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The study looked into thousands of teenagers and found that those who felt better about life as young adults tended to have higher incomes by the time they turned 29. Those who were happiest earned an average of $8,000 more than those who were the most depressed.
The researchers, from University College London and the University of Warwick, say that very gloomy teens, no matter how tall or smart they were, earned 10% less than their peers, while the happier ones earned up to 30% more.
Happier teenagers have an easier time getting through school, college and a job interview, chiefly because they always feel better about life. It may also be true that happier people find it easier to make friends, who are often the key to homework help or networking.
A report in June suggested that professional respect was more important than dollars in terms of workplace happiness. In August scientists announced that they had found the gene for happiness in women, Alas （the same gene doesn’t appear to have the same effect on men）. And in October researchers in the UK and in the US announced that people who eat seven portions of fruit and vegetables a day report being the happiest.
The big question is: if it really is true that happier kids end up being wealthier kids, is it necessary for parents to get their kids to do the homework? The fact is that no homework will make kids happy but surely hurt their grades. Studies do show, after all, that more education leads to better-paid jobs, which may give us a deep thought.
“These findings show that the teenagers’ happiness is important to their future success,” one of the report’s authors writes. “But what is the most important is that we should find a way to help children gain more satisfaction from doing schoolwork.”
小题1:What conclusion can the researchers draw from the recent study?| A．Happy teenagers grow up to be wealthier. | | B．Money can make people become happier. | | C．Wealth has nothing to do with happiness at all. | | D．Schoolwork can help teens achieve success. |
小题2:The main reason why happier people have more chances to succeed is that ________.| A．they are easy to communicate with others | | B．they are good at doing their schoolwork | | C．they are hopeful and optimistic about their life | | D．they eat much more fruit and vegetables a day |
小题3:The underlined word “gloomy” in Paragraph 3 probably means “________”.| A．upset | B．glorious | C．happy | D．wealthy |
小题4:What can be the best title for the text?| A．The way to educate kids. | B．The source of happiness. | | C．How to achieve your goal. | D．The secret of being wealthier. |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:A
小题4:D |
解析
试题分析：试题分析：本文讨论如何让人变得更富有，幸福与富有有密切的关系。经过对青少年的调查发现感到最幸福的青年人比感到最不幸福的青年人收入高。调查还发现，家庭作业会伤害青少年，不会让青少年感到幸福。青少年的幸福对他们未来的成功很重要。
小题1:推理判断题。根据最后一段的“These findings show that the teenagers’ happiness is important to their future success,”青少年的幸福对他们未来的成功很重要。故选A。
小题2:推理判断题。根据第四段的Happier teenagers have an easier time getting through school, college and a job interview, chiefly because they always feel better about life. 可知感到较幸福的青少年更容易考上大学，找到工作，主要是因为他们总是感到生活更美好，所以说态度乐观。故选C。
小题3:词义猜测题。第三段中while表示比对，while后面句子的主语是 the happier，幸福的人所以while 前面的句子主语应是不幸福的人，伤心的。故选A。
小题4:标题归纳题。本文主要讨论的是幸福能让人更富有，故选D。
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举一反三
My name is Nick Vujicic, an Australian who was born without any limbs（四肢）. In recent years one of my most 36 videos on YouTube shows my skateboarding, surfing, playing music, and best of all, 37 hugs from all fields of great people.
All in all, those are pretty ordinary 38 that just about anyone can do, right? So 39 do you think that video has been viewed millions of times? My theory is that people are 40 to watch it because in spite of my physical limitations, I’m living 41 I had no limits.
People often think someone 42 a severe disability to be inactive, upset, maybe even crazy. But I’d like to 43 them by showing that I lead a very adventurous and fruitful life
Among the hundreds of 44 on that video, here’s one typical remark:” seeing a guy like this being happy makes me wonder why I feel 45 for myself sometimes －or feel not funny enough, or whatever. How can I 46 think thoughts like that when this guy is living without limbs and still being happy!?”
