首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Daydreaming Ⅰ. Daydreaming can be harmful because it was considered as A. a waste of time B. a 【1】______ of neurotic tende
Daydreaming Ⅰ. Daydreaming can be harmful because it was considered as A. a waste of time B. a 【1】______ of neurotic tende
admin
2014-04-28
35
问题
Daydreaming
Ⅰ. Daydreaming can be harmful because it was considered as
A. a waste of time
B. a 【1】______ of neurotic tendencies 【1】______
C. evidence of 【2】______ or an escape from 【2】______
life realities and responsibilities when it occurs 【3】______ 【3】______
Ⅱ. However, daydreaming can be beneficial
A. it is an effective technique of 【4】______ 【4】______
B. it contributes to
—intellectual growth
—powers of concentration
—the ability to 【5】______ with others 【5】______
C. it improves serf-control ability and enhances 【6】______ ability 【6】______
D. it improves a person’s ability to
—be better adapted to practical, immediate concerns
—solve everyday problems
—be more readily with new ideas
E. Historically, many successful people got their best ideas while
relaxing and daydreaming.
Ⅲ. How to make a positive daydreaming?
A. (7)_____ yourself as vividly as possible 【7】______
B. create an environment free from 【8】______ 【8】______
Ⅳ. General remarks
A. Suggestion: Put aside a few minutes’ daily, taking short 【9】______【9】______
B. Conclusion: Daydreaming, this 【10】______ investment, 【10】______
highly benefit you—physical and mental well-being.
【10】
Daydreaming
Good morning. Today I’d like to discuss with you an interesting topic, that is: daydreaming.
Daydreaming was generally considered either a waste of time or a symptom of neurotic tendencies, and habitual daydreaming was regarded as evidence of maladjustment or an escape from life realities and responsibilities. It was believed that habitual daydreaming would eventually distance people from society and reduce their effectiveness in coping with real problems. At its best, daydreaming was considered a compensatory substitute for the real things in life.
However, daydreaming can be beneficial. Recent research indicates that daydreaming is part of daily life and that a certain amount each day is essential for maintaining equilibrium. Daydreaming, science has discovered,is an effective relaxation technique. But its beneficial effects go beyond this.Experiments show that daydreaming significantly contributes to intellectual growth, powers of concentration, and the ability to interact and communicate with others.
In an experiment with schoolchildren in New York, Dr. Joan Freyberg observed improved concentration: "There was less running around, more happy feelings, more talking and playing in the group, and more attention paid to detail."
In another experiment at Yale University, Dr. Jerome Singer found that daydreaming resulted in improved self-control and enhanced creative thinking ability. Daydreaming, Singer pointed out, is one way individuals can improve upon reality. It is, he concluded, a powerful spur to achievement.
But the value of daydreaming does not stop here. It has been found that it improves a person’s ability to be better adapted to practical, immediate concerns, to solve everyday problems, and to come up more readily with new ideas. Contrary to popular belief, constant and conscious effort at solving a problem is, in reality, one of the most inefficient ways of coping with it. While conscious initial effort is always necessary, effective solutions to especially severe problems frequently occur when conscious attempts to solve them have been put off. Inability to relax, to let go of a problem, often prevents its solution.
Historically, scientists and inventors are one group that seems to take full advantage of relaxed moments. Their biographies reveal that their best ideas seem to have occurred when they were relaxing and daydreaming. It is well known, for example, that Newton solved many of his toughest problems when his attention was waylaid by private musings. Thomas Alva Edison also knew the value of "half waking" states. Whenever confronted with a task which seemed too hard to be dealt with, he would stretch out on his laboratory sofa and let fantasies flood his mind.
Painters, writers, and composers also have drawn heavily on their sensitivity to inner fantasies. Debussy used to gaze at the River Seine and the golden reflections of the setting sun to establish an atmosphere for creativity. Brahms found that ideas came effortless only when he approached a state of deep daydreaming. And Cesar Frank is said to have walked around with a dreamlike gaze while composing, seemingly totally unaware of his surroundings.
Many successful people actually daydreamed their successes and achievements long before they realized them. Henry J. Kaiser maintained that "you can imagine your future" and he believed that a great part of his business success was due to positive use of daydreams. Harry S. Truman said that he used daydreaming for rest. Conrad Hilton dreamed of operating a hotel when he was a boy. He recalled that all his accomplishments were first realized in his imagination.
