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Optimism can help you to be happier, healthier and more successful. Pessimism leads, by contrast, to hopelessness, sickness and

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问题    Optimism can help you to be happier, healthier and more successful.
Pessimism leads, by contrast, to hopelessness, sickness and failure, and
are linked to depression, loneliness and painful shyness. If people could      【M1】 ______
think more positively, it will be like inoculating them against these mental   【M2】 ______
ills. People’s ability counts, but the belief which one can succeed affects   【M3】 ______
whether or not one will. In part, that’s because of optimists and pessimists  【M4】 ______
deal with the same challenges and disappointments in very different, way.
   Take, for example, your job. It was found that the positive salesmen
sold more insurance than the negative thinkers.                                【M5】 ______
   How did they do it7 The secret of an optimist’s success is in his "ex -
planatory style". When things go wrong, the pessimist tends to blame himself.
"I’m not good at this," he says, "I always fail." The optimist looks
at loopholes. He blames the weather, the phone connection, even the other      【M6】 ______
person. That customer was in a bad mood, he thinks. When things go
right, the optimist takes credit while the pessimist sees success as a fluke.
   During a research project, a group of students was asked to phone           【M7】 ______
strangers and ask them to donate blood to the Red Cross. When they failed
on the first call or two, pessimists said, "I can’t do this." Optimists told themselves,
"I need to try the different approach."                                        【M8】 ______
   Negative or positive, it was a self .-- fulfilling prophecy. If people feel 【M9】 ______
hopelessly, they don’t bother to acquire the skills they need succeed.         【M10】______
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答案was：were
解析 (改was为were)。group是集合名词。在集合名词作主语时，谓语动词有两种情况：当集合名词表示整体概念时，谓语动词为单数；当集合名词表示整体中的个体时，谓语动词为复数。
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