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1、21世纪大学英语读写教程第四册 Unit6Unit 6 Text A Pre-reading Activities First Listening Before listening to the tape, have a quick look at the following words.sock 短袜EQ 情商empathy 同情Second Listening Listen to the tape again. They choose the best answer to each of the following questions.1. The listening passage sa
2、ys that Einstein was a genius in terms of _.A) Emotional Intelligence or EQB) Intellectual Intelligence or IQC) both EQ and IQ D) neither EQ nor IQ 2. Which of the following is NOT an example of Emotional Intelligence?A) Understanding your own feelings.B) Understanding the feelings of others.C) Bein
3、g able to handle emotions effectively.D) Being smarter than others in your class.3. Which of the following statements best describes the relationship between EQ and IQ?A) People tend to have more of one than the other.B) People tend to have the same amount of each.C) They work together to make you s
4、uccessful.D) They depend on such factors as social class and how lucky you are.4. What is the main purpose of this passage?A) To introduce a new concept, EQ, and explain its significance.B) To explain why EQ is more important in life than IQ.C) To discuss different definitions of success.D) To criti
5、cize traditional notions of intelligence.The EQ Factor Nancy Gibbs It turns out that a scientist can see the future by watching four-year-olds interact with a marshmallow. The researcher invites the children, one by one, into a plain room and begins the gentle torment. You can have this marshmallow
6、right now, he says. But if you wait while I run an errand, you can have two marshmallows when I get back. And then he leaves.Some children grab for the treat the minute hes out the door. Some last a few minutes before they give in. But others are determined to wait. They cover their eyes; they put t
7、heir heads down; they sing to themselves; they try to play games or even fall asleep. When the researcher returns, he gives these children their hard-earned marshmallows. And then, science waits for them to grow up.By the time the children reach high school, something remarkable has happened. A surv
8、ey of the childrens parents and teachers found that those who as four-year-olds had enough self-control to hold out for the second marshmallow generally grew up to be better adjusted, more popular, adventurous, confident and dependable teenagers. The children who gave in to temptation early on were
9、more likely to be lonely, easily frustrated and stubborn. They could not endure stress and shied away from challenges. And when some of the students in the two groups took the Scholastic Aptitude Test, the kids who had held out longer scored an average of 210 points higher.When we think of brillianc
10、e we see Einstein, deep-eyed, woolly haired, a thinking machine with skin and mismatched socks. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others. This is where the marshmallows
11、 come in. It seems that the ability to delay gratification is a master skill, a triumph of the reasoning brain over the impulsive one. It is a sign, in short, of emotional intelligence. And it doesnt show up on an IQ test.For most of this century, scientists have worshipped the hardware of the brain
12、 and the software of the mind; the messy powers of the heart were left to the poets. But cognitive theory could simply not explain the questions we wonder about most: why some people just seem to have a gift for living well; why the smartest kid in the class will probably not end up the richest; why
13、 we like some people virtually on sight and distrust others; why some people remain upbeat in the face of troubles that would sink a less resilient soul. What qualities of the mind or spirit, in short, determine who succeeds?The phrase emotional intelligence was coined by Yale psychologist Peter Sal
14、ovey and the University of New Hampshires John Mayer five years ago to describe qualities like understanding ones own feelings, empathy for the feelings of others and the regulation of emotion in a way that enhances living. Their notion is about to bound into the national conversation, handily short
15、ened to EQ, thanks to a new book, Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman. Goleman, a Harvard psychology Ph.D. and a New York Times science writer with a gift for making even the most difficult scientific theories digestible to lay readers, has brought together a decades worth of behavioral researc
16、h into how the mind processes feelings. His goal, he announces on the cover, is to redefine what it means to be smart. His thesis: when it comes to predicting peoples success, brainpower as measured by IQ and standardized achievement tests may actually matter less than the qualities of mind once thought of as character before the word began to sound old-fashioned.At first glance, there woul
