短文一
When facing a new situation, some people tend torehearse their defeat by spending too much timeanticipating the worst.
面臨新環(huán)境時(shí)，有些人因?yàn)榛ㄌ嗟臅r(shí)間做最壞的打算，所以他們易于重復(fù)他們的失敗。
I remember talking with a young lawyer who wasabout to begin her first jury trial.
我記得和一位年輕律師交談，她將要開(kāi)始她的第一次陪審團(tuán)審訊。
She was very nervous.
她非常緊張。
I asked what impression she wanted to make on the jury.
我問(wèn)她想給陪審團(tuán)留下什么樣的印象。
She replied: "I don't want to look too inexperienced, I don't want them to suspect this is myfirst trial."
她回答道：“我不想讓自己看起來(lái)太沒(méi)經(jīng)驗(yàn)，不想讓他們懷疑這是我第一次參與審訊。”
This lawyer had fallen victims to the "don'ts" syndrome—a form of negative goal setting.
這位律師成了“不能”綜合征的受害者——一種設(shè)定消極目標(biāo)的形式。
The "don'ts" can be self-fulfilling because your mind response to pictures.
這種“不能”之所以會(huì)自行實(shí)現(xiàn)，是因?yàn)槟愕拇竽X響應(yīng)這些“不能”的畫(huà)面。
Research conducted at Stanford University shows a mental image fires the nerve system thesame way as actually doing something.
斯坦福大學(xué)進(jìn)行的研究表明，大腦中的圖像刺激神經(jīng)系統(tǒng)的原理與某人實(shí)際在做某事是一樣的。
That means when a golfer tells himself:” Don't hit the ball into the water.” His mind sees theimage of the ball flying into the water.
這就像是高爾夫球手對(duì)自己說(shuō)：“千萬(wàn)別把球打進(jìn)水里”。他的腦海里就浮現(xiàn)出球飛進(jìn)水里的畫(huà)面。
So guess where the ball will go?
那么，猜猜球會(huì)打到哪里去?
Consequently, before going into any stressful situation, focus only on what you want to havehappen.
因此，在進(jìn)入有壓力的環(huán)境之前，只需將注意力集中在你想要發(fā)生的事情上。
I asked the lawyer again how she wanted to appear at her first trial.
我再次詢問(wèn)這名律師想以什么樣的形象出現(xiàn)在她的第一次陪審團(tuán)審訊上。
And this time she said: “I want to look professional and self-assured.”
這次她說(shuō)：“我想看起來(lái)專(zhuān)業(yè)和自信”。
I told her to create a picture of what self-assured would look like.
我讓她想象一下她自信時(shí)的樣子。
To her, it meant moving confidently around the court room, using convincing body languageand projecting her voice, so it could be heard from the judge's bench to the back door.
就她而言，該畫(huà)面就是能自信地在法庭上走動(dòng)、使用有魄力的肢體語(yǔ)言和大聲地說(shuō)話，這樣法庭里的所有人都能聽(tīng)到她講話。
She also imagined a skillful closing argument and a winning trial.
她還想像了一下巧妙的結(jié)案陳詞和勝訴的場(chǎng)面。
A few weeks after this positive stress rehearsal, the young lawyer did win.
這樣的積極壓力預(yù)演后的一兩周，這位年輕的律師果然勝訴了。
Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
問(wèn)題9到12是基于你剛才所聽(tīng)到的那篇短文。
Question 9: What do some people do when they face a new situation?
問(wèn)題9：面臨新環(huán)境時(shí)，有些人會(huì)怎么做?
Question 10: What does the research conducted at Stanford University show?
問(wèn)題10：斯坦福大學(xué)進(jìn)行的研究表明了什么?
Question 11: What advice does the speaker give to people in a stressful situation?
問(wèn)題11：說(shuō)話者給處于壓力之中的人們的建議是什么?
Question 12: What do we learn about the lawyer in the court?
問(wèn)題12：我們能從法庭上的律師身上獲得什么信息?
