题目内容
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Play that song you love so much. As a preschooler can tell you, repetition can lead to pleasure.
When you experience something more than once, you notice more details about it each time, and it
increases your enjoyment. That's why you love revisi ting that jazz club, favourite restaurant, and
beloved old Woody Allen movie. Of course, you can overdo it.
Don't buy boxed sets of DVDs. Economist(经济学家) Tyler says that much of the joy we get
from our buying lies in the experience of finding them out, getting them home, and opening them up.
If you receive 18 DVDs in one package, you'll use up the excitement all at once. Buy things one a time
and space out the pleasure.
Look outside. People long ago spent almost all of their time outside with trees, water, and sky
around. The world in which most of us spend our time nowadays is unnatural and can harm the spirit.
Even being close to nature for a short time can make us happy. ________. Physical contact with
animals works wonders. You can pet an animal. It increases the brain chemicals connected with
pleasure and decreases those connected with stress(压力). Even people without pets can get some
of the effect by hanging out for a few minutes at a dog shelter.
Smile. Well, like it or not, smiling improves your mood. Here's why: people react better to you
when you look happy, which in turn leads you to be happy. What's more, looking happy fools your
brain into thinking that you are happy.
B. spare time for other activities
C. increase our experience of happiness
D. give us more time to consider buying things.
B. Pet an animal
C. Reduce work stress
D. Hang out more often
B. Repetition results in pleasure.
C. Animals adds to your stress.
D. Spending time outside harms your spirit.
B. The writer's own experience.
C. Another way to find pleasure.
D. Reasons for finding more pleasure.
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Do you ever have days when everything seems to go wrong? Sarah Rosenbaum does. In fact, last week nothing seemed to go right for her at all…
On Monday her mom and dad were out, so Sarah decided to have a TV dinner. She wanted to switch the oven off at 7: 30 but she was practicing the cello, and it wasn't until 8 o'clock that she suddenly realized: she had forgotten her TV dinner ! She rushed into the kitchen, but it was too late- everything was black.
On Tuesday she offered to clean up the apartment for her parents. After she had vacuumed the carpets, she threw away a pile of old newspapers and computer magazines. The next day, dad asked where they were. He wanted to cut our an article he had seen in one of the computer magazines, and he was furious when he found out that Sarah had thrown them away. On Wednesday she took Foxy for a walk in the park and lost him. She looked for him everywhere, but he had disappeared. The stupid dog came back later, but that was after Mrs Rosenbaum had telephoned nearly everybody in the neighborhood.
Thursday went all right until the evening. Sarah put the dirty things in the dish-washer and switched it on, but when she emptied it later, two of the glasses she had put in were broken. Her mom wasn't very pleased because she always washed the good glasses by hand.
Now it was Friday, and Sarah wanted to go the hamburger drive-in with Nacy, Bob and Mike that evening. But she had already spent her pocket money. In fact, she had spent it on Monday, just after mom had given it to her. “Shall I ask dad for the money for tonight?” She wondered. “After all the stupid things I did this week. ”
1.What happened to Sarah on Monday?
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A.She got everything black.
B.She ruined her TV dinner.
C.She forgot the time.
D.Her parents were out without her.
2.On ________, Sarah found out that she had made a mistake to throw away ______ .
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A.Tuesday, computer magazines
B.Wednesday, a pile of old newspapers
C.Wednesday, computer magazine
D.Thurday, a pile of old newspapers and computer magazines
3.Sarah's father was furious when he found out that Sarah had thrown the magazines away. “Furious” is close in meaning to
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A.disappointed |
B.curious |
C.delighted |
D.angry |
4.What made her worried on Friday?
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A.She did all the stupid things that week.
B.Her mother gave her pocket money on Monday.
C.She broke two of the glasses.
D.She had no money left to go to the hamburg drive-in with her friends.
5.What is the best title for the passage?
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A.A Busy Week. |
B.Everything Goes Well. |
C.What a Week! |
D.An Unlucky Girl. |