My grandfather worked as a carpenter. On this particular day, he was building some crates(木箱)for the clothes his church was sending to an orphanage in Brazil. On his way home, he found his glasses were gone. When he mentally replayed his earlier actions, he realized what happened. The glasses had slipped out of his pocket and fallen into one of the crates. His new glasses were heading for Brazil!

The Great Depression was at its height, and Grandpa had six children. He had spent twenty dollars for those glasses that very morning.

“It’s not fair,” he thought as he walked home angrily. “I’ve been very faithful in giving my time and money to my work, and now this.”

Several months later, the director of the orphanage came to the United States. He wanted to visit all the churches that supported him, so he came to my grandfather’s small church in Chicago.

He began by thanking the people for their kindness in supporting the orphanage. “But most of all,” he said, “ I must thank you for the glasses you sent last year. You see, some people had just come to the orphanage, destroying everything, including my glasses. I was desperate. Even if I had the money, there was simply no way of replacing those glasses. Along with not being able to see well, I experienced headaches every day, so my coworkers and I were very worried about this. Then your crates arrived. When I removed the covers, I found a pair of glasses lying on top.”

He paused long enough to let his words sink in. Then, he continued: “When I tried on the glasses, it was as though they had been made just for me!” The people listened, happy for the miraculous glasses. But they thought it was strange because there were no glasses on their list of items to be sent overseas.

Sitting quietly in the back, with tears streaming down his face, my grandfather, an ordinary carpenter realized his glasses had found a good place to go.

The  underlined word “miraculous”(Paragraph 6)can be replaced by          .

A. practical     B. wonderful  C. necessary    D. important

What would be the best title for the text?

A. The Perfect Mistake. B. An Ordinary Carpenter.

C. A Careless Old Man.  D. A Pair of Glasses.

Researchers found that people become happier and experience less worry after they reach the age of fifty.In fact, they say by the age of eighty-five, people are happier with their life than they were when they were eighteen years old.

       The findings came from a survey of more than 340,000 adults in the United States.The Gallup(民意调查) Organization questioned them by telephone in 2008.At that time, the people were between the ages of eighteen and eighty-five.

       The researchers asked questions about emotions like happiness, sadness and worry.They also asked about mental or emotional stress.

       Arthur Stone at Stony Brook University in New York led the study.His team found that levels of stress were highest among adults between the ages of twenty-two and twenty-five.The findings showed that stress levels dropped sharply after people reached their fifties.Happiness was highest among the youngest adults and those in their early seventies.The people least likely to report feeling negative emotions were those in their seventies and eighties.

       Researchers say they do not know why happiness increases as people get older.One theory is that, as people grow older, they grow more thankful for what they have and have better control of their emotions.They also spend less time thinking about bad experiences.

       Professor Stone says the emotional patterns could be linked to changes in how people see the world, or maybe even changes in brain chemistry.

       The researchers also considered possible influences like having young children, being unemployed or being single.But they found that influences like these did not affect the levels of happiness and well-being related to age.

       The study also showed that men and women have similar emotional patterns as they grow older.However, women at all ages reported more sadness, stress and worry than men.

What can be the best title of the text?

       A.Happiness Varies with Ages    B.Experience More, Worry Less

       C.The Older, the Wiser          D.Being Young, Being Happy

We can learn from the research that _________.

       A.only when people get older will they feel happier

       B.stress levels among the youngest are the highest

       C.older people tend to be grateful

       D.older people usually have no worries

According to the research, when people get older, _________.

       A.they miss the old days        B.they are physically weak

       C.they have better self-control    D.they are more emotional

What would the author probably talk about next?

       A.What influences happiness.  B.How to live better.

       C.How to keep happier.       D.Why women are less happier.

The author is intended to _________.

       A.advise how to reduce stress   B.introduce a scientific finding

       C.describe how to do research   D.talk about human emotions

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