语鹅市安置阳光实验学校2014高考英语阅读理解专题训练二轮精品题（6）及答案
阅读理解
I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-round sun. You may think people in such a splendid, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.热的反义词是什么
Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in common. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more lasting emotion.
Going to an amument park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, becau their positive effects end when the fun ends.
I have often though that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. The rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells“happiness”.But in memoir（回忆录）after memoir, they reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism ,drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness.
Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage, if he’s honest, and 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 and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Similarly, couples that choo not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out whenever they want and sleep as late as they can. 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.脚后跟有痣
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating（解放性的）realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increa our happiness. It liberates 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 rich and glamorous 七年级美术教案people we were so sure are happy becau they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.[
66. We can learn from the passage that .
A. fun creates long-lasting satisfaction
B. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness
C. happiness is lasting whereas fun is short-lived
D. fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness
67. To the author, the role Hollywood stars play is to .
A. write memoir after memoir about their happiness
B. tell the public that happiness has nothing to do with fun
C. teach people how to enjoy their lives
D. bring happiness to the public instead of going to parties
68. In the author’s opinion, marriage .
A. affords greater fun B. leads to raising children
C. indicates duty and devotion D. usually ends up in pain
69.Which of the following is the best example of“painful happiness”?
A. Winning lottery by accident B. A bachelor resisting marriage
C. Raising children D. Buying some fancy clothes
70. If one gets the true n of happiness, he will .
A. stop playing games and joking with others
love的过去式B. keep himlf with his family
C. give a free hand to money
D. u his time to increa happiness
阅读理解--------C
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9. Who entry will be accepted by The New Yorker?
A. Richard, a postgraduate from Quebec, Canada, who nt his design on Dec.20.
B. Amy, a 28yearold AsianAmerican teacher, who nt her design on Jan. 20.
C. Jessie, a 16yearold student from New York, who nt her design on Dec. 29.
D. John, a 68yearold retired engineer from San Francisco, who nt his design on Jan. 10.
10. Which of the following is NOT true about James Surowiecki?
A. James Surowiecki is the author of The Financial Page column.
B. James Surowiecki usually has discussions with people from different fields.
C. James Surowiecki speaks with a chairman about issues of medicine this month.
D. Visiting newyorker. com/go/valla, you can watch the conversation of this month betw
een James and an economist.
11. ________ can be provided by The Big Apple Circus Care Program for sick children.
