Answer — Exercise 4
02 - Reading and speaking·Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book
Question
Read your article again in more detail. Student A: Ask Student B questions 1-6 below. Student B: Ask Student A questions 7-12 below.
Answer
- It opens up new possibilities and increases the chances of finding luck and friendship.
- The researchers sat in public places in New York holding a sign saying 'Talk to me'. Positive results: they were generally surprised by the kindness of strangers. Negative results: they sometimes encountered hostility and suspicion.
- The activities that make us happy are the ones where we focus on the present, such as exercising or talking to friends.
- Fathers who do less housework are more stressed.
- The amount of housework fathers are doing is increasing, but at a very slow rate: it will be 2050 before men and women are sharing the chores equally.
- No, it doesn't. Although the index focuses on factors like education, health and safety, it shows it takes more than sunny weather to feel happy.
- Because what makes people happy is to earn more than their friends and colleagues.
- No, it isn't. Money has an impact on happiness, because not having enough money definitely makes people miserable.
- People are least happy in cities, and happiest away from cities, particularly in mountains and forests.
- She gave one group of students $20 to spend on themselves and another group the same amount to spend on other people. Those students who spent the money on others were much happier.
- 'Pro-social spending' is what Elizabeth Dunn calls the act of spending your wealth on others rather than on yourself.
- Because it makes you feel happier: it reminds your face muscles what it feels like to smile and smiling reminds you what it feels like to be happy.
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