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It is plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience, but it is not true. Recent research r
It is plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience, but it is not true. Recent research r
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2015-11-16
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It is plain common sense—the more happiness you feel, the less unhappiness you experience, but it is not true. Recent research reveals that happiness and unhappiness are not really flip sides of the same emotion. They are two distinct feelings that, coexisting, rise and fall independently.
The recognition that feelings of happiness and unhappiness can coexist much like love and hate in a close relationship may offer valuable clues on how to lead a happier life. It suggests, for example, that changing or avoiding things that make you miserable may well make you less miserable but probably won’t make any happier. That advice is backed up by an extraordinary series of studies which indicate that a genetic predisposition for unhappiness may run in certain families. On the other hand, researches-have found, happiness doesn’t appear to be anyone’s heritage. The capacity for joy is a talent you develop largely for yourself.
Family members resemble each other more in their levels of unhappiness than in their levels of happiness. In a study conducted at the University of Minnesota, twins were tested for a wide range of personality traits. In terms of happiness, identical twins who were separated soon after birth were considerably less alike than twins raised together. But when it came to unhappiness, the twins raised apart—some without contact for as long as 64 years—wen; as similar as those who had grown up together.
Why is unhappiness less influenced by environment? When we are happy we are more responsive to people and keep up connections better than we are feeling sad. This doesn’t mean, however, that some people are born to be sad and that’s that. Genes may predispose one to unhappiness, but disposition can be influenced by personal choice. You can increase your happiness through your own actions.
Psychologists have begun to find out who’s happy, who is not and why. To date, the research hasn’t found a simple recipe for a happy life, but it has discovered some of the actions and attitudes that seem to bring people closer to the most desired feelings. Happiness is not the goal of humanity. However, to begin to think about how we think about happiness may help us to understand not only what we have but possibly what we don’t have. By exploring happiness, we may clearly know what we really want and ask ourselves whether what we want is worth getting. To begin with, we should try to understand a little of what happiness consists of in ourselves and in our relationship with society.
The word "disposition"(Line 4, Para.4)possibly means______.
选项
A、character
B、arrangement
C、donation
D、discharge
答案
A
解析
由题干提示定位至第四段第四句。此处说的是基因可能使一个人容易忧愁,但是性情可能受个人选择的影响。你能够通过自己的行动增加自己的快乐,所以答案为A)“性情”。
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