Module 5 The Conquest of the Universe 知识点题库

—________. We are playing for fun.Just try and you'll see you can do it.

—Yes.They are accustomed________at meals.

—But your actions aren't consistent________your words.

—Why run？There will be________one in two or three minutes.

　    After 22 years of marriage，I have discovered the secret to keeplove alive in my relationship with my wife，Peggy.Istarted dating another woman.

      Oneday Peggy said to me，“Lifeis too1 ， andyou need to spend time with the people you love.You probably won’t believe me，but I know you love her and I thinkthat if you spend more time with her，itwill make us2.”

The“other” woman my wife was encouraging me to3is my mother，a 72­year­old widow who has livedalone since my father420 years ago.Right after his death，I52,500 miles away to Californiaand started my own life and career.When I moved back near my hometown six yearsago，Ipromised myself that I would spend more time with my mom.But with the6of myjob and three kids，Inever got around to seeing her much7family get­togethers and holidays.

Momwas8and suspicious when I called and suggested the two of us go out todinner and a movie.

Wedidn’t go anywhere9 ， justa neighboring place where we could talk.10her eyes now see only largeshapes and shadows，Ihad to read the menu for her.

“Iused to be the11when you were little，”she said.

“Thenit is time for you to relax and let me12the favor，” I said.

Wehad a nice talk13dinner，justcatching up on each other's lives.We talked for so long that we14the movie.

     “15wasyour date？mywife asked when I got home that evening.”

“Nice...nicerthan I thought it would be，”I said.

      Momand I get out for16a couple of times a month.Sometimes we take in a movie，but17we talk.Through the talks，I know what it was like for her towork in a factory during the Second World War.I know how she met my fatherthere，andknow how they18the difficult times.I can’t get enough of these stories.Theyare19to me，apart of my history.

Peggywas right.Dating another woman has20my marriage.

Manyof us still tend to think that emotions can affect reasonablethought，and sometimes land us in trouble.Butin recent  years psychologists have takenquite a different view.Keith Oatley，Professorof Psychology at Glasgow University，isinvolved in the research which shows the fundamental importance of emotions.

Hebelieves we_are_very_ambivalent_about_them：we think of our emotions as beingunreasonable，butwe also consider them as essential to being human.For example，Mr Spock，acharacter in the television series StarTrek ， issuper­intelligent and he has no emotions at all.However，he is never made captain of thespaceship.Maybe，thisis because Mr Spock is not the kind of person you can share your feelingswith—a person who shows his emotions.

AsProfessor Oatley points out，ouremotions have very important functions，forexample，fear.Ifwe cross the road and a car approaches，weusually stop moving or step back.We stop what we are doing，check what we have done and pay verycareful attention to the environment.The emotion of fear makes us take thissmall series of actions which，onaverage，helppreserve our safety.

Onthe other hand，ifthings are going well and small problems come up，wefind we can solve them with the resources we have to hand.As a consequence，we tend to feel happy and usuallycontinue doing the job.

Angeris an emotion that tends to occur when someone is preventing   us from doing something.Then this small“kit” of reactions enables us to  prepareourselves to be quite aggressive to that person，orto try harder，andso on.

ProfessorOatley believes emotions generally occur at these important moments in actions.Withfear and anger our emotions make us decide to start  doing something else，while with happiness they “suggest” wecontinue what we are already doing.

       Many people believe that teaching children music makes them smarter, better able to learn new things. But the organizers of a new study say there's no scientific evidence that early musical training affects the intelligence of young people.

       An estimated 80 percent of American adults think music lessons improve children's ability to learn or their performance in school. They, say that the satisfaction for learning to play a new song helps a child express creativity.

        Researchers at Harvard University, however, have found that there's one thing musical training does not do. They say it does not make children more intelligent. Samuel Mehr is a graduate student at Harvard's School of Education. He said it is wrong to think that learning to play a musical instrument improves a child's intellectual development. He says the evidence comes from studies that measured the mental ability of two groups of 4­year­olds and their parents. One group attended music class, the other went to a class that places importance on the visual arts—arts that can be seen.

    “The evidence there is ‘no’. We found no evidence for any advantage on any of these tests for the kids participating in these music classes，” said Mehr. Samuel Mehr says researchers have carried out many studies in an effort to learn whether musical training can make children smarter. He says the results have been mixed. He says only one study seems to show a small percentage increase in IQ, intellectual scores among students after one year of music lessons. He does not believe that IQ is a good measure of child's intelligence. He says researchers in his study compared how well children in the musical training group did on mental processing tasks or projects, then the results were compared to those of children who did not take lessons. There was no evidence that the musical training group did much better on the mental tasks than the other group.

        The researchers confirmed the results with a larger group of children and their parents. Mr. Mehr says music lessons may not offer children a fast easy way to gain entry to the best schools later in their life. But he says the training is still important for cultural reasons. In his words, “We teach music because music is important for us.”

        Are  you new to experiencing relationships? Well, let me give you advice on having ahealthy and possibly long­term relationship.

.Do not hide things from them, do not lie. Don't be afraid to say things thatisn't very flattering about yourself. Getting them to trust you is the mostimportant element in any relationship. If there's no trust, there's nothingthere. So please be honest and they'll learn to open up to you.

          Make sure you give them respect. Now respect isn't just simply treating her or himnicely. There' s a lot more to it. You have to learn to adjust to their liking.  Don't just think aboutyourself, think about what your partner needs out of it as well.

.Always be willing to help them and give them honesty and positivity at the sametime. Make them feel you are someone they can really count on and build afuture with. This is an important step in a relationship. Your partner has tobe able to count on you when needed.    

Makesure you have a good sense of humor with them. Laughter is the key tohappiness. Laugh a lot with them; joke with them. Laughter may seem silly, butit's the secret to a lot in life. It will keep the sparks alive..

      Make  sure the communication is good. This goes along with trust, but alwayscommunicate how you feel, even if it's something that upsets you. Instead ofscreaming, talk to them. . It's important to communicate this tothem, not keep it bottled up.