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A.considerable
B.considerate
C.sensible
D.sensitive
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Part B
Directions :
Read the texts from a magazine' s LETTERS section, /n, which five people wrote about happiness.For questions 61 t0 65, match the name of each person, to one of the statements (A to G) given, below .Mark your answers on, ANS WER SHEET1.
Erum Nadeem
Your article on happiness lifted my spirits. There is one very interesting aspect to note: the eight steps to happiness listed on pages 32-33 may as well be translations of the values of our cul-tural tradition. If people would see our values from these aspects, there would be no misunder-standing-only happiness.
Sander Tideman
I applaud your special on the science of happiness. However, the issue would have been more
complete had it mentioned'the idea of viewing economic development policies in the context of
"gross national happiness" or GNH. This concept is based on the recognition that gross national
product does not accurately reflect the well-being of a nation. GNH is a bold idea with far-reaching
effects. Since happiness has a scientific base, it can be developed and promoted on a larger social
scale.
Paul Aboh
Happiness is a gift, not a commodity. Even the poor have the ability to cultivate and share happiness. We can find pleasure in the small things we ofien take for granted-a smile, a helping hand, a kiss, a wave, a pat on the back, a glass of water and a promise kept. And when you dis-cover its source, you know it. Sometimes happiness overflows, but it never destroys.
Mansoor Malik
Happiness is not a product of achievement or wealth or fame. It is the reaction of our mind to the environment. Faith in the values of our long-cherished cultural tradition is a source ofwell-being. Happiness comes from caring for others and giving whatever we can-help, hope,love, respect, sympathy or just a smile.
Peter Fischer
At a time when there seem to be so many reasons for being unhappy, I appreciated your spe-cial report on happiness. Surely the poorest kids in Africa who are without parents and are often hungry are the ones with the most reasons to be unhappy. What can possibly make them smile？ As your article pointed out, however, we cannot wait for enough friends or a lot of money to make us happy. We have an amazing capacity to set ourselves right.
Now match the name of each person,(61 to 65)to the appropriate statement.
Note: there are two extra statements
Statements
[A] A rich person is not necessarily happy.
[B] Things people often overlook may be the very source of happiness.
[C] Happiness can be promoted on a scientific basis.
[D] We should mainly rely on ourselves for happiness.
[E] Happiness lies in giving instead of taking.
[F] The environment is a source of happiness.[G] Happiness can be achieved if we stick to the best of our values. 61. Erum Nadeem
A.A rich person is not necessarily happy.
B.Things people often overlook may be the very source of happiness.
C.Happiness can be promoted on a scientific basis.
D.We should mainly rely on ourselves for happiness.
E.Happiness lies in giving instead of taking.
F.The environment is a source of happiness.
G.Happiness can be achieved if we stick to the best of our values.
In the past, I tried my best to【25】myself happy. I thought if I could freely get and do what I wanted to, I【26】be happy. Certainly, it was possible but I was【27】Though I could be happy at times, I couldn't keep my happiness for a long time. Why？ One day, when I told a friend of mine what I【28】about happiness, he smiled and said only a few words, "Happiness is not a single thing but a by- product(副产品)." I was surprised, but he was really【29】
Someone thinks money can【30】everything, but when he becomes a millionaire after his work, perhaps he【31】find that he has new【32】. And he has to go to church for【33】. Sometimes love can bring happiness,【34】at other times it【35】misunderstanding, tiredness, and even quarrelling. Happiness is only a by-product of all【36】of things you love to do. You can not grasp it in a【37】way. That is, it is not a thing existing in material form. but in your senses. You should tell yourself, "I do not【38】whether I'm happy or not. But I must love my life." And one day you will suddenly find happiness【39】has quietly【40】.
(41)
A．what
B．that
C．which
D．it
The recognition that happiness and unhappiness can coexist much【C4】______ love and hate in a close re-lationship may offer valuable【C5】______ on how to lead a happier life. It suggests, for example,【C6】______ changing or avoiding things that make you miserable【C7】______ well make you less miserable but probably won't make you any happier. That advice is【C8】______ up by an extraordinary series of studies which【C9】______ that a genetic predisposition for unhappiness may nm in certain families.【C10】______ , researchers have found, happiness doesn't appear to be anyone's heritage. The【C11】______ for joy is a talent that you de-velop【C12】______ for yourself. Family members【C13】______ each other more in their levels of unhappiness than in their levels of happiness. And identical twins were much closer than 【C14】______ twins in unhappiness, a finding that implies agenetic【C15】______ .
Why is unhappiness less influenced by environment？ When we're happy we tend to be more【C16】______ to people and to keep【C17】______ connections better than when we're feeling sad. This doesn't mean, however, some people are born to be sad. Genes may predispose (预先安排)one to unhappiness, but disposition can be influenced by personal【C18】______ . You can increase your happiness through your own actions, regardless of your heritage.
Psychologists have discovered some of the actions and attitudes that seem to bring people closer to that most desired of feelings. To begin to think about happiness may help us to understand not only what we have but possibly what we don't have. By【C19】______ happiness we may be able to see more clearly what we really want, and we may also be able to ask ourselves【C20】______ what we want is worth getting.
【C1】
A．So
B．However
C．Anyway
D．Moreover
【M1】
It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of false goals. We do, however, seem to be dedicated to the idea of buying our way to happiness. We shall all have made it to Heaven when we possess enough.
