GRE阅读练习：为何越来越多美国人选择自杀.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：为何越来越多美国人选择自杀 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：为何越来越多美国人选择自杀 GRE考试精品课程指导  Why more Americans are killing themselves  为何越来越多美国人自杀  BEING depressed is like having a terrible headache, says one Atlanta businessman. Except that a few days of rest do not stop the pain: “Youre just expected to keep going.” Trying to “man up”, he sought little help for his condition, choosing to hide it instead. “It all gets so debilitating that you dont want to go on,” he explains.  亚特兰大的一位商人觉得，压抑苦闷和剧烈头痛一样，这种痛苦休息几天都无法消失：“你只想坚持下去。”虽然他努力变“man”一点，但却没有想办法解决问题，反而想藏起来。他解释道，“所有的一切让人筋疲力尽，很想放弃。”  He tried to kill himself more than once; fortunately, his attempts came to nothing. But the same cannot be said for a growing share of Americans. The suicide rate has risen from 11 per 100,000 people in 2005 to 13 seven years later. In the time it takes you to read this article, six Americans will try to kill themselves; in another ten minutes one will succeed.  他曾不止一次想要自杀;幸运的是，他的尝试都是徒劳的。然而，美国可没有那么幸运，因为自杀率攀升。自杀率从2005年10万人中的11%增加到2012年的13%。在你读这篇文章的时间里，6位美国人将会自杀，而且十分钟之后会有一个人自杀成功。  Over 40,000 Americans took their own lives in 2012—more than died in car crashes—says the American Association of Suicidology. Mondays in May see the most incidents. The rates are highest in Wyoming and Montana, perhaps because guns—which are more effective than pills—are so common there (see chart). Nationally, guns are used in half of all successful suicides.  据美国自杀协会研究，2012年，在美国自杀人数超过4万，多于死于车祸的人数。自杀多发在五月的星期一。怀俄明州和蒙大拿州的自杀人数最多，原因或许是枪支的普及(开枪自杀比吃药来的快)。全国范围而言，开枪成功自杀的事件占到所有自杀事件的一半。  What drives people to self-destruction? Those who suffer from depression are, unsurprisingly, most at risk. The suicide rate also rises when times are hard. During the Depression it jumped to a record 19 per 100,000. It grew after the recent financial crisis too. “Even just uncertainty over employment” makes people worry a lot, notes Yeats Conwell, a psychiatrist at the