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out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a
certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.
Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself,
each extra dollar makes less and less difference.
Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and
happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries,
yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems
to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.
"Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better," conclude some experts, which helps explain
why people who can seek status in other ways-scientists or actors, for example-may happily accept
relatively poorly-paid jobs.
In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desire-not just for money, but for
friends, family, job, health-rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those
who felt a smaller gap (差距). Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than
income alone. "The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income." Says Michalos.
Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad. "Given all the problems
of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?" asks Professor Laura Carstensen.
In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill
out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young
people, but negative emotions much less often.
Why are old people happier? Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn
to live with it, or they"re more realistic about their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve.
But Carstensen thinks that with times running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make
them happy and let go of those that don"t.
"People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever," she says. "A
goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional
responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20."
B. increases gradually with age
C. has little to do with wealth
D. is measured by desires
B. provide chances to make friends
C. improve their social position
D. satisfy their professional interests
B. successful
C. practical
D. emotional
B. they have a stronger desire for friendship
C. their income is below their expectation
D. the hope for good health is greater
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more than an hour, aircraft cross the world inside a day, while computers operate at lightning speed. Indeed,
this love of speed seems never-ending. Every year motor-cars are produced which go even faster and each
new computer boats (吹嘘) of saving precious seconds in handling tasks.
All this saves time, but at a price. When we lose or gain half a day in speeding across the world in an
airplane, our bodies tell us so. We get the uncomfortable feeling known as jet-lag; our bodies feel that they
have been left behind on another time zone. Again, spending too long at computers results in painful wrists
and fingers. Mobile phones also have their dangers, according to some scientist; too much use may transmit
harmful radiation into our brains, a consequence we do not like to think about.
However, what do we do with the time we have saved? Certainly not relax, or so it seems. We are so
accustomed constant activity that we find it difficult to sit and do nothing or even just one thing at a time.
Perhaps the days are long gone when we might listen quietly to a story on the radio, letting imagination take
us into another world.
There was a time when some people"s lives were devoted simply to the cultivation of the land or the care
of cattle. No multi-tasking there; their lives went on at a much gentler pace, and in a familiar pattern. There
is much that we might envy about a way of life like this. Yet before we do so, we must think of the hard tasks
our ancestor faced: they farmed with bare hands, often lived close to hunger, and had to fashion tools from
wood and stone. Modern machinery has freed people from that primitive existence.
B. time is limited
C. the prices are increasingly high
D. the manufactures boast a lot
B. Simple life in the past.
C. Times of inventions.
D. Time for constant activity.
B. Objective.
C. Optimistic.
D. Negative.
B. Machinery and human beings.
C. Imaginations and inventions.
D. Modern technology and its influence.
a conversation? Fortunately, you"ve get a thing that sends out energy at tiny chips in everyone"s name tag
(标签). The chips send back name, job, hobbies, and the time available for meeting-whatever. Making
new friends becomes simple.
This hasn"t quite happened in real life. But the world is already experiencing a revolution using RFID
technology.
An RFID tag with a tiny chip can be fixed in a product, under your pet"s skin, even under your own
skin. Passive RFID tags have no energy source - batteries because they do not need it. The energy comes
from the reader, a scanning device (装置), that sends out energy (for example, radio waves) that starts
up the tag immediately.
Such a tag carries information specific to that object, and the data can be updated. Already, RFID
technology is used for recognizing each car or truck on the road and it might appear in your passport.
Doctors can put a tiny chip under the skin that will help locate and obtain a patient"s medical records. At
a nightclub in Paris or in New York the same chip gets you into the VIP (very important person ) section
and pays for the bill with the wave of an arm.
Take a step back: 10 or 12 years ago, you would have heard about the coming age of computing. One
example always seemed to surface: Your refrigerator would know when you needed to buy more milk. The
concept was that computer chips could he put every where and send information in smart network that
would make ordinary life simpler.
RFID tags are a small part of this phenomenon. "The world is going to he a loosely coupled set of
individual small devices, connected wirelessly." Predicts Dr. J. Reich. Human right supporters are nervous
about the possibilities of such technology. It goes too far tracking school kids through RFID tags, they say.
We imagine a world in which a beer company could find out not only when you bought a beer but also
when you drank it. And how many beers, Accompanied by how many biscuits.
When Marconi invented radio, he thought it would be used for ship-to-shore communication, not for
pop music. Who knows how RFID and related technologies will be used in the future. Here"s a wild guess:
Not for buying milk.
