Some scientists will say it is impossible to read minds. They will also tell you that you can make educated guesses on what a person might be thinking or feeling. Perhaps there really is nothing mysterious about the power to read minds. Perhaps it is simply human sense based on observation and educated guesses after all, but that’s really a useful ability to learn.
Learn body language. How a person moves and holds their hands, and even what their eyes are doing are actually telling about what is going on inside their head. For example, pupils (瞳孔) tend to grow larger when you are interested in or excited about something. If you are talking to someone and making eye contact, finding their pupils are large and round, chances are that they are not feigning interest in the conversation. Someone biting their nails is probably nervous. Someone who folds their arms across their chest when they are not cold is probably trying to put a barrier between you and themselves.
Learn to mentally put yourself in another’s place. Scientists have recently discovered that your brain has neurons (神经元) that become active when you watch someone do something the same as we did the action ourselves. So when you are able to open yourself to understanding how other people are feeling, you can figure out reasons and predict future actions, reactions, even thoughts.
Sometimes you can use Extra Sensory Perception (ESP) (超感觉力) to read someone’s mind. This does not mean you will literally be able to read their mind like a book. Instead, you will receive impressions or feelings, which are difficult to explain.
To improve your ESP abilities, take up meditation (冥想). Because meditation helps enable you to purposely put your brain in a state of relaxed awareness, where you will be more successful in reading people and receiving impressions.
Practice and combine all of these steps. You will soon find yourself able to read people’s minds.
1. What does the underline word “feigning” mean?| A．Expressing. | B．Declaring. | C．Finding. | D．Pretending. |
| A．By making educated guesses on minds. | B．By learning to make eye contact. |
| C．By changing ESP abilities for the better. | D．By strengthening impressions received. |
| A．The steps of learning body language. | B．The ways of reading people’s minds. |
| C．The necessity of learning to read people’s minds. | D．The relationship between mind and body language. |
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【推荐1】When suffering from social anxiety, you will be frightened to deal with some situations. Wherever your fear arises, you are likely to experience sweating, flushing, feeling your heart race, or other symptoms of anxiety.
Relaxing your muscles.
Controlling your breathing is another good way to deal with your emotions. When you’re anxious, your breathing becomes faster and not as deep. Consequently, you’ll feel dizzy, which brings on more anxiety. Learning to breathe slower and more regularly through your nose will help you calm down.
Adopting visualization.
The key to visualization is to remember a place that made you feel safe and comfortable. Create a vivid picture of that place in your mind so that you can feel, see; smell and even taste it.
Facing your anxiety.
Most people with social anxiety want to hide, avoid, or run away from whatever they’re scared of.
| A．Breathing via your nose. |
| B．Taking your breath slowly. |
| C．It takes time and patience to practice this technique, however. |
| D．This technique will help you better handle the situation of being desperate. |
| E．Luckily, there exist ways to tackle social anxiety, whatever your symptoms. |
| F．As is recognized, learning to physically relax is a good approach to manage anxiety. |
| G．But if you face anxiety bravely, you’ll be aware that it is simply something you can live with after a few exposures. |
【推荐2】When you are overwhelmed, you feel like things are too many to deal with. Everyone gets overwhelmed from time to time, but you can still do something to handle this negative emotion.
Slow it down.
The first thing you need to do when you feel flooded or overwhelmed is to slow everything down.
If you’re wondering how to get your life together, it’s time to reflect on what led to the stress. Reflecting is great because it helps you sort through the data you have received from being overwhelmed. Taking the time to understand the data will also help you better understand what your body is trying to tell you if you meet with these situations again in the future.
Release, regroup, and redirect.
