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II Discourse Structure ( 10%)The other day, I had one of those moments which must be unique to this particular historical moment: I put anopinion on the Internet and got some incredibly mean comments in response. I was upset. I left the house with my dog,who is exceptionally cute, and a stranger, noticing this, smiled at him and then at me. I smiled back. I felt a little better.Dr. Barbara Fredrickson is a researcher who would have named my experience with the stranger a micromomentof positivity resonance — a shared positive emotion. She calls this the body’s definition of love. Love isn’t, she contends,the kind of exclusive lifelong bonds we try to create with our romantic partners. 1 Through her lab research,Fredrickson found that our bodies and brains respond positively to connection with other human beings, no matter howwell we know the other person. Laughing at the same joke, hugging a friend you haven’t seen in a while, or mutuallyacknowledging the cuteness of someone’s dog are examples of the kind of love our bodies respond to and, Fredricksonargues, need to survive.Right now, the US is especially divided, and there is a lot of anger and frustration in the air. As far as I can tell,neither side is particularly able to see the point of view of the other, and both sides feel betrayed and silenced in one wayor another. 2 It’s exhausting, and it can feel impossible to stay strong enough to fight for what we believe to beright when it feels like all we are experiencing is hate.Feeling this way — not to mention our constant exposure to a fear-focused 24 hour news cycle — keeps us in thesympathetic nervous system, the “fight or flight” mode. 3 Too much stress blocks our ability to love. Love,however, is the cure to stress.4 We don’t need a romantic partner to feel it. And we can increase our exposure to it simply by beingwilling to connect with others over positive moments and really noticing when that connection happens.This is a difficult time for many of us, and it’s important to show up to that and deal with it and talk about it andtry to figure out how to share the planet with our global community. 5 We can still be engaging with all thedifficult realities of today’s world, but we can (and, perhaps, must) stay connected to each other. In difficult times, let’sremember love, seek it out, and let it help us keep fighting for what matters.
(A)There is a positivity spiral that may be more powerful than the kind of negativity spiral we see with depression.
(B) It’s something you can stumble across many different times in a day.
(C) The good news is that love, according to Fredrickson’s definition at least, really isn’t that hard to find.
(D) I don’t know the solution to this, but I do know that our bodies get depleted when we are constantly steeped in angerand frustration.
(E) Positive words, like “peace” and “love,” can alter the expression of genes, strengthening areas in our front lobes andpromoting the cognitive functioning of the brain.(F) In order to heal and digest, we need to step into the parasympathetic nervous system, which Fredrickson calls the“calm and connect” response.(G) But it is absolutely vital that we take time out to be with people we connect to, whether that’s through affection,laughter, or just spending time enjoying each other’s company.
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答案：A,C
難度：非常困難0
統計：A(0),B(7),C(1),D(0),E(2)

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