Question

　The way people hold to the belief that a fun - filled, 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 brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment （預(yù)擔(dān)的義務(wù)）, self - improvement.

　　Ask a bachelor（單身漢） 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 choose 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 increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ________ .

　　A. he is reluctant to take on family responsiblilities

　　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

　Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ________ .

　　A. a moral duty

　　B. a thankless job

　　C. a rewarding task

　　D. a source of inevitable pain

From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ________ .

　　A. hatred　　　　　　　　　　　　B. misunderstanding

　　C. prejudice　　　　　　　　　　　D. ignorance

To understand what true happiness is one must ________ .

　　A. have as much fun as possible during one’s lifetime

　　B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain

　　C. put up with pain under all circumstances

　　D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

Answer 1

【小題1】A

【小題2】C

【小題3】B

【小題4】D

解析:

【小題1】本文是一篇議論文，闡述了幸福的獲得這一嚴(yán)肅話題，試圖澄清人們在幸福問題上的一些誤解。本題要求學(xué)生判斷單身漢拒絕結(jié)婚的主要原因。依據(jù)文章第3段第1行“Ask a bachelor 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”（……害怕作出對義務(wù)的承諾，即不愿承擔(dān)義務(wù)）。A項(xiàng)與之等同，故正確。

【小題2】依據(jù)文章第4段第1句“帶有嬰兒的父母要是能睡上一整晚覺或度一個三天的假日，那真是太幸運(yùn)了。在我認(rèn)識的人中，不會有人用fun（好玩）來描述他們撫養(yǎng)孩子的感受”，似乎會認(rèn)為作者的意圖是B項(xiàng)（出力不討好，毫無回報(bào)的事）或D項(xiàng)（不可避免的痛苦來源）。實(shí)際上，作者真實(shí)想法應(yīng)在第2句中體現(xiàn)：但是決定不生孩子的夫妻永遠(yuǎn)也體會不到看著孩子成長以及和孫子玩耍的那種樂趣、那種欣喜。這種樂趣、欣喜實(shí)際就是一種回報(bào)。所以選項(xiàng)C正確。

【小題3】依據(jù)文章最后一句“And it liberates us from envy：we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.”說明：我們現(xiàn)在的這種理解就可免除嫉妨，那么反過來，嫉妨產(chǎn)生于我們的理解不當(dāng)，即misunderstanding，故選項(xiàng)B正確。

【小題4】依據(jù)文章第1段第1句“The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, pain free life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness”（人們堅(jiān)持充滿趣味、毫無痛苦的生活就等于幸福這一信條實(shí)際上減少了他們獲得真正幸福的可能性）。再依據(jù)文章最后一句“…all those who are always having so much fun actually may

　　not be happy at all”（……生活中總是有如此多的fun的人實(shí)際上也許一點(diǎn)都不幸福）。可以看出要理解真正的幸福是什么就必須把fun和happiness區(qū)分開來。因?yàn)閮烧呓^不等同。故選項(xiàng)D正確。C項(xiàng)應(yīng)該是回答“怎樣才能獲得真正的幸�！边@一問題，且作者并沒在文中明確提到獲得快樂就必須在任何情況下都忍受痛苦。