It’s easier said than done, but when it comes to feeling overwhelmed, the best thing you can do is let it go. The release of the source of feeling overwhelmed is critical to the “getting my life back together” component of this process.
| A．Step back and reflect. |
| B．Express what you are truly feeling and thinking. |
| C．When you slow down, it is as if you have put the brakes on. |
| D．This doesn’t necessarily mean you must move in a totally new direction. |
| E．Another thing you have to do before getting your life back together is regroup. |
| F．Rethinking about your previous mistakes might give you clues to avoid them in the future. |
| G．Here are some tips to help you get your life back together when you feel completely overwhelmed. |
【推荐3】To forgive is a virtue, but no one has ever said it is easy. When someone has deeply hurt you, it can be extremely difficult to let go of your hate.
surprisingly beneficial to your physical and mental health. People who forgive show less sadness, anger, and stress, and more hopefulness, according to a recent research.
How should you start to forgive? Try the following steps:
Calm yourself.
Don’t wait for an apology.
Take the control away from your offender(冒犯者). Rethinking about your hurt gives power to the person who caused your pain. Instead of focusing on your wounded feelings, learn to look for the love, beauty and kindness around you.
Don’t forget to forgive yourself.
| A．Why should you forgive? |
| B．However. forgiveness is possible |
| C．Recognize the benefits of forgiveness |
| D．Try to see things from your offender’s angle |
| E．For some people, forgiving themselves is the biggest challenge |
| F．To make your anger die away, try a simple stress-management technique |
| G．Many times. the person who hurt you does not intend to apologize |
【推荐1】Seamounts are mountains, usually volcanoes, which rise up from the sea floor. Some of the volcanoes are extinct; some are still active. But they are hard to find because they do not reach the surface of the water. Scientists say seamounts cover nearly 29 million square kilometers of this planet under the sea. Marine (海洋的) life gathers at seamounts because they carry nutrient-rich water upward from the sea floor.
In September, 2016, a group of scientists set out to explore Cook Seamount which rises almost 4,000 meters from the Pacific Ocean floor about 160 kilometers off the island of Hawaii. Humans have never seen it up close before.
Three people went in a submarine (潜水艇) down to over 900 meters below the ocean surface to the top of the seamount. As the blue waters became darker, underwater creatures that chemically create their own light began to swim past the submarine. The scientists found several kinds of deep sea corals (珊瑚虫) on the seamount’s sides. These included a possible new species of coral they named “Purple Haze”.
Conservation International and the University of Hawaii worked together for the trip to Cook Seamount. Greg Stone, the lead scientist, said, “This three-day research is the start of an effort to survey seamounts throughout the Pacific Ocean over the next five years. And we hope to study a total of 50 seamounts.” He said humans have little knowledge about seamounts, but they are a “key part” of what drives the ocean. Stone said he wanted to find out what is living on the seamounts and how they support ocean life. From that, he says, we will understand ocean health, which relates directly to human health.”
M. Sanjayan is Executive Vice President of Conversation International. He said there were 10,000, maybe 100,000 seamounts across the world’s oceans and because most had not been explored, he expected they would see things new to science.
One of the other two seamounts studied on their trip was Lo’ihi, an active volcano, which has been studied over the past 30 years. The scientists saw an “old friend” on it—a shark they had seen there before. Scientists say volcanic activity of Lo’ ihi pushes the seamount upward. But do not look for it to break the surface of the water any time soon.
1. Why is it difficult to find seamounts?| A．Because there are too few seamounts. |
| B．Because they can’t be seen above the seas. |
| C．Because it’s dangerous to get close to seamounts. |
| D．Because many seamounts are not high. |
| A．They will study 10 seamounts every year |
| B．Their survey aims at 50 seamounts around the world |
| C．They know little about how seanounts influence the ocean |
| D．They want to find out how ocean health relates to human health |
| A．Undersea creatures and seamounts |
| B．New discoveries under the ocean |
| C．Scientist surveyed the creatures in the sea |
| D．Scientists explored seamounts |
【推荐2】In a normal world, getting on an airplane that circles in the air for a few hours before returning to the same airport would have been considered laughable. However, in the COVID-19 pandemic, when many international travels stopped, “flight to nowhere” or “scenic flights” were increasingly popular.
