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1、Passage 1The Road to HappinessThere are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness,i.e.healthand a sufficient income,and who,nevertheless,are profoundly unhappy.In such cases it wouldseem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live.In one sense,we may sa

2、y thatany theory as to how to live is wrong.We imagine ourselves more different from the animals thanwe are.Animals live on impulse,and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable.If youhave a cat,it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night onthe

3、 tiles.Your needs are more complex than those of your cat,but they still have their basis oninstinct.In civilized societies,especially in English-speaking societies,this is too apt to beforgotten.People propose to themselves some one paramount objective,and restrain all impulsesthat do not minister

4、to it.A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health andprivate affections.When at last he has become rich,no pleasure remains to him except harryingother people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.Many rich ladies,although nature hasnot endowed them with

5、 any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art,decide to be thought cultured,and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that arewritten to give delight,not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.Passage 2Love Is DifficultIt is good to love,but love is diff

6、icult.For one human being to love another human being isperhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us the ultimate task,the final test andproof,the work for which all other work is merely preparation.That is why young people,who arebeginners in everything,are not yet capable of love:

7、it is something they must learn.With theirwhole being,with all their forces,gathered around their solitary,anxious,upward-beating heart,they must learn to love.But learning time is always a long,secluded time ahead and far on intolife,and is solitude,a heightened and deepened kind of aloneness for t

8、he person who loves.Loving does not at first mean merging,surrendering or uniting with another person;it is a highinducement for the individual to ripen,to become something in himself,to become world inhimself for the sake of another person;it is a great,demanding claim on him,something thatchooses

9、him and calls him to vast distances.Only in this sense,as the task of working onthemselves,may young people use the love that is given to them.Merging and surrendering andevery kind of communion is not for them,who must still,for a long,long time,save and gatherthemselves;it is the ultimate,it is pe

10、rhaps that for which human lives are as yet barely largeenough.Passage 3Business of Insurance CompaniesInsurance companies do two types of business.One is general insurance against variousforms of risk,and the other is long-term insurance which is mainly life insurance.General insurers will agree to

11、 pay a person or company a sum of money in the event ofsomething happening or not happening.It s a big business today.If the project succeeds,shareholders in your company will expect to be paid a dividend.If you ask an insurer tounderwrite your project,then he will require a payment in advance,a pre

12、mium.If the projectsucceeds,he keeps the premium,but you don t pay him anything else.Paying a premium to aninsurer or underwriter is often cheaper than paying a dividend to shareholders.If fewer dividendsare paid to shareholders,then more money can be kept as retention to finance the company snext p

13、roject.Another type of insurance business is the life insurance.It differs basically from generalinsurance in that it is based not on risk but on certainty the certainty that each of us will oneday die.Life insurance is the basis of pension funds which provide for retirement and guardagainst other c

14、ontingencies such as ill-health,but is best seen by the financial economist as ameans of collecting many small savings to put together into large investments,in short,as a formof intermediation.Passage 4Seasonal Affective DisorderSome people feel sad or depressed during the winter months in northern

15、 areas of the world.They may have trouble eating or sleeping.They suffer from a condition known as SeasonalAffective Disorder,or S-A-D.Victims of S-A-D suffer its effects during the short,dark days of winter.The problems aremost severe in the months when there are fewer hours of daylight.When spring

16、 arrives,thesesigns disappear and S-A-D victims feel well again.The National Mental Health Association reports that S-A-D can affect anyone.The group saysyoung people and women are at the highest risk for the disorder.It says that an estimated 25percent of the American population suffers from some f

17、orm of S-A-D.About 5 percent sufferfrom a severe form of the disorder.Many people in other parts of the world also have thecondition.The idea of health problems linked to a lack of light is not new.Scientists have discussed theissue since the beginning of medicine.More than two-thousand years ago,th

