Section Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
Mental health is our birthright. (46) 【We don’t have to learn how to be mentally healthy; it is built into us in the same way that our bodies know how to heal a cut or mend a broken bone. 】Mental health can’t be learned, only reawakened. It is like the immune system of the body, which under stress or through lack of nutrition of exercise can be weakened, but which never leaves us. When we don’t understand the value of mental health and we don’t know how to gain access to it, mental health will remain hidden from us, (47) 【Our mental health doesn’t really go anywhere; like the sun behind a cloud, it can be temporarily hidden from view, but it is fully capable of being restored in an instant.】
Mental health is the seed that contains self-esteem—confidence in ourselves and an ability to trust in our common sense. It allows us to have perspective on our lives—the ability to not take ourselves too seriously, to laugh at ourselves, to see the bigger picture, and to see that things will work out. It’s a form of innate or unlearned optimism. (48) 【Mental health allows us to view others with sympathy if they are having troubles, with kindness if they are in pain, and with unconditional love no matter who they are.】 Mental health is the source of creativity for solving problems, resolving conflict, making our surroundings more beautiful, managing our home life, or coming up with a creative business idea or invention to make our lives easier. It gives us patience for ourselves and toward others as well as patience while driving, catching a fish, working on our car, or raising a child. It allows us to see the beauty that surrounds us each moment in nature, in culture, in the flow of our daily lives.
(49) 【Although mental health is the cure-all for living our lives, it is perfectly ordinary as you will see that it has been there to direct you through all your difficult decisions.】 It has been available even in the most mundane of life situations to show you right from wrong, good from bad, friend from foe. Mental health has commonly been called conscience, instinct, wisdom, common sense, or the inner voice. We think of it simply as a healthy and helpful flow of intelligent thought. (50) 【As you will come to see, knowing that mental health is always available and knowing to trust it allow us to slow down to the moment and live life happily.】
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46. 我们无需刻意学习怎样才能保持心理健康；它是与生俱来的，正如我们的身体知道如何愈合伤口或修复骨折一样。
47. 我们的心理健康并没有真正离开我们；就像云朵后的太阳，也许暂时被遮挡，但是它完全可以在瞬间光芒重现。
48. 心理健康使我们在他人遇到困难时心怀同情，在他人遭遇痛苦时心存善意，不论他们是谁，我们都会心怀无条件的爱。
49. 尽管心理健康是我们生活中的万能药，但它其实非常普通，你会发现在你难以做决定时，它一直指引着你。
50. 你会慢慢发现，明白心理健康一直在身边并且懂得坚信它，可以让我们放慢节奏，并快乐地生活。
答案解析：
生词本
mentally adv. 精神上地
cut n. 伤口
capable adj. 能够的
sympathy n. 同情
cure-all n. 包治百病的良药
available adj. 可获得的
slow down 放慢节奏
表达难点
46. ①本句是由分号连接的并列句。第一个分句的主干为We don’t have to learn，how引导的不定式做learn的宾语；第二个分句采用被动语态，that引导定语从句，修饰先行词way。②第一个分句中的how to be mentally healthy意为“如何保持心理健康”。③第二个分句中it指代前面的mentally healthy，意为“心理健康”。④is built into意为“被建入；内置于”，与心理健康搭配可译为“与生俱来”。⑤in the same way意为“以同样的方式，如同”，作状语修饰be built into us。⑥本句中的cut为名词，指“伤口”。
47. ①本句由分号连接两个并列句，第一个并列句为主谓结构，第二个并列句中，like the sun behind a cloud是状语，but连接两个并列分句，表转折。②第一个分句中doesn’t really go anywhere，意为“实际上哪里都没有去”，可译为“并没有真的离开”。③第二个分句中be capable of为固定搭配，意为“有能力”。④本句中can be temporarily hidden和being restored为被动语态，翻译时可将被动转化为主动。
48. ①句子的主干为Mental health allows us…，三个并列的介词with…为方式状语，分别引导两个条件状语从句和一个让步状语从句。②本句主句谓语中的view others由with引出三个介词短语并修饰，在翻译中可将其译为并列句。③if引导的两个条件状语从句和一个让步状语从句在翻译时应前置。
49. ①本句是由Although引导的让步状语从句，句子的主干为it is perfectly ordinary，其中的it指代前面的mental health。as引导原因状语从句，其中包括that引导的宾语从句。②介词短语for living our lives是修饰cure-all的后置定语，可译为“生活的万能药”。③perfectly此处与ordinary连用，不译为“完美的”，而应译为“十分；非常”。④perfectly ordinary译为“非常普通”。
50. ①句首As引导非限制性定语从句，修饰逗号后的整个句子。句子的主干为knowing that…and knowing to trust it allow us to…。第一个分词中的that引导宾语从句。②句子中的allow sb. to do (sth.) 意为“允许某人做某事”。③句子的主语是两个knowing引导的并列的动名词结构，其中第一个knowing后接宾语从句。④always available可译为“一直都存在”。⑤slow down意为“慢下来”。
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