2016英语专四阅读练习（15）

2016英语专四阅读练习（15）

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　　I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year-roundsun. You may think people in such a glamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. If so, you havesome mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

　　Many intelligent people still equate happiness withfun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little ornothing in common. Fun is what we experienceduring an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abidingemotion.

　　Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activitiesthat help us relax, temporarily forget our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do notbring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

　　I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happinesshas nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorousparties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells "happiness"。 But in memoir aftermemoir, celebrities 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 even though he finds dating to be less and lesssatisfying. If he's honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. Forcommitment 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 choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun overpainful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Coupleswith infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three-day vacation. I don't knowany parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children.

　　Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the mostliberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours toactivities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car orthose fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And itliberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and glamorous people we wereso sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

　　1.Which of the following is true?

　　A.Fun creates long-lasting satisfaction.

　　B.Fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness.

　　C.Happiness is enduring whereas fun is short-lived.

　　D.Fun that is long-standing may lead to happiness.

　　2.To the author, Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to __.

　　A.rite 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 glamorous parties.

　　3.In the author's opinion, marriage___.

　　A.affords greater fun.

　　B.leads to raising children.

　　C.indicates commitment.

　　D.ends in pain.

　　参考答案

　　C B C

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