【推荐1】Nervous laughter is a way of relieving tension and stress in a situation where you feel uncomfortable. But it becomes a problem when it causes rifts (不和) in relationships or makes others uncomfortable.     1     As with any habit, it won’t change overnight. However, it’s possible to retrain your patterns.

It’s tough to stop doing something simply, especially an automatic habit like nervous laughter. So start small. Any time you hear yourself start a nervous laugh, try the following behavior instead: a slow nod, whispering ahh or hmmm as you listen or are with someone.     2    

Think through why you’re laughing in those tense moments. Try to identify what purpose it is serving and what is triggering (引发) it. Do you laugh to relieve tension?     3     In this step, journaling or talking with a trusted individual may be helpful.

Once you’ve found what is triggering your nervous laughter, set an intention for how you will redirect your nervous energy in that instance.     4     For example, if your manager gives you constructive feedback, then you can remind yourself he/she is giving you an opportunity for growth rather than telling you that you’re bad at your job.

    5     The goal of empathy (共情) is to share the feelings of the person you’re speaking with. This can help you focus less on how uncomfortable you feel and more on how frightened, puzzled or sad he/she may feel.

A．Laughter is the best medicine.

B．Practicing empathy is of great help.

C．Is there any hope for overcoming it?

D．Use an if-then statement to help you.

E．Is it a way of avoiding a negative emotional state?

F．To do this, ask open questions that don’t need an answer.

G．This will give your body something to do to displace the nervous laughter.

【推荐2】请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

Generally speaking, perfectionism is a good thing, if it makes you do better work and try harder to complete tasks well. However, perfectionism can become a bad thing when it stops you feeling satisfied with yourself or what you’ve accomplished. Every artist knows how important it is to stop adding touches to their paintings and how constantly adding elements can end up ruining the work. If you constantly demand only the very best from yourself, this can damage your self-respect as you find nothing you do will live up to your expectations. And if you extend this harsh (无情的) judgment to your friends and family and only focus on the negatives around them, you will find that they begin to dislike and avoid you.

So how do you get rid of these kinds of negative perfectionism? The following suggestions might help you a lot.

First of all, you’d better think twice about your standards. Look at what other people do. How long does it take them to carry out a project? Are their lower standards getting them fired? Do they still accomplish good work? Are your exacting (苛求的) standards worth the cost in terms of time and energy? I am sure that you can learn a lot from your answers.

Secondly, don’t always compare yourself with others. Perfectionists tend to have high standards. For example, an artist who thinks his work is never done might be comparing his paintings to those of Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci or other great artists. Remember that only a few people can become great masters and that most of us are just common people.

Last but not least, try to look at the situation objectively. If you are constantly adjusting things and never feel satisfied, then the chances are that you are too close to the situation and that you can’t judge it rightly any more. You’d better ask those around you what they think and whether they think your work is good enough. Besides, give your project some breathing space by leaving it alone for some time, so you can come back to it with “fresh eyes”.

Nobody, nor any idea, is perfect. If you have a perfectionist streak in you, try and let it go, and embrace the process of getting your idea out into the world, rather than focusing on the end result.

Perfectionism is holding you back
1     perfectionism can cause	It can make one     2     with himself or his achievements. It can get one’s self-respect damaged. It can make one lose    3     among his friends and family members.
Ways of     4     perfectionism	5     your standards	You need to find out what other people’s standards are.
	Avoid making unwise     6	It is not sensible for you to     7     yourself to become a great master.
	Get a(n)     8     view	Ask others for their     9     about your work. Step back for a while and then return to your work with “fresh eyes”
Conclusion	Perfection doesn’t actually     10    . Striving to do your best is good enough and will eventually lead you down a brilliant path.

【推荐3】Stress can come from all directions.     1     Rather than only looking for ways to change the stress-filled situations, look for stress that can work for you. These methods are suggestions to make stress work in your favor.

    2    . Colors of the walls, floor coverings, and furniture can reduce stress. Cooling greens and blues are positive colors that can reduce stress and create a sense of well-being.

Choose friends carefully. Your choice of friends can be the key to stress reduction. Friends should be people who help us to increase our strengths and create solutions to stressful situations.     3    .

Stop and look at yourself Take time to recognize signs of stress like anger, work and sleep habits. As you become aware of these signs, you are beginning to identify how to make stress work.

    4     . We can accept what we cannot change by changing what we can. Make choices that are realistic, not out of reach.

Don’t say yes to everything. Recognize what your strengths are and focus on taking the time to do a project built on them. Taking on too many projects results in loss of control and creates stress.

Keep a sense of humor.     5       . And laughing creates less wrinkles (皱纹) than worrying.

A．We live in a stress-filled world

B．Leave time for the unexpected

C．Accept what cannot be changed

D．Create environments that reduce stress

E．They support us and make us feel that we are not alone

F．Laughing at oneself can release potential stress from the inside

G．Stop and think of how to make things better

【推荐2】Salvador Dali wasn’t exactly modest (谦逊的). And he’ll tell you so, too, face to face at the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida. Here, the Spanish surrealist (超现实主义者) is alive and well, ready to talk to you in person about his art.

Well, sort of. This Dali is brought to life through the magic of artificial intelligence (人工智能). It’s a newly opened exhibition (展览) called "Dali Lives", and it is spread across the whole Dali Museum, which houses more than 2,000 Dali works in about 20,000 square feet of exhibit space. Three video boards showing a life-size Dali, standing 5’8” tall, form the exhibit — one at the museum gate, one on the third floor by the main exhibits (including Dali’s paintings and photographs, two technologically treated paintings allowing visitors to put themselves inside the paintings, and a special experience of "walking" through Dali’s 1934 painting "Archeological Reminiscence of Millet’s Angelus") and one in the gift shop on the way out. Each one offers a different experience when you push a doorbell on the board to get Dali’s attention.

The most surprising thing about "Dali Lives" is that you’re dealing with a version (版本) of the artist himself. It looks like Dali, it sounds like Dali, it is Dali. The museum worked together with the San Francisco advertising agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners to achieve this, feeding hundreds of news interviews and words from his written works into an artificial intelligence system to recreate the artist. The result was a living, moving version of Dali ready to converse with anyone there, answering their questions.

"Dali himself was at the forefront of technology and was always experimenting with and trying new things,"says Beth Bell, marketing director at the Dali Museum. "We think he would have loved these types of things. It’s in the spirit of Dali himself."

1. What can we know about Dali from the text?

A．He was a modest surrealist.	B．He once lived in St. Petersburg.
C．He produced lots of works of art.	D．He came up with the idea of “Dali Lives”.

2. What can visitors do at the exhibition "Dali Lives"?

A．Learn painting skills.	B．Get a surprising gift from Dali.
C．Watch lots of interviews with Dali.	D．Enjoy the magic of modern technology.

3. What does the underlined word "converse"in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Live.

B．Talk.

C．Play.

D．Work.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．The use of artificial intelligence.	B．The works of Salvador Dali.
C．An exhibition called “Dali Lives.”	D．The life of Salvador Dali.