Question

    Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires — not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.

Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped (淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.

Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅), a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.

Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.

Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.

Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.

Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.

Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.

1.The author intends to tell us that _________.

A.true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means

B.big houses are people's most valued possessions

C.big houses can in a sense bring richness of life

D.true happiness comes from spiritual riches

2.The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that ________.

A.however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied

B.however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor

C.though their house is big, they prefer a simple life

D.though their house is big, it seems to be a cage

3.What would be the best title for the passage?

A.House of Life B.Secret of Wealth

C.Rest and Refreshment D.Interest and Enthusiasm

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.A

【解析】

本文为一篇说明文。讲述了只有不断的丰富自己，才能增加自己的幸福感。

1.推理判断题。由第一段“Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires — not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.”和第六段“Real riches are of the spirit.”可知作者想要告诉我们：钱不能满足一个人的欲望，不能满足一个人的欲望通常是因为没有足够的追求。而真正的满足是精神的富足。故选D项。

2.词句猜测题。 “They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.”他们拥有了很多房间的大别墅，但是他们生命的房子像一间茅屋。大别墅暗示物质丰富，而茅草屋寓意精神世界很匮乏。选B项。

3.主旨大意题。由第八段“Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.”无论你要为你的生命添加什么样的空间，享受生活的秘诀就是不断地添加。本文说明了只有不断的丰富自己，才能获得精神的满足，增加自己的幸福感。A项“生命之家”符合文章主旨。故选A项。