5．Spending as little as 5a day on someone else could significantly（較大地） boost happiness，the team at the University of British Columbia found．
Their experiments on more than 630Americans showed they were measurably （可測量出） happier when they spent money on others-even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier．
"We wanted to test our theory that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn，"said Elizabeth Dunn，a psychologist（心理學家） at the University of British Columbia．They asked their 600volunteers first to rate （評估） their general happiness，report their annual income （年收入） and detail their monthly spending including bills，gifts for themselves，gifts for others and donations to charity．
"No matter how much income each person made，those who spent money on others reported greater happiness，while those who spent more on themselves did not，"Dunn said in a statement．
Dunn's team also surveyed 16employees at a company in Boston before and after they received an annual profit sharing bonus（紅利）of between 3，000and 8，000．"Employees who devoted more of their bonus to prosocial （支持社會） spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus，and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself，"they wrote in their report，published in the journal Science．
They gave their volunteers 5or 20and half and clear instructions on how to spend it．Those who spent the money on someone or something else reported feeling happier about it．
"These findings suggest that very minor changes in spending allocations （津貼）-as little as $ 5-may be enough to produce real gains in happiness on a given day，"Dunn said．
32．What is the general idea of the passage？D
A．The more you earn，the greater happiness you will get．
B．Spending more money on yourself will make you happier．
C．You can spend only 5a day on someone else to get happiness．
D．If you spend money on someone else，you will feel happier．
33．The underlined word"boost"in the first paragraph probably meansB．
A．help to find B．help to increase C．help to bring D．help to get
34．Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage？C
A．Very small changes in spending your money may be enough to gain happiness．
B．People usually think spending money on themselves will make them happier．
C．Those who spend more money on others can get much more bonus．
D．Researchers think that how people spend their money is at least as important as how much money they earn．
35．Dunn isA．
A．a psychologist at a university
B． an employee in a company
C．a reporter in a journal
D．a volunteer in the experiment．
分析 本文講述了在別人身上花錢要比花錢在自己身上更讓人感覺到幸福．并且用多個實驗來證明這個理論．
解答 32：D 主旨大意題．根據文章的主題段第一段Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness，the team at the University of British Columbia found．說明在別人身上花錢會讓我們感覺更幸福，故D項正確．
33：B 根據文章第一段Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else could significantly boost happiness和第二段Their experiments on more than 630 Americans showed they were measurably happier when they spent money on others even if they thought spending the money on themselves would make them happier．都說明在別人身上花錢會讓我們更快樂，那么這個詞就應該是指增加的意思．故B正確．
34：C 推理題．根據文章第五段Employees who devoted more of their bonus to prosocial spending experienced greater happiness after receiving the bonus，and the manner in which they spent that bonus was a more important predictor of their happiness than the size of the bonus itself說明把花分紅的不同方式也決定了我們快樂與否．但是文章并沒有在別人身上都花錢的人就能得到分紅．故C項說法是錯誤的．
35：A 細節(jié)題．根據第三段2，3行said Elizabeth Dunn，a psychologist at the University of British Columbia．說明Dunn是一個心理學家，故A項正確．
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