【推荐1】In interviews, famous people often say that the key to becoming both happy and successful is to “do what you love.” But mastering a skill, even one that you deeply love, requires a huge amount of hard work.

Anyone who wants to master a skill must run through the ______ of practice, critical feedback, alteration, and improvement over and over. Some people seem able to concentrate on practicing an activity like this for years and ______ their gradual improvement. Yet others find it _____ to do this kind of focused, time-consuming work. Why?

The ______ may turn on the ability to enter into a state of “flow”, the feeling of being completely involved in what you are doing. Flow states can happen in the course of any activity, and they are most common when a task has well-defined goals and is at a(n) ______ skill level, and where the individual is able to ______ their performance to clear and immediate feedback.

Flow states turn the boring practice into an autotelic activity—that is, one that can be enjoyed for its own sake, rather than as a means to an end or for obtaining some ______ reward. Then how can we get into a flow state for an activity that we want to master, so that we enjoy both the ______ and the rewards?

Those who most ______ entered into flow states had an “autotelic personality”—a quality to seek out challenges and get into a state of flow. While those without such a personality see ______, autotelic individuals see opportunities to build skills. Autotelic individuals are receptive, open to new challenges and also persistent. Such people, with an ability to focus on tasks rather than ______, have a great advantage over others in developing their inborn abilities.

____, for those of us who aren’t necessarily blessed with an autotelic personality, there is evidence that flow states can be promoted by environmental factors. In particular, the learning framework ______ by Montessori schools seems to encourage flow states. In Montessori schools, learning comes through ______ rather than direct instruction and students are encouraged to develop individual interests. Competition is ______ and grading is de-emphasized, taking the focus off of external rewards.

While there isn’t (yet) a pill that can turn dull practice into an exciting activity for anyone, it is heartening that we seem, at least to some degree, to be able to push ourselves toward flow states.

【推荐2】People who are cheerful and relaxed are less likely to suffer from colds. It's ________ that being full of vim and vigor（精力充沛）helps the body ________ illnesses, say the researchers from Carnegie (CMU) in Pittsburgh.

“We need to take more seriously the possibility that a ________ emotional style is a fighter player in disease risk,” says psychologist Sheldon Gohen, the study's lead researcher.

In a previous study, Cohen and his colleagues found that people who ________ to be cheerful and lively were least likely to develop sniffles, coughs, and other cold symptoms(症状)。

Those findings were interesting, but they didn't prove that a person's ________ affects whether he or she gets sick. Instead, it was still possible that a person's underlying personality is what matters.

Evidence suggests, for example, that certain people are naturally more likely to be outgoing and ________, with high self-respect and a sense of   ________ over life. This would mean that who we are, not how we feel, finally decides our________ of catching colds.

To figure out which mattered more (personality or emotion), the CMU team ________ 193 healthy adults. The researchers talked to each person over the phone every evening for 2 weeks. They told the researchers about the positive and negative ________they had experienced that day.

The results showed that everyone in the study was ________ likely to get infected. Their symptoms, however, ________ depending on the types of emotions that they had reported over the ________ two weeks.

Scientists ________ about whether negative emotions or positive emotions have a stronger ________ on how healthy we are. For now, it can't hurt to look on the bright side more often than not!

【推荐3】When a person is curious about something, it means he is interested in it and wishes to know something about it. There is _______ wrong with curiosity(好奇) in itself. Whether it is good or bad _______ on what people are curious about.

Curiosity _______ can be foolish or wrong. Some people with nothing to do are _______ of curiosity about what their neighbours are doing. They have a strong wish to know what they are _______ home or taking outside, or why they have come home so _______ or late. To be interested in these things is foolish because it is none of _______ business to know what their neighbours do or are doing. Such curiosity is not only foolish but also _______. For most probably, it may lead to a small talk _______ often brings harm, loss of honour or disrespect to others, and thus __________ their feelings.

On the other hand, there is a __________ curiosity — the curiosity of wise men, who __________ at all the great things and try to find out all they __________ learn about them. Columbus could __________ have found America if he had not been __________. James Watt would not have made the steam engine __________ his curiosity about the rising of the kettle lid(水壶盖). All the __________ in human history have been made as a __________ of curiosity, __________ the clever curiosity is never about unimportant things which have __________ or nothing to do with the happiness of the public.

【推荐3】In spite of not claiming to be “a fan of contests”, Chen Geng, the champion of the Chinese Classical Poetry Quiz Show, impressed the audience. She has participated in all four seasons ____the first TV show began in 2016. “When I stood on stage, I was very_____, feeling like every cell in my body was boiling, because I was talking about what I cared much about,”she says.

Chen ___ poetry just a few years before when she was a 21-year-old postgraduate. She could remember the day when she_____ picked up a book about the Tang Dynasty poems written by Jiang Xun. She was attracted by the book immediately.

Most of her free time was_____reading and reciting ancient Chinese poems-before breakfast, on the underground, and during summer and winter holidays. A couple of years later, she applied to_____the poetry quiz show to test her capabilities.

She is the only one of the_____ who has been____ every season since 2016. She says she did worry if the audience would get _____her face. “The audience______have thought: ‘It's her again.’ But I decided to come, because I believe the time I can be fully devoted to poetry is______. I may not have so much time doing this after I become a busy wife and mother”.

The poetry world seem far away from Chen’s academic(学术的) study.Her research ____ is to develop wearable smart devices for rehabilitation(复原) purposes. Yet,Chen says her poetry-reading and her major did not ____each other. “Sometimes I would feel _____when facing difficulties in scientific research. Poems gave me _____,”she says.

Peking University offers an open environment for students to develop their various hobbies,according to Chen. There are poetry clubs, debating and public speaking clubs and other culture-related societies____groups for students to choose from. “I really ____the academic atmosphere in the university, which enables us to do what we like freely, with an open and inclusive(兼收并蓄的) attitude,” Chen says.

She became a celebrity____the poetry show. She hopes she can influence more people,especially encouraging teenagers to foster a keen interest in poems. Chen ____ her first book about her thoughts and understanding about poetry in 2017. She also writes articles for Beijing Evening News and discusses Chinese poems on Tik Tok, a platform for sharing videos, on which she has over130,000______.

“Reading poems opens a door to the new world without boundaries, ”Chen says.