happy is a product of individualism, where the emphasis is on you individually, your emotions and feeling good
9、. People can end up feeling unhappy because ordinary happiness is not good enough for them.1Paragraph 2_ .2Paragraph 3_ .3Paragraph 4_ .4Paragraph 5_ .A Happiest CultureB An Unhappy PersonC Definition of HappinessD Cultural Differences in HappinessE Reasons to Be HappyF Individual and Ordinary Happi
10、ness5Professor Deiner has spent many years studying_ in happiness.6Professor Deiner believes that a happy person is less prone 易患 to_ .7Once we have got enough to feel safe, money does not make _ difference to our happiness.8According to Professor Deiner, some people feel unhappy because they cannot
11、 appreciate_ .Aa questionBordinary happinessCindividualismDcultural differencesEmuchFillnesses23. E 24. C 25. D 26. A 27. D28. F 29. E 30. B培训学校Direction: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic Private School You should write at least 150 words following the ou
12、tline given below in Chinese:1.当前，社会上有很多私立学校和培训学校;2.私立学校的利与弊;3.你的看法。作文范文：It can be noticed that a large number of private schools or training organizations become a new landscape in education. When you read newspapers, when you watch TV, when you walk on the road, you will inevitably see lots of adv
13、ertisements about private schools. There are private schools mainly dealing with foreign languages, computers, music and sports。However, is it a good or bad thing to have so many private schools As a coin has two sides, so are the private schools. On the one hand, private schools can meet the specia
14、l needs of the society or the particular requirements of people. On the other hand, they often bring people extra burden because of comparison and competition。When asked to decide whether we should have a society without private schools or a society with private schools, I will not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. Although attending a training course will result in the extra cost or burden, it is of tremendous merits in preparing my work and cultivating my skills。 vickey新概念英语视频资料免费下载学习