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(1) Sitting in a corner sobbing may not be everyone’s idea of a great start to the year, but learning how to feel your sad emoti

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问题     (1) Sitting in a corner sobbing may not be everyone’s idea of a great start to the year, but learning how to feel your sad emotions could be the key to a happier year. People who cry typically experience fewer "negative aggressive feelings", such as rage and disgust, than people who don’t, according to a piece of research. Similarly, another study found that American footballers who cried reported higher levels of self-esteem, and were less concerned about peer pressure than their non-crying counterparts.
    (2) "We now know that crying is something all humans are programmed to do, and that tears serve a purpose," says Ad Vingerhoets, an academic known as the "tear professor". "Cortisol (皮质醇) levels decrease in those who cry, since expressing sadness soothes us. " This is because sadness has a function. In numerous studies since the 1980s, researchers from the University of New South Wales have found that accepting and allowing for temporary sadness helps improve attention to detail, increases perseverance, promotes generosity and makes us more grateful for what we’ve got.
    (3) Aiming to avoid sadness or suppress negative thoughts can backfire. The Harvard University social psychologist Daniel Wegner led a thought experiment in 1987, where subjects were told not to think about white bears, inspired by the Russian writer Dostoevsky, who wrote: " Try to pose for yourself this task: not to think of a polar bear, and you will see that the cursed thing will come to mind every minute. " Wegner found that participants routinely thought about the thing they were attempting to avoid; further studies confirmed that thought suppression is futile, as well as exacerbating the very emotions we’re hoping to swerve.
    (4) Having spent the past eight years researching happiness worldwide, I began to notice that many of the people I met were so obsessed with the pursuit of happiness that they had become phobic of feeling sad. I’d speak to people who had just lost loved ones and they would ask: "How can I be happy?" I’d meet people who’d recently been made redundant, or homeless, or had a bad breakup, who’d still ask: "Why aren’t I happy?" I’d try to explain that, sometimes, we need to be sad. Sadness is what we’re supposed to feel after a loss, and sorrow is the sane response when sad things happen. After a year in which all of our lives have been rocked by a global pandemic, for instance, it’s OK to feel sad. But many of us have been conditioned to be so averse to "negative emotions" that we don’t recognize them, much less acknowledge them or give ourselves permission to feel and process them. This can be isolating for those experiencing sadness and baffling for those trying to help loved ones through pain.
    (5) Fortunately, there are strategies that help, such as allowing time, managing our expectations, getting some perspective and engaging with culture—putting down our smartphones and sitting with sadness when it comes. We shouldn’t apologize for our feelings or numb them with excesses (alcohol, drugs, shopping; whatever our crutch of choice) or deprivation (controlling food intake is a common unhealthy coping strategy in times of pain). To be sad better, we need to get active outdoors, daily—if only for a 20-minute walk.
    (6) There’s also much to learn from cultures where people are more in touch with their emotions— "good" and "bad". In Bhutan, for example, crematoriums (火葬场) are located centrally, so children grow up with the idea that loss and death are inevitable. The Portuguese and Brazilians have the concept of saudade—meaning a melancholy for happiness that once was, or even the life we merely hoped for.
Accepting sadness temporarily can________.
选项 A、make us detail-focused
B、increase Cortisol levels
C、make us less generous
D、reduce perseverance
答案A
解析 细节题。文章第二段最后一句提到，研究人员发现，接受并允许短暂的悲伤有助于提高对细节的关注，增强毅力，使人更慷慨，并使我们更加感激我们所拥有的一切，故答案为A“让我们关注细节”，同时排除C“让我们不那么慷慨”和D“削弱毅力”。该段第二句提到哭泣的人体内皮质醇水平降低，故排除B“提高皮质醇水平”。
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