题目内容
The way we spend our time can be divided into three groups, or “jars”. These would be the necessary tasks jar, the voluntary tasks jar and the happiness jar.
Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks jar. We fill this jar with useful things, like making money, housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another jar with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This jar is filled with tasks like taking children to activities and cooking family meals. Those jars are very important. If we don’t fill them each day, our family won’t run properly.
However, we often forget to fill the third jar --- the happiness jar. This is the jar that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness jar sometimes empty at the end of the day? We all have days like that. Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by on some days, and before we know it, it is time for bed.
That is why each day we try to fill our happiness jar. Most days, I fill mine by going to the ballroom dance(社交舞) class with my husband and daughter. Between the music, the dancing and the friendship among the students, I always leave classes happier than when I entered.
Music is another way that I fill my happiness jar. This week, I was happy to take part in an orchestra(管弦乐队) practice at my church(教堂). A small group of us met to practice Christmas music for a church service. It was a time of fun, friendship and music making. At the end of the evening, my happiness jar was full.
This week, consider how your time is spent. Are you doing enough activities that bring joy to your life? Or are the necessary and voluntary tasks eating up all your time? Try to find ways to achieve a balance between how you are filling your three jars. At the end of the day, hopefully we’ve done all we can to make sure that our happiness jar is filled.
1.From the first three paragraph, we can infer(推断) that ____________.
A. necessary and voluntary tasks are more important than happiness
B. voluntary tasks are those we do for others with pleasure and joy
C. time goes quicker when we do the first two tasks than the third
D. doing the first two tasks often leaves us little time to fill the third jar
2.Which of the following is TRUE about the writer?
A. She is always unhappy when she attends the dance club.
B. She goes to the ballroom dance class to make herself happy every single day.
C. Dancing and music are the two usual ways that she makes herself happy.
D. She takes her husband and daughter to dance club in order to make them happy.
3.What can we do to fill the happiness jar according to the passage?
A. Wash clothes B. Watch a film C. Mop the floor D. Look after children
4.What can we know from Paragraph 4 and 5?
A. The writer took a class at church to practice music.
B. The writer finds friendship is important for her happiness.
C. The writer was invited to attend an orchestra as she is good at singing.
D. The writer was going to listen to music at church at Christmas.
5.The writer wrote this article mainly to _______________.
A. tell readers how to relax in daily life B. tell readers the best way to use their time
C. remind readers to take time to make themselves happy D. tell the importance of necessary and voluntary tasks
