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【题目】根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。
Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we miss this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were average. When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their genes. When we stop studying the average and begin researching positive outliers —people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence —a wildly different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its limited resources as you process the world. If you scan for the negative first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded(嵌入) in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an amazing advantage.
I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on “Happiness Leads to Profits.” Based on my article called “Positive Intelligence” and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I summarized our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy and busy workforce.
A decade of research in the business world proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%, as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.
（1）The underlined word “this” in the first paragraph refers to ________.
A.the fact that people are happy
B.the connection between happiness and educational outcome
C.the fact that people often misunderstand happiness
D.the fact that most people are average
（2）What can we learn from the passage?
A.Scientists are only interested in what the average is.
B.You can choose to be happy or not.
C.The average are not happy at all.
D.Our decisions and habits have nothing to do with happiness.
（3）Why does the writer mention his articles and research?
A.To advertise himself.
B.To arouse the readers' interest.
C.To support his point about happiness.
D.To attract the readers to read his articles.
（4）What is the author's purpose of writing this article?
A.To explain what is happiness.
B.To describe the misunderstandings about happiness.
C.To show people the importance of happiness.
D.To make the point that happiness promotes business and educational outcome.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）B
（2）B
（3）C
（4）D
【解析】本文论述了幸福不是遗传，而是一种选择，幸福感的提升对我们日常的经济业务与教育成果有重大益处。
（1）指代判断题。由文章第一段第二句But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain.可知，当我们研究幸福的时候，它实际上为大脑提出了一个非常单一的业务和教育结果。故可推知，下文中的this指代的是上一句中幸福和教育结果之间的关系，故选B。
（2）主旨大意题。由第三段第三、四句If you scan for the negative first, ... in your work.及But if you scan the world for the positive, ... advantage.可知，你如果心态消极，那么你就看不见你所感恩的东西，同样也看不到工作的意义。但是如果你积极的细看这个世界，你会开始获得令人意想不到的益处。通过这两种态度可以得出，幸福就是一个选择，你可以选择快乐你也可以选择悲伤，关键在于你自己，故选B。
（3）推理判断题。由文章第四段第一、二句I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on “Happiness Leads to Profits.”及Based on my article called “Positive Intelligence”and my research in The Happiness Advantage.可推知，作者提及自己写的文章和调查研究，是为了支撑中心论点——幸福感，故选C。
（4）写作意图题。本文主要围绕人的幸福感展开论述的，通过人们对幸福的不同理解和作者的佐证，以及利用研究调查得出一重要结论，即：幸福感可以促进业务和增强教育成果，故选D。