抽象名词专项训练

抽象名词专项训练

1. The balance of nature is so delicate on the tundra that even minor disturbances may produce major changes in the enviroment. Any increase or decrease in the population of one species may affect all other species on the tundra.

2. Thousands of men and women were needed to build and maintain the pipeline. For the first time, large numbers of people were brought into contact with the tundra. Their presence and the presence of the pipeline they built represented a major change in the environment.

3. The survival of the United States depends on the ability to find new sources of energy. But the survival of the tundra depends on how carefully people maintain the delicate balance of nature in this environment.

4. No one likes a crybaby, and we disapprove of crying even in children, discouraging it in them as early as possible. In a land so devoted to the pursuit of happiness as ours, crying really is rather un-American.

5. "A little man," we impress on our male children, "never cries. Only girls and crybabies do." And so we condition males in America not to cry whenever they feel like doing so. It is not that American males are unable to cry because of some biological time clock within them which causes to run down in that capacity as they grow older, but that they are trained not to cry.

6. And so the "little man" controls his desire to cry and goes on doing so until he is unable to cry even when he wants to. Thus do we produce a trained incapacity in the American male to cry.

7. Crying serves a homeostasis function for the organism as a whole. Any interference with homeostasis is likely to be damaging to the organism. And there is good reason to believe that the American male's trained inabiliity to cry is seriously damaging to him.

8. Obsessive worry will never make things any better. In fact, such worry will very likely help you to be less effective in dealing with the present.

9. In order to reduce worry, it is necessary to understand the subconscious psychological "payoffs" for choosing to worry in the first place.

10. Worry can bring a lot of diease such as tension headaches and backaches. While these may not seem to be payoffs, they do result in considerable attention form others and justify much self-pity as well. And some people would rather be pitied than fulfilled.

11.While I am not encouraging dangerous behavior, I do believe that a sensibly effective challenge to worry is the most productive way to minimize its role in your life.

12. Until recently 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's realities and responsibilities.