中科大综合英语听力教程Unit 7.doc

Unit Seven Goals of Life
Part I Appreciation of Life
☺Task 3
They say that you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. What makes people believe this saying is contrast. Contrast is necessary in order to illustrate the relative values of two or more options. When the options pared, a judgment is made and a preference is established.
For the real value of anything to emerge it would seem necessary to adopt parative procedure so that the correct judgments may be formulated and the preference realized. The trouble with this idea is that in order to appreciate anything it must be lost or at least a true knowledge of the absence of it must be recognized. If we put forward the challenge then, to begin appreciating the uniqueness of a human existence, what must an individual do in order to eed at this? Give up his or her life?
It would be fair to imagine that if the individual is to have a genuine chance at appreciating his or her life parison has to be abandoned as a methodology for recognizing value. And in fact, parison between options and the formation of judgment is an inefficient way of generating appreciation, for they do not take the function of emotions into account. To rely only on parison to promote appreciation, would be misguided, for the ponents of appreciation and preference are emotional in their nature. Appreciation and preference are products of feeling.
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