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  3. Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center,

Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center,

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问题     Like many workers, Ivelisse Rivera, a physician at Community Health Center, Middletown, Conn., feels stressed out by mounting workloads. And she didn’t expect to get much help during her employer’s【C1】________staff meeting last November—just the usual speeches on medical【C2】________.
    Instead, she got a big dose of something new: Happiness coaching. Keynote speaker Shawn Achor— a former Harvard University researcher and former co-teacher of one of the university’s most popular courses, Positive Psychology—extolled (激励) 90 listening employees to【C3】________off dark moods at work by practicing such happiness—inducing【C4】________as meditation or expressing gratitude.
    To her surprise, Dr. Rivera says, she drove home filled with thoughts about cheering up, "If I【C5】________a negative attitude and complain all the time, whoever is working with me is going to feel the same way. "
    Happiness coaching is seeping (渗入) into the workplace. A growing number of employers, including UBS, American Express, KPMG and the law firm Goodwin Procter, have hired trainers who【C6】________on psychological research, ancient religious traditions or both to inspire workers to take a more positive attitude—or at least a【C7】________one. Happiness-at-work coaching is the theme of a crop of new business books and a growing number of MBA-school courses.
    Critics say that pushing positive thinking is just a way for companies to improve morale while they continue to burden employees with the threat of【C8】________and an ever-increasing workload. In his book, Bright-sided, Barbara Ehrenreich blames "positive thinking" for【C9】________it will lead people to avoid【C10】________a wide range of serious problems in the economy and workplace.
    A) annual      F) draw        K) neutral
    B) assume      G) inevitably  L) notorious
    C) assure      H) invariably  M) shake
    D) confer      I) issues      N) techniques
    E) confronting J) lay-offs    O) technology [br] 【C7】
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答案 K
解析 形容词辨析题。根据句子结构可知，空格处需填形容词作定语，表示什么样的态度。本句大意为“雇主们聘请培训师利用心理学研究成果、古代宗教传统或两者相结合来激励员工拥有一种更加积极的心态，或者至少有一种________的态度”。结合备选词判断，空格处应填K项neutral“中立的”。
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