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四、閱讀測驗【請在下列各題中選出最適當的答案】 第一篇：     There’s a simple test to determine whether you’re generally an optimist, or a generally pessimist. When you see a glass,half filled with water, if you describe it as half full, you are an optimist. On the contrary, if you describe it as half empty, youare a pessimist. Optimists are often seen as the happy, healthy people who cheerfully overcome hardship and always see lightat the end of the tunnel. The glass-half-empty crowd, by contrast, are usually thought of as bringing everyone down and maybeeven making themselves ill in the process.    Being an optimist and/or a pessimist is a rather personalized way of managing feeling and emotions in response to whatis outside of you. When you try to get a job, no expert would advise that you think negatively. And no one would ever suggestthat you would be better off always looking out for the next dark cloud on the horizon. Here is a legitimate question to ponderon: can advice like this really reflect how things are or be helpful at all? Is it possible that maybe we got it wrong? Are theretimes when a little less optimism and little more pessimism could be helpful?     A recent study by Edward Chang, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, seems to indicate that thesituation is actually far more complex. A key conclusion is that pessimism is not “bad” and optimism “good”, but rather thatthey are both functional. As a matter of fact, optimism and pessimism can both serve us well, depending on the circumstances,in the management of emotions. It is easy to see that optimism can help us see silver lining to the dark cloud  and help usovercome worry and anxiety in difficult situations. What’s less often appreciated is the way pessimism can protect us fromdisappointment by keeping our expectations low. For example, if you were pessimistic about applying for a job you know youmight not get, then the blow of not getting the job would be less painful. By the same token, if you got the job, your joy wouldbe even more powerful because of your optimistic outlook. It is arguable that with emotional power, both optimism andpessimism enhance the view of reality with feelings that can lead us to action in a productive way.
51. Which of the following is the most appropriate title for the above passage?
(A) Optimists and Pessimists: Managing Power of Emotions
(B) Optimistic Productivity: A Quest for Emotional Strength
(C) Pessimists-Turned-Optimists: A Mind Game of Emotions
(D) Pessimism: Negativity Pays off

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答案：A
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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