【正文】 what actually happened,” counterfactual” thinking. To find out if lucky people use counterfactual thinking to ease the impact of misfortune, I asked my subjects to imagine being in a bank. Suddenly, an armed robber enters and fires a shot that hits them in the arms. Unlucky people tended to say this would be their bad luck to be in the bank during the robbery. Lucky people sail it could have been worse。 Lucky people regularly have them。2022 年 12 月英語(yǔ)六級(jí)考試 (CET6)全真預(yù)測(cè)試卷 (8) Part I Writing 第 1 題 1. 老一輩常說(shuō)，能力比相貌重要 2. 如今很多人卻認(rèn)為相貌比能力重要 3. 你的看法 【參考解析】 Ability and Good Looks Old people usually tell young people that they should not judge people by their appearance. That means appearance is less important than, say, ability. Indeed, we’ ve seen so many brilliant people who are not good looking at all. In the film “ Mozart” , an opera singer reiterates this view by saying:” For a woman of taste, it is not the looks, but the talent that interests us.” For her, the preference shows one’ s taste. Nowadays, however, things are much different in the job market, With more and more interviewers putting emphasis on the looks, or the appearance of the job applicants, a lot of people e to the conclusion that appearance is more important than ability. Many beautiful girls acquire very good positions although they don’ t have much talent. In my opinion, ability is definitely much more important than good looks, not only because ability es from efforts while good looks are born, but also because ability is the most important factor that determines a person’ s value, Good looks are pleasant, but if I have to make a choice between them, I’ ll choose ability because it proves my value. Part II Reading Comprehension 快速閱讀 單選題 閱讀材料，回答 1～ 7 題 How to Get Lucky and Live a Charmed Life For centuries, people have recognized the power of luck and have done whatever they could to try seizing it. Take knocking on wood, thought to date back to pagan rituals aimed at eliciting help from powerful tree gods. We still do it today, though few, if any, of us worship tree gods. So why do we pass this and other superstitions down from generation to generation? The answer lies in the power of luck, Live a Charmed Life To investigate scientifically why some people are consistently lucky and others aren’t. I advertised in national periodicals for volunteers of both varieties . Four hundred men and women from all walks of life—ages 18 to 24—responded. Over a tenyear period, I interviewed these volunteers, asked them to plete diaries, personality questionnaires and IQ tests, and invited them to my laboratory for experiments. Lucky people, I found , get that way via some basic principles—seizing chance opportunities: creating selffulfilling prophecies through positive expectations。 and adopting a resilient attitude that turns bad luck around. Open Your Mind Consider chance opportunities。 unlucky people don’t. To determine why, I gave lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to tell me how many photos were inside. On average, unlucky people spent about two minutes on this exercise?！?You could have been shot in the head.” This kind of thinking makes people feel better about themselves, keeps expectations high, and increases the likelihood of continuing to live a lucky life. Learn to Be Lucky Finally, I created a series of experiments examining whether thought and behavior can enhance good fortune. First came oneonone meetings, during which participants pleted questionnaires that measured their luck and their satisfaction with six key areas of their lives. I then outlined the main principles of luck, and described techniques designed to help participants react like lucky people. For instance ,they were taught how to be more open to opportunities around them, how to break routines, and how to deal with bad luck by imagining things being worse. They were asked to carry out specific exercises for a month and then report back to me, The results were dramatic : 80 percent were happier and more satisfied with their lives – and luckier. One unlucky subject said that after adjusting her attitude – expecting good fortune, not dwelling on the negative – her bad luck had vanished. One day, she went shopping and found a dress she liked. But she didn’t buy it, and when she returned to the store in a week , it was gone. Instead of slinking away disappointed , she looked around and found a better dress – for less. Events like this made her a much happier person. Her experience shows how thoughts and behavior affect the good and bad fortune we encounter. It proves that the most elusive of holy grails – an effective way of taking advantage of the power of luck – is available to us all. 第 1 題 People can pass superstitions down from generation to generation because of ________ 「 A」 the power of luck 「 B」 the power of God 「 C」 the power of belief 「 D」 the power of intelligence 【參考答案】 A 【參考解析】 文章精要 千百年來(lái) ，人們向上帝向神仙祈禱，希望他們保佑自己幸運(yùn)，取得成功，殊不知幸運(yùn)原本就掌握在每個(gè)人的手上。 根據(jù)題干信息詞 pass superstitions 定位到第一段最后兩句，即：迷信之所以可以一代代地傳承下來(lái)，答案就在于幸運(yùn)的力量 (the power of luck)，故本題選 A。 第 4 題 According to the passage , unlike lucky people ,unlucky people _________ 「 A」 always think in a positive way 「 B」 always tend to point to the message 「 C」 always spend less time on the exercise 「 D」 always see what they’ re looking for 【參考答案】 D 【參考解析】 根據(jù)題干信息詞 unlike lucky 和 unlucky people 定位到第二個(gè)小標(biāo)題下地第二段，可知不幸運(yùn)的人錯(cuò)過(guò)了機(jī)會(huì)是因?yàn)槊τ谌ふ移渌臇|西，而幸運(yùn)的人首先看到的是有什么東 西而不是一味地尋找，故答案為 D。言外之意就是說(shuō)你變化得越多，你的機(jī)會(huì)就越多，故答案為 B。獲得銀牌的人和獲得銅牌的人對(duì)待事物的態(tài)度是不同的，一般看來(lái)，得到銀牌的人一定會(huì)比得到銅牌的人高興，但作者的實(shí)驗(yàn)證明，獲得銅牌的人更高興，因?yàn)樗麄兿肴绻约旱谋憩F(xiàn)稍差一點(diǎn)，就不會(huì)得到任何獎(jiǎng)牌了，而得到銀牌的人會(huì)想如果自己表現(xiàn)得再好一點(diǎn)，就會(huì)得到金牌了，故此處 D 項(xiàng)描述正確。 第 9題 The unlucky subject in the experiments said that her bad luck had died