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【题目】You just think you know what will make you happy. Researchers in the new science of happiness know better. They have evidence that married people on average end up being no happier than they were before the wedding. Winning the lottery (彩票) will probably reduce your pleasure in ordinary events that used to make you happy. And being in good health isn't as much of a factor as the right genes when it comes to satisfaction.

Soligman and Diener studied 222 Illinois college students to find out what the happiest 10% had in common. It turned out they were extroverts (外向的人), had more friendships and romantic relationships, but didn't exercise more and didn't feel they had more good events in their lives than those who weren't as happy.

Some of the results come as a surprise. A classic study of lottery winners and people with spinal (脊骨) cord injuries, for instance, found that neither event changed their lives as much as observers thought they would.

Gilbert is looking into how accurately people predict what will make them happy, which turns out, not accurately at all. What we think will bring us pleasure—a new car, the home team winning the NCAA championship, a move to California—usually doesn't bring us as much as we expected, and the positive impact doesn't last as long. The good news is that we also overestimate the impact of catastrophic (悲惨的) events. Even with data from research pouring in, scientists still don't have an easy answer to what we all want to know: How do I get long-term life satisfaction? The answers they do have are often the same ones that philosophers and priests have been giving us for centuries. It's just nice to have them backed up with hard data.

【1】 What does the passage mainly discuss?

A. A research on happiness.

B. The level of happiness.

C. The secrets of happiness.

D. The prediction of happiness.

【2】 The happiest people have the following characters except that __________.

A. they are rich

B. they are outgoing

C. they are very sociable

D. they don't pay more attention to exercise

【3】 According to the passage, we can know if the hurricane happens, it will cause __________.

A. more suffering than people expect

B. as much suffering as people expect

C. less suffering than people expect

D. nothing is mentioned about it

【4】 Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. We ourselves know what makes us happy the best.

B. The happiest 10% in the world have nothing in common.

C. People can predict the things that make them happy accurately.

D. We just need to do what the philosophers and priests tell us to keep happy.

Answer 1

【答案】【1】 C

【2】 A

【3】 C

【4】 D

【解析】【1】主旨大意题。由全文内容可以看出，文章主要讲了什么才能使我们幸福，即幸福的秘密。

【2】细节理解题。根据第二段的第二句“他们性格外向，善于交友和恋爱，但和那些不如他们快乐的人相比，他们不常锻炼身体”可排除B、C、D三项。

【3】推理判断题。由第四段的最后可知“我们”以为会让“我们”快乐的事情给我们的快乐并不如预想的那么多，其所带来的积极影响也没有想象中的深远，“我们”也同样高估了灾难性事件的影响力。由此推断C项正确。

【4】细节理解题。由文章最后一段可知答案为D。由文章第一段的前两句可知A项错误。由第二段内容可知B项错误。由文章第四段的前两句可知选项C错误。