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Conjugal Prep
--Newsweek 1. The bridegroom, dressed in a blue blazer and brown suede Adidas sneakers, nervously cleared his throat when his bride, in traditional white, walked down the classroom aisle. As the mock minister led the students—and ten other couples in the room— through the familiar marriage ceremony, the giggles almost drowned him out. But it was no laughing matter. In the next semester, each “couple” would buy a house, have a baby– and get a divorce.
Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness— which gives new meaning to “madly in love.”
By Lauren Slater, form National Geographic
3. Students act out in nine weeks what normally takes couples ten years to accomplish. In the first week, one member of each couple is required to get an after-school job-a real one. During the semester, the salary, computed on a full-time basis with yearly increases factored in, serves as the guideline for their life-style. The third week, the couple must locate an apartment they can afford and study the terms of the lease.
Conjugal Prep.
A high school teacher in Oregon has developed an unusual course for helping young people make intelligent decisions about marriage:
--from Newsweek
Anthropologist Helen Fisher has devoted much of her career to studying the biochemical pathways of love in all its manifestations: lust, romance, attachment, the way they wax and wane.
4. Disaster: In the fifth week, the couples “have a baby” and then compute the cost by totaling hospital and doctor bills, prenatal and postnatal care, baby clothes and furniture. In week eight, disaster strikes: the marriages are strained to the breaking point by such calamities as a mother-in-law moving in, death, or imprisonment. It’s all over by week nine (the ten year of marriage). After lectures by marriage counselors and divorce lawyers and computations of alimony and child support, the students get divorced.
What Fisher saw fascinated her. When each subject looked at his or her loved one, the parts of the brain linked to reward and pleasure—the ventral tegmental area and the caudate nucleus—lit up. Love lights up the caudate nucleus because it is home to the neurotransmitter called dopamine, which Fisher came to think of as part of our own love potion. In the right proportions, dopamine creates intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards.
5. Allen’s course, which has “married” 1,200 students since it’s inception five years ago, is widely endorsed by parents and students. Some of the participants have found the experience chastening to their real-life marital plans. “Bride” Valerie Payne, 16, and her “groom”, David Cooper, 19, still plan to marry in July, but, said cooper, the course pointed out “the trouble you can have”. The course was more unsettling to Marianne Baldrica, 17, who tried “marriage” last term with her boyfriend Eric Zook, 18. “Eric and I used to get together,” Marianne said. “But I wanted to live in the city, he wanted the country. He wanted lots of kids, I wanted no kids, It’s been four weeks since the course ended and Eric and I are just starting to talk to each other again.”
2. In a most unusual course at Parkrose (Ore.) Senior High School, social science teacher Cliff Allen leads his students through the trials and tribulations of married life. Instead of the traditional course, which dwells on the psychological and sexual adjustments young marrieds must face, Allen exposes his students to the nitty-gritty problems of housing, insurance and child care. “No one tells kids about financial problems,” says Allen. 36. “It’s like sex– you don’t talk about it in front of them.”
One of Fisher's central pursuits in the past decade has been looking at love, with the aid of an MRI machine. Fisher and her colleagues Arthur Aron and Lucy Brown recruited subjects who had been "madly in love" for an average of seven months. Once inside the MRI machine, subjects were shown two photographs, one neutral, the other of their loved one.
♀♂BBC documentary clip ♀♂ Secrets of the Sexes
In the Western world we have for centuries made poems and stories and plays about the cycles of love, the way it morphs and changes over time, the way passion grabs us by our throats and then leaves us for something saner. If Dracula reflects how we understand the passion of early romance, the Flintstones reflects our experiences of long-term love: All is gravel and somewhat silly, the song so familiar you can't stop singing it, and when you do, the emptiness is almost unbearable.
It is why, when you are in love, you can stay up all night, watch the sun rise, run a race, ski fast down a slope ordinarily too steep for your skill. Love makes you bold, makes you bright, makes you run real risks, which you sometimes survive, and sometimes you don't.
We have relied on stories to explain the complexities of love, tales of jealous gods and arrows. Now, however, these stories— so much a part of every civilization—may be changing as science steps in to explain what we have always felt to be myth, to be magic. For the first time, new research has begun to illuminate where love lies in the brain.
