语鹅市安置阳光实验学校湖北2016高考英语阅读理解二轮训练（1）
【2014高考训练题】
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, and 纳木措pain-free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably(不可避免的) brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment (销售目标制定义务), lf - improvement.
Ask a bachelor(单身汉) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest 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, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
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 choo the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increa our happiness. It liberates 关于安全的成语（解放）money: buying that new car or tho fancy clothes that will do nothing to increa our happiness now ems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all tho who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
58. 2021年gdpAccording to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly becau _______ .
A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
金龙鱼B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
59. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ________ .
A. hatred 风雨作文600字 B. misunderstanding C. prejudice D. ignorance
60. What is the author trying to tell us?
A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pai老子的故事n.
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitments. 首发
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.
【参考答案】58-60 ABA
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【2014高考训练题】
Heads of states from around the world gathered in South Africa on Dec.10, 2013 for a farewell to Nelson Mandela, the respected statesman against racial inequality.
Born in 1918 in a country where blacks and other non-whites were racially parated in every manner possible: education, hospital, public transport, even beaches, Mandela fought a lifelong battle for freedom and justice for all.
In the 1940s, Mandela and the Youth League of the Africa National Congress(ANC非国大青年联盟) were active to help organize strikes and demonstrations(示威) against the country’s system of racial inequality – Some blacks were forcibly removed from homes and they had no right to vote. As a result, he and veral other ANC leaders were arrested in 1963.
Despite facing the death penalty, Mandela told the court that his action had been for the ideal of a free, democratic (民主的) society with equal opportunity for all races. “It is an ideal for which I am prepared to die,” Mandela said at the time. Later he and his fellows escaped the death and were ntenced to life in prison, where he spent the next 27 years. Even in prison, he never stopped fighting.
On Feb. 11, 1990, having endured great hardships, and after nearly two years of cret negotiation, Mandela walked to freedom through the gate of Cape Town’s Victor Verster prison, watched by cameras and broadcast live around the world. Four years later, he was again in the international spotlight when he celebrated the outcome of South Africa’s first democratic elections, becoming the country’s first black president.
The nation, thanks in large part to Mandela, is no longer a victim of racial inequality but is able to participate freely in the global economy, sports and other areas.
36. What might be the purpo of writing the passage?
A. To ask us to learn from Mandela. B. To memorialize Mandela.
C. To give a description of Mandela. D. To ek help for people in South Africa.
37. In the 1960s in South Africa群聊怎么踢人, black people _____.
