大英二期中考试

A. personal

B. activate 活化

C. balance

D. detect 发觉

E. aware

F. noticed

G. disappear H. rational 理性的I. positive

J. responsible K. exception L. explain

M. endeavors 努力N. reasonable O. characteristic

As leaders and professionals, we are called upon to be at our best all of the time. Not only do we need to maintain and improve personal performance, but we as project managers and program managers are frequently 1.J. responsible for the performance of others. One challenge is how we manage many of our 2.I. positive and negative feelings that inevitably 不可避免的come our way in the course of在。期间our professional 3.O. characteristic

. I have been thinking about how we can be more 4.E. aware of what happens inside of us emotionally—our 5.A. personal feelings—that needs to be managed in order to achieve top project performance consistently.

We all have less than positive feelings at times and we often judge how things are going by the current 6.C. balance between positive and negative feelings. One point of distinction is to think about the word "feelings" as separate and distinct from 7.H. rational thoughts. Thinking about "feelings" does not mean developing a list of what is going according to plan and what is not, but rather coming to grips with how we "feel" emotionally about it all.

Leaders are no 8.K. exception when it comes to experiencing feelings. While it can be tempting as a leader to put aside anger, fear, or sadness "in order to get the job done", and maintain later focus, doing so does not make the feelings 9.F. noticed . If we deny our feelings, "repress压抑" them, or "sweep them under the rug", they tend to come forth indirectly, and others will 10.B. activate them anyway. It is much more effective to carve out time to reflect, and allow yourself and your team members to feel what you are feeling, individually and collectively.

Why We Laugh

We start finding things laughable or not laughable early in life. An infant first smiles at about eight days of age. Many psychologists feel this is an infant's first sign of simple pleasure—food, warmth and comfort. At six months or less, the infant laughs to express complex pleasures—such as the sight of mother's smiling face.In his book Beyond Laughter, psychologist Martin Grotjahn says that the earlier infants begin to smile and laugh, the more advanced is their development. Studies revealed that children who did not develop these responses (because they lacked an intimate, loving relationship) "develop a schizophrenic (精神分裂的) psychosis (精神病) in later life, or simply give up and die" .

Between the ages of six months and one year, babies learn to laugh for essentially the same reason they will laugh throughout their lives, says Dr Jacob Levine, associate professor of psychology at Yale University. Dr Levine says that people laugh to express mastery掌握over an anxiety. Picture what happens when parents toss children into the air. The children will probably laugh—but not the first time. In spite of their enjoyment of "flying", they are