59. The happiest people have the following characters except that ______.

A. they are rich　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. they are outgoing

C. they are very sociable　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. they don’t pay more attention to exercise

58. The most important factor of happiness lies in ______.

A. the proper genes　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. health

C. marriage　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. unexpected money

57. The topic discussed in the passage is ______.

A. a research on happiness　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. the level of happiness

C. the secrets of happiness　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. the prediction of happiness

56. Of the four books listed above, there are two referring to tragedies. They are ______.

A. Light on Snow & Breaking Ground

B. In the Shadow of No Towers & Breaking Ground

C. Light on Snow & In the Shadow of No Towers

D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes & In the Shadow of No Towers

E

You just think you know what will make you happy. Researchers in the new science of happiness know better. They have evidence that married people on average end up being no happier than they were before the wedding. Winning the lottery will probably reduce your pleasure in ordinary events that used to make you happy. And being in good health isn’t as much of a factor as the right genes when it comes to satisfaction.

A couple of years ago, Seligman and Diener studied 222 Illinois college students to find out what the happiest 10% had in common. It turned out they were extroverts(性格外向), had more friendships and romantic relationships, but didn’t exercise more and didn’t feel they had more good events in their lives than those who weren’t as happy.

Some of the results come as a surprise. A classic study of lottery winners and people with spinal cord(脊髓)injuries, for instance, found that neither event changed their lives as much as observers thought they would.

Gilbert is looking into how accurately people predict what will make them happy. It turns out, not accurately at all, what we think will bring us pleasure---a new car, the home teaming winning the NCAA championship, a move to California---usually doesn’t bring us as much as we expected, and the positive impact doesn’t last as long. The good news is that we also overestimate the impact of catastrophic events.

Even with data from research pouring in, scientists still don’t have an easy answer to what we all want to know: How do I get long-term life satisfaction? The answers they do have are often the same ones that philosophers and priests have been giving us for centuries. It’s just nice to have them backed up with hard data.

55. If one would like to know something about cultural details about Victorian society, he

or she may read ______.

A. Light on Snow　　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. In the Shadow of No Towers

C. Breaking Ground　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

54. Who is the writer of the book latest published among the four books?

A. Arthur Conan Doyle.　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Daniel Libeskind.

C. Art Spiegelman.　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. Anita Shreve.

53. What’s the best title of the passage?

A. Do kids still like reading　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Kids’ interest in reading drops

C. New technology on kids’ reading　　　　　　 D. Parents’ influence on kids’ reading

D

New Annotated Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Price: ￡28. 00

Publication Date: 30/11/2006

Publisher’s description

Collects Doyle’s fifty-six classic short stories, arranged in the order in which they appeared in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century book editions, in a set complemented by four novels, editor biographies(传记)of Doyle, Holmes, and Watson as well as literary and cultural details about Victorian society.

Breaking Ground by Daniel Libeskind

Price: ￡16.00

Publication Date: 11/10/2006

Brief introduction

This is a book about the adventure life that can offer each of us if we seize it, and about the powerful forces of tragedy, memory and hope. For Daniel Libeskind, life’s adventure has been through architecture, which he has found has the power to reshape human experience. Although often relating to the past, his buildings are about the future. This memoir(自传)of one man’s journey brings together history, personal experience, our physical environment and a fresh international vision.

In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman

Price：￡16.00

Publication Date: 02/09/2006

Brief introduction

On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe -- in her school at the foot of the burning towers -- he returned home, to meditate(反省)on the trauma(创伤), and to work on a comic strip(连环漫画). In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman’s extraordinary account of “the hijacking on 9.11 and the following hijacking of those events” by America.

Light on Snow by Anita Shreve

Price: ￡14.00

Publication Date: 07/10/2006

Publisher’s description

This is the 11th novel by Anita Shreve, the critically accepted bestseller. A moving story of love and courage and tragedy and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself.

52. What does the underlined word “underestimate” mean?

A. evaluate　　　　　　 B. ignore　　　　　　　　　　　 C. undervalue　　　　　　　 D. request

51. Parents should ________.

A. begin to read books to kids from the age of 8

B. read more books to kids as early as possible

C. help to prevent the decrease of kids’ reading

D. encourage their kids to read at the age of 11