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　　Phone books have white,blue and yellow pages. The white pages list people with phones by last name. The blue pages contain numbers of city services,government services and public schools. Business and professional services are listed in a special directory-the Yellow pages.

　　The area covered by one area code may be small or large. For example,New York City has one code area,but so does the whole state of Oregon. There is an area code of the map of the US and Canada in the front of the white pages.

　　Pay phones have numbers in the US. This means you can call a friend at a phone booth (电话亭). Or if you are making a long distance call and run out of money,give the number on your phone to the person you're talking to. Then hang up the receiver and they can call you back.

　　If you make a long distance call and get a wrong number,call the operator and explain what happened．This means that you can make the call again to the right number without having to pay more money;or you can have the phone company mail you a credit coupon that has the same value as the phone call.

　　Some companies advertise a service called WATS. You can dial a special number without a long distance charge. These are called “toll-free numbers” and the area code for all of them is 800. WATS means Wide Area Telephone Service.

(1)In the yellow pages,you can find a list of _________.

[　　]

　　A．people with phones

　　B．public schools

　　C．professional services

　　D．city services

(2)You can find an area code map _________.

[　　]

　　A．in the white pages

　　B．in the yellow pages

　　C．in the blue pages

　　D．in all the pages above

(3)If you run out of money when making a long distance call,________.

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　　A．you can tell the one on the phone your phone number and wait to be called back

　　B．you can tell the one on the phone your number,hold on and wait to be called back

　　C．you must hang up and stop making any calls

　　D．you have to run out and borrow some money

(4)A credit coupon ________.

[　　]

　　A．is used to buy a phone

　　B．has no value at all

　　C．has more value than the phone call

　　D．has the same value as the phone call

(5)The underlined phrases “toll-free numbers” means ________.

[　　]

　　A．an area code

　　B．a telephone service

　　C．a free long distance call

　　D．WATS

I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a splendid, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

　 Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.

　 Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

　 I have often though that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”. But in memoir（回忆录）after memoir, they reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism ,drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.

　 Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage, if he’s honest, and he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment, for commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.

　 Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they can. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.

　 Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating（解放性的）realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

41. We can learn from the passage that　　　 .

　 A. fun creates long-lasting satisfaction

　 B. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness

　 C. happiness is lasting whereas fun is short-lived

　 D. fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness

42. To the author, the role Hollywood stars play is to　　 .

　 A. write memoir after memoir about their happiness

　 B. tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with fun

　 C. teach people how to enjoy their lives

　 D. bring happiness to the public instead of going to parties

43. In the author’s opinion, marriage .

A. affords greater fun B. leads to raising children

C. indicates duty and devotion D. usually ends up in pain

44.Which of the following is the best example of “painful happiness”?

A. Winning lottery by accident B. A bachelor resisting marriage

C. Raising children D. Buying some fancy clothes

45. If one gets the true sense of happiness, he will　　 .

A. stop playing games and joking with others B. keep himself with his family

C. give a free hand to money　　　 　 　　 D. use his time to increase happiness

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