题目内容

The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are  playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1.Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?

A. The Indian holy man                B. The great Irish poet Yeats

C. Advertisers                      D. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market

2.What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?

A. It means a place in which people can buy things happily

B. It means a market which lacks happy customers

C. It means a pure state for the world and mankind

D. It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is Right?

A. The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.

B. The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C. There is no fun without playing by the rules

D. Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

 

【答案】

 

1.B

2.D

3.C

【解析】略

 

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完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Living one’s life is really like driving on a highway. First, to make a good driving, the driver must carefully examine the 1  of his car,  just as he cares for his health for a good life. Once he enters into the highway, he must 2  certain rules for his own safety. It also can be said that he must obey certain rules of 3  when living as a decent (体面的) adult. For example, on the highway, he is 4 to keep a constant speed which can be compared with his 5  activities through his life. Neither driving nor living must be taken at too 6  a speed nor at too slow a speed. If he drives too 7 , the police will give him a ticket, just as he will be arrested when he breaks the law. 8  too conservatively (保守的), he will be called an out-of-date person 9  the others driving at the proper speed. When he wants to change his lanes, he must give careful 10  to every direction of his car. It is sometimes 11  to change the way of life 12  he can be sure of completion by doing so. He 13  not make any unnecessary changing of lanes which gives him only danger. Finally, he must 14  where he is now by recognizing some 15  appearing now and then. If he takes the wrong way, he must return to the right as 16  as he can. But he may thus lose 17  and energy both on the road and in life.
18  the whole, driving on a highway and living one’s life are both hard work. 19  if he is careful and serious enough, 20  will provide him much pleasure.

【小题1】
A.seatB.conditionC.petrolD.passenger
【小题2】
A.listen toB.findC.followD.insist on
【小题3】
A.societyB.schoolC.groupD.highway
【小题4】
A.gladB.requiredC.madeD.anxious
【小题5】
A.brokenB.outdoorC.goodD.continuous
【小题6】
A.largeB.highC.limitedD.expected
【小题7】
A.speedilyB.slowlyC.orderlyD.willingly
【小题8】
A.DoingB.ActingC.GoingD.Working
【小题9】
A.persuadingB.getting C.interruptingD.refusing
【小题10】
A.noticeB.attentionC.signsD.regards
【小题11】
A.dangerousB.worthyC.unfitD.troublesome
【小题12】
A.ifB.whenC.unlessD.because
【小题13】
A.dareB.needC.mayD.should
【小题14】
A.thinkB.discoverC.proveD.look
【小题15】
A.signsB.roadsC.postersD.people
【小题16】
A.possibleB.soonC.muchD.hard
【小题17】
A.moneyB.luckC.timeD.trust
【小题18】
A.InB.WithC.AboutD.On
【小题19】
A.ThereforeB.ButC.AndD.Then
【小题20】
A.itB.heC.theyD.you

When I was a little girl, I found love in a box all because of a class assignment. On a Friday night I   36  at the dinner table, “My teacher said we have to bring a box, a special box, for our valentines on Monday”.
Mother said, “We’ll see,” and she continued eating.
What did “We’ll see” mean? I had to have that box,   37  my second grade Valentine’s Day would be a disaster. Maybe they didn’t love me enough to help me with my   38  .
All Saturday I waited   39  and with Sunday arriving, my concern increased. However, I   40  that an enquiry about the box would   41  anger or loud voices, for in my house children only asked once. More than that   42  trouble.
Late Sunday afternoon, my father called me into the kitchen. The table was covered with different kinds of colorful   43  . A (n)   44  shoebox rested on top of it.   45  flooded through me when Daddy said, “Let’s get started   46  your project.”
In the next hour my father   47  the shoebox into an impressive valentine box. Colorful paper covered the ugly cardboard with red hearts   48  to what I considered all the right places. He sang while he worked. When he finished, he was so delighted that a   49  smile spread across his face. “What do you think of that?” he asked.
I answered him with a hug.
But inside,   50  danced all the way to my heart. It was the first time that my father had devoted so much   51  to me, for his world consisted only of work.
The holiday party arrived, and my classmates put cards and presents into the valentine boxes. Laughter filled our classroom until dismissal time   52 .
On the way home, I held out my valentine box for the world to   53  . The love that filled it meant more to me than all the valentines inside.
The valentine box became a symbol of his love that   54  through decades of other Valentine’s Days. My father gave me other gifts through the years, but none   55  compared with the love I felt within the limits of the old, empty shoebox.

