Everyone wants to find happiness. But sometimes looking for happiness can be as hard as looking for lost treasure. Just when you think you nearly reach it, something unexpected happens. This may puzzle(使困惑) you a lot. Here are some tips for helping you find happiness.

? Don't put all your eggs in one basket. If you depend, on one thing or one person to make you happy, it may be impossible. You need to enlarge your circle

of friends and activities.

? Follow your heart. When we go against our own thoughts, we usually feel sad. Follow your strong feeling and let it guide you toward people and things that will improve your life. Day by day, you will be happier than before.

? Organize your ideas. Many people push away happiness when they think too much. Don't keep everything in head. Try making a list of the things that seem too big to manage on your own. You may find the list isn't as long as you thought. You can do most of the things by yourself.

? Look at your life as a whole. Most of the things that prevent us from feeling happy .are just some little things. Remember life is always going on, and whatever the little thing is, it will end.

? Remember yore. values(价值观). We all have a value system, a way we have decided to go through life, which makes us feel like a good person. The important thing is to remember your values when life becomes hard. Keeping your values strong will help create happiness.

Happiness can be hard to feel at times, so don't think there is something wrong with you if you don't feel it. The ways above will help you to feel more of it.

阅读以上信息,用恰当的词完成下面的表格,每空一词。

Something puzzling

Happiness is sometimes hard to get.

Tips for

solving the

puzzle

? Make more friends and take part in rmre activities. There may be no___1.___ for you to find happiness if you depend on one thing or one person.

? Let your heart guide you toward people and things that will improve your life. In this way, your happiness will 2. .

? Write down the things that you seem 3. to manage on your own. You will be happy to find you can do more things than you thought.

? Look at your life as a whole. Most unhappy things will end sooner or later..

? Keep your values strong after you've made a 4. on how to spend life. Being a good person even when life is hard will help create happiness

Conclusion

You will 5. get happiness with the help of the five tips.

Whenever the sun dropped and the blue sky came up, my father and I used to climb the mountain near my house. Walking together, my father and I used to have a lot of conversations through which I learned lessons from his experiences. He always told me," You should have goals like climbing the mountain." Without the mountain-climbing that we both enjoyed, we couldn't have enough time to spend together because my father was very busy. I really got a lot from the mountain-climbing. It gave me time to talk with my father and to be in deep thought as well as develop my patience(耐力).

Once we climbed a very high mountain. It was so challenging(挑战性的)for me because I was only ten years old. During the first few hours of climbing, I enjoyed the flowers and trees, and the birds' singing. But as time passed, I got a pain in both of my legs. I wanted to quit climbing, In fact, I hated it at that moment, but my father said to me, "You can always see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain, but you can't see it before you reach the top. Only there at the top, can you see all of the nice things, which is just like your life."

At that time, I was too young to understand his words. But later after that, I got new hope and confidence. I found myself standing at the top of the sky, which was as clear as crystal(水晶).

1.Why couldn't the writer and his father have enough time to spend together?

A. Because the writer was very busy.

B. Because the writer's father was very busy.

C. Because they didn't live together.

2.The passage tells us that mountain-climbing was ______ for father and son.

A. enjoyable B. hard C. terrible

3.Which of the following is similar in meaning to the father's words in the second paragraph?

A. You will get all you need at the top of the mountain.

B. The sky is always as clear as crystal.

C. Never give up halfway.

4.The word “quit” in the passage means “______”in Chinese.

A.继续 B.推迟 C. 停止

5.We can learn from the last paragraph that ______.

A. the writer was very successful in his life

B. the writer didn't reach the top of the mountain

C. though the writer was young, he could understand his father.

Yang Jiang,the famous woman writer and translator is well-known to us all.

She was born in Beijing in 1911.originally named Yang Jikang.As a baby she liked laughing.Her parents let every daughter develop their character freely.which is rare at that time and even at present.Jikang,therefore,had a happy childhood in the 1920s.

She graduated from university and went to Tsinghua University as a postgraduate(研究生)in the 1930s.There she met Qian Zhongshu:they fell in love and married.

In the l940s,she started to use the name Yang Jiang as her pen name.Since then she was commonly known as Madam Yang Jiang.

In the l950s,she worked for Peking University,and started to learn Spanish.She was the first to translate Don Quixote《堂吉诃德》)into Chinese.

She began to write short novels in the 1980s.The novel The Old Wang(《老王》)written in 1984 was selected as the passage in our middle school text book.

Besides,her famous works After Baptism(《洗澡之后》)and We Three(《我们仨》)also became a household name in China.

Sorry to hear that Madam Yang died at Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing,on May25,2016.

Such was Madam Yang,the best wife and the most talented woman!Her legend is still continuing!

Yang Jiang

Introduction

Born:in Beijing in 1911

Original name:Yang Jikang

1._________:Yang Jiang

Her husband:2.___________

Experiences

In the 1930s,graduated from university

In the 1950s,worked for Peking University,started to learn

3.___________

In the 1980s,began to write 4._________

Famous works

The Old Wang,After Baptism 5.________

1.______

2.______

3.______

4.______

5.______

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