大一英语作业

2016.1.18作业 Unit5 The Happy Door

Happiness is like a pebble dropped into a pool to set in motion an ever-widening circles of ripples.

As Stevenson has said，being happy is a duty. There is no exact definition of the word happiness. Happy people are happy for all sorts of reasons.

The key is not wealth or physical well一being，since we find beggars, invalids and so called failures who are extremely happy. Being happy is a sort of unexpected dividend.

But staying happy is an accomplishment, a triumph of soul and character. It is not selfish to strive for it.

It is, indeed, a duty to ourselves and others.

Being unhappy is like an infectious disease;it causes people to shrink away from the sufferer.

He soon finds himself alone, miserable and embittered.

There is，however, a cure so simple as to seem，at first glance, ridiculous: If you don't feel happy, pretend to be! It works.

Before long you will find that instead of repelling people，you attract them. You discover how deeply rewarding it is to be the center of wider and wider circles of good will.

Then the make一believe becomes a reality.

You possess the secret of peace of mind，and can forget yourself in being of service to others.

Being happy, once it is realized as a duty and established as a habit，opens doors into unimaginable gardens thronged with gratefuls friends. 第五课 开启快乐之门

快乐好似扔入池子里的一颗石头，会激起不断扩散的阵阵涟漪。 正如史蒂文森所言:“快乐是一种责任。” 快乐这个字眼并没有精确的定义。 快乐的人可以因种种理由而快乐。

其关键并非财富或健康，因为我们可以发现有些乞丐、病弱的人与所谓的失败者他们却是非常快乐。

能快乐就是一种意想不到的好处。

而能保持快乐却是一项成就，也是心灵与品德上的胜利。 努力追求快乐不算是自私。

事实上，追求快乐不仅是对自己也是对别人的一种责任。 郁闷不乐就像是一种传染病;得了这种病的人大家都避之如蛇蝎。 他很快就会发现自己孤单、痛苦、难过。

不过，有一种很简单的治疗方法，乍看之下似乎很可笑:那就是如果你觉得不快乐，就假装快乐吧! 这个方法很有效。

你很快就会发现自己非但不会赶人走，反而还能吸引人。 你会发现能成为广结善缘的中心人物，这是多么值得的事。 于是原本的假快乐就变成了真快乐。

你拥有心灵平静的秘诀，能够忘情于服务人群之中。

一旦快乐被当作一种责任来履行并养成习惯时，它就会开启大门引领我们进入想像不到的花园，而里面都是满怀感激的朋友。

BBC新闻1 Vocabulary词汇: take it to heart 对某事上心，认真对待 stepped up to the plate 开始行动 other half 另一半（那一位） obstacle course 障碍赛 ups and downs坎坷，起伏 Transcript: A loving couple should support one another, and here in Maine, in the US, they take it to heart. Fifty men stepped up to the plate at the annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship. The men carry their other half through a 250-metre obstacle course as fast as they can. And like in every relationship, there are ups and downs. A couple of locals are this years winners, and the prize - her weight in beer and money. 这里是美国缅因州，一对恩爱的夫妻用心相互支持。 五十个男人开始参加北美年度背媳妇大赛。 男人背着媳妇以最快的速度跑250米的障碍赛。 跟任何关系都一样，都有跌宕起伏。 今年的获胜者是本地的一对夫妇，奖品是跟她体重一样多的啤酒及钞票。

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For decades, Americans have taken for granted the United States’position in the development of new technologies. The innovations(创新)that resulted from research and development during World War II and afterwards were(36)_____ to the prosperity of the nation in the second half of the 20th century. Those innovations, upon which virtually all aspects of(37)_____ society now depend, were possible because the United States (38)_____ then the world in mathematics and science education. Today, however, despite increasing demand for workers with strong skills in mathematics and science, the(39)_____ of degrees awarded in science, math, and engineering are decreasing.

The decline in degree production in what are called the STEM disciplines(science,

technology,

engineering,

and

math.)seems

to

be(40)_____related to the comparatively weak performance by U.S. schoolchildren on international assessments of math and science. Many students entering college have weak skills in mathematics. According to the 2005 report of the Business Higher Education Forum, 22 percent of college freshmen must take remedial(补习的)math(41)_____, and less than half of the students who plan to major in science or engineering(42)_____complete a major in those fields.

The result has been a decrease in the number of American college graduates who have the skills, (43)_____ in mathematics, to power a workforce that can keep the country at the forefront(前言)of innovation and maintain its standard of living. With the(44)_____ performance of American students in math and science has come increased competition from students from other countries that have