单选题 "Years ago, a friend of mine observed that 80 percent of the people in this country have too much self-esteem and 20 percent have much too little. That struck me as pretty accurate, but psychologists will tell you that self-esteem is not a constant. People"s appraisal of their own worth varies.... I have the impression that more people have unstable self-esteem than before. I say this because some of the traditional standards people used to measure their own worth have eroded (middle class respectability), whereas more people now seem to measure themselves against celebrities and superstars. It would be interesting to know if anybody has studied changes in the criteria we use to measure self-worth."
Comment 1:
You bring up an interesting point because I do believe values and beliefs have changed. It would be very interesting to see the criteria used for self-worth. I find it hard to believe that only 20% of people have low self-esteem. I"ve been following Brene Brown"s thoughts on the subject of self-worth, and low self-worth (on some level) seems much more common.
Comment 2:
If the quality of one"s self-esteem is going to be judged by comparisons with those who are celebrities and superstars, then the entire exercise is really pointless.
Comment 3:
Self-esteem solution: A happy marriage.
Comment 4:
Ego (self-worth) is proportionate to wealth. The more wealth, the more self-worth.
Comment 5:
Benjamin Franklin said it best, and it applies to all facets of life., "Contentment will make a poor man rich just as discontent will make a rich man poor." It does not mean not try to do your best, or be the richest. It simply means once you"ve done your best be content with yourself, just as if you don"t give your best effort discontent is sure to follow.
Comment 6:
I"ve "retired" from 30 years of expensive, if interesting, "personal growth" and "self-improvement." much probably motivated by trying to "fix" myself. Hanging out with friends at a local cafe is way more satisfying.
Comment 7:
A related concept you may be interested in is the "sociometer theory" of self-esteem, pioneered by Mark Leary (Wake Forest). Basically it states that our self-esteem is determined by the amount of perceived social acceptance/rejection, and that determination is full of cognitive biases and errors. Awesome stuff.
单选题 The main idea of the quoted blog is that ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 首段引用的博客主要说自尊不是一个常数，传统的用来衡量人们自身价值的标准已经被侵蚀了，如今更多的人对照名人和超级明星来评价自己，衡量自我价值的标准已经发生了变化，所以选C。
单选题 Among all the comments, which of the following choices brings in authoritative sources in their discussion?
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 读完七个评论后可以看出，评论1、5、7中都包含比较权威的人士Brene、Brown、Benjamin Franklin、Mark Leafy，所以这三个评论比较权威，选C。
单选题 What all the commentators try to respond to in their writing is ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 评论1中出现了“the criteria used for self-worth”；评论2中出现了“self-esteem is going to be judged by”；评论4中出现了“The more wealth, the more self-worth”；评论7中出现了“our self-esteem is determined by”。从大多数评论中出现的这些信息我们可以总结出，所有评论人员在他们的评论中想要表达的是自尊的衡量标准，所以选B。
单选题 Why does the writer of Comment 5 try to clarify Benjamin Franklin"s saying?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 评论5主要对本杰明·富兰克林的话“满足可使穷人变富，不满足可使富人变穷，，进行了解释：这并不意味着不去努力做得最好、变得最富有；它仅仅意味着，一旦你已经尽力了，就要满足，就像如果你不尽力当然不会满足一样。评论员对富兰克林的话解释的很详细，目的是避免别人误解，所以选D。
单选题 What is the writer"s attitude toward the "sociometer theory" in Comment 7?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据评论7中的“that determination is full of cognitive biases and errors这个决定因素充满认知偏差和错误”可知，作者对“计量社会学理论”的态度是否定的，选D。