Over the last 70 years, researchers have been studying happy and unhappy people and finally found out ten factors that make a difference. Our feelings of well-being at any moment are determined to a certain degree by genes. However, of all the factors, wealth and age are the top two.

Money can buy a degree of happiness. But once you can afford to feed, clothe and house yourself , each extra dollar makes less and less difference.

Researchers find that, on average, wealthier people are happier. But the link between money and happiness is complex. In the past half-century, average income has sharply increased in developed countries, yet happiness levels have remained almost the same. Once your basic needs are met, money only seems to increase happiness if you have more than your friends, neighbors and colleagues.

“Dollars buy status, and status makes people feel better,” conclude some experts, which helps explain why people who can seek status in other ways---scientists or actors, for example—may happily accept relatively poorly-paid jobs.

In a research, Professor Alex Michalos found that the people whose desires—not just for money, but for friends, family, job, health—rose furthest beyond what they already had, tended to be less happy than those who felt a smaller gap. Indeed, the size of the gap predicted happiness about five times better than income alone. “The gap measures just blow away the only measures of income.” Says Michalos.

Another factor that has to do with happiness is age. Old age may not be so bad. “Given all the problems of aging, how could the elderly be more satisfied?” asks Professor Laura Carstensen.

In one survey, Carstensen interviewed 184 people between the ages of 18 and 94, and asked them to fill out an emotions questionnaire. She found that old people reported positive emotions just as often as young people, but negative emotions much less often.

Why are old people happier? Some scientists suggest older people may expect life to be harder and learn to live with it, or they’re more realistic about their goals, only setting ones that they know they can achieve. But Carstensen thinks that with time running out, older people have learned to focus on things that make them happy and let go of those that don’t. “People realize not only what they have, but also that what they have cannot last forever,” she says. “A goodbye kiss to a husband or wife at the age of 85, for example, may bring far more complex emotional responses than a similar kiss to a boy or girl friend at the age of 20.

1.According to the passage, the feeling of happiness ________.

A．is determined partly by genes              B．increases gradually with age

C．has little to do with wealth                 D．is measured by desires

2.Some actors would like to accept poorly-paid jobs because the jobs_____.

A．make them feel much better               B．provide chances to make friends

C．improve their social position               D．satisfy their professional interests

3.Aged people are more likely to feel happy because they are more______.

A．optimistic         B．successful         C．practical          D．emotional

4.Professor Alex Michalos found that people feel less happy if _______.

A．the gap between reality and desire is bigger

B．they have a stronger desire for friendship

C．their income is below their expectation

D．the hope for good health is greater

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文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。增加：在此处加一个漏字符号（^），并在其下面写出修改的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在其下面写出修改后的词。
注意：1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词； 2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Yesterday I bought new coat in a shop. When I came back home,I found
it so big for me . This morning , I went to the shop  and change the coat
I bought . But the sales girl in the shop treated me cold .  Firstly ,
she didn’t admit that I buy the coat in her shop . Then ,  she said  I
made it be dirty . So I got very angry but quarreled with him , pointing
to the rules on the wall。  Just then , a manager turned up . He said
sorry  to me and they changed other one for me . At last , I said goodbye
to them and took the new coat home happily .

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。对标有题号的每一行作出判断：如无错误，在该行右边横线上画一个勾（√）；如有错误（每行只有一个错误），则按下列情况改正：

此行多一个词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一个词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一个词：在错的词下面画一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

One day, I went to the railway station to buy a ticket to my aunt. When I got there, I told that the ticket had all been sold out. Just then a man came up and said with a strongly Zhejiang accent that he had a spare ticket. I didn’t know that if I could believe him or not. After hesitate for a while, I decided to take it. So as soon as the man left, I began to regret. If he was not honest, what shall I do? On a third day, I went to the station to see my aunt away. As I was waving goodbye to her, I saw the man sitting next to my aunt, smiling at me.

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One day, there is a blind man sitting with a sign by his feet, that read, “I am blind, please help. ” A creative publicist was walking by him and observed that the man only had a few of

coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coin in it. Without ask for permission, he took the sign, turned it around, and wrote a new message. He then placed it back and left. Later that afternoon publicist returned and noticed that the hat was almost complete full of coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was she that had changed the sign. He wanted to know which the publicist wrote on the sign. The publicist replied, “I just changed your message because people could understand it. ”He said goodbye and went on his way. The blind man didn’t know the new sign was “Today is spring but I cannot see it”.

There was once a boy who was very rich and clever but nothing could make him feel happy. He had almost everything a boy could ever want, so he was only _36_ in the most rare things. One day his parents bought him a very strange _37_. When the boy went to see his reflection (映像) in it, he looked very_38_. He tried smiling, _39_ his reflection continued with its sad expression.

_40_, the boy went off to buy sweets and lots of toys. He came home as happy as he could be, but he _41_ looked sad in that mirror.

“What a(n) _42_ mirror! It’s the first time I’ve seen a mirror that didn’t _43_ properly!”

That afternoon he went out to buy some toys and on his way he saw a little girl who was _44_. The boy went over to see what had __45_ to her. The little girl said that she couldn’t find her parents. Together the two children set off _46_ them. As the little girl wouldn’t stop crying, the boy spent all of his money buying her sweets to _47_ her up. After much walking, they _48_ her parents who were looking for her, very worried.

Then the boy said _49_ to the family. When seeing the time, he _50_ to head for home, without toys and without _51_. In his room, to his great surprise, he found a(n)  _52_ face in the mirror. And so he understood the _53_ of that mirror. The mirror could only reflect the _54_ feelings of its owner. He felt really happy at having _55_ that little girl.

1.                A．interested      B．confident       C．skilled    D．rich

2.                A．book           B．mirror          C．sweet    D．toy

3.                A．shy            B．sad            C．excited   D．beautiful

4.                A．for            B．or             C．but D．and

5.                A．Proud          B．Hungry         C．Satisfied  D．Surprised

6.                A．already         B．once           C．still  D．never

7.                A．nice           B．terrible         C．big  D．expensive

8.                A．work           B．move          C．change   D．appear

9.                A．studying        B．playing         C．sleeping  D．crying

10.               A．devoted        B．referred        C．happened D．turned

11.               A．in need of      B．in search of     C．in honor of D．in charge of

12.               A．put            B．bring           C．dress D．cheer

13.               A．found          B．recognized      C．left   D．accepted

14.               A．no            B．hello           C．sorry D．goodbye

15.               A．decided        B．agreed         C．pretended D．refused

16.               A．effort          B．hope          C．doubt D．money

17.               A．red            B．dark           C．angry D．happy

18.               A．meaning        B．mystery        C．game D．reason

19.               A．general        B．strange         C．true  D．good

20.               A．introduced      B．helped         C．invited    D．saved