FIVE REASONS WHY BEING KIND MAKES YOU FEEL GOOD — ACCORDING

PART A: Which statement best expresses the central idea of the text?

• Showing kindness towards others can improve your mood through positive social interactions and reinforcing the notion that you’re a good person.

• The brain recognizes acts of kindness as rewarding because positive social interactions are an important part of human survival.

• People are only ever truly kind when they do something good for someone else without receiving anything in return.

• Most people are kind towards others without realizing they are actually being selfish, as they expect something in return.

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

• “We know that deciding to be generous or cooperating with others activates an area of the brain called the striatum. Interestingly, this area responds to things we find rewarding,”( )

• Doing a kind act to make someone who is sad feel better can also make us feel good – partly because we feel the same relief they do and partly because we are putting something right.” ( )

• “For example, an animal-lover could rescue a bird, an art-lover could donate to a gallery or a retired teacher could volunteer at an after-school group.” ( )

• “Work on the psychology of kindness shows that one out of several possible motivations is reciprocity, the returning of a favor.” ( )

How does contribute to the authors’ explanation of kindness in the text?

• It shows how people have conflicting opinions about why people are kind.

• It introduces the idea that being kind to others makes us feel good.

• It emphasizes the idea that people are kind more often than we realize.

• It highlights the darker motivations for why people are kind.

What is the authors’ main purpose of the text?

• to encourage readers to be kinder to one another

• to emphasize the disadvantages of only being concerned with yourself

• to explore the different explanations for why being kind make us happy

• to suggest that humans are kind for largely selfish reasons

What is the relationship between how others feel and how we feel? Use details from the text in your response.

• Sample Answer: The realationship is they noth affect our mental and emotoinal health. strategy helps students understand the different types of questions. By learning that the answers to some questions are "Right There" in the text, that some answers require a reader to "Think and Search," and that some answers can only be answered "On My Own,".

• Wrong Answer: Others feel mean we feel sad