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请认真阅读下列短文,并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意:请将答案写在答题卡上相应题号的横线上。每个空格只填一个单词。
“Happiness Advantage” Effect
In July 2010 Burt’s Bees, a personal-care products company, was going through enormous change as it began a global expansion into 19 new countries. In this kind of high-pressure situation, many leaders bother their assistants with frequent meetings or flood their in-boxes with urgent demands. In doing so, managers lift everyone’s anxiety level, which activates the part of the brain that processes threats and steals resources from the prefrontal cortex ( 大脑皮层), which is responsible for effective problem solving.
Burt’s Bees’s then-CEO, John Wolfgang, took a different approach. Each day, he’d send out an e-mail praising a team member for work related to global marketing. He’d interrupt his own presentations to remind his managers to talk with their teams about the company’s values. He asked me to further a three-hour session with employees on happiness in the course of the expansion effort. As one member of the senior team told me a year later, Wolfgang’s emphasis on developing positive leadership kept his managers actively involved and loyal as they successfully transformed the company into a global one.
That outcome shouldn’t surprise us. Research shows that when people work with a positive mind-set (思维模式), performance on nearly every level—productivity, creativity, involvement— improves. Yet happiness is perhaps the most misunderstood driver of performance. For one, most people believe that success comes before happiness. “Once I get a promotion, I’ll be happy,” they think. Or, “Once I hit my sales target, I’ll feel great. ”But because success is a moving target—as soon as you hit your target, you raise it again—the happiness that results from success does not last long.
In fact, it works the other way around: People who have a positive mind-set perform better in the face of challenge. I call this the “ happiness advantage”—every business outcome shows improvement when the brain is positive. I’ve observed this effect in my role as a researcher and lecturer in 48 countries on the connection between employee happiness and success. And I’m not alone: In an analysis of 225 academic studies, researchers found strong evidence of cause-and-effect relationship between life satisfaction and successful business outcomes.
Another common misunderstanding is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of the two determines how happy we are. To be sure, both factors have an impact. But one’s general sense of well-being is surprisingly unstable. The habits you form, the way you interact with colleagues, how you think about stress—all these can be managed to increase your happiness and your chances of success.

答案

3

小题1:bother/ annoy
小题2:anxiety/ concern/ worry
小题3:considerate/ aware/ conscious
小题4:loyal/ faithful/ devoted/ committed
小题5:difference
小题6:positively
小题7:success/ achievements
小题8:strongly
小题9:determined/ decided
小题10:chances/ possibilities/ opportunities

解析

这是一篇说明文，从三方面介绍了“快乐优势” 效应：一种常见的管理方法；独特之处；研究发现积极思考的人表现更好。
小题1:考查原文。根据首段第二句“…, many leaders bother their assistants with frequent meetings…”可知。bother/ annoy“烦扰”
小题2:考查原文。根据首段尾句“…, managers lift everyone’s anxiety leverl,…”anxiety/ concern/ worry“焦虑，担忧”
小题3:考查细节理解。根据第二段第二句“…praising a team member for work …”considerate/ aware/ conscious“体谅，意识到……”
小题4:考查细节理解。根据第二段第三句“…to remind his managers to talk with their teams about the company’s values”可知。be loyal/ faithful/ devoted/ committed to“对……忠诚（虔诚）”
小题5:考查细节理解。根据第三段“…when people with a positive mind-set(思维模式), performance on nearly every level-…improves”可知。make a (big) difference to“对……有（巨大）影响”
小题6:考查词性转换。根据第三、四段首句“…with a positive mind-set”“…have a positive mind-set”可知。positively“积极地”
小题7:考查原文。根据第三段尾句“…-the happiness that result from success does not last long”可知。success/ achievements“成功（成就）”
小题8:考查词性转换。根据第四段尾句“…researchers found strong evidence of…”可知。strongly proved“有力地证明了”
小题9:考查语态转换。根据尾段首句“Another common misunderstanding is that our genetics, our environment, or a combination of the two determines how happy we are.”可知。be determined/ decided“由……决定”
小题10:考查原文。根据尾段尾句“…-all these can be managed to increase your happiness and your chances of success.”可知。There are chances/ possibilities/ opportunities“有…..的可能性”