第1821期阅读理解附答案

　　I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood andyear-round sun. You may think people in such aglamorous, fun-filled place are happier than others. Ifso, you have some mistaken ideas about the natureof happiness.

　　Many intelligent people still equate happinesswith fun. The truth is that fun and happiness havelittle or nothing in common. Fun is what weexperience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, moreabiding emotion.

　　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 thathappiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access toglamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells happiness. But inmemoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun:depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profoundloneliness.

　　Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and lesssatisfying. If hes 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 nights sleep or a three-day vacation. I dont 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 themost liberating realizations we can ever come to. It liberates time: now we can devote morehours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying thatnew car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seemspointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those rich andglamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much funactually 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 authors opinion, marriage___.

　　A. affords greater fun.

　　B. leads to raising children.

　　C. indicates commitment.

　　D. ends in pain.

　　4. Couples having infant children___.

　　A. are lucky since they can have a whole nights sleep.

　　B. find fun in tucking them into bed at night.

　　C. find more time to play and joke with them.

　　D. derive happiness from their endeavor.

　　5. If one get the meaning of the true sense of happiness, he will__.

　　A. stop playing games and joking with others.

　　B. make the best use of his time increasing happiness.

　　C. give a free hand to money.

　　D. keep himself with his family.

　　答案：CBCDB