I found happiness when I realized that imperfect 47 I may be, I am the perfect Nick Vujicic. I’m designed 48 God’s plan. That’s not to say that there isn’t 49 for improvement. I’m always trying to be better so I can better 50 the world!
I do believe my life has no 51 . I want you all to feel the same way about your life, no matter what your challenges may be. As we 52 our journey together, please take a moment to 53 about any limitations you’ve placed on your life. Now think about what 54 would be like to be 55 of those limitations. What would your life be if anything were possible?
| 小题1: | | A．disappointing | B．unforgettable | C．popular | D．useful |
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| 小题2: | | A．receiving | B．collecting | C．returning | D．gathering |
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| 小题3: | | A．sports | B．activities | C．affairs | D．wonders |
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| 小题5: | | A．drawn | B．expected | C．required | D．ordered |
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| 小题6: | | A．even though | B．in case | C．as though | D．if only |
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| 小题8: | | A．advise | B．greet | C．surprise | D．please |
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| 小题9: | | A．comments | B．pictures | C．replies | D．statements |
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| 小题10: | | A．nervous | B．sorry | C．eager | D．desperate |
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| 小题11: | | A．still | B．ever | C．also | D．even |
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| 小题12: | | A．if | B．as | C．while | D．although |
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| 小题13: | | A．according to | B．thanks to | C．owing to | D．up to |
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| 小题14: | | A．stage | B．area | C．place | D．room |
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| 小题15: | | A．protect | B．rescue | C．serve | D．reserve |
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| 小题16: | | A．challenges | B．limits | C．doubts | D．endings |
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| 小题17: | | A．finish | B．continue | C．start | D．stop |
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| 小题18: | | A．worry | B．think | C．care | D．talk |
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| 小题20: | | A．free | B．short | C．aware | D．fond |
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There are two dangers to be guarded against in old age. One of these is undue absorption in the past. It does not do to live in memories, in regrets for the good old days, or in sadness about friends who are dead. One’s thoughts must be directed to the future and to things about which there is something to be done.
It is unwise to be too attached to the youth in the hope of sucking vigor from its vitality. When your children are grown up they want to live their own lives, and if you continue to be as interested in them as you were when they were young, you are likely to become a burden to them, unless they are cold to you.
I think that a successful old age is easiest for those who have strong impersonal interests involving appropriate activities. It is in this sphere that long experience is really fruitful, and it is in this sphere that the wisdom born of experience can be exercised without being oppressive. It is no use telling grown-up children not to make mistakes, both because they will not believe you, and because mistakes are an essential part of education. But if you are one of those who are incapable of impersonal interests, you may find that your life will be empty unless you concern yourself with you children and grandchildren. In that case you must realize that while you can still render them material services, such as making them an allowance or knitting them jumpers, you must not expect that they will enjoy your company.
Some old people are afraid of death. But in fact the best way is to make your interests gradually wider and ore impersonal. An individual human existence should be like a river-small at fist, rushing passionately past rocks and over waterfalls. Gradually the river grows wider and the banks move back and in the end they become mixed in the sea without any visible break.
The old man who can see life in this way will not suffer from the fear of growing old and death.
小题1:The author suggests that old people should_______.| A．develop impersonal interests with proper activities. | | B．tell their children not to make mistakes | | C．concern themselves with their children | | D．not give their children an allowance |
小题2:The underlined word “render” in Paragraph 3 is close to the meaning of “_____”.| A．return | B．reward | C．offer | D．demand |
小题3:The author compares an individual human existence to a river because _____.| A．Life is like a river, first small, and then it becomes wide | | B．life is like a river finally flowing into the sea | | C．old age and death are both natural just like a river | | D．old people will be mixed in the crowd like a river mixed in the sea |
小题4:What’s the best title of this passage?| A．Setting Sun Is Beautiful | B．Growing Old Successfully | | C．Why Fear Getting Old | D．Caring for Olds More |
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I was eight when my neighbors got a TV. It was small and expensive, but that didn’t matter. IT WAS WONDERFUL. Everyone in the building came up to the fifth floor to see this latest wonder of the modern world. That was in 1948.
