A shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness. The boy wander
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A shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness. The boy wandered through the wilds for many days. He ____ reached a beautiful castle, where a wise man lived.
Entering the ____， the boy saw the wise man talking with some people listening ____. It was two hours before it was his ____. The boy explained why he had come. The wise man suggested that the boy ____ and return in two hours.
“Meanwhile, I want you to do something”， said the wise man, handing the boy a spoon that held two drops of ____. “As you walk around, carry this spoon without allowing the oil to spill (溢出)．”
The boy began ___ up and down many stairs, keeping his eyes fixed on the ____. After two hours, he returned to the room where the wise man was.
The wise man asked, “Did you see the Persian tapestries (壁毯) ____ in my dining hall? Did you see the ____ that took a master gardener ten years to build？”
The boy was ___， and admitted that he had observed nothing. His only ____ was not to spill the oil he was given.
“Go back and observe the marvels of my world”， said the wise man. “You cannot ____ a man if you know nothing about his house.”
Relieved, the boy picked up the spoon and ____ his exploration again. This time he observed all the ____ of art on the ceilings and the walls. Upon returning, he related ____ everything he had seen.
“But where are the drops of oil I had given to you？” asked the wise man. Looking down at the spoon he ____， the boy saw that the oil was ____.
“Well, there is only one piece of ____ I can give you”， said the wise man. “The secret of happiness is to ____ all the marvels of the world and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”
| 小题1: | | A．suddenly | B．happily | | C．finally | D．accidentally |
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| 小题2: | | A．castle | B．palace | | C．cottage | D．kitchen |
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| 小题3: | | A．eagerly | B．attentively | | C．seriously | D．quietly |
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| 小题4: | | A．conversation | B．report | | C．chance | D．turn |
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| 小题5: | | A．look around | B．look back | | C．set down | D．set out |
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| 小题6: | | A．milk | B．water | | C．oil | D．coffee |
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| 小题7: | | A．sweeping | B．climbing | | C．running | D．jumping |
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| 小题8: | | A．man | B．castle | | C．way | D．spoon |
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| 小题9: | | A．hanging | B．knitting | | C．storing | D．flying |
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| 小题10: | | A．house | B．farm | | C．garden | D．lake |
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| 小题11: | | A．disappointed | B．embarrassed | | C．surprised | D．confused |
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| 小题12: | | A．worry | B．plan | | C．energy | D．concern |
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| 小题13: | | A．trust | B．suggest | | C．accept | D．thank |
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| 小题14: | | A．sought | B．continued | | C．began | D．stopped |
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| 小题15: | | A．treasures | B．works | | C．designs | D．exhibits |
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| 小题16: | | A．in detail | B．in common | | C．in general | D．in particular |
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| 小题17: | | A．contained | B．needed | | C．bought | D．held |
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| 小题18: | | A．stolen | B．gone | | C．dry | D．ready |
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| 小题19: | | A．discover | B．keep | | C．own | D．see |
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| 小题20: | | A．information | B．clothing | | C．advice | D．equipment |
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答案
小题1:C
小题2:A
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:A
小题6:C
小题7:B
小题8:D
小题9:A
小题10:C
小题11:B
小题12:D
小题13:A
小题14:C
小题15:B
小题16:A
小题17:D
小题18:B
小题19:C
小题20:D |
解析
文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文。一个小伙子向一位智者请教快乐的秘密，智者让他手拿一个装有两滴油的勺子在城堡里四处走走。最后，智者告诉他快乐的秘密就是：在观看世界所有奇迹的同时，永远不要忘记勺子里的油。
