What is it that makes people happy?Youth, health, a good job, good looks, a flash car?None of these things, Spanish experts say．
The concept(概念)of happiness is thought to be determined by genetics, while the rest depends on childhood environment and the process(过程)of growing up．Perhaps the most surprising thing about happiness is coming under increasingly close examination in Spain．
As the nation rises to the club of the world's wealthiest countries, people are discovering that material(物质的)things do not bring happiness．
“Most people use money as a measure of human value,”says Jesus Ynfante, author of a book on Spain's 300 biggest fortunes．“Expensive products are regarded as the best．The rich are admired simply for being rich,”Ynfante said．
Yet psychologists(心理学家)warn that happiness as a moment of ecstatic pleasure(狂喜)-something that, by definition(定义),cannot last-while others speak of it as peace and acceptance of oneself．Polls(问卷调查)in different countries indicate that between 65 and 85 percent of the world's population regard themselves as reasonably happy．
Around 40 percent of a person's happiness is that it has little to do with age, health, wealth, or other values thought to be important in Western society．For most Spaniards, happiness is linked with feeling close to other people．Happy people accept their limitations and set themselves reachable goals, experts say．
There are life-style choices that favour happiness, such as exercise, eating carbohydrates and exposing oneself to sunlight．But the main secret of happiness is to take pleasure in small things．
“If you are given a choice between eternal(永久的)happiness and a cheese sandwich, take the sandwich,”advises musician Julian Hernandez．
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Spain, as this passage tells us, ________．
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has built more clubs than the other countries
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has owned the largest group of experts
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has become one of the richest countries in the world
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has produced the most wealth in the world
(2)
It can be concluded that Jesus Ynfante is ________．
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a famous expert
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a famous psychologist
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one of the richest Spaniards
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familiar with the richest Spaniards
(3)
As psychologists warn in this passage, people can't feel happy even if they ________．
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have too much money
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only care about themselves
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don't do any homework
D．
have a few relations
(4)
Happy people, as we can find in this passage, ________．
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．
But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．
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The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．
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it made Christive evil
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it was the apple of Eden
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it came from a forbidden land
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it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
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There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
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The tomato was still refused in most western countries
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Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
(3)
What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?
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To manke imself a hero
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To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
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To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
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To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory
(4)
What is the main purpose of the passage?
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To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
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To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
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To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
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To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
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