--Newsweek 1. The bridegroom, dressed in a blue blazer and brown suede Adidas sneakers, nervously cleared his throat when his bride, in traditional white, walked down the classroom aisle. As the mock minister led the students—and ten other couples in the room— through the familiar marriage ceremony, the giggles almost drowned him out. But it was no laughing matter. In the next semester, each “couple” would buy a house, have a baby– and get a divorce.
Scientists say that the brain chemistry of infatuation is akin to mental illness— which gives new meaning to “madly in love.”
By Lauren Slater, form National Geographic
3. Students act out in nine weeks what normally takes couples ten years to accomplish. In the first week, one member of each couple is required to get an after-school job-a real one. During the semester, the salary, computed on a full-time basis with yearly increases factored in, serves as the guideline for their life-style. The third week, the couple must locate an apartment they can afford and study the terms of the lease.
Conjugal Prep.
A high school teacher in Oregon has developed an unusual course for helping young people make intelligent decisions about marriage:
--from Newsweek
Anthropologist Helen Fisher has devoted much of her career to studying the biochemical pathways of love in all its manifestations: lust, romance, attachment, the way they wax and wane.
4. Disaster: In the fifth week, the couples “have a baby” and then compute the cost by totaling hospital and doctor bills, prenatal and postnatal care, baby clothes and furniture. In week eight, disaster strikes: the marriages are strained to the breaking point by such calamities as a mother-in-law moving in, death, or imprisonment. It’s all over by week nine (the ten year of marriage). After lectures by marriage counselors and divorce lawyers and computations of alimony and child support, the students get divorced.
What Fisher saw fascinated her. When each subject looked at his or her loved one, the parts of the brain linked to reward and pleasure—the ventral tegmental area and the caudate nucleus—lit up. Love lights up the caudate nucleus because it is home to the neurotransmitter called dopamine, which Fisher came to think of as part of our own love potion. In the right proportions, dopamine creates intense energy, exhilaration, focused attention, and motivation to win rewards.
5. Allen’s course, which has “married” 1,200 students since it’s inception five years ago, is widely endorsed by parents and students. Some of the participants have found the experience chastening to their real-life marital plans. “Bride” Valerie Payne, 16, and her “groom”, David Cooper, 19, still plan to marry in July, but, said cooper, the course pointed out “the trouble you can have”. The course was more unsettling to Marianne Baldrica, 17, who tried “marriage” last term with her boyfriend Eric Zook, 18. “Eric and I used to get together,” Marianne said. “But I wanted to live in the city, he wanted the country. He wanted lots of kids, I wanted no kids, It’s been four weeks since the course ended and Eric and I are just starting to talk to each other again.”
2. In a most unusual course at Parkrose (Ore.) Senior High School, social science teacher Cliff Allen leads his students through the trials and tribulations of married life. Instead of the traditional course, which dwells on the psychological and sexual adjustments young marrieds must face, Allen exposes his students to the nitty-gritty problems of housing, insurance and child care. “No one tells kids about financial problems,” says Allen. 36. “It’s like sex– you don’t talk about it in front of them.”
One of Fisher's central pursuits in the past decade has been looking at love, with the aid of an MRI machine. Fisher and her colleagues Arthur Aron and Lucy Brown recruited subjects who had been "madly in love" for an average of seven months. Once inside the MRI machine, subjects were shown two photographs, one neutral, the other of their loved one.
♀♂BBC documentary clip ♀♂ Secrets of the Sexes
In the Western world we have for centuries made poems and stories and plays about the cycles of love, the way it morphs and changes over time, the way passion grabs us by our throats and then leaves us for something saner. If Dracula reflects how we understand the passion of early romance, the Flintstones reflects our experiences of long-term love: All is gravel and somewhat silly, the song so familiar you can't stop singing it, and when you do, the emptiness is almost unbearable.
It is why, when you are in love, you can stay up all night, watch the sun rise, run a race, ski fast down a slope ordinarily too steep for your skill. Love makes you bold, makes you bright, makes you run real risks, which you sometimes survive, and sometimes you don't.
We have relied on stories to explain the complexities of love, tales of jealous gods and arrows. Now, however, these stories— so much a part of every civilization—may be changing as science steps in to explain what we have always felt to be myth, to be magic. For the first time, new research has begun to illuminate where love lies in the brain.