And at the same time the forces of American business are hugely dedicated to making us deliberately unhappy. Advertising is one of our major industries, and advertising exists not to satisfy desires but to create them—and to create them faster than anyone's budget can satisfy them. For that matter, our whole economy is based on addicting us to greed. We are even told it is our patriotic duty to support the national economy by buying things.
Look at any of the magazines that cater to women. There advertising begins as art and slogans in the front pages and ends as pills and therapy in the back pages. The art at the front illustrates the dream of perfect beauty. This is the baby skin that must be hers. This, the perfumed breath she must breathe out. This, the sixteen-year-old figure she must display at forty, at fifty, at sixty, and forever. This is the harness into which Mother must strap herself in order to display that perfect figure. This is the cream that restores skin, these are the tablets that melt away fat around the thighs, and these are the pills of perpetual youth.
Obviously no reasonable person can be completely persuaded either by such art or by such pills and devices. Yet someone is obviously trying to buy this dream and spending billions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers, but what is it they are trying to buy？
Defining the meaning of "happiness" is a perplexing proposition: the best one can do is to try to set some extremes to the idea and then work towards the middle. To think of happiness as achieving superiority over others, living in a mansion made of marble, having a wardrobe with hundreds of outfits, will do to set the greedy extreme.
From the first two paragraphs of the passage we may infer that ______.
A．the US Constitution gives people the right to pursue happiness
B．American people are at a loss as how to gain happiness
C．Jonathan Swift did not believe in happiness itself
D．American people tend to buy their happiness
回答题。
Erum Nadeem:
Your article on happiness lifted my spirits．There is one very interesting aspect to note: theeight steps to happiness listed on pages 32-33 may as well be translations of the values of our cul-tural tradition．If people would see our values from these aspects, there would be no misunder-standing-only happiness．
Sander Tideman:
I applaud your special on the science of happiness．However, the issue would have been morecomplete had it mentioned the idea of viewing economic development policies in the context of"gross national happiness" or GNI-I．This concept is based on the recognition that gross nationalproduct does not accurately reflect the well-being of a nation．GNH is a bold idea with far-reachingeffects．Since happiness has a scientific base, it can be developed and promoted on a larger socialscale．
Paul Aboh:
Happiness is a gift, not a commodity．Even the poor have the ability to cultivate and sharehappiness．We can find pleasure in the small things we often take for granted-a smile, a helpinghand, a kiss, a wave, a pat on the back, a glass of water and a promise kept．And when you dis-cover its source, you know it．Sometimes happiness overflows, but it never destroys．
Mansoor Malik
Happiness is not a product of achievement or wealth or fame．It is the reaction of our mind tothe environment．Faith in the values of our long-cherished cultural tradition is a source of well-being．Happiness comes from caring for others and giving whatever we can--help, hope, love,respect, sympathy or just a smile．
Peter Fischer
At a time when there seem to be so many reasons for being unhappy, I appreciated your spe-cial report on happiness．Surely the poorest kids in Africa who are without parents and are oftenhungry are the ones with the most reasons to be unhappy．What can possibly make them smile？ Asyour article pointed out, however, we cannot wait for enough friends or a lot of money to make ushappy．We have an amazing capacity to set ourselves right．
Now match the name of each person (61 to 65) to the appropriate statement．
Note: there are two extra statements．
Erum Nadeem 查看材料
A.A rich person is not necessarily happy．
B.Things people often overlook may be the very source of happiness．
C.Happiness can be promoted on a scientific basis．
D.We should mainly rely on ourselves for happiness．
E.Happiness lies in giving instead of taking．
F.The environment is a source of happiness．
G.Happiness can be achieved if we stick to the best of our values．
Sure, there have been exceptions, but it would not be a stretch to say that for the past century or so, serious art has been at war with happiness. In 1824, Beethoven completed his "Ode to Joy". In 1962, novelist Anthoy Burgess used it in A Clockwork Orange as the favorite music of his ultra-violent antihero.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have seen such misery. But the reason may actually be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
In the West, before mass communication and literacy, the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls were in peril and that they would someday be meat for worms. Today the messages that the average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and relentlessly happy. Since these messages have an agenda—to prey our wallets from our pockets—they make the very idea of happiness seem bogus(假的). "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attack.
What we forget—what our economy depends on us forgetting—is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us that it is OK not to be happy, that sadness makes happiness deeper. As the wine-connoisseur movie Sideways tells us, it is the kiss of decay and mortality that makes grape juice into Pinot Norway need art to tell us, as religion once did, that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It's a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, is a breath of fresh air.
What is most strange about artists？
A．They wear special clothes.
B．They rarely work in the daytime.
C．They mainly depict distressing things.
D．They are liable to take illegal drugs.
【C1】
A．that
B．like
C．if
D．as
From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know that man is here for the sake of other men—above all for those upon whose smile and well-being our own happiness depends, and also for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy. Many times a day I realize how much my own outer and inner life is built upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received. My peace of mind is often troubled by the depressing sense that I have borrowed too heavily from the work of other men.
To ponder interminably over the reason for one's own existence or the meaning of life in general seems to me, from an objective point of view, to be sheer foxily. And yet everyone holds certain ideals by which he guides his aspiration and his judgment. The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort and happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
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