Soon, a lot of people got a TV, but not us. My parents didn’t think it was good for children. Being a good son, I didn’t argue with them. But I secretly watch TV—at my friends’ homes.
By 1955, televisions weren’t so expensive and were much larger. My parents still thought they were not good for us, but my sisters insisted, saying they were the only people in the neighborhood who didn’t have one. All their friends talked about certain programs and actors, but they couldn’t. Their friends laughed at them, which made them feel very unhappy. My youngest sister cried, saying she was never going back to school and that life without a TV wasn’t worth living. Nothing my parents said made her feel better. The next morning, without telling us, they went out and got a new TV.
When we were young our parents allowed us to watch TV for two hours a night. And we couldn’t watch until our homework was finished. But after a year or two, TV wasn’t exciting or new anymore. It became just another part of our lives like shoes or soap. My parents still had fears about TV. We were going to forget how to read, and TV was going to fill our minds with violence, they said.
Today people still argue about the value of TV. Nobody can deny the power of TV, which has a powerful influence on our lives. On average, Americans spend 30 hours a week watching TV. Is this influence good or bad? This is an unanswerable question indeed: It is hard enough to measure influence; and it is even harder to decide what is good and what isn’t. What is good, I suppose, is that many people are concerned about TV’s influence and that we have the power to change what we don’t like.
The people of Monhegan Island, 18 kilometers away off the coast of Maine, don’t have electricity, and they decided; once again, that they liked that way. Electricity, they think, would make life too easy and spoil their way of life. Maybe the young people wouldn’t want to go to town dances anymore. Maybe they would be more interested in staying at home and watching TV.
小题1:How old was the author, when their family got a TV?| A．About 15. | B．8. | C．18. | D．About 10. |
小题2:The author’s parents finally decided to buy a TV because _______.| A．they wanted to meet their daughters’ needs . | | B．the children couldn’t go to school without a TV | | C．the sisters would like to be like their friends | | D．they had to do as the youngest daughter told them to |
小题3:The author thinks “to judge whether a TV’s influence is good or bad” is ________.| A．concerning | B．hard | C．meaningless | D．important |
小题4:The last paragraph is written to show ________.| A．the disadvantage of TV | | B．TV influences people a great deal | | C．the advantage of TV | | D．we can change what we don’t like |
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Fill Her Tank First
The summer of 1975 I’d just graduated from college in Southern California and received a 1968 Ford Capri for a graduation present. I had my first job, in Los Angeles. One Sunday night, __36__ myself a very independent grown-up, I left my uncle’s place in South Laguna after a visit, without __37__ to him that I had less than an __38__ of a tank of gas and no cash to buy __39__ on the way to L.A. I pulled onto the Pacific Coast Highway and watched the needle __40__ as I headed north. When I started running on fumes, I pulled into a __41__. There was no self-service __42__; there were no credit cards, no ATMs.
I begged the guy at the station. I __43__ write him a check for gas, I said, or I could sleep in my car and try to __44__ to a town with a bank the next morning. As he was informing me that I could sleep in my car but he’d have me __45__, a station wagon __46__ to the next pump. The driver--- a thin, plain, middle-aged guy---overheard the tail end of my __47__ request. As the attendant went to serve him, he nodded at me. “__48__ her tank first,” he said.
“Really?” I said. Hope __49__. “Oh, thank you. Thank you. But please. I just need two dollars’ __50__. I just need to go home.”
“Fill it,” he __51__ to the attendant. Then to me, “You will do the same one day, for someone else.”
