1 . 在2024年法国巴黎奥运会上，中国体操男团摘得银牌，队员苏炜德因在单杠项目中两次掉杠而非常自责。假如你是李华，请给苏炜德写一封安慰信。信件包括如下内容：
1.你对此次比赛结果的关注：
2.谈谈你的看法并安慰和鼓励苏。
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体操 gymnastics                      单杠 horizontal bar
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Dear Su Weide,

I’ ve closely watched the exciting 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Yours,

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2 . Most people know how to manage, express, and cope with emotions in a healthy way. ________ In fact, knowing how to regulate emotions is important for everyone. But what is emotion regulation, and how can you improve your emotion regulation skills?

A．Emotion regulation goals vary strongly from situation to situation.

B．For some people, though, emotion regulation is much more difficult.

C．Emotion regulation refers to the ability to control one's own emotions.

D．Sometimes you may regulate your emotions to achieve another end goal.

3 . People of all ages and times are constantly looking for the elixir (灵丹妙药) to good health. Yet, lots of scientific research has suggested that the secret of better health might simply be staying happy.

Most studies suggest that happiness improves physical health. Laura Kubzansky, a researcher, conducted a study on over 6000 men and women aged 25 to 74 for 20 years, and found that happiness appears to reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (冠心病) by half, and helps one avoid or manage diseases such as heart attack and stroke (中风). Kubzansky also found that children who displayed a sunny outlook at age seven reported better general health and fewer illnesses 30 years later. There are also suggestions that negative emotions could result in people making certain lifestyle choices such as an unhealthy diet and excessive (过度的) drinking that in turn result in poorer health.

Sometimes, happiness can provide the emotional adrenaline (肾上腺素) to face life’s toughest challenges. America’s Jane Marczewski was battling with cancer when she received a golden buzzer (金峰鸣奖) at her audition at America’s Got Talent in 2021. Her ability to stay positive, despite being given a two percent chance to survive and her husband wanting a divorce, shocked millions across the globe. While being happy did not cure her cancer or save her marriage, her optimistic outlook pushed her to pursue her dream as a singer and songwriter, and even encouraged many people to stay hopeful and not give up.

However, too much happiness can come at the price of health. When people are excessively happy, they tend to completely ignore the risks that surround them. They then tend to engage in riskier behaviour such as excessive alcohol consumption or binge eating (大吃大喝). This can cause physical and psychological harm.

With the strong connection between happiness and good health, there are good reasons to keep ourselves happy. No matter what our circumstances are, we can do something to boost our emotional vitality, and do our best to keep healthy. We only have to remember to experience happiness in moderation (适度) and not take it to the extremes.

1. What does Kubzansky’s study show?

A．People will become happier with time going by.

B．Happiness helps reduce the risk of stroke by half.

C．Negative emotions hardly affects people’s lifestyle.

D．Being happy contributes to preventing certain illnesses.

2. How does the author present his view in paragraph 3?

A．By giving an example.	B．By listing some figures.
C．By making a comparison.	D．By analyzing causes and effects.

3. What is the main idea of paragraph 4?

A．Happy people tend to overrate risks.

B．Riskier behaviour is related to low spirits.

C．Too much happiness can cause health problems.

D．Excessive happiness won’t cause mental problems.

4. Which of the following may the author agree with?

A．Being happy helps us only in hard situations.

B．Experiencing excessive happiness is beneficial to us.

C．Putting happiness first in any circumstances is reasonable.

D．Having moderate happiness is helpful for us to keep healthy.

4 . Santos is a psychologist who also teaches a class on the science of happiness at Yale University.    1    

She had people write down either a few things every day that they were grateful for or a few things every day that she called “burdens”.     2     She found that the act of listing what you’re grateful for over time can actually significantly improve well-being, even in just a couple of weeks,whereas the act of grabbing the things that you don’t like in life doesn’t help your well-being.

If you express gratitude to the people you care about, you can end up boosting those relationships. Often, researchers have subjects do what’s called a gratitude visit. They ask subjects to scribble (潦草地写) down a few things they’re really grateful for about a person they haven’t thanked.     3     People who receive these letters report that it’s one of the most pleasant moments in their life. But more amazingly, these gratitude visits also help the person who expresses the gratefulness.

    4     It works if you can contrast what you want with the gritty (活生生的) reality of the situation. Carey Morewedge and colleagues have subjects imagine eating a bunch of chocolate, and he finds that you don’t really want to eat the chocolate anymore after you imagine eating them.    5     When we fantasize about positive things in our lives, we can think we’ve already achieved our goals or completed our tasks.

