Question

短文填空

阅读短文，用方框内所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文意思通顺、完整。

注意：1．每个单词只能用一次；

2．每空限填一词，有些词需要做相应的变化；

3．其中有两词多余。

house，smile，keep，happy，listen，money，all，look，ill，friend，travel，be

　　How can you get happiness？You may say that happiness requires nice comforts like a____1.___，a car，a big bank balance，a high paying job．

　　Here in India where I live，I have____2.___through villages where people seemed to earn just enough to make ends meet．I have seen happiness there．I have seen__3.__faces and smiling eyes that readily gave me directions．They were very__4.___and made my journey easier．

　　I have also worked for 3 years on Wall Street，in a big Investment Bank．I have seen some people with a lot of____5.___but still unhappy．I am not saying that all rich are unhappy(or the poor，happy)．But the fact that there___6.___some rich people who look angry or listless(无精打采的)and there are some poor people who__7.____happy，points out that there must be something else to___8.____，rather than just money，luxuries(奢侈品)and comforts．

　　Happiness，it seems，is not a factor of how much you have．You can feel happy___9.___to a good song；you can feel happy watching a beautiful sunrise；you can feel happy in any number of ways that don’t require any possessions at___10.___．

Answer

1.house

2.traveled

3.smiling

4.friendly

5.money

6.are

7.look

8.happiness

9.listening

10.all

【解析】

1.

2.travel。本句使用的是现在完成时态，用“have＋动词的过去分词”。

3.smiling eyes意为“微笑的眼睛”，故可以确定此处用smiling faces意为“微笑的脸”。

4.

5.

6.there be句型，people为集合名词，be动词用复数形式。

7.look意为“看起来，看上去”，后接形容词。

8.

9.listen to music，此处用listening to music。根据后文的句式结构“you can feel happy watching a beautiful sunrise”来确定动词的形式。

10.not…at all，意为“一点儿也不；根本不”。