首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we
We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we
admin
2013-08-15
53
问题
We are on the verge of destroying our ozone layer. We are close to destroying hundreds of exquisite animal species. Moreover, we now find ourselves on the verge of a new cold war. But there is another threat, perhaps as dangerous: we are destroying a major cultural force, the muse behind much art and poetry and music. We are getting rid of melancholia(忧郁).
A recent poll shows that almost 85 percent of Americans believe that they are very happy or at least pretty happy.【F1】
The psychological world is now opening up a new field, positive psychology, devoted to finding ways to enhance happiness through pleasure, engagement, and meaning.
Mainstream publishers are printing thousands of books on how to be happy. It seems truly an age of almost perfect contentment, a brave new world of persistent good fortune, joy without trouble.
Why are most Americans so utterly willing to have an essential part of their hearts sliced away and discarded like so much waste?【F2】
What are we to make of this American obsession with happiness, an obsession that could well lead to a sudden extinction of the creative impulse and that could result in a disaster as horrible as those foreshadowed by global warming and environmental crisis and nuclear proliferation(扩散)?
What drives this rage for this desperate contentment?【F3】
How can so many people be happy in the midst of all the problems that plague our globe -not only the collective ills but also those particular irritations that plague our everyday existences?
Are some people lying, or are they simply afraid to be honest in a culture in which the status is nothing short of manic happiness?
I for one am afraid that American culture’s overemphasis on happiness at the expense of sadness might be dangerous, a forgetting of an essential part of a full life.【F4】
I further am concerned that to desire only happiness in a world undoubtedly tragic is to become inauthentic, to settle for unrealistic abstractions that ignore concrete situations.
Without the agitations of the soul, would all of our magnificently yearning lowers topple? Our culture seems to treat melancholia as a threat to our pervasive notions of happiness—happiness as immediate gratification, happiness as superficial comfort, happiness as static contentment.【F5】
Doesn’t this unwitting affection for happiness over sadness lead us to a one-sided life, joy without discomfort, bright noon with no night?
【F4】
选项
答案
我更担心,在一个无疑充满悲剧因素的世界里只希望得到幸福的愿望会变得不真实,使我们只能满足于不切实际的抽象概念,而忽略了具体情况。
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/CEO4777K
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Studythefollowingdrawingcarefullyandwriteanessayinwhichyoushould1)describethedrawing,2)interpretitsm
Everyonemusthavehadatleastonepersonalexperiencewithacomputererrorbythistime.Bankbalancesaresuddenlyreported
Everyonemusthavehadatleastonepersonalexperiencewithacomputererrorbythistime.Bankbalancesaresuddenlyreported
PrinceKlemensismentionedinthefirstparagraphtoYahoo!andMSNaremakinglessmoneyforthesamenumberofsearcheschie
Thecommunicationsexplosionisonthescaleoftherail,automobileortelephonerevolution.Verysoonyou’llbeabletorecord
Speech,whetheroralorwritten,isausedcommodity.Ifwearetobeheard,wemust(1)_____ourwordsfromthose(2)_____tou
Theplanet’swildcreaturesfaceanewthreat—fromyuppies,emptynesters,singletonsandoneparentfamilies.Biologistsstudyi
Whichofthefollowingadjectivesmaybestdescribethetoneofthistext?Theauthorwouldmostprobablyagreethattheorigin
"Sustainability"hasbecomeapopularwordthesedays,buttoTedNing,theconceptwillalwayshavepersonalmeaning.Havingen
Humanbeingsareanimals.Webreathe,eatanddigest,andreproducethesamelife(1)_____commontoallanimals.Inabiologica
随机试题
确保妊娠合并心脏病患者安全时。采取下列哪项措施是错误的
对新生儿肺透明膜病患者进行气管内滴入表面活性物质时不正确的护理措施是
关于累犯,下列哪一判断是正确的?(2010年卷二8题)
依法必须进行招标的项目,招标人应当从确定中标人之日起()日内,向有关行政监督部门提交招投标情况的书面报告。
企业当年可供分配的利润等于当年的净利润加上以前年度未分配的利润,在()等之后,才能向投资者分配。
握肩膀和握胳膊时,实际上是进入了接受者的密切区域,只有在感情极为密切与融洽的人之间才受欢迎。()
在Word中绘制如图5-19所示的电路原理图,按题目的要求完成排版后,用Word的保存功能直接存盘。[要求]1.绘制的电路原理图样式、线条形状、箭头头形状与所给图示一致。2.各图形边框线条粗细设置为1磅,各箭头线粗细设置为0
与十进制数254等值的二进制数是
影响深远
HowaPoor,AbandonedParisianBoyBecameaTopChef[A]ThebusystreetsinPariswereunevenandcakedinthickmud,butthere
最新回复
(
0
)