小题1:答案：C finally“最终；终于”。根据前面的“for many days”可知，他在找了很多天以后，终于到了智者居住的城堡。
小题2:答案：A 根据第一段最后一句中的“reached a beautiful castle”可知，他进入了城堡(castle)。
小题3:答案：B 句意：他看到智者在和一些人讲话，这些人很专心地听着。attentively“专心地”。
小题4:答案：D 句意：小伙子等了两个小时，才轮到他和智者说话。turn“(依次轮到的)机会”。
小题5:答案：A 句意：智者让小伙子在城堡里面四处走走，两小时后回来。
小题6:答案：C 根据后面一句可知，小伙子手里拿着一个勺子，里面有两滴油(oil)。
小题7:答案：B 他开始沿着城堡的楼梯爬上爬下(climbing)。
小题8:答案：D 在走动的时候，他的眼睛一直盯着勺子(spoon)。
小题9:答案：A 智者问他：“你看到我的餐厅的墙上悬挂着(hanging)的波斯壁毯了吗？”
小题10:答案：C 此处表示“你看到一个熟练的园丁花了十年的时间修建的花园(garden)了吗？”由后面的“master gardener”可判断出此处应是garden。
小题11:答案：B 句意：面对智者提出的问题，小伙子感到十分尴尬(embarrassed)。他承认，自己转了一圈却什么也没有看到。
小题12:答案：D 因为他的全部注意力都放在了勺子里面的油上，所以他什么也没有观察到。concern“重要的事情”。
小题13:答案：A 句意：如果你不了解他的住所，你就不能信任(trust)一个人。
小题14:答案：C 句意：小伙子松了口气拿起了勺子，再次开始(began)了他的探索之旅。
小题15:答案：B 这次他看到了墙壁上和天花板上所有的艺术品。work“作品；著作”。
小题16:答案：A 句意：当他回到智者身边时，他详细地讲述了这次他看到的一切。in detail“详细地”；in common“共有；公有”；in general“总的说来”；in particular“特别；尤其”。
小题17:答案：D 句意：看看手里拿着(held)的勺子，小伙子发现里面的油没有了。
小题18:答案：B 由于这次他只注重观察城堡的环境，以至于油洒了，故此处表示油没有(gone)了。
小题19:答案：C 最后，智者给了他一条忠告(advice)。
小题20:答案：D 句意：快乐的秘密就是，在观看(see)世界所有奇迹的同时，永远不要忘记勺子里的油。 |
举一反三
Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you"re unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don"t have enough tastes.
Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.
Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.
Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you"re hungry.
Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.
Music like Mozart"s and Bach"s shouldn"t be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you"ve brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.
Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the had days, if you could, and did, play a bit.
Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.
小题1:The author intends to tell us that____________.| A．true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means | | B．big houses are people"s most valued possessions | | C．big houses can in a sense bring richness of life | | D．true happiness comes from spiritual riches |
小题2:The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that__________.| A．however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied | | B．however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor | | C．though their house is big, they prefer a simple life | | D．though their house is big, it seems to be a cage |
小题3:It can be learned from the passage that __________.| A．more money brings more happiness | | B．art is needed to make your house beautiful | | C．literature can enrich your spiritual life | | D．sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness |
小题4:What would be the best title for the passage?| A．House of Life | B．Secret of Wealth | | C．Rest and Refreshment | D．Interest and Enthusiasm |
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It was a cold winter day. A woman drove up to the Rainbow Bridge tollbooth (收费站). “I’m paying for myself, and for the six cars behind me,” she said with a smile, handing over seven tickets. One after another, the next six drivers arriving at the tollbooth were informed, “Some lady up ahead already paid your fare.”
It turned out that the woman, Natalie Smith, had read something on a friend’s refrigerator: “Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.” The phrase impressed her so much that she copied it down.
Judy Foreman spotted the same phrase on a warehouse wall far away from home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up and drove all the way back to copy it down. “I thought it was beautiful,” she said, explaining why she’d taken to writing it at the bottom of all her letters, “like a message from above.” Her husband, Frank, liked the phrase so much that he put it up on the classroom wall for his students, one of whom was the daughter of Alice Johnson, a local news reporter. Alice put it in the newspaper, admitting that though she liked it, she didn’t know where it came from or what it really meant.
Two days later, Alice got a call from Anne Herbert, a woman living in Marin. It was in a restaurant that Anne wrote the phrase down on a piece of paper, after turning it around in her mind for days.
“Here’s the idea,” Anne says. “Anything you think there should be more of, do it randomly.” Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady. Anne says, “Kindness can build on itself as much as violence can.”