18、e Greek doctorHippocrates noted that the seasons affect human emotions.Today,experts do not fully understand S-A-D,and yet they agree that it is a very real disorder.To treat the disorder,victims of S-A-D do not need to wait until spring.Experts know thatplacing affected individuals in bright light

19、each day eases the condition.There are other thingspeople can do to ease the problem.They can increase the sunlight in their homes and workplacesand spend more time outdoors in the fresh air during the day.One study found that walking for an hour in winter sunlight was as effective as spendingtwo-an

20、d-one-half hours under bright light indoors.Passage 5Success Is a ChoiceAll of us ought to be able to brace ourselves for the predictable challenges and setbacks thatcrop up everyday.If we expect that life won t be perfect,we 1 1 be able to avoid that impulse toquit.But even if you are strong enough

21、 to persist the obstacle course of life and work,sometimesyou will encounter an adverse event that will completely knock you on your back.Whether it s a financial loss,the loss of respect of your peers or loved ones,or some othertraumatic events in your life,these major setbacks leave you doubting y

22、ourself and wondering ifthings can ever change for the better again.Adversity happens to all of us,and it happens all the time.Some form of major adversity iseither going to be there or it s lying in wait just around the comer.To ignore adversity is tosuccumb to the ultimate self delusion.But you mu

23、st recognize that history is full of examples of men and women who achievedgreatness despite facing hurdles so steep that easily could have crashed their spirit and left themlying in the dust.Moses was a stutterer,yet he was called on to be the voice of God.AbrahamLincoln overcame all difficulties d

24、uring the Civil War to become our arguable greatest presidentever.Helen Keller made an impact on the world despite being deaf,dumb,and blind from an earlyage.Franklin Roosevelt had polio.There are endless examples.These were people who not only looked adversity in the face butlearned valuable lesson

25、s about overcoming difficult circumstances and were able to move ahead.Passage 6Is Television a Blessing or a Curse?It is universally accepted that television is playing an important part in peopleJ s lives.But,there is an ongoing heated discussion as to whether television is a blessing or a curse.T

26、elevision keeps one better informed about current affairs,allows one to follow the latestdevelopments in politics and science,and offers a great variety of programs which are bothinstructive and stimulating.The most distant countries,the strangest customs and the mostattractive scenes of nature are

27、brought right into one s room or household.However,some people insist that television is a curse rather than a blessing.They argue thatit has brought about many serious problems.The major one is its effects on young people.Children are now so used to getting their information and entertainment from

28、television that theirliteracy as well as physical ability has been greatly weakened.Even worse than that,vulgarcommercials and indecent programs may cultivate their bad tastes,distort their viewpointstowards human life to such a degree that their minds might be corrupted.To sum up,television has bot

29、h advantages and disadvantages.What ever effects it has,onepoint is certain,television in itself is neither good nor bad.It is the use to which it is put thatdetermines its value to society.Passage 7Few US Workers Who Could Telecommute Do SoOne-quarter of the U.S.work force could be doing their jobs

30、 from home if all those able totelecommute chose to do so,and all those people working from home could translate into annualgasoline savings of$3.9 billion,according to the National Technology Readiness Survey.However,many still select to work at the office.The study found that 2 percent of U.S.work

31、erstelecommute full-time and another 9 percent do so part-time.But another 14 percent of workershave the option of telecommuting,or have jobs conductive to the practice but choose not to.Thenumbers suggest that many people would rather work at the office even if their job allowedtelecommuting,said P

32、rofessor P.K.Kannan,of the Robert H.Smith School of Business at theUniversity of Maryland.That seems to suggest that even if employers were to say tomorrow thateverybody had the option of telecommuting and you would save a lot of gas,that*s not going tohappen.An hypothesis could be that people still

33、 need the face time with their bosses.Anotherthing is people miss the social interaction,just being at home.And with a median one-waycommute of 10 miles and a median one-way commute time of 20 minutes,the daily trip for manyworkers is not that bad,he added.Of those who can already telecommute,most d