Great living starts with a picture, held in some person’s imagination, of what he would like someday to do or be. Florence Nightingale dreamed of being a nurse. Edison pictured himself an inventor; all such characters escaped the mere push of circumstance by imagining a future so vividly that they headed for it? These are the words of the well-known thinker Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, and they show that people can literally daydream themselves to success. Fosdick, aware of the wonderful power of positive daydreaming, offered this advice: "Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible. Picture yourself as winning and that will contribute remarkably to success. Do not picture yourself as anything, and you will drift like an abandoned ship at sea."
To get the results you should picture yourself—as vividly as possible—as you want to be. The important thing to remember is to picture these desired objectives as if you had already attained them. Go over several times the details of these pictures. This will deeply impress them on your memory, and these memory traces will soon start influencing your everyday behavior toward the attainment of the goal.
While exercising your imagination, you should be alone and completely undisturbed. Some individuals seem to have the ability to tune into their private selves in the midst of the noisiest crowds or company.But most of us, especially when the experience is new, require an environment free from outside distraction.
To sum up what we have discussed today, I strongly recommended that each of us should put aside a few minutes’ daily, taking short 10- or 15-minute vacations.Daydreaming is highly beneficial to your physical and mental well-being, and you will find that this inexpensive investment in time will add up to a more creative and imaginative, a more satisfied, and a more self-fulfilled you. It offers us a fuller sense of being intensely alive from moment to moment, and this, of course, contributes greatly to the excitement and joy of living.
选项
答案
inexpensive/low-cost/easy
解析
总结全篇时录音原文把白日梦比作一项投资,并进而说这是一项inexpensive investment,联系到题目,可知答案为inexpensive或近义词low-cost或easy。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/BK0YFFFM
0
专业英语八级
相关试题推荐
ThelargestlakeinBritainis______.
WhichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUEaboutMissGreen’suniversitydays?
"Nowadayspeoplespendtoomuchoftheirsparetimeindoors."Howfardoyouagreewiththisstatement?Writeacompositionofa
TheMississippiRiver,whichissometimescalled______,hasplayedavitalroleinthehistoryoftheUnitedStates.
AccordingtoSamanthaHeller,peopletendtoeatmilkchocolatebecause
HowtoReadEffectivelyManystudentstendtoreadbookswithoutanypurpose.Theyoftenreadabookslowlyandingreatdeta
TowerofLondonusedtobea______.
TheAmericanIndians——ApeopleinCrisisIndianslivedinNorthAmericalongbeforethecontinentwassettledbyEuropeans.
A、theirfriendshipB、theirfavorablefeelingC、theirpolitenessD、theirhospitalityB
Intheearly1450sculturalchangeinEuropefueledagrowingneedfortherapidandcheapproductionofwrittendocuments.Be
随机试题
长期应用糖皮质激素突然停药或减量过快出现反跳现象,其原因可能是
执业医师法规定,医师有下列情形之一的,县级以上人民政府卫生行政部门应当依法给予表彰或奖励。其中不属于法定表彰或奖励的情形是
(2013年真题改编)长管并联管道各并联管段的()。
[背景资料]某建设单位投资兴建一大型商场,地下二层,地上九层,钢筋混凝土框架结构,建筑面积为71500m2。经过公开招标,某施工单位中标,中标造价25025万元。双方按照《建设工程施工合同(示范文本)》(GF—2013—0201)签订了施工总承包
甲公司2010年1月1日发行在外普通股8000万股;5月1日按平均市价增发普通股1500万股;11月1日回购普通股600万股,以备将来奖励职工之用。该公司2010年度净利润为3738万元。则该公司2010年度基本每股收益为()元。
古代的庠、序都是指——,中国早在4000多年前的——就有了学校教育的形态。
下列哪种情形构成交通肇事罪?()
设f(x)是二阶常系数非齐次线性微分方程y″+py′+qy=sin2x+2ex的满足初始条件f(0)=f′(0)=0的特解,则当x→0时,().
Neverunderestimatethelearningpowerofplay.OneofParks’findingsisthatchildren【C1】______valuablelearningopportunitie
在E-R图中,用来表示实体的图形是
最新回复
(
0
)