Question

听下面一段独白，回答以下小题。

1.What made the speaker decide to study psychology?

A. Her family background.

B. Her observation of adults.

C. Her education at university.

2.Which group did the speaker study first?

A. University students. B. Creative people. C. Ordinary people.

3.What can we learn from the “experience examining method”?

A. People are happier when concentrating hard.

B. Creative people are happier than other people.

C. People’s happiness depends on who they are with.

4.What does the speaker think of her study?

A. Disappointing. B. Confusing. C. Exciting.

Answer

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.C

【解析】

W: I’m Rachel from the University of Chicago. I’ve been attracted by happiness most of my life. When I was a small girl, I noticed that though many of the adults around me were wealthy and educated, they were not happy and this sometimes led them to behave in strange ways. As a result of this, I wanted to understand what happiness was and how to achieve it. It was surprising, then, that I decided to study psychology.

When I was at university, I tried to discover what made people happy. I started out by studying creative people such as musicians, artists and actors because they were people who devoted their lives to doing what they wanted to do, rather than things that brought them money. Later I expanded the study by inventing a system called the “experience examining method”. Ordinary people were asked to keep an electronic machine for a week which gave out a sound eight times a day. Every time it did so, they wrote down where they were, what they were doing, how they felt and how much they were concentrating. The answers are in agreement with my previous study:like creative people, ordinary people are happiest when concentrating hard.

I found that the most obvious cause of happiness is concentration. I have spent my life in studying happiness and now, as I look back, I wonder if I have achieved it. Overall, I think I have, and my belief that I have found the key to its secret has increased my happiness greatly.

1.此题为听力题，解析略。

2.此题为听力题，解析略。

3.此题为听力题，解析略。

4.此题为听力题，解析略。