B. explain the benefits brought about by RFID technology
C. convince people of the uses of RFID technology
D. predict the applications of RFID technology
B. will have more energy for conversation
C. will have more time to make friends
D. won"t feel shy at parties any longer
B. radio waves
C. batteries
D. chips
B. Because market competition will become more fierce.
C. Because their private lives will be greatly affected.
D. Because customers will be forced to buy more products.
B. will be widely used, including for buying milk
C. will be limited to communication uses
D. will probably be used for pop music
way many North Americans interact (互动) these days. The term is "networked individualism". This
concept is not easy to understand because the words seem to have opposite meanings. How can we be
individuals (个体) and be networked at the same time? You need other people for networks.
Here is what Professor Wellman means. Before the invention of the Internet and e-mail, our social
networks included live interactions with relatives, neighbors, and friends. Some of the interaction was
by phone, but it was still voice to voice, person to person, in real time.
A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project showed that for a lot of people,
electronic interaction through the computer has replaced this person-to- person interaction. However, a lot
of people interviewed for the Pew study say that"s a good thing. Why?
In the past, many people were worried that the Internet isolated (孤立) us and caused us to spend too
much time in the imaginary world of the computer. But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is true.
The Internet connects us with more real people than expected - helpful people who can give advice on
careers, medical problems, raising children, and choosing a school or college. About 60 million Americans
told Pew that the Internet plays an important role in helping them make major life decisions.
Thanks to the computer, we are able to be alone and together with other people-at the same time!
B. have the rights and freedom to do things of their own interest
C. do things in their own ways and express opinions different from other people
D. are able to keep to themselves but at the same time reach out to other people
B. Friends.
C. Phones.
D. Parents.
B. the Internet makes people waste a lot of time and feel very lonely
C. the Internet has become a tool for a new kind of social communication
D. a lot of people regard the person-to-person communication as a good thing
B. We"re Communicating on the Internet.
C. We"re Alone Together on the Internet.
D. We"re in the Imaginary World of the Internet.
Some scientists claim that we humans are the only living things that are conscious (有意识的)-we alone
are aware that we are thinking.
No one knows how consciousness works-it is one of science"s last great mysteries.
All your thoughts take place in the cerebrum (大脑皮质), which is at the top of your brain, and different
kinds of thought are linked to different areas, called association areas.
Each half of the cerebrum has four rounded ends called lobes (脑叶)-two at the front (frontal and
temporal lobes) and two at the back (occipital and parietal lobes).
The frontal lobe is linked to your personality and it is where you have your bright ideas.
The temporal lobe is where you hear and understand what people say to you.
The occipital lobe is where you work out what your eyes see.
The parietal lobe is where you record touch, heat and cold, and pain.
The left half of the brain controls the right side of the body. The right half controls the left side.
One half of the brain is always dominant (in charge). Usually, the left brain is dominant, which is why
90% of people are right-handed.
B. The temporal lobe.
C. The occipital lobe.
D. The parietal lobe.
B. Bright ideas come from the parietal lobe.
C. The occipital and temporal lobes are at the back of the cerebrum.
D. The occipital lobe is in charge of sound.
B. their temporal lobe is usually dominant
C. their right brain is usually dominant
D. their left brain is usually dominant
So far, scientists have named about 1.8 million living species (物种), and that"s just a small number of
what probably exists on Earth. With so many plants, animal, and other living things covering the planet, it
can be tough to figure out what type of grass is growing by the roadside or what kind of bird just flew by.
A soon-to-be-started Web site might help. An international term of researchers has announced the creation
of Web-based Encyclopedia (百科全书) of Life (EoL). The project aims to list every species on Earth in a
single, easy-to-use reference guide.
To get the encyclopedia started, the creators will use information from scientific databases (数据库) that
already exist. And eventually, in special sections of the site, non-scientists with specialized knowledge will
come to help. Bird-watchers, for example, will be able to input what birds they"ve seen and where. To make
sure the encyclopedia is accurate, scientists will review much of the information added to it.
As the EoL develops, you might find it useful for school projects. The site will feature (以…为特色)
special pages for kids who are studying ecosystems in their neighborhoods. Another convenient feature of
the EoL is that you"ll be able to pick the level of detail you want to see to match your interests, age, and
knowledge.
It now takes years for scientists to collect all the data they need to describes and analyze species. The
creators of the Encyclopedia of Life hope that their new fool will speed up that process.
B. list all living things on Earth
C. work out the number of birds
D. save the existing plants
B. it focuses on different types of grass
C. it provides different levels of information
D. it allows non-scientists to review its data
B. creating a new tool
C. collecting data
D. describing species
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