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如果你发觉生活状态或者做的某项决定对幸福生活有重大帮助的话，记得与你的朋友们分享。将有用的发现与更多人分享，这对增进自己的幸福和他人的幸福都有积极作用。
【参考答案】 阅读理解
1. The formula refers to H (happiness) = S (your biological set point for feeling happy) + C (the conditions of your life) + V (the voluntary choices you make).
2. Loud noises trigger one of our most primitive fear responses and we can never fully relax if we are surrounded by intrusive noise. 3. If we need our TV, radio or music up loud, wearing headphones demonstrates our kindness and consideration to our neighbors.
4. Our unhappiness often comes from poor relationships with others.
5. What you can do is to either mend the relationship by confronting what is going wrong or learn to move on. 【练习参考答案】 A．汉译英
1. Noisy neighbors are one of the major causes of domestic upset. 2. A colleague at work who bullies or dismisses us creates untold
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wretchedness.
3. We can never fully adapt to hostile relationships, which inevitably damage our wellbeing.
4. If this bad mood stays inside our mind, it will lead us to an unresolved destructive depression.
5. We should not avoid these problems but face them instead. B．英译汉
幸福有许多好处。越幸福的人往往越健康、越长寿、挣的钱越多。他们通常也会从事更多的志愿工作、更善于处理人际关系、发出更多心理学家所说的“杜兴微笑”，即真诚的微笑。我们了解不深的是，为什么幸福可以传染。
全球畅销书《关联》的作者詹姆斯·福勒和尼古拉斯·克里斯塔基斯发现，如果你身边那些重要的人际网络中有许多幸福的朋友、家人与邻居，那么你将也会很幸福。他们表示，更准确地说，如果居住在离你1英里内的一个朋友生活幸福感得到显著提升，你的生活幸福感就会增加25%。
具有同样效果的还有同居配偶（幸福感提升8%）、居住在1英里之内的兄弟姐妹(14%)和邻居(34%)。这意味着，幸福传播的强度似乎更取决于交往的频繁度（与地域邻近相关），1而不是社会关系的深度。可惜由于某种原因，这并不适用于工作场合。 那么，为什么幸福能够传染？一个原因或许是，幸福的人会与亲朋好友分享好运气（例如，提供实际的帮助，或在经济上慷
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慨解囊）。另一个原因可能是，幸福的人往往会改善自己的行为，会对周围的人更加友好，或减少敌意。又或许只是因为正面情绪具有高度传染性。
UNIT 2 City Design城市设计 Text
Read the text. Answer the given questions and translate the underlined sentences or paragraphs into Chinese.
When I'm being driven through a city from our hotel to a conference center, I couldn't help but note the overwhelming presence of cars and parking lots. The world's cities are in trouble. In hundreds of cities, the life of daily life is deteriorating. Breathing the air in some cities is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes per day. The number of hours commuters spend going nowhere sitting in traffic-congested streets and highways climbs higher each year, raising frustration levels.
In response to these conditions, we are seeing the emergency of a new urbanism. In just a few years,many cities banned the parking of cars on side walks, created or renovated more parks, introduced a highly successful bus-base rapid transit system, built hundreds of kilometers of bicycle paths and pedestrian streets, reduced rush hour traffic, planted more trees and involved local citizens directly in the
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improvement of their neighborhoods. The quality of urban life in these cities has been greatly enhanced with the vision of a city designed for people.
Now government planners everywhere are experimenting, seeking ways to design cities for people not cars. Cars promise mobility. But in an urbanizing world there is an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city. After a point, as their numbers multiply, automobiles provide not mobility but immobility.
Based on this perspective, some cities in industrial and developing countries alike will dramatically increase urban mobility by moving away from the car. Let me remind you once more, cities are built for people, not for cars. A city full of cars is like what the horrifying sci-fi depicted --- all mechanism and no human. In order to avoid this disaster, we'd better start designing sustainable cities. 1. What means of transportation does the author take to the conference center?
2. According to the first paragraph what is happening in cities where there are more cars?
3. What does the last sentence \the vision of a city designed for people\
4. Why is there an inherent conflict between the automobile and the city in urban areas?
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5. How would a city look like if cars were everywhere? Exercises
A. Translate the following sentences into English.
1．随着大量市民被迫迁到遥远的郊外，汽车的需求量正在飞涨。
2．生态城市(eco-city)将把传统设计要素同最先进的绿色技术相结合。
3．预计到2010年将有一千辆燃料电池车(fuel-cell vehicles)投入使用，而到2012年将增至一万辆。
4．如今，各地方政府几乎无一不在探讨有关生态农村、生态城镇或生态城市计划的话题。
5．全世界大约一半的人口居住在城市，所以研究能缓解城市对环境影响的途径势在必行。
B. Read the text and translate it into Chinese.
Once at a supermarket, I read a thought-provoking sign at the check-out counter. It said the store was using only plastic bags. The supermarket claimed that the energy and exhaust fumes expelled to produce and transport the same number of paper bags outweighed the fact that plastic wasn't biodegradable. Paper bags take up more space and require more trucks for transport, so the store believed it was lessening its carbon footprint by using plastic. It got me thinking further. Why not ask for plastic and bring your used plastic bags
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