問題詳情

You’re driving on the freeway and a reckless motorist cuts you off. According to psychologists, you havethree choices. You can vent. (Scream, “You moron!”) You can turn your anger inside. (Tell yourself, “It was myfault anyway.”) Or you can wait until your temper cools and reflect. (“Some people just don’t drive safely.”) Youmay not choose the last option, but studies show that you’d be healthier if you did.  The second choice, burying your anger, has negative effects. For instance, a 1986 study found that peoplewho regularly quashed their anger were more than twice likely to die in the next twelve years as people whorecognized and expressed angry feelings. Besides causing physical ailments, suppressed anger can causeemotional problems. If you feel resentful but don’t do anything about it, you’re apt to take it out on an innocentparty. In time, such displaced anger can wreak havoc on your relationships. And it can lead to depression. What’smore, you let the real source of your anger off the hook. “Anger is a typical response to a threat,” “Deny it andyou give power to the threat.”  The first choice, venting all the time, isn’t the answer either. Long-term studies at Duke University foundthat people who respond to anger in a hostile manner and who see others’ motives as unfriendly have an increasedrisk of heart disease. They suffer a higher death rate in general. So, are you damned if you do, damned if you don’t? Not really. The key lies in selecting what you willexpress anger about. “A lot of us get aggravated by petty things like traffic, says Dr. Redford Smith, a professor ofDuck University. “If you go around looking for things to screw up your life, you’ll find them.” Instead, recognizethat annoying things will happen. But try not to take them personally. In other words, always pick your battles.
【題組】67 What is the best title for this passage?
(A) Anger is Bad for Health
(B) How Anger Affects You
(C) Stop Being Angry
(D) Treat People with Love, not Anger

參考答案

答案：B
難度：簡單0.8
統計：A(1),B(4),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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