Section A. How to Cultivate "EQ"
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. II, p. 258
Because he believes that knowledge is useless until it is applied. And application of knowledge takes judgment.
The ability to adapt./The adaptive skills.
Accept a highly personal practice to improve the four adaptive skills: raising consciousness, using imagery, considering and reconsidering events to choose the most creative response to them and integrating the perspectives of others.
Thinking differently on purpose. It involves noticing what you are feeling and thinking and escaping the conditioned confines of one's past.
Because by doing this they can improve their performance.
Because your view of the world is limited by your genes and experiences you've had and by integrating the perspectives of others you can enlarge your senses.
The author believes that our ability to think and reason is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body's universe of cells and we think with our hearts, brains, muscles, blood and bones.
By saying this, the author means without cultivating emotional intelligence, the academic training is useless.
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. III, p. 258
incorporate
triggered
perspectives
cultivating
confine
capacity
Controversial
consciousness
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. IV, p. 259 to
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of
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. V, p. 259
atmospheric
blood
intense
public
financial
enormous
outside
personal
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. VI, p. 260
multicolored
multicultural
multimedia
multinational
multi-dimensional
multimillion multiparty
multipurpose
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. VII, p. 261
semi-permanent
semi-finals
semi-automatic
semi-detached
semi-darkness
semi-official
semi-skilled
semi-retired
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. VIII, p. 262
They smiled almost continuously, no matter what was said.
I told him to report to me after the job was completed, no matter how late it was.
No matter where you go, you'll find Coca-Cola.
No matter when you die, whether you're a hundred and twenty or whatever, you can get the sum that you're assured of according to the legal document.
He is a very skilled and brilliant player and also a proper gentleman on the tennis court. No matter whom he plays with, whether a low ranked or high ranked player, he has great respect for them.
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. IX, p. 262
So advanced was his method that no one could match him.
So rapid is the rate of progress that advance seems to be following on almost a monthly basis.
So successful was he that offers flowed in from publishers and editors on both sides of the Atlantic.
So effective was their network that workers were able to organize two unusual nationwide protests.
So serious was the famine that the United Nations sent food and water supplies to the area.
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. X, p. 262I've been sorting through these old papers to see what can be thrown away.
They went on working, taking no note of the passage of time.
He had been speaking nothing less than the truth when he put down what he had seen.
As you get older you begin to reflect on the uncertainty of life.
The use of telephone is confined to business calls alone.
I kept at it and finally finished at 3 o'clock in the morning.
In the act of bending down, he slipped and hurt his back.
Day centers for the elderly make a valuable contribution to the overall public service.
《读写教程 IV》: Ex. XI, p. 263
提高意识程度.我把这看作是思考中有目的的独辟蹊径.这是指注意自己感受到什么,在想什么,摆脱掉往日带给自己的种种限制.
这就是奥林匹克滑雪赛手在进入起跑门之前所做的.他们闭上眼,摆动身体,在头脑中先把整个滑雪道跑一遍,这能提高他们在实际比赛中的表现.
每当发生重要事情时,要尽可能多方面地看问题,甚至作超乎寻常的理解,然后照着最有利于自己理想的那种理解去做.
学会吸纳他人有用的观点就等于是一种扩大自己的见识的方式.
习惯的力量——严格说就是头脑里已建立的思维方式——会妨碍你操练这些技能.
我们现在知道,思想活动并不局限在脑部,而是遍布全身范围的细胞中.
他说任何两个人都不可能对外界有完全一样的看法.个人的体验都是独一无二的,以至人们对外界的理解都不相同.
但最新的研究似乎表明,缺乏情感成熟和自我了解这一软件,单靠纯学院式的培训这一硬件是没有用的
Section B. EQ Plays a Role in Personal Success
XVI. Choose the best answer to each of the following questions
1.B 2.A 3. A 4.C 5.C 6.A 7.B 8.B
《读写教程IV》Ex. XVII, p. 272
implications
dimmed
dependable
notion
enhance
adjust
virtually
ingredients
《读写教程IV》Ex. XVIII, p. 272
shy away from
counts for
are blessed with
substitute the new ones for them
gave in to temptation
When it comes to
on sight
held out for