A．Another tip is positive thinking.

B．These things showed different impacts.

C．So they can meet to show each other’s burdens.

D．You did it enough in your brain that you’re almost full.

E．Then, they have them meet in person and read the letter.

F．It is considered the most popular course in the university’s history.

G．Meeting up in person sometimes isn’t really an option for a lot of people.

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6 . “Not only is it okay to not feel ‘okay’. it is essential.” Dr. Zuckerman, a licensed clinical psychologist, said. So crying after you get into a fight with your partner is also normal. as is feeling anxious and scared about an uncertain future. When we think we might lose something we care about, that’s sad.     1     . We should let ourselves, and other people in our lives, feel these things as they come up.

    2    . The more we avoid internal unease, the more isolated we can become, the more anxious we can get, and the more depressed we can feel. We need to not only feel. but also acknowledge our legitimate emotional responses to situations. Efforts to avoid or ignore them can isolate us during times of need.

You may feel you’re being supportive by sending positive affirmations to a friend who is going through a difficult time.     3     . Your positive affirmations create the idea that your friend is in some way incapable of handling their feelings.

When you’re lending an car to someone in distress, Dr. Zuckerman suggests avoiding phrases like: It’ll be fine.     4     . What’s there to cry about? Instead, she suggests using phrases that affirm the other persons feelings and lets them know you are here to support them without expectation: It is okay to not feel okay right now. You’re allowed to feel this way.

Feel your feelings. Sit with them. Let them pass.     5    

A．Just smile, stop worrying!

B．You should feel whatever emotions you want to.

C．When we don’t know what to expect next, that’s scary.

D．By hiding our discomfort, we’re only adding fuel to fire.

E．Never feel ashamed or embarrassed of being sad and afraid.

F．But in reality, you may be invalidating their feelings and harming them.

G．And allow others ride the wave of whatever emotions they’re feeling too.

7 . There is an upside to feeling angry. According to research, anger is more helpful at motivating people to overcome obstacles and meet goals than a neutral emotional state.

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Being relentlessly positive and leaning on happy platitudes (陈词滥调), also known as “toxic positivity," can harm us. Most positivity lingo (行话) lacks minor difference, compassion and curiosity and it comes in the form of blanket statements that tell someone how to feel. The truth is that we are born with all the emotions and we evolved to experience negative emotions, including anger.

Unpack your anger

The first step is to recognize that you're angry. Ask yourself: What am I feeling right now? What is this about?     2    Anger can also derive from emotions that shake us up, like shame, humiliation or the feeling of being unappreciated, or when we sense that our beliefs or values are under attack.

Set a healthy goal

When anger surfaces, it is important to remember your overall goal. Expressing anger and having a confrontational discussion can improve the relationship, provided that your goal is to strengthen the relationship, express your needs or come to a compromise.     3    

Learn to harness anger at work

    4     For example, someone who didn't receive the annual review or promotion they wanted could use that anger to plan out steps to do better next year.

Finally, be cautious about releasing

Finding an outlet can feelgood.       5     Try to get social support from people who can be objective.

A．Embrace your anger

B．Dismiss your positivity

C．But it doesn't generally produce solutions.

D．We get angry when we feel there's an obstacle that is impeding us.

E．In the workplace, you can channel angry energy to achieve performance related goals.

F．It's actually a life that's balanced by a mix of emotions that seems to be more satisfying and positive long-term.

G．But if you mainly care about being right and winning the argument, then that could lead you to be aggressive with them in away that is harmful.

8 . The easiest way to love yourself is to treat yourself like your own BFF. It might seem like it’s easier to love others than to love yourself, but it’s tough to build healthy relationships if you don’t love yourself first.     1    

Let go of negative thoughts about yourself. Drill down to the core of those thoughts and tell yourself a different story. Think about what you would say to a friend who said those things about themselves. For example, if you forgot to buy trash bags, instead of blaming yourself, you might as well think, “I’ll just pick some up next time I go out — no big deal.” Don’t try to fight negative thoughts, though — they’re a part of who you are.     2     It might feel weird at first, but after a while, it becomes habitual to think that way.

Accept your flaws as part of who you are. Everything you’ve done and everywhere you’ve been is a part of who you are — you! Self-love isn’t about fixing all the “bad” things about yourself. Instead, accept that they’re all parts of the same whole.     3     For example, maybe you have a hard time trusting people. You wish you could be more trusting and open up more, but instead of trying to change, focus on how not immediately trusting people helps keep you safe.