Taiwan's Taipei Songshan Airport was one of the first to offer this unique service. In June 2020, faced with an over 60 percent drop in passengers, the airport officials decided to offer consumers a virtual flight. People interested in the “pretend to go abroad” experience could sign up for a chance to win one of 90 daily tickets. Winners of the three half-day tours were treated to a full airport experience, including clearing immigration, checking in, and boarding the airplanes. Though the planes never took off, the idea was amazingly popular.
At the same time, Japan's First Airlines also offered travel-hungry tourists an affordable way to visit New York, Rome, and Paris — without leaving the ground. For only $60, passengers in their airline seats could enjoy a life-like virtual reality tour of one of the world-class cities while feasting on a destination-themed meal.
Qantas Airlines’ “flight to nowhere”, which was announced on September 22, 2020, and sold out within 10 minutes took air travellers on a scenic tour of Australia, flying over the Northern Territory, Queensland, and New South Wales. The seven-hour flight, which departed and returned to Sydney on October 10, 2020, cost between $787 to $3, 787 Australian dollars.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) dropped the idea of a “fight to nowhere” on September 29, 2020. Instead, the company held several fun activities that allowed passengers to experience the airline’s world-famous hospitality without leaving the ground.
Strange as the offerings may seem, they were a win-win for both customers who are longing to travel and airlines trying their best to keep afloat during these difficult times.
1. What can tourists do in Taiwan's virtual flight?| A．Have a full airport experience. | B．Have a half-day tour. |
| C．Pretend to check in. | D．Fly a virtual plane. |
| A．It costs the least money. | B．It attracts the most tourists. |
| C．The plane really flies into the air. | D．It offers three half-day tours. |
| A．Adventurous. | B．Successful. | C．Competitive. | D．Environmentally-friendly. |
| A．Win. | B．Explore. | C．Compete. | D．Survive. |
【推荐3】Octopuses (章鱼)are colour-blind and they use camera-like eyes to detect light polarisation (偏振) instead. Light polarisation refers to the plane(平面) at which light waves travel. Unpolarised light waves travel forward in every plane, while polarised light only travels in one plane. Measuring the effects of light polarisation on animal responses is arduous, but University of Bristol researchers developed a technology that made this a lot easier.
Although it was known that octopuses can detect light polarisation, the study is the first to show that octopuses have the highest sensitivity to the polarisation of light, compared to any other animal tested so far.
“We knew that octopuses, like many marine (海洋的) species, could see patterns in polarised light much like we see colour, but we had no idea that they could do so when the light was 2% polarised—that was exciting, but even more unexpected was when we then tested humans and found that they were able to perceive patterns when the light was 24% polarised,”said lead researcher Professor Shelby Temple.
This discovery led to the development of a new medical device that can quickly and easily screen people for low macular pigments (黄斑色素), a strong risk factor for developing age-related macular degeneration (AMD). AMD is the most common cause of incurable blindness, which normally affects people in their 50s and 60s.
This new device opens the door to the regular screening of patients, enabling eye care professionals to better identify and suggest appropriate lifestyle choices to people at more risk of developing AMD. Early screening for macular pigment levels would empower patients to take better care of their eyes by making lifestyle choices, such as eating more fruits and vegetables, and wearing sunglasses.
1. What does the underlined word “arduous” in paragraph 1 probably mean?| A．Adventurous. | B．Necessary. | C．Conventional. | D．Laborious. |
| A．Octopuses could perceive patterns in polarised light. |
| B．Humans could see colour much like octopuses saw patterns. |
| C．Humans could see patterns when the light was 24% polarised. |
| D．Octopuses could perceive colour when the light was 2% polarised. |
| A．Its practical significance. | B．Its widespread popularity. |
| C．The reasons for improving it. | D．The process of employing it. |
| A．Octopus-like Devices Influence our Lifestyle Choices |
| B．Octopuses’ Camera-like Eyes Detect Light Polarisation |
| C．Octopus-inspired Innovation Helps Fight Human Sight Loss |
| D．Octopuses’ Unique Characteristics Attract Attention |
