八年级英语阅读新文章（.01）
八年级英语课外阅读新文章(2016.01)
Happiness: what’s the big deal?
Have you ever noticed how much people talk about happiness? People are always giving out advice on how to be happier. And many scientific studies have different opinions on what it means to be happy.
Joph Mercola, a US physician, found that healthy habits could lead to a happier lifestyle (生活方式). He found happier people eat right, exerci and get better sleep. His rearch found that a positive lifestyle could strengthen your immune system and prevent heart dia.
Professor Sir Richard Peto, Oxford University, found the opposite to be true. His new study found happiness has nothing to do with your health or how long you will live.
Rearchers at the University of Oxford studied 1 million UK women over 10 years. The women answered questions on their health, happiness, amount of stress and how they felt about their lives.
Unhappy women often had bad health before they were unhappy. This study said that studies in the past were getting the cau and effect (因果关系) confud.
He found unhappy people were no more likely to get sick than happy ones. “Of cour people who are ill tend to be unhappier than tho who are well,” said Peto, co-author of the study.
On the other hand, a study from Australasian Science said that negative people are actually more careful thinkers than happy people. Experts say there is too much pressure to reach this goal of happiness. In turn (相应地), it makes us less happy. So what do you think it means to be happy?
少儿口才课程内容1. What did Dr Jop h Mercola’s rearch find?
A. Happier lifestyles led to healthy habits.32太极拳
B. Happier people had the same lifestyle.
C. Happier people didn’t get heart dia.
D. A happier lifestyle could mean people are healthier.
2. Which of the following is TRUE about Ox ford University’s experiment?
A. Professor Sir Richard Peto proved Dr Joph Mercola’s study is true.
B. One million women from veral countries took part in the experiment.
C. The women answered questions on their health, happiness, stress and feelings.
D. Most of the women had bad health before they took part in the experiment.
3. What did the study from Australasian Science say?
A. Unhappy people ldom got sick.
B. Bad health made people unhappy.
C. Unhappy people are more careful thinkers than happy ones.
D. It’s bad for our health to try to reach the goal of happiness.
Effort in the right place
A giant ship’s engine broke. So the ship lost power. The ship’s owners
were very worried. They tried one expert after another, but none of them
could figure out how to fix the engine.
Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he
was young.
He carried a large bag of tools with him. When he arrived, he
immediately went to work. He examined the engine very carefully, from top
to bottom.
The s hip’s owners were there, watching the man. They hoped he would know what to do.
After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something.
Instantly, the engine started back up. He then carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!
A week later, the ship owners received a bill from the old man for $10,000.
“What?!” the owners shouted. “He hardly did anything!”
So they wrote the old man a note saying, “Plea nd us an itemized (逐条记录的) bill.”
The man nt a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer…………$2.00.
Knowing where to tap…………..$9,998.00.
Effort (努力) is important, but knowing where to put the effort in your life is all the difference.
1. From paragraphs 2-3, we learn that _____.
A. the old man was talented
B. the old man was experienced
C. the old man found it easy to fix the engine
D. the old man couldn’t find the problem
2. What does the underlined word “examine” in Paragraph 3 mean?
A. look for我的玩具作文
B. look at开花山
C. look after
D. look over
3. The right order of how the old man fixed the ship is _____.
① He pulled out a small hammer. ② He tapped with a hammer.
③ He checked the engine carefully. ④The engine was fixed.复函格式
A. ③①②④
B. ①②③④
C. ①③②④
D. ③②①④
4. The owners felt very _____ when they received the old man’s bill.
A. happy
B. surprid
C. worried
D. upt沈石溪的小说
会计成绩查询5. Why was fixing the engine so expensive?预算会计
A. Becau the old man asked for too much.
B. Becau no one el could do the work.
