2016新版中石油职称英语水平考试《通用英语选读》第41-50课_课文精讲.docx

2016新版中石油职称英语水平考试《通用英语选读》培训笔记（考过的大题已标出）目录41. Happiness Index幸福指数142 Becoming Wealthy: Its Up to You 致富取决于你自己843 Oil 石油1544 Job Satisfaction New2045. How to Become a Scientist New2446. Cultural Taboos文化禁忌2647 Managing In a Global Environment 在全球环境中进行管理3248. The Conscious Use of the Subconscious Mind New3749. The British through My Eyes New4150 Not Quite Ready to Retire 退休为时尚早43温馨小语： 每篇“学习笔记”将可能涉及到的“考点”做了重点标记，它们基于“职称考试”的四个主要方面，即词汇、语法、阅读和翻译，所以在学习中要认真体会，找到自己要重点学习的内容。跳过每一段英文原文，只通篇看下“带有英文”的中文部分。。。是不是感觉清楚了课文大致要说的内容？熟悉中文意思，在考试中也是很有帮助的，特别是在回答阅读类的选择题时，如果它恰好又是你在此读过的一篇课文，你一定会用最短的时间，找到正确的答案。考试的题量可不小，要在此处抢得先机。过段时间，再来温习下吧。41.Happiness Index幸福指数(index n. 索引；偏意：指数)1. In terms of happiness, your spouse—if you have one—is worth $100,000 a year.1、就幸福而言（in terms of 依据；按照），你的配偶(spouse)——如果你有的话——值10万美元一年（a year）。2.Thats the finding of two economists who have tried to put a monetary value on happiness by measuring the emotional value of everything from religion to racial discriminationin dollars.2、这就是两位经济学家研究的结果（finding n. 发现；调查的结果; economist n. 经济学家），他们试图从金钱的角度来衡量幸福，以美元为单位（in dollars），对从宗教到种族歧视等各种情感进行估价（who 引导的定语从句修饰two economists;try to do sth. 试图做某事；monetary value 货币价值；emotional value 情感价值；religion n. 宗教；信仰；racial discrimination 种族歧视）。3.Such a calculation, admits economist David Blanchflower, is a little bitoff the wall and may promptwry comments within some marriages on cashing in.3、经济学家大卫·布兰奇弗劳尔（简称DB）承认(admit vt.)，这种计算是“有点离奇”（a little bit 有点儿; off the wall 荒诞的；疯狂的），并可能引起不当的想法（prompt vt. 激起；促进；wry adj. 扭曲的; comment n. 评论；意见），认为有些人结婚是为了 “从中捞取好处”（cash in 兑现）。4.The two economists are, of course, speaking of averages. They have used an annual survey of some 1,500 Americansfrom 1972 to 1998 to measure self- reported happiness and the factors that go with it. Butit turns out that the happiness value of a stable marriage is incredibly high, saysDr. Blanchflower, a professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., whose study has just been published by the National Bureau of Economic Research i