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2023英语专业四级阅读理解练习(1)
专四备考中,掌握一些英语专四备考攻略,可以帮助大家更高效的备考英语专四,那么具体的这些攻略都有哪些?下面小编为大家整理了“2023英语专业四级阅读理解练习(1)”,希望同学们可以更好的进行积累训练,在接下来的专四考试中,能够顺利完成考试。
On day one of my self-proclaimed Month of Gratitude, my five-year-old son
woke up "bored" at 5:15 a.m., I spied a speeding ticket in my wife's purse, and
our water heater spluttered to its death as I was getting into the shower.
Ordinarily, I would have started complaining and the day would've been off to an
ugly start. But this day was different. How cute my child's dimples (酒窝) are.
How fetching my wife's taste for adventure. Only 29 days to go.
Just a week earlier, as I struggled with the feeling that I'd been put on
this earth to load and unload the dishwasher, I'd decided it was time to end my
reflexive complaining. But it wasn't simply the little things that were annoying
me. All of a sudden, my friends were dealing with bad news--cancer diagnoses,
divorce, job loss. Shouldn't I be celebrating my relative good fortune?
I'd heard about the feel-good benefits of a gratitude attitude. Hoping for
tips,I called professor Emmons, who pioneered research on the benefits of
positive thinking. Emmons quoted new studies that indicated that even pretending
to be thankful raises levels of the chemicals associated with pleasure and
contentment. He recommended keeping a log of everything I'm grateful for in a
given week or month.
I followed his suggestions, but my first attempts at keeping a gratitude
list were pretty weak: coffee, naps, caffeine in general. As my list grew, I
found more uplift: freshly picked blueberries; the Beatles' White Album; that
I'm not bald.
By day three, I was on a tear, thanking every grocery bagger and parent on
the playground like I'd just won an Oscar and hanging Post-it notes to remind
myself of the next day's thank-you targets: the mailman, my son's math teacher.
But soon, the full-on approach started to bum me out. Researchers call it the
Pledge of Allegiance effect. "If you overdo gratitude, it loses its meaning or,
worse, becomes a chore," professor Emmons told me when I mentioned my slump. Be
selective, he advised, and focus on thanking the unsung heroes in your life.
Then professor Emmons suggested a "gratitude visit." Think of a person who
has made a major difference in your life and whom you've never properly thanked.
Compose a detailed letter to him or her that expresses your appreciation in
concrete terms, then read it aloud, face-to-face.
I immediately flashed on Miss Riggi, my eighth-grade English teacher. She
was the first one to open my eyes to Hemingway, Faulkner, and other literary
giants. To this day, I am guided by her advice ("Never be boring"). I booked
plane tickets to my hometown, Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Miss Riggi was shorter than I remember, though unmistakable with her still
long, black hair and bright, intelligent eyes. After a slightly awkward hug and
small talk, we settled in. I took a deep breath and read.
"I want to thank you in person for the impact you've had on my life," I
began. "Nearly 30 years ago, you introduced my eighth-grade class to the wonders
of the written word. Your passion for stories and characters and your enthusiasm
for words made me realize there was a world out there that made sense to me."
And whether it was Miss Riggi's enormous smile when I finished the letter, or
the way she held it close as we said goodbye, my feeling of peace and joy
remained long after I returned home.
Since then, I have written several more gratitude letters, and my wife and
I both summon our "training" when we feel saddled by life. The unpleasant
matters are still there, but appreciation, I've learned, has an echo--and it's
loud enough to drown out the grumbling of one man emptying the dishwasher.
1. The author didn't start complaining when he met with unpleasant
experiences because
A. he thought the day was different from before.
B. it was one of his self-proclaimed day of Gratitude.
C. his son became more cute and his wife more adventurous.
D. he could manage these little unhappy things in life.
2. According to the passage, what did professor Emmons propose to have a
gratitude attitude?
A. Making oneself appear to be grateful.
B. Keeping an elaborate dairy.
C. Thinking positively in a given time.
D. Recording everything appreciated for a certain time.
3. According to the context, "gratitude visit" in Paragraph Six refers
to
A. visit someone with a detailed letter.
B. call on someone with an appreciated letter.
C. see someone you are indebted to.
D. see someone personally.
4. The author's reunion with his English teacher, Miss Riggi, shows
that
A. the author was desperate to see his teacher.
B. his teacher had great impact on him.
C. his teacher still had a deep impression of the author.
D. the author wanted to testify the professor's proposal.
5. The last paragraph shows that
A. professor Emmons' suggestions were effective to the author.
B. professor Emmons' suggestions were unpractical to the author.
C. the author and his wife learn how to show gratitude to others.
D. professor Emmons' suggestions were considered as unacceptable.
6. Which of the following can best serve as the title of the passage?
A. How to pay a gratitude visit.
B. How to make matters differently.
C. How to be thankful and improve your life.
D. How to become an appreciated man.
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