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
外语
More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration.
More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration.
admin
2019-07-19
29
问题
More than half the adult population claims to be suffering from it. It makes us tense, irritable and affects ours concentration. Worse, it damages our health, causing everything from heart attacks to asthma, from chronic fatigue to spots. Cynics are quick to dismiss the phenomenon as fashionable hype. And they have a point. After all, we are lives longer lives than any generation before us. Most of us have more cash, more holidays, more consumer durables, and more choices in our lives than ever before.
Faced with the historical evidence of human survival, trimuph and even happiness, against far greater odds than we experience today, talk of stress, the modern disease, just sounds like whingeing(诉苦、埋怨).
Yet for many people stress is real enough. The effects of sudden and shocking events on physical and mental health have been well documented. But, crises are not the only things to damage our health. Professor Ben Fletcher, psychologist and Dean of the Business School at the University of Hertfordshire, argues that the work people do has a huge effect on their risk of physical disease.
High demands, combined with low control, lack of support, and especially monotonous work, are stressful and increase our chance of an early death.
But dose it make sense to sweep all these conditions under one title, " stress" ? According to Carry Cooper, Professor of Organizational Psychology at the University of Manchester, it’s an umbrella concept. While cause, context and response all vary, the underlying model is the same. Hans Selye, founder of modern research into stress, described it as " the rate of wear and tear on the body". The analogy emerges out of physics. Subject a bridge to repeated stress—perhaps the waves against the pillars, or steady vibrations from soldiers marching across it in step—and it will start to exhibit strain.
But stress is not entirely malign. A certain amount of pressure—Professor Cooper distinguishes pressure from stress—and we thrive. We keep going, we keep interested in the world, we stay a-live. Too much and we get tense, troubled, breathless and run down.
So stress is real. The answer to our cynics who point to historical evidence is that our ancestors suffered from stress too. Richard Napier, a sixteenth century physician, recorded that around a third of his patients were "trouble in the mind". We are no more wimpish than our forebears, the stress they suffered probably contributing to their ill health and lower life expectancy.
Of course the stresses we face today may genuinely be greater for many people than thirty years ago. Professor Cooper argues that we have less support today to help us deal with the inevitable stresses that arise. We no longer have the communities and extended families that acted as natural sources of moral support. So counseling networks and services have had to grow in their place. But the big test is whether our futures will be consistently more stressful than our past, how will human beings manage to adapt to change? No one knows, but the academics look forward to finding out.
Questions 66 to 68
Mark each statement as either true(T)or false(F)according to the passage.
According to Cooper, pressure is different from stress because stress does absolute harm to people, while pressure does not.( )
选项
A、TRUE
B、FALSE
答案
B
解析
正文第三段指出stress也并非都是有害的,Cooper教授将stress和pressure进行了区分,指出一定量的pressure使我们更好地发展,而如果过多,我们就会变得紧张、困惑、喘不过气,变得虚弱。可见过多的pressure也会带来负面影响,因此题干中“stress会给人们带来绝对伤害,而pressure却不会”与文章内容不符。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/m2fK777K
本试题收录于:
A类竞赛(研究生)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
A类竞赛(研究生)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Asaresultofallthesefactors,whentherecessioneasesandpeoplefindmoreconfidence,therewillbeanexplosionofemploy
ThomasMalthuspublishedhisEssayonthePrincipleofPopulationalmost200yearsago.Eversincethen,forecastershavebeing
Ifyoucouldgoonvacationasanyoneyouwanted,whowouldyouchoose?JoelStaindecidedhe’dmakeagreatRickyMartin.Welco
Ifyoucouldgoonvacationasanyoneyouwanted,whowouldyouchoose?JoelStaindecidedhe’dmakeagreatRickyMartin.Welco
Collisionbetweenanaircraftandoneormorebirdsistermedabird-strike.Pilotssometimesrecordabirdstrikewhileatcruis
Atuniversityyouwillhavetowriteoftenandinvariousdifferentformats,dependonthesubjectsyouarestudying.Themostc
AcrossAfrica,thetsetseflythreatensastaggering55millionspeopleandtheir【M1】______livestock.Theinsectsucksblooda
AcrossAfrica,thetsetseflythreatensastaggering55millionspeopleandtheir【M1】______livestock.Theinsectsucksblooda
Attheageof35,Nathan,awould-beprofessorinNewYorkState,shouldalreadyhaveapermanentpositionatauniversityandp
Acometisdistinguishedfromotherbodiesinthesolarsystem___________.
随机试题
根据《刑事诉讼法》第194条的规定,在法庭审判过程中,如果诉讼参与人或者旁听人员违反法庭秩序,审判长应当警告制止。对不听制止的,可以强行带出祛庭;情节严重的,处以1000元以下的罚款或者15日以下的拘留。试分析此处的“拘留”与刑事强制措施中的“拘留”有何异
某市化工企业为节约处理废水费用,将生产过程中超标废水直接排入蒸发池,其行为严重违法,并造成周边环境严重污染,被国家环保部门作为挂牌督办案件。市公安局在侦查取证时.就案件定性、证据收集审查听取了该市人民检察院和人民法院的意见。对市公安局的这一做法,下列选项中
关于糖尿病患者的运动,说法错误的是
A.雄黄B.朱砂C.石膏D.自然铜E.赭石表面有钉头,条痕樱红色或红棕色的药材是()
该数列是()。计算样本平均数和样本成数的抽样平均误差,应选用的公式分别为()。
管理者是能够运用自己的威信去影响企业战略管理的制定和实施,高层管理者具有的特征有()。
对按实际成本发料的检查,出库材料成本的检查应包括()。
国有资产监督管理机构对企业重大事项的管理不包括()。
2015年江西省规模以上工业增加值7268.9亿元,比上年增长9.2%。分轻重工业看,轻工业增加值2731.2亿元,增长7.7%;重工业4537.7亿元,增长10.1%。分经济类型看,国有企业增加值269.1亿元,增长6.3%;集体企业19.3亿元,下降5
ADayinMyVeryWealthyLifeThefirstthingIdidjustasI【D1】______inmyfavoritehousethismorningwasto【D2】______th
最新回复
(
0
)