The acts of random kindness spread. If you were one of those drivers who found your fare paid, who knows what you might have been inspired to do for someone else later. Like all great events, kindness begins slowly, with every single act. Let it be yours!
小题1:Why did Natalie Smith pay for the six cars behind her?| A．She knew the car drivers well. | | B．She wanted to show kindness. | | C．She hoped to please others. | | D．She had seven tickets. |
小题2:Judy Foreman copied down the phrase because she .| A．thought it was beautifully written | | B．wanted to know what it really meant | | C．decided to write it on a warehouse wall | | D．wanted her husband to put it up in the classroom |
小题3:Who came up with the phrase according to the passage?| A．Judy Foreman. | | B．Natalie Smith. | | C．Alice Johnson. | | D．Anne Herbert. |
小题4:Which of the following statements is closest in the meaning to the underlined sentence above?| A．Kindness and violence can change the world. | | B．Kindness and violence can affect one’s behavior. | | C．Kindness and violence can reproduce themselves. | | D．Kindness and violence can shape one’s character. |
小题5:What can we infer from the last paragraph?| A．People should practice random kindness to those in need. | | B．People who receive kindness are likely to offer it to others. | | C．People should practice random kindness to strangers they meet. | | D．People who receive kindness are likely to pay it back to the giver. |
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The summer before I went off to college, Mom stood me in her usual spot behind the ironing board (烫衣板)and said, “Pay attention: I’m going to teach you to iron.”
Mom clearly explained her for this lesson. I was going to be and needed to learn this vital skill. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good .
“Learn to iron a shirt,” Mom said, “and you can iron anything.”
But ironing shirts was not work. It didn’t make use of long muscles we used to throw a baseball，and it wasn’t a operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop sign every 10 feet, Moreover, an iron produced steam and it carried an element of .If you touched the wrong part of it, you’d get burnt. If you forgot to turn it off when you ,you might bum down the house.
As for technique, Mom me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always pushing the iron forward into wrinkled (有褶皱的）parts. Collars had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would them.
Over the years, I’ve learned to iron shirts skillfully, which gives me a sense of Whatever failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something. ,through ironing I’ve learned the method for solving even the most troublesome problems. “ wrinkles one at a time,” as Mom might have said, “and before long everything will get ironed out.”
| 小题1: | | A．reasons | B．rules | C．emotions | D．methods |
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| 小题2: | | A．helpful | B．confident | C．powerful | D．independent |
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| 小题3: | | A．conclusion | B．suggestion | C．impression | D．observation |
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| 小题4: | | A．useful | B．easy | C．special | D．suitable |
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| 小题5: | | A．direct | B．single | C．smooth | D．strange |
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| 小题6: | | A．doubt | B．pressure | C．surprise | D．danger |
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| 小题7: | | A．went away | B．fell down | C．jumped off | D．looked up |
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| 小题8: | | A．taught | B．chose | C．forced | D．sent |
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| 小题9: | | A．touch | B．design | C．see | D．admire |
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| 小题10: | | A．honesty | B．freedom | C．justice | D．pride |
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| 小题11: | | A．Instead | B．Besides | C．Otherwise | D．However |
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| 小题12: | | A．Make up | B．Deal with | C．Ask for | D．Rely on |
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However wealthy we may be, we can never find enough hours in the day to do everything we want. Economics deals with this problem through the concept of opportunity cost, which simply refers to whether someone’s time or money could be better spent on something else.
Every hour of our time has a value. For every hour we work at one job we could quite easily be doing another, or be sleeping or watching a film. Each of these options has a different opportunity cost—namely, what they cost us in missed opportunities.
Say you intend to watch a football match but the tickets are expensive and it will take you a couple of hours to get to and from the stadium. Why not, you might reason, watch the game from home and use the leftover money and time to have dinner with friends? This—the alternative use of your cash and time—is the opportunity cost.
For economists, every decision is made by knowledge of what one must forgo—in terms of money and enjoyment—in order to take it up. By knowing precisely what you are receiving and what you are missing out on, you ought to be able to make better-informed, more reasonable decisions. Consider that most famous economic rule of all: there’s no such thing as a free lunch. Even if someone offers to take you out to lunch for free, the time you will spend in the restaurant still costs you something in terms of forgone opportunities.