    4     If you expect yourself to be perfect all the time, you’ll never be pleased with anything you produce. So make it a point to appreciate the work you put into completing a task, rather than looking for flaws in what you produced. Avoid stereotypical ideas and images of perfection, such as models in beauty magazines. Remind yourself that the actual person probably doesn’t look like that in real life!

Practice gratitude for good things rather than focusing on the negative. It’s human nature to see negative things as bigger and more important than positive things, but this also does tremendous damage to your self-esteem.     5     Look for the positive side even when bad things happen to you. For example, if you lose your job, it can be easy to spiral into thinking that you were terrible at your job and no one will ever hire you again. Instead, you might think that now you have the opportunity to find something that’s a better fit for you.

A．Focus on your effort rather than the result to control perfectionism.

B．Challenge those thoughts with logical observations to reframe your conclusion.

C．Instead, you can simply drown them out with more positive, affirmative thoughts.

D．When you love yourself, you love all of you because you wouldn’t have the good without the bad.

E．Here are some strategies that can help you embark on a journey of treating yourself with kindness.

F．Negative thoughts often come from outside people whose opinions we value.

G．When you focus on the negative, try to name some things that you can be grateful for.

9 . It’s normal to feel anxious during stressful times in life, but if you’re experiencing continuous anxiety that disturbs your daily life, you may have an anxiety disorder.     1     However, anxiety is typically manageable or treatable with a little effort. This article will provide several ways to cope with and treat anxiety.

    2     Keeping track of things that bring on or worsen anxiety symptoms will allow you to recognize when they are happening and what causes them. Is something in your environment the primary source? Is a pressing activity, meeting, or event the cause? You can handle a fear much easier when you are clear about what it is.

Breathe deeply. When you get anxious, your breathing quickens, which reduces the amount of oxygen your brain gets.     3     Take a moment to focus on taking deep belly breaths. Inhale for 4 seconds, hold the breath for 4 seconds, and then release it for 4 seconds. Doing this for 1 — 2 minutes should help to calm your nerves quickly. If you are confused about where you should be breathing from, put your hands on your stomach. Feel it rise and fall as you breathe.

Socialize. Anxiety can make it tempting to isolate, especially when symptoms are at their worst. Staying in touch with friends and loved ones serves as a protective factor against anxiety. Try planning at least one social event per week and following through even as your anxiety increases.     4     It can be found online or by asking a mental health provider for recommendations.

Try not to jump to conclusions. If you lack facts and have yet to experience your worry or fear, then jumping to conclusions about what might happen will do you no good. If an uncertainty lays before you, you can reduce your anxiety by realizing (and admitting) that you don’t know what may happen.     5    

A．Identify the source of your anxiety.

B．Track the relief strategies you tried.

C．Attending an anxiety support group can also be helpful.

D．It can have a negative influence on your health and well-being.

E．This makes it unable to think clearly and form logical reasoning

F．Consider all possible outcomes, rather than come up with the most unlikely.

G．Having the ability to cope with anxious thoughts is the key to overcoming it.

10 . Negative emotions have a bad reputation: they’re often seen as dangerous or destructive.     1     But research reveals that negative emotions are useful for people and important for a successful and satisfying life.

In a recent study, we tested this idea for the case of anger. We designed a series of experiments with more than 1, 000 participants. We found that people who got mad first were more successful than the other participants.     2     When the goals were not challenging, getting angry did not improve outcomes.

    3     Here the story becomes more complicated. The findings do not mean that everyone should get angry in order to achieve their goals. But anger clearly can be useful in overcoming obstacles. Let us say, anger at a crashing computer could motivate someone to take it to a repair shop. But it could also motivate them to smash the computer on the floor.     4     Yet only one is truly beneficial. This complication in using our negative emotions contributes to their bad reputation. Fortunately, there is a lot of research on how to improve responses to negative emotions like anger. No doubt the best response is not to focus on what’s happening but to respond to achieve the desired outcome.

Negative emotions aren’t bad. They are incredibly important indicators that significant events are taking place.     5    

A．But what does this mean for people’s life?

B．People try to avoid them, contain them or ignore them.

C．Across our studies, anger helped achieve challenging goals.

D．Both actions have removed the obstacle: the crashing computer.

E．So the next time one happens, don’t push it away-pay attention.

F．When you are angry, you experience physical and emotional pain.

G．In the midst of anger, however, it can be very easy to make careless mistakes.