Is happiness genetic

6 Minute English

语言学习

2017-06-08

6 分钟
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  • Hello and welcome to Six Minute English,

  • the show that brings you an interesting topic or authentic listening practice and six new items of vocabulary.

  • I'm Dan.

  • And I'm Neil.

  • In this episode, we'll be discussing if happiness is genetic.

  • How happy would you say you are, Neil?

  • Oh, I'm pretty happy.

  • I think why do you ask?

  • Well, in March this year, the UN published its fifth world happiness report.

  • Is that the one that ranks all the countries based on how happy they are?

  • Oh, you've heard of it then.

  • Overall, there are 155 countries included and Norway came top of them all,

  • overtaking Denmark, which was the leader for the years 2012 to 2016.

  • Well, what about the UK then?

  • Ah, well, that's this week's question, isn't it?

  • Where did the UK place?

  • Is it A in the top 10, B between 11th and 20th,