Some people find the idea of opportunity cost extremely discouraging: imagine spending your entire life calculating whether your time would be better spent elsewhere doing something more profitable or enjoyable. Yet, in a sense it’s human nature to do precisely that—we assess the advantages and disadvantages of decisions all the time.
In the business world, a popular phrase is “value for money.” People want their cash to go as far as possible. However, another is fast obtaining an advantage: “value for time.” The biggest restriction on our resources is the number of hours we can devote to something, so we look to maximize the return we get on our investment of time. By reading this passage you are giving over a bit of your time which could be spent doing other activities, such as sleeping and eating. In return, however, this passage will help you to think like an economist, closely considering the opportunity cost of each of your decisions.
小题1:According to the passage, the concept of “opportunity cost” is applied to ________.| A．making more money | | B．taking more opportunities | | C．reducing missed opportunities | | D．weighing the choice of opportunities |
小题2:The “leftover ... time” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to the time ________.| A．spared for watching the match at home | | B．taken to have dinner with friends | | C．spent on the way to and from the match | | D．saved from not going to watch the match |
小题3:What are forgone opportunities?| A．Opportunities you forget in decision-making. | | B．Opportunities you give up for better ones. | | C．Opportunities you miss accidentally. | | D．Opportunities you make up for. |
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It was already half past seven and I was running late again for the dinner appointment with my wife, Eleanor. We had to meet at the restaurant at seven o"clock. I felt a little uneasy, but to my ，I had a good excuse: A business meeting had and I"d wasted no time getting to the dinner.
When I arrived at the ，1 apologized and told Eleanor I didn"t mean to be late. She screamed, "You never mean to." Well, I tell she was angry. "I"m sorry but it was not ," I said. Then I told her about the business meeting. , my explanation seemed to make things worse, which started to drive mad as well.
Several weeks later, when I the situation to my friend Ken Hardy, he smiled, "You a classic mistake. You"re stuck your own way of thinking. You didn"t to be late. But that"s not the point. What is in your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor." He pointed out that I focused on the intention Eleanor focused on the result. Thus, of us felt misunderstood and crazy.
Thinking more about Ken"s words, I recognized the root cause of such disagreement. It"s the result of the action that really .I should have started the conversation by expressing my actions affected Eleanor and the discussions about my intention for later, much later and even never.
Later on, after talking to Eleanor and really her experience of the results
of my lateness, I"ve managed to be on time a lot more frequently.
| 小题1: | | A．Started | B．Agreed | C．Continued | D．Managed |
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| 小题2: | | A．Relief | B．Surprise | C．Regret | D．Sorrow |
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| 小题3: | | A．broken out | B．closed down | C．faded away | D．run over |
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| 小题4: | | A．House | B．Room | C．Restaurant | D．Supermarket |
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| 小题5: | | A．Could | B．Must | C．Will | D．might |
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| 小题6: | | A．Movable | B．Comfortable | C．Acceptable | D．Avoidable |
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| 小题7: | | A．However | B．Therefore | C．Moreover | D．Otherwise |
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| 小题9: | | A．spread | B．wrote | C．translated | D．described |
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| 小题10: | | A．knew | B．made | C．found | D．took |
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| 小题11: | | A．In | B．beyond | C．For | D．against |
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| 小题12: | | A．Need | B．Prove | C．Pretend | D．Intend |
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| 小题13: | | A．Funny | B．Important | C．Possible | D．Simple |
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| 小题14: | | A．While | B．After | C．Until | D．unless |
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| 小题15: | | A．All | B．None | C．Both | D．Neither |
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| 小题16: | | A．Usually | B．Merely | C．Hardly | D．gradually |
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| 小题17: | | A．Inspires | B．Matters | C．Improves | D．challenges |
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| 小题19: | | A．Compared | B．Reported | C．Finished | D．saved |
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| 小题20: | | A．Showing | B．Satisfying | C．understanding | D．destroying |
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