Recently my husband had his Achilles tendon(跟腱) cut when feeding a chicken. When sitting in the doctor’s office waiting for surgery stressfully, I decided to treat myself for a minute and start to read about “The Little House on the Prairie”. Suddenly I felt my life seemed like a slack(懈。 compared to the Ingalls who do all their washing and cooking but they feel so happy. Their every happiness is created from the work with their own hands. Yet I’m walking around feeling sorry for myself because I’m picking up the slack! So I’m thinking “Work it out! Get up and get busy.”
It really is true. I realize that I’m happiest when accomplishing tangible(有形的) productive work—working in the yard and washing my dishes—brings me happiness. This does not surprise Kelly Lambert Ph.D. She has been researching the phenomenon she calls “effort-rewards”. When you do meaningful work with your hands, a kind of neurochemical feedback floods your brain with dopamine and serotonin. These happy brain chemicals are natural antidepressants, and we’ve evolved to release them both to reward ourselves for working with our hands and to motivate ourselves to do it some more. Dr. Lambert says Americans have become more depressed in recent years and at the same time we’ve experienced a decrease in purposeful physical activity. Did we lose something vital to our mental health when we started pushing buttons instead of ploughing the fields?
Dr. Pansinski says she gets that happy look when she prepares a meal at the end of a day. “We are programmed to reward ourselves when we accomplish things with our hands. For so many people, it just feels as though everything’s going so fast—life, kids, hundreds of e-mails a day. There is so little you can really see and hold on to. Working with one’s hands is a way to slow down, to take pleasure in life again.”
1.Before reading “The Little House On the Prairie”, the writer might think the Ingalls were ________.
A. unknown B. hardworking
C. foolish D. unhappy
2.The writer develops the first paragraph in a way of ________.
A. giving an example B. making a comparison
C. analyzing a cause D. asking a question
3.From Kelly Lambert Ph. D, we know that ________.
A. her “effort-rewards” is popular among American people
B. working with our hands makes our brain tired easily
C. a decrease in physical work causes people in low mood.
D. we should work with our hands instead of using machine
4.From what Dr. Pansinski says, we can conclude that ________.
A. time and tide wait for no man
B. we should lower our expectation for life
C. it’s better to leave today’s work to tomorrow
D. we should never hurry our life too much
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Accident rates for self-driving cars have been much lower than the rate, for human-driven cars. 1.
As humans, we can make moral choices in avoiding accidents. To avoid hitting a child, for example, human drivers might sharply turn a car away from the child even if others may be injured. 2. Researchers studied this issue. They have developed the Moral Machine website to help explore the choices self-driving cars should make.
3. . You are shown two possible traffic situations and you choose between them. An accident will take place. You choose how many living beings would be hurt or killed.
In one situation there may be a female doctor, a child, two dogs and a homeless person who would be killed. In the other situation, you might have two babies and a cat who would be killed. 4.
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B. Then the next situation appears.
C. You choose who lives and who dies.
D. You can use the Moral Machine to be the judge.
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F. The Moral Machine website lets you choose how you would react in a collision.
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