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2. I'm willing to do what it takes to keep Mr. Johnson from ____________ with
anger.
A. blowing B. firing C. expressing D. exploding
3. Oh, look! The glass in the box is all broken now. Mr. Johnson is going to ____________.
A. run furious B. rush into rage C. fly into a rage D. blow up fury
4. It's terrible. Big John is coming to town! _____________ your lives!
A. Run for B. Run with C. Escape to D. Escape at
5. The bartender nervously hands the big man a beer, _________.
A. hands shaken B. hands shaking
C. with his hands shake D. with his hands shaken
6. While the causal relationship is unclear, it is known that antidepressant
medications do ________ certain symptoms of depression.
A. easy B. loose C. relieve D. relax
7. You look depressed. Are you _________? I've come to cheer you up.
A. feeling cool B. feeling blue C. seeing red D. seeing sad
8. There's nothing that can cheer me up. I'm ______________. Life's a misery.
A. for the dumps B. against the dumps C. down with the dumps D. down in the dumps
9. You can't let things ______________. Learn to relax and stop worrying all the time.
A. get you down
B. have you down C. trip you around D. throw you up
10. Try to look ______ the bright side of things. You know the saying: Every
cloud has a silver lining.
A. on B. over C. with D. into
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Question 1
W: You're looking pretty pleased with yourself, like the cat that ate the
canary. What are you up to? M: Not much. I've just been elected team captain. Meow. Q: Why is the man pleased? Question 2
W: Hey, Joel, why are you so depressed?
M: My house is leaking, my bicycle is lost, and the exams are coming. I'm
really worried that I'll fail them all. Q: Which of the following is one of the causes of the man's depression?
Question 3
W: Look how beautiful the lake is with the sun setting on it. It gives me
a sense of happiness. M: I agree completely, but we should leave now; the football game starts at
eight o'clock, and we can't miss it. Q: What is the woman happy about? Question 4
M: You know I'm not a party animal, so I'm really fed up with Mary. She invites
her friends to party in our apartment every other day! W: Yeah. I know what you mean.
Q: How does the man feel about Mary having parties in their apartment? Question 5
M: Jane, I'm about to burst! Guess what, my boss approved my promotion to
sales manager. W: But I thought you were the sales manager already. Q: Which of the following is true?
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What is happiness? Where do you find it? If you have trouble answering those questions, you are not alone. Philosophers and scientists puzzled over them
for ages.
Probably you gave many of the same answers. Did you say happiness comes from music or good food or companionship? Perhaps you agreed with Chopin's lover
when she said, \is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.\
Those are the usual answers, but they do not constitute a complete definition of happiness. Happiness may also exist in unlikely places. Anne Frank, a Jewish girl, hid from Nazi soldiers in a small attic for two years. Food was scarce and the threat of death was never far away. Yet she recorded in
her diary frequent moments of happiness. The sight of new green leaves on tree tops brought her joy. Lord Nelson, the famous English admiral, found happiness when he was near death with a painful wound. After he learned he had defeated the enemy fleet, he spoke his last words with a smile: \God, I've done my duty.\even painful situation may also feel happy. Conversely, happiness may lead to an unhappy situation. In a workforce made up entirely of happy people, the competitive edge would soon be lost. On the other hand, mildly negative moods bring on the critical and analytical skills that are essential for business prosperity.
It may take centuries before philosophers and scientists can arrive at a clear definition of happiness.
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While it may not be surprising that job loss and the resulting financial
pressure can lead to depression, new study findings by Dr. Howard Price of the University of Ohio show that this and other negative consequences of unemployment can last for up to two years, even after a person gets another
job.
It is not simply the loss of employment that keeps individuals in a prolonged state of depression or otherwise poor health, but rather the series of negative events that follows that loss. It is the crises that follow job loss that are more damaging than the loss itself.
Dr. Price and his colleagues investigated the link between job loss and depression, damaged functioning and poor health in a study of 756
job-seekers who were involuntarily unemployed for roughly three months or less and had no hopes of being recalled to their former positions. The study participants were 33 years old, on average, and most had completed high school.
Overall, the financial pressure that resulted from the participants' unemployment led to a series of negative life events. For example, if some people lose their jobs, they may have difficulty making a car payment, which can cause them to lose their cars, and then lose their abilities to search
for jobs. In addition, losing healthcare benefits due to unemployment will affect a person's ability to care for a family member with a life-long illness, all of which can create a huge pressure on family relationships. Such negative events seem to have caused the study participants to have more symptoms of depression and a greater perception that they had lost personal
control, including lowered self-esteem, study findings indicate. Further, this depression and perceived loss of personal control remained evident in follow-ups conducted six months and two years later, when 60% and 71% of the study participants had been re-employed and were working at least 20 hours a week. What's more, the study participants' perceived loss of personal control led to reports of poor health and poor emotional functioning in daily tasks.