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广东省广州中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷
Feeling sad or upset? Don't turn to a cheerful comedy. A sad movie may be just what you need.
A team of scientists at Ohio State University, US, has found that sad movies can make people happier. They published their study in a magazine called Communication Research. Scientists asked 361 college students to watch a sad movie called Atonement. The movie tells the story of two lovers who are separated and die at the end during World War II. Before and after the movie, the students answered questions testing how happy they were with their lives. They also answered questions from the scientists before, after and three times during the movie to measure different emotions, including sadness.
Results showed that overall, people felt better after watching the movie. Scientists believe this is because the movie made them think about their own lives and relationships. Their lives, compared to those of the unlucky lovers on the screen, were full of hope. "I want to live my life to the fullest, and this movie has made me think a lot." One student wrote.
Silvia Knobloch Westerwick, the leader of the study, explained that negative moods make people more thoughtful. "Positive emotions are generally a signal that everything is fine, you don't have to worry, you don't have to think about issues in your life," she said, "but negative emotions, like sadness, make you think more critically about your situation. So seeing a sad movie may make you sad, but that will cause you to think more about your own close relationships and appreciate them more."
Yang Jiang, the famous woman writer and translator (翻译家), is well- known to us all.
Yang was born in Beijing in 1911. Her real name is Yang Jikang. She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate (研究生) in the 1930s. There she met Qian Zhongshu. They fell in love and got married. In the 1940s, she started to use the name Yang Jiang as her pen name. Since then, she has been commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang. In the 1950s, she worked for Peking University and started to learn Spanish. She began to write short novels in the 1980s. Many of them are famous, such as The Old Wang (《老王》), After Baptism (《洗澡之后》) and We Three (《我们仨》).
Although Madam Yang has passed away, we will never forget the great madam.
Yang Jikang | |
Introduction | Born: in Beijing in 1911 {#blank#}1{#/blank#}: Yang Jiang Her {#blank#}2{#/blank#}: Qian Zhongshu |
Experiences | In {#blank#}3{#/blank#}: graduated from university In the 1950s: worked for Peking University, started to learn Spanish In the 1980s: began to write {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. |
{#blank#}5{#/blank#} works | The Old Wang, After Baptism, We Three |
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