2018年大學英語四級閱讀理解模擬試題2
幸福
The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness, If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true hap piness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children,professional achievement, religious commitment (承擔的義務), self improvement. Ask a bachelor(單身漢) why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life i s filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night's sleep or a three day vacation. I don't know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couple who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
這是壹篇議論文，闡述了幸福的獲得這壹嚴肅主題，試圖澄清人們在幸福問題上的壹些誤解。
1. According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because _______ .
A) he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B) he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C) he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D) he fears it will put an end to all his fun adventure and excitement
2. Raising children, in the author's opinion, is _______.
A) a moral duty B) a thankless job
C) a rewarding task D) a source of inevitable pain
3. From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from _______.
A) hatred B) misunderstanding
C) prejudice D) ignorance
4. To understand what true happiness is one must _______.
A) have as much run as possible during one's lifetime
B) make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C) put up with pain under all circumstances
D) be able to distinguish happiness from fun
5. What is the author trying to tell us?
A) Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B) One must know how to attain happiness.
C) It is important to make commitments.
D) It is pain that leads to happiness.
參考答案及解析
1、[答案及分析]：[A]根據第3段第1句話，不難得知A項正確。
2、[答案及分析]：[C]依據為第4段的意義：“有嬰兒的父母若能睡壹夜整覺或度上壹個三天的假期，那真是太幸運了。我認識的為人父母的人中，沒有誰認為撫養小孩子fun(好玩)。但是，決定不要孩子的夫妻永遠也不會體會到看著孩子成長以及孫兒玩耍的那種快樂。”據此可排除A、B、D項而選C。
3、[答案及分析]：[B]最後壹段的意思是：“真正的幸福與fun無關，這樣壹種觀念使得我們不得envy，因為我們已經理解到那些總是充滿fun的人實際上可能並不幸福。”也就是說，我們原先所以有envy,是存在誤解(misunderstand)。
4、[答案及分析]：[D]第1段和第2段的第1句話及第3、4段所舉的論據及第5段的意思都表明D項正確。
5、[答案及分析]：[A]作者在第1段就否定了好玩、無痛苦就等於幸福這壹觀點，明確提出自己的看法：實際上，導致幸福的事情多半伴隨著痛苦。隨後幾段都在論證這壹觀點。很明顯，A項正確。
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