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                                                "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 ( 大腦皮層), 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 (思維模式), 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.

1. bother/ annoy
2. anxiety/ concern/ worr
3. considerate/ aware/ conscious
4. loyal/ faithful/ devoted/ committed
5. difference
6. positively
7. success/ achievements
8. strongly
9. determined/ decided
10. chances/ possibilities/ opportunities
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A. Three.     
B. Four.
C. Five.
D. Six.
4. What is the writer's purpose in writing the passage?
A. To introduce various methods of tea processing.
B. To persuade readers to buy tea from Sri Lanka.
C. To tell a story that had happened in the tea gardens.
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farmers is the part over 65. Merrigan is afraid the average age will be even higher when the 2012 statistics are completed.
     Merrigan, a former college professor, is making stops at universities across the country in hopes of
encouraging more students to think about careers in agriculture. Aside from trying to stop the graying of
America's farmers, her work is made tougher by a recent blog posting that put agriculture at No. 1 on a
list of "useless" college degrees. Top federal agriculture officials are talking about the posting, and it has
the attention of agricultural organizations across the country.
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production by 2050, she said.
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high, and global supplies are at all-time record lows," said Matt Rush, director of the Texas Farm
     Bureau. "Production costs are going to be valuable enough that younger people are going to have the
opportunity to be involved in agriculture."
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interest in locally grown food. The National Young Farmers' Coalition has also been pushing for state and
federal policy changes to make it easier for new farmers.
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B. Higher fuel prices.
C. More natural disasters.      
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2. Why is Merrigan visiting universities across the country?
A. To draw federal agriculture officials' attention.
B. To select qualified agriculture graduates.
C. To clarify a recent blog posting.
D. To talk more students into farming careers.
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    because__________..
A. the government will cover production costs
B. global food supplies will be even lower
C. investment in agriculture will be profitable
D. America will increase its food export
4. What do the underlined words "to turn around the statistics" in the last paragraph mean?
A. To re-analyze the result of the national census.
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     Children's Storybooks and Tales: This site is dedicated to Children's Story Books and how to tell
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     The Cat in the Hat-Dr. Seuss
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household of two young children on one rainy day while their mother is out. Bringing with him two
creatures appropriately named Thing One and Thing Two, the Cat performs all sorts of tricks to amuse
the children, with mixed results. The Cat's tricks are vainly opposed by the family pet, who is a conscious
goldfish. The children (Sally and her older brother) finally prove good ones, capturing the Things and
bringing the Cat under control. He cleans up the house on his way out, disappearing seconds before the
mother comes back.
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sequence (順序) began life in 1942, when the first book, Fire on a Treasure Island was published and it
has won great praise from both fans and critics. The series has gone on to become amongst the
best-loved stories ever to have been written for children.
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beloved stuffed monkey, Pippo. Ms. Oxenbury remarked that Tom was very much like her son "when
he was a little boy". Like Tom, her son would often blame his misdeeds on his trusted buddy, the friendly
family dog.
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"witching hour" and sees a giant blowing something into bedroom windows down the street. The giant
sees her, and although she tries to hide in the bed, he reaches through the window and carries her away
to his home.
1. It can be inferred from the The Cat in the Hat that ________.
A. the goldfish likes to keep company with the cat
B. all tricks performed by the cat are not amusing
C. Sally has to clean up the house before her mother comes back
D. the cat finally takes control of the Things
2. From the book Tom and Pippo in the Garden, we know ________.
A. Pippo is a naughty dog causing trouble in the family
B. Tom likes to keep a pet dog at home
C. Ms. Oxenbury complained about her son's dishonesty
D. Pippo always gets the blame for everything that goes wrong
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A. when magic things can happen
B. when a girl can't fall asleep
C. when a person dreams a nightmare
D. when a child can be taken away
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A. Children.
B. Parents.
C. Teachers.
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