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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 托福阅读精选素材：微笑的力量  托福阅读：2019托福阅读精选素材：微笑的力量  托福考试经典名师1对1课程推荐  托福阅读材料:The hidden power of smiling  0:11  When I was a child, I always wanted to be a superhero. I wanted to save the world and make everyone happy. But I knew that Id need superpowers to make my dreams come true. So I used to embark on these imaginary journeys to find intergalactic objects from planet Krypton, which was a lot of fun, but didnt yield much result. When I grew up and realized that science fiction was not a good source for superpowers, I decided instead to embark on a journey of real science, to find a more useful truth.   0:41  I started my journey in California, with a UC Berkeley 30-year longitudinal study that examined the photos of students in an old yearbook, and tried to measure their success and well-being throughout their life. By measuring the students smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long-lasting a subjects marriage would be,  1:03  (Laughter)  1:04  how well she would score on standardized tests of well-being, and how inspiring she would be to others. In another yearbook, I stumbled upon Barry Obamas picture. When I first saw his picture, I thought that his superpowers came from his super collar.  1:20  (Laughter)  1:21  But now I know it was all in his smile.  1:24  Another aha! moment came from a 2010 Wayne State University research project that looked into pre-1950s baseball cards of Major League players. The researchers found that the span of a players smilecould actually predict the span of his life. Players who didnt smile in their pictures lived an average of only 72.9 years, where players with beaming smiles lived an average of almost 80 years.  1:52  (Laughter)  1:54  The good news is that were actually born smiling. Using 3D ultrasound technology, we can now see that developing babies appear to smile, even