Success is something we are told to celebrate when we achieve it. However, it might come as quite a surprise to many of us. Sometimes, we feel guilty (内疚) when we do become successful.
You’re the First in Your Family To Achieve This Level of Success.
If you are the first person in your family to become successful, you may feel superior (有优越感的) to the others.
You Worry Success Came Too Easily
We have so many messages in our culture about having to work hard to succeed.
We associate success with lone hours at work over a desk, or keeping practicing a skill. But sometimes, we get lucky. We have succeeded before many years of hard work and effort. This can also lead to feelings of guilt.
Many Other Talented People Are Less Successful
If you become successful, you might feel guilty because you know others are still struggling.
| A．Many of us spend endless years in its pursuit. |
| B．They are just as talented, and work just as hard! |
| C．You may feel that you put yourself above them. |
| D．If you’ve experienced the feeling, you’re far from alone. |
| E．You know why one equally-talented person does not achieve success. |
| F．It’s because you might worry you didn’t put in enough effort to the success. |
| G．We suggest the young work hard when they aren’t taking work seriously enough. |
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【推荐1】Nearly half of us make New Year’s resolutions, but less than ten percent of us actually keep them. This can be due to lack of motivation or loss of interest, but it’s time for us to figure out ways to finish what we’ve started.
Lack of honesty
Are you truly devoted to running a marathon, losing weight, or whatever else you are promising to do? Be honest with yourself. We often find ourselves committing to things because we think we should.
While you may have the best intentions with your resolution, you could be putting unnecessary pressure on yourself. Rather than associating the New Year with resolutions or changes you need to make, consider it a time for reflection on things you wish to work on throughout the year.
If your goal was to send out ten resumes (简历) for a new job and you only sent out five, don’t beat yourself up for it. Rather, congratulate and reward yourself for making the effort toward your goal. That will give you the energy to continue working towards your initial (最初的) goal.
Giving up too easily
Whether you get discouraged or simply lose interest, giving up too easily is a big resolution breaker. Many people make their resolutions believing they can accomplish them.
| A．Wrong perspective (视角) |
| B．Narrow your resolution |
| C．Don’t waste your time on that. |
| D．But the excitement wears off and other priorities appear. |
| E．They thought they could stick to it because it’s what they want. |
| F．Here are reasons people don’t stick to their New Year’s resolutions. |
| G．Stop thinking about what you have not accomplished and focus on what you will accomplish instead. |
【推荐2】If you find yourself unable to go more than 15 minutes without reaching into your pocket, pulling out your smart phone and checking your e-mail or WeChat, don’t panic. You are hardly alone. A recent survey shows that smart phone users have developed “checking habit” ---frequently checks of e-mails and other Apps. The checks normally lasted less than 30 seconds and were often done every 10 minutes.
On average, the study subjects check their phones 34 times a day. And the strangest part is that they don’t even realize they are doing it. "I hadn’t told my hand to reach out for the phone. It seemed to be doing it all on its own,” wrote Elizabeth Cohen, a medical correspondent for CNN who watched her right hand sneaking away from her side to grab her phone while sitting on the table at dinner with friends.
Loren Frank, a neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), explains that checking smart phones is rewarding in some way. "Each time you get an e-mail, it’s a little bit exciting, because it means a positive feedback that you’re an important person,” Frank told CNN. Once the brain becomes used to this positive feedback, reaching out for the phone becomes an automatic action you don’t even think about consciously, said Frank. Professor Clifford Nass of Stanford University added that constantly checking your smart phone is also “an attempt to not have to think hard but feel like you are doing something”.
However, every coin has two sides. This habit can cause problems. Studies show that whenever you take a break from what you are doing to check your smart phone, it is hard to go back to your original task, according toAdam Gazzaley, a neurologist at UCSF. That’s not the worst. A survey by South Korean marriage consulting agency Duo earlier this year shows that smart phones are destroying intimate relationships, reports The Korea Herald(韩国先驱报). About half of the respondents said they had had fights with their boyfriend or girlfriend because of smart phones. And 32.8 percent of them fought about smart phone obsession. In this respect, checking smart-phones at regular intervals is a bad habit. But just as an old saying goes, “Bad habits die hard.”
So to get rid of the checking habit, Cohen suggests establishing phone-free times and zones.
1. What does the passage mainly talk about?| A．A smart-phone consumption survey. |
| B．The advantages of smart-phone checking habit. |
| C．The obsession with smart-phone checking. |
| D．They ways to quit smart-phone checking habit. |
| A．Most of the subjects have developed “checking habit”. |
| B．The checks typically last 30 seconds. |
| C．The subjects tend to check their smart-phone frequently. |
| D．The subjects are unaware of the action when checking their smart-phones. |
| A．what a “checking habit” is. |
| B．the common existence of “checking habit”. |
| C．the unconsciousness of “checking habit”. |
| D．the harm of “checking habit” to people. |
| A．worthwhile in some way. |
| B．unimportant for those busy people. |
| C．necessary to think hard. |
| D．likely to cause neurological diseases. |
| A．They might fail in their exams. |
| B．They might get distracted from their work. |
| C．They would make friends with unfamiliar people. |
| D．They would manage to break up with their close friends. |
【推荐3】For most people today, their GPS (Global Positioning System) has become a lifeline, giving directions to the nearest bathroom or restaurant. But the price we pay for the convenience could be our sense of direction.
“I do think GPS devices cause our navigational skills atrophy.” said Nora Newcombe, a psychologist at Temple University in the US who studies how the human brain navigates. “The problem is that you don’t see an overview of the area and where you are in relation to other things.”
To understand the risk, you first need to understand how our brain keeps us from getting lost. Through experiments, researchers have found that our navigational strategies usually fall into two groups. The first involves a spatial map inside your brain. As you explore an area, you think about how the streets fit together and the best way to get between different places. Eventually, the map lets you navigate between any two points in the area. The second involves a series of landmarks and steps: turn right at the gas station, and your school is on the left. It’s quick and reliable, but less flexible—it doesn’t help you get from your school to a totally new place, even if it’s nearby.
These two methods might not sound all that different, but according to Nora Newcombe, a psychologist at Temple University in the US, people who are bad at navigation have trouble with the first strategy – creating spatial maps. What’s more, people’s ability to create maps is decided by how often we use the skill.
That helps explain what happens when people trust themselves with GPS devices. According to Professor Veronique Bohbot of McGill University, people depending on GPS show more activity in the part of the brain that is good at following directions—but less activity in the part which creates the spatial maps.
It turns out that our sense of direction isn’t the only thing we could lose. One more thing that could go is our connection to the environment we travel through. Researchers have found that when people rely on GPS while driving, their memory of their trip is of a route on a screen, rather than the landscape they traveled through. Moreover, researchers believe that active navigation improves the type of thinking used in all kinds of spatial processes. “It’s things like urban planning, and looking at a map to see where resources are. That’s not replaceable by your phone.” Newcombe said.
1. ______is what we may lose for the convenience of using GPS.| A．The ability to read maps | B．The sense of feeling the sun |
| C．The chance to do urban planning | D．The connection to where we travel |
| A．become weaker | B．become stronger |
| C．become more useful | D．become less important |
| A．To explain why people use navigation |
| B．To prove what happens when we use GPS devices. |
| C．To find out people’s ability to create the spatial maps. |
| D．To tell the differences between the first strategy and the second direction. |
| A．Objective | B．Ambiguous | C．Negative | D．Indifferent |
