题目内容
阅读下面的短文，并根据短文后的要求答题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。
1 ]Soerates once asked his students, "Do not all men desire happiness?" A student answered him, "There is no one who does not. " But how can one get happiness?
[2 ]Think for a moment about your last big pay raise. Why did you feel such joy over it?Most likely, it' s because of what your higher pay meant to you--evidence that you had succeeded and created value. It is success (not money) that we really desire.
[3]Take the ease of billionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. As the world' s 14th richest man, he still continues to slave away, earning billion after billion. Being rich, and having more than the average Joe, simply cannot be driving Larry Ellison. It is the will to succeed and create value at greater and greater heights. Oracle has not made Larry Ellis0n a rich man without any benefit to society. The firm currently has offered well ~ paying jobs to tens of thousands of employees so they are able to ____________________________The company has introdueed technology that has benefited all parts of the economy, and it has paid billions to its shareholders. And in 2007 alone, it paid $1.2 billion in corporate taxes, totally apart from the personal taxes paid by Ellison and his employees.
[4] There is nothing strange about measuring our success with money--we measure things indirectly all the time. In the same way, we measure our professional success with green pieces of paper called "dollars. "
[5 ] But there is a dark side to this fact: People usually forget money is only a measure and some even focus on money only. They confuse money for what it is supposed to measure. Jus as President Franklin Roosevelt once said, "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. "Money doesn' t buy happiness but success does.
76. What's the main idea of this passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
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77. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
His company has made him wealthy and the society is also sharing his success.
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78. Fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)
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79. Why do you think the writer take the case of Laity Ellison as an example? What do you think of him? (Please answer within 30 words)
80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese
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The word “conservation” has a thrifty meaning. To conserve is to save and protect, to leave what we ourselves enjoy in such a good condition that other s may also share the enjoyment. Our forefathers had no idea that human population would increase faster than the supplies of raw materials: most of them, even until very recently, had the foolish ideas that the treasures were “limitless” and could “last forever”. Most of the citizens of earlier generations knew little or nothing about the complicated and delicate system that runs all through nature, and which means that, as in a living body, an unhealthy condition of one part will sooner or later be harmful to others.
Fifty years ago, nature study was not part of school work: scientific forestry was a new idea; wood was still cheap because it could be brought in any quantity from distant woodlands; soil destruction and river floods were not national problems; nobody had yet studied long-term climate cycles in relation to proper land use; even the word “conservation” had nothing of the meaning that it has for us today.
For the sake of ourselves and those who will come after us, we must now set about correcting the mistakes of our forefathers .Conservation should be made part of everybody’s daily life. To know about the water table in ground is jus as important to us as knowledge of the basic math formulas. We need to know why all watersheds need the protection of planet life and why the running, current of streams and rivers must the duly of planting trees as well as of cutting them. We need to know the importance of big, grown trees, because living space for most man’s fellow creatures on this planet is figured not only in square measures of surface but also in cubic volume above the earth. In a word, it should be our goal to restore as much as the original beautify of nature as we can.
68. The author’s attitude towards the use of natural resources is ____
A. Positive B. uninterested C. optimistic D. critical
69. According to the author, the greatest mistake of our forefathers was that ______
A. They dad no idea about scientific forestry
B. They dad littler or no sense of environment protection
C. They were not awore of the importance of nature study
D. They dad no idea of how to make good of raw materials
70. To avoid repeating, the mistakes of our forefathers, the author suggests that _____
A. We plant more trees
B. Natural sciences he taught to everybody
C. Environmental education be given to everybody
D. We return to nature
71. How can you understand the underlined sentence in the lat paragraph?
A. Our living space on the hearth is getting smaller and smaller.
B. Our living space should be measured in cubic volume.
C. We need to take some measures to protect space.
D. We must preserve good living condition for both birds and animals.