I keep looking for that unlucky young person, __52__ to save her night on the road. Meanwhile, in case she never __53__ up, I try for other acts of random kindness. That __54__ driver is always at the pump a few feet away, __55__ the attendant to fill mine first.
| 小题1: | | A．thinking | B．hoping | C．knowing | D．showing |
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| 小题2: | | A．confirming | B．convincing | C．admitting | D．concerning |
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| 小题3: | | A．eighty | B．eight | C．eighth | D．eighths |
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| 小题4: | | A．another | B．more | C．much | D．some |
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| 小题5: | | A．drop | B．increase | C．reduce | D．decrease |
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| 小题6: | | A．train station | B．bus station | C．railway station | D．gas station |
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| 小题7: | | A．at one time | B．at a time | C．at times | D．at that time |
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| 小题8: | | A．could | B．might | C．should | D．must |
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| 小题9: | | A．scramble | B．drive | C．climb | D．walk |
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| 小题10: | | A．ordered | B．helped | C．warned | D．arrested |
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| 小题11: | | A．went up | B．drove up | C．pulled up | D．drew into |
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| 小题12: | | A．tried | B．succeeded | C．reasoned | D．failed |
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| 小题13: | | A．Fill | B．Filled | C．Filling | D．To fill |
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| 小题14: | | A．increased | B．raised | C．accumulated | D．fired |
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| 小题15: | | A．value | B．worthy | C．worth | D．money |
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| 小题16: | | A．pardoned | B．repeated | C．said | D．spoke |
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| 小题17: | | A．ensuring | B．supposing | C．hoping | D．considering |
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| 小题18: | | A．shows | B．goes | C．grows | D．comes |
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| 小题19: | | A．easy-going | B．polite | C．powerful | D．quiet |
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| 小题20: | | A．introducing | B．instructing | C．interesting | D．interacting |
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Comedian Groucho Mark said, “Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others.”
You and I have principles and we also have 31 . I have opinions about what I think is right or wrong or good or bad. But they’re only opinions —I could be 32 ! I won’t try to build my life around my opinions, 33 I’ll try to keep to my principles.
A 15-year-old boy learned a valuable 34 about life principles. One day, he found a wallet that 35 $127 as well as a woman’s 36 . He jumped onto his 37 and went to her house. He told her he found her wallet and she gave him a big 38 . She also gave him twenty dollars.
That evening the boy told his parents about the 39 and his father said, “I don’t think you should have 40 $20 for doing what you should have done. A person shouldn’t be rewarded for being 41 .”
He considered his father’s statement and 42 that he would return the money. He 43 biked to the lady’s home and gave her back the money. She didn’t want to 44 it, but he told her she had to — that his father 45 something to him that he had 46 realized before.
When ideals such as honesty and a personal standard of always doing the right thing guide our every action and decision, we 47 develop a good character. These great principles 48 our lives and make us into a person of 49 . They teach confidence. That boy is 50 to be raised by a wise father who had the wisdom to say, “Those are my principles.”
| 小题1: | | A．lives | B．opinions | C．conditions | D．purposes |
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| 小题2: | | A．happy | B．different | C．wrong | D．clever |
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| 小题4: | | A．lesson | B．skill | C．secret | D．course |
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| 小题5: | | A．cost | B．contained | C．got | D．covered |
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| 小题6: | | A．name | B．script | C．identification | D．house |
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| 小题7: | | A．bicycle | B．car | C．horse | D．taxi |
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| 小题8: | | A．hand | B．surprise | C．chance | D．hug |
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| 小题9: | | A．performance | B．event | C．principle | D．trade |
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| 小题10: | | A．accepted | B．paid | C．earned | D．saved |
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| 小题11: | | A．generous | B．honest | C．selfless | D．confident |
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| 小题12: | | A．imagined | B．expected | C．predicted | D．decided |
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| 小题13: | | A．once | B．even | C．again | D．still |
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| 小题14: | | A．fetch | B．take | C．return | D．spare |
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| 小题15: | | A．pointed out | B．gave out | C．picked up | D．added up |
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| 小题16: | | A．always | B．often | C．never | D．ever |
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| 小题17: | | A．suddenly | B．actually | C．immediately | D．personally |
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| 小题18: | | A．shape | B．protect | C．encourage | D．understand |
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| 小题19: | | A．attitude | B．sense | C．direction | D．character |
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| 小题20: | | A．sure | B．free | C．fortunate | D．tough |
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