34、o so only one,two or three days per week,the study found.Passage 8The Wholeness of LifeThere is a wholeness about the person who has come to terms with his limitations,who hasbeen brave enough to let go of his unrealistic dreams and not feel like a failure for doing so.Thereis a wholeness about the

35、man or woman who has learned that he or she is strong enough to gothrough a tragedy and survive,she can lose someone and still feel like a complete person.Life is not a trap set for us by God so that he can condemn us for failing.Life is not a spellingbee,where no matter how many words you have gott

36、en right,you are disqualified if you make onemistake.Life is more like a baseball season,where even the best team loses one third of its gamesand even the worst team has its days of brilliance.Our goal is to win more games than we lose.When we accept that imperfection is part of being human,and when

37、 we can continue rollingthrough life and appreciate it,we will have achieved a wholeness that others can only aspire to.That,I believe,is what God asks of us not“Be perfect,but Be whole”.If we are brave enough to love,strong enough to forgive,generous enough to rejoice inanother?s happiness,and wise

38、 enough to know there is enough love to go around for us all,thenwe can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know.Passage 9Workplace FriendshipsA study into workplace relationships has found having a close friend at work can be a majordistraction.Respondents cited excessive

39、chatting,having too much fun and an inability to separate workfrom play as contributing to a lack of focus.“When faced with a work-related problem many people will prioritize their friendship overtheir responsibilities to their organization,which businesses may find concerning,saidpsychologist and A

40、uckland University of Technology lecturer,Dr.Rachel Morrison.u Workplacefriendships are like a double-edged sword.The benefits of a friendly workplace can be reallypositive,but organizations should be aware of the potential difficulties and how to managefriendships at work.”According to the study,ma

41、ny people were concerned about going“softer“with their friendsand being expected to treat them with special privileges.“People naturally want to make their friends feel special,but this conflicts withorganizational practices or norms that are set up around fairness and equality.Difficulty inmanaging

42、 these expectations can create tension in the relationship.Respondents also experienced a great deal of anxiety about speaking to close friends aboutsubstandard work.A basic rule of friendship is being non-judgmental and accepting your friendsweaknesses,but giving critical performance feedback confl

43、icts with this.“We also found issues related to confidentiality practices,which could mean friends have torefrain from sharing information.This can be really challenging for close friendships that havenorms of openness and disclosure,Dr.Morrison said.Dr.Morrison said organizations should try to prov

44、ide friendly environments and encourageworkplace friendships,but have policies in place to manage potential difficulties.Passage 10Love Your LifeHowever mean your life is,meet it and live it;do not shun it or call it hard names.It is not sobad as you are.It looks poorest when you are richest.The fau

45、lt-finder will find faults even inparadise.Love your life,poor as it is.You may perhaps have some pleasant,thrilling,glorioushours,even in a poorhouse.The setting sun is reflected from the window of the alms-house asbrightly as from the rich man,s abode;the snow melts before its door as early in the

46、 spring.I donot see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there,and have as cheering thoughts,as in apalace.The town*s poor seem to me often to live the most independent lives of any.Maybe theyare simply great enough to receive without misgivings.Most think that they are above beingsupported by t

47、he town;but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves bydishonest means,which should be more disreputable.Cultivate poverty like a garden herb,likesage.Do not trouble yourself much to get new things,whether clothes or friends.Turn to the old,turn to them.Things do not change;we

48、change.Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.Passage 11Man Is Here for the Sake of Other MenStrange is our situation here upon earth.Each of us comes for a short visit,not knowing why,and yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.From the standpoint of daily life,however,there is one thing we do

49、know that man is here forthe sake of other men above all for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we areconnected by a bond of sympathy.Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and innerlife is built upon the labors of my fellow men,both living and dead,and how earnestly I mustexert m

50、yself in order to give in return as much as I have received.My peace of mind is oftentroubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.To ponder interminably over the reason for one*s own existence or the meaning of life ingeneral seems to me,from an object