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1、任务型阅读（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）请认真阅读下面短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填1个单词。The Age of Envy: How to Be Happy When Everyone Elses Life Looks PerfectWe live in the age of envy. Career envy, kitchen envy, children envy, food envy, upper arm envy, holiday envy. You name it, theres an envy for it. Human

2、 beings have always felt what Aristotle defined in the 4th century BC as pain at the sight of anothers good fortune, stirred by the feeling of “those who have what we ought to have”But with social media, says Ethan Kross, professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, “envy is being taken to

3、 an extreme.” We are constantly bombarded by “photoshopped lives，” he says, “and that exerts a toll on us the likes of which we have never experienced in the history of our species.”Clinical psychological Rachel Andrew says she is seeing more and more envy in her consulting room, from people who “ca

4、nt achieve the lifestyle they want but which they see others have.” Our use of platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, she says, amplifies （放大）this deeply disturbing psychological discord（失调）, “I think what social media has done is make everyone accessible for comparison，” she

5、 explains. “In the past, people might have just envied their neighbors, but now we can compare ourselves with everyone across the world.”And those comparisons are now much less realistic. Andrew has observed among her patients that knowing they are looking at an edited version of reality is no defen

6、se against the emotional force of envy. “What I notice is that most of us can intellectualize what we see on social media platformswe know that these images and narratives that are presented arent real, we can talk about it and rationalize itbut on an emotional level, its still pushing buttons. If t

7、hose images or narratives tap into what we aspire to, but what we dont have, then it becomes very powerful.”According to Dryden, a cognitive behavioral therapist, when it comes to the kind of envy inspired by social media, there are two factors that make a person more vulnerable （易受伤害的）：low selfeste

8、em and deprivation intolerance, which describes the experience of being unable to bear not getting what you want. To overcome this, he says, think about what you would teach a child. The aim is to develop a philosophy, a way of being in the world, which allows you to recognize when someone else has

9、something that you want but dont have, and also to recognize that you can survive without it, and that not having it does not make you less worthy or less of a person.We could also try to change the way we habitually use social media. Kross explains that most the time, people use Facebook passively

10、and just idly, lazily reading instead of posting, messaging or commenting. “That is interesting when you realize it is the passive usage that is supposed to be more harmful than the active. The links between passive usage and feeling worse are very robustwe have huge data sets involving tens of thou

11、sands of people，” he says. While it is less clear how active usage affects wellbeing, there does seem to be a small positive link, he explains, between using Facebook to connect with others and feeling better.Dryden differentiates between unhealthy envy and its healthy forms, which, he says, “can be

12、 creative.” Just as hunger tells us we need to eat, the feeling of envy, if we can listen to it in the right way, could show us what is missing from our lives that really matters to us, Kross explains. Andrew says, “It is about naming it as an emotion, knowing how it feels, and then not interpreting

13、 it as a positive or a negative, but trying to understand what it is telling you that you want. If that is achievable, you could take proper steps towards achieving it. But at the same time, ask yourself, what would be good enough？”Introduction（71）_ is the feeling that you wish you had something tha

14、t someone else has.It was （72）_ by Aristotle as the pain of seeing anothers good fortune, stirred by the feeling of “those who have what we ought to have”.New problems with envy in the age of social mediaSocial media is taking envy to an extreme by making everyone accessible for （73）_.People are so

15、much disturbed by envy that an increasing number of them have to consult doctors.Full knowledge of false comparisons still cant （74）_ people from envy, and those with low selfesteem and deprivation intolerance are more likely to fall （75）_.Possible ways to（76）_ the painLearn to recognize that its （77）_ that someone else has something you want but dont have.Learn to recognize that without the thing you can still survive and you are still a useful person. Change the way we use social media from just passively reading to （78）_ posting,