完型填空。
A woman I know stood on the bathroom scales (浴室磅秤) after two weeks of diet and hard exercise
around the park. The needle was
1 , stuck on the number where she had started. This struck her as
2 of how things had been going lately. She was destined (注定) never to be happy.
As she dressed, feeling her tight jeans, she
3 a ten-pound note in her pocket. Then her sister phoned
with a
4 story. When she hurried out to the car-annoyed that she had to get petrol-she discovered her flat
mate had already
5 the tank for her. And this was a woman who thought she'd
6 be happy.
Every day, it seems, we're
7 with advice about happiness. The cruel message is that there's something
we' re supposed to do to be
8 (make the right choices, or have the right set of beliefs about ourselves.)
Coupled with this is the
9 that happiness is a permanent condition. If we are not joyful all the time, we
10 there's a problem.
Yet what most people
11 is not a permanent state of happiness. It is something more ordinary, a
12 of
what the American writer Hugh Prather once called "unsettled problem, ambiguous
13 and vague (不明确的)
defeats with few moments of clear peace."
Maybe you wouldn't say yesterday was a happy day,
14 , you had a quarrel with your boss. But weren't
there moments of happiness, moments of
15 ? Now that you think about it.
16 , there a letter from an old
friend, or a stranger who asked where you got such a good haircut? You remember having a bad day, yet
those good moments
17 .
So in my opinion, happiness is an
18 , not a condition. It's spending a pleasant hour organizing your closet.
It is your family assembled at dinner. It's in the present not in the
19 promise of a "someday when…". How
luckier we are and how much more happiness we experience-if we can fall in love with the life we are
20 .
( )1.A. already
( )2.A. difficult
( )3.A. wasted
( )4.A. funny
( )5.A. moved
( )6.A. often
( )7.A. flooded
( )8.A. worried
( )9.A. question
( )10.A. wish
( )11.A. care
( )12.A. mixture
( )13.A. memory
( )14.A. so
( )15.A. silence
( )16.A. wasn't
( )17.A. disappeared
( )18.A. attitude
( )19.A. near
( )20.A. living |
B. still
B. usual
B. found
B. sad
B. broke
B. never
B. troubled
B. successful
B. condition
B. conclude
B. do
B. puzzle
B. stories
B. because
B. waste
B. was
B. worked
B. attitude
B. possible
B. making |
C. never
C. typical
C. picked
C. simple
C. covered
C. always
C. covered
C. happy
C. choice
C. approve
C. ask
C. belief
C. victories
C. since
C. spirit
C. isn't
C. occurred
C. ache
C. distant
C. doing |
D. often
D. hard
D. got
D. dull
D. filled
D. seldom
D. satisfied
D. angry
D. thought
D. agree
D. experience
D. time
D. life
D. but
D. peace
D. is
D. changed
D. attempt
D. difficult
D. talking |