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It began with some marsh/mallows(棉花软糖). In the 1960s Walter Mischel, a psychologist then working at Stanford University, started
It began with some marsh/mallows(棉花软糖). In the 1960s Walter Mischel, a psychologist then working at Stanford University, started
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It began with some marsh/mallows(棉花软糖). In the 1960s Walter Mischel, a psychologist then working at Stanford University, started a series of experiments on young children. A child was left alone for 15 minutes with a marshmallow or similar treat, with the promise that, if it remained uneaten at the end of this period, a second would be added. Some of the children, who were aged four or five at the time, yielded to temptation before time was up. Others resisted, and held out for the reward.
Dr. Mischel then followed the children’s progress as they grew up. Those who had resisted, he found, did better at school than those who had given in. As adults they got better jobs, were less likely to use drugs and got into trouble with the law less frequently. Moreover, children’s family circumstances suggested that impulsive behavior was as much learned as inherited. This suggested that it could be unlearned—improving the child in question’s chances in life.
Study after study has confirmed Dr. Mischel’s insight. However, recent observations, however, raise the possibility that developing self-control is not always an unalloyed(纯粹的)good.
Work published two years ago by Gene Brody of the University of Georgia, who looked at a group of young black Americans, showed that those who exhibited self-control as teenagers did indeed get the expected benefits. But if such self-controllers came from deprived backgrounds, they developed higher blood pressure, were more likely to be obese and had higher levels of stress hormones than their less-setf-controlled peers. That correlation did not apply to people who started farther up the social ladder.
Dr. Brody and his colleagues have followed this study with one that comes to an equally astonishing conclusion: for people born at the bottom of the social heap, self-control speeds up the process of ageing.
Dr. Brody and his colleagues followed almost 300 black American teenagers of different backgrounds as they aged from 17 to 22. For the first few years the researchers assessed their volunteers’ levels of self-control, and also looked for signs of depression, aggression and drug use. They assessed, too, those volunteers’ socioeconomic backgrounds. But the last examination, when participants were 22 years old, was different. Then, the researchers took a blood sample, recorded the DNA-methylation(DNA甲基化)patterns of cells in it, and worked out how much these deviated from the pattern expected at that particular age. As the study shows, for people from high-status backgrounds, higher self-control meant lower cellular ages. For those whose background was low-status, the reverse was true.
Dr. Brody’s findings are both intriguing and worrying. The research into gene methylation suggests changing methylation patterns are a common response to changing circumstances as well as changing age, as the body’s physiology struggles to keep up. Fortunately, people can change their circumstances in rational ways: the lesson of the marshmallows shows that. If Dr. Brody’s result is confirmed, the challenge it poses will be to work out how to avoid the adverse effects of self-control.
Which of the following can be a suitable title for the passage?
选项
A、Social Background and Self-control.
B、What Benefits Will Self-control Bring?
C、How Should We Develop Self-control?
D、Probing the Effects of Self-control.
答案
D
解析
主旨大意题。文章开篇从一项实验研究讲起,说明白控力的培养与人的学业、事业的成就有所关联。而从第四段开始,作者又从另一个角度指出,对于不同社会背景的人而言,自控力可能会带来不同的影响,对于社会阶层较高的人,自控力会给其健康带来积极的影响,反之,则可能损害健康。综合看来,本文是在探究自控力的影响,故答案为D)。A)“社会背景与自控力”只能概括文章后半部分,即布罗迪博士的研究,不够全面,故可排除;B)“自控力可以带来什么益处?”从文中可以看出自控力并非总是带来益处,而是因人而异的,故可排除;C)“我们应该如何发展自控力?”作者只提到了自控力的影响,并没有说如何发展自控力,故可排除。
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