【小题1】
A.announcedB.appearedC.servedD.sat
【小题2】
A.andB.butC.orD.so
【小题3】
A.designB.planC.ideaD.project
【小题4】
A.sadlyB.anxiouslyC.disappointedlyD.patiently
【小题5】
A.foundB.realizedC.knewD.imagined
【小题6】
A.startB.causeC.markD.produce
【小题7】
A.invitedB.tookC.savedD.had
【小题8】
A.boxesB.giftsC.paperD.food
【小题9】
A.newB.bigC.attractiveD.empty
【小题10】
A.RelaxationB.ReliefC.CheerD.Calm
【小题11】
A.byB.atC.inD.on
【小题12】
A.foldedB.packedC.changedD.pressed
【小题13】
A.joinedB.attachedC.linkedD.connected
【小题14】
A.slightB.briefC.broadD.confident
【小题15】
A.joyB.funC.interestD.amusement
【小题16】
A.moneyB.timeC.supportD.hope
【小题17】
A.reachedB.setC.spentD.came
【小题18】
A.acceptB.respectC.admireD.recognize
【小题19】
A.carriedB.keptC.spreadD.lasted
【小题20】
A.everB.evenC.yetD.still

完型填空(共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I have two friends who are eager to go hiking. There is a High Peaks region 1 46 mountains in New York. A mountain club gives special recognition(奖赏) to 2 who climbs all the 46 mountains. My two friends decided to go for this 3. The mountains were really 4 to climb. It  5  them several years to achieve it. My friends had climbed 45 of the mountains, and the 6 one was the most distant and the highest.
Early one morning they left their campsite hiking path to the 7 of a chain of mountains. When they reached the base, they found that they had left their 8 and map in the camp. 9 returning to the camp, they decided to navigate(导航,定位) without them. 10, they reached the top of a mountain. They were worn-out 11 extremely happy.
However, the 12 lasted only for a short time. When they 13 , they saw another higher mountain. They had climbed the 14 mountain! 15 the time problem, they had to wait for another four months to climb the right mountain.
I think this story tells an important 16:often in life we put great 17 into some of our goals, but without the right map and compass, it is easy to get 18. Knowing your 49 in life gives you a powerful personal map and compass, 20 that you are always climbing the right mountain.

【小题1】
A.consisting ofB.consisted ofC.making ofD.made of
【小题2】
A.everyoneB.anyoneC.no oneD.someone
【小题3】
A.relaxB.awardC.admissionD.result
【小题4】
A.easyB.visualC.hard D.fragile
【小题5】
A.costB.wastedC.spentD.took
【小题6】
A.first B.secondC.thirdD.last
【小题7】
A.top B.side C.edge D.base
【小题8】
A.map B.guideC.waterD.compass
【小题9】
A.Rather than B.Other thanC.Or ratherD.Except for
【小题10】
A.ConsequentlyB.EventuallyC.EndlesslyD.Mentally
【小题11】
A.and B.butC.orD.so
【小题12】
A.delightB.sorrowC.stressD.preference
【小题13】
A.looked upB.looked forwardC.looked backD.looked around
【小题14】
A.rightB.left C.wrongD.highest
【小题15】
A.In spite ofB.Due toC.Thanks toD.Instead of
【小题16】
A.classB.lessonC.aim D.ban
【小题17】
A.strengthB.load C.effortD.faith
【小题18】
A.abused B.addicted C.accustomedD.lost
【小题19】
A.purposeB.dreamC.quality D.pleasure
【小题20】
A.making sureB.making outC.making upD.making from

Allan goes everywhere with Birgitta Anderson, a 54-year-old secretary. He moves around her office at work and goes shopping with her. ‘Most people don't seem to mind Allan,’ says Birgitta, who thinks he is wonderful. 'He's my fourth child,' she says. She may think of him and treat him that way, buying his food, paying his health bills and his taxes, but in fact Allan is a dog. Birgitta and Allan live in Sweden, a country where everyone is expected to lead an orderly life according to rules laid down by the government, which also provides (提供)a high level of care for its people. This level of care costs money. People in Sweden pay taxes on everything, so aren't surprised to find that owning a dog means yet more taxes. Some people are paying as much as 500 Swedish kronor in taxes a year for the right to keep their dog, money that is spent by the government on dog hospitals and sometimes medical treatment for a dog that falls ill. However, most such treatment is expensive, so owners often decide to pay health and even life insurance (保险)for their dog. In Sweden dog owners must pay for any damage (损坏)their dog does. A Swedish Kennel Club official explains what this means: if your dog runs out on the road and gets hit by a passing car you, as the owner, have to pay for any damage done to the car, even if your dog has been killed in the accident.
【小题1】 Birgitta pays taxes for Allan because         .

A.he is her dogB.he is her childC.he follows her everywhereD.he often falls ill
【小题2】The money paid as dog taxes is used to           .
A.keep a high level of care for the peopleB.pay for damage done by dogs
C.provide medical care for dogsD.buy insurance for dog owners
【小题3】 If a dog causes a car accident and gets killed, who should pay for the damage done to the car?
A.The owner of the car.B.The owner of the dog.
C.The insurance company(公司).D.The government.
【小题4】From the text it can be inferred that in Sweden          .
A.dogs are welcome in public placesB.keeping dogs means asking for trouble
C.many car accidents are caused by dogsD.people care much about dogs

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