【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 nships that bring happiness usually involve the sharing of feelings, mutual respect, acceptance, trust and fun. People who exercise regularly improve both their physical and mental well being. Some research has shown that exercise can be as effective as medication in treating depression. When we are so interested in an activity we enjoy that we lose track of time, we are in a state of flow. The activity could be making art, playing piano, surfing, or playing a game. People who experience flow in their work or hobbies tend to be happier. People are more likely to be happy if they know what their strengths are and use them regularly, People who set goals and use their strengths to achieve them tend to be happier. People are especially happy when they can use their strengths to serve the greater good. People who think positively by being grateful, mindful and optimistic are more likely to be happy. Being grateful means being thankful, Bejing mindful means being open to, focusing on and enjoying the experiences of the present moment. Being optimistic means being hopeful about the future.（1）Why does the human brain remember negative things more easily? A.Negative things are easy to remember.B.Dangerous wild animals are a threat to us.C.Our ancestors had no enough food for living.D.Negative things tend to affect human survival immediately.（2）How does the author like looking for happiness in material things? A.Uncertain.B.Opposed.C.Supportive.D.Optimistic.（3）What does the author suggest us in the last paragraph? A.Enjoying our life and work.B.Leading a happy life each day.C.Being positive in our life and work.D.Thinking more about the future.（4）What does this text mainly tell us? A.The factors that make people happy.B.How to remember positive things easily.C.The habits which people form in their life.D.Why people remember negative things easily.【答案】（1）D（2）B（3）C（4）A 【解析】【分析】本文是一篇說明文，真正能使我們快樂的并不是物質(zhì)的東西，作者在文中介紹了幾種會(huì)讓人更快樂的習(xí)慣。（1考查細(xì)節(jié)理解。根據(jù)第一段中的“Our brains have developed this way because threats, like dangerous animals, had a more immediate effect on our ancestors39。 survival pared to positive things like food or shelter.”可知負(fù)面的東西相對于積極的東西對我們祖先的生存有更直接的影響，所以更容易被記住。故選D。（2）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)第二段中的“If you39。ve been chasing wealth, fame, good looks, material things and power, you may be looking for happiness in all the wrong places. ”一直追求財(cái)富、名譽(yù)、美貌、物質(zhì)和權(quán)力，你可能會(huì)在所有錯(cuò)誤的地方尋找幸福。由此可見作者對尋找物質(zhì)上的幸福持反對態(tài)度，故選B。（3）考查推理判斷。根據(jù)最后一段中的“People who think positively by being grateful, mindful and optimistic are more likely to be happy.”積極樂觀的人感恩，專注，樂觀，更容易快樂。以及下文幾者之間的內(nèi)在關(guān)系可知作者建議我們在生活和工作中要積極樂觀，故選C。（4）考查主旨大意。作者在文中介紹了幾種會(huì)讓人更快樂的習(xí)慣，如建立親密關(guān)系，鍛煉，了解自己的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，感恩，專注，樂觀積極的生活態(tài)度等。即使人快樂的因素，故選A?！军c(diǎn)評】本題考點(diǎn)涉及細(xì)節(jié)理解，推理判斷和主旨大意三個(gè)題型的考查，是一篇生活類閱讀，要求考生在捕捉細(xì)節(jié)信息的基礎(chǔ)上，進(jìn)一步根據(jù)上下文的邏輯關(guān)系，進(jìn)行分析，推理，概括和歸納，從而選出正確答案。5．閱讀理解 Imagine a cat that does not need someone to clean up after it keeps an older person pany and helps them remember to take their medicine. That is the shared dream of the toy maker Hasbro and scientists at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The researchers received a $ 3milliondollar award from the National Science Foundation for a special project. They want to find ways to add artificial intelligence, or ., to Hasbro39。s “Joy for All” robotic The cat has already been for sale for two years. Though priced over 1000 dollars, it sold quite well. It was meant to act as a “panion” for older people. Now the project is aimed at developing additional abilities for the cat. Researchers at Brown39。s HumanityCentered Robotics Initiative are working to decide which activities older adults may need the most. They hope to make the cat perform a small number of activities very well. Such activities include finding lost objects and reminding the person to take medicine or visit their doctor. They also want to keep the cost down to just a few hundred dollars. It is an idea that has appealed to Jeanne Elliott. Her 93yearold mother Mary Derr lives with her in South Kingstown. Derr has dementia (癡呆). The Joy for All cat that Elliott bought this year has bee a true panion for Derr. The cat stays with Derr and keeps her calm while Elliott is at work. Elliott said a robotic cat that helps her mother to remember to take her medicine and be careful when she walks would be greater. The researchers are trying to learn how the improved cats will plete helpful activities and how they will municate. They say that they do not want a talking cat, however. Instead they are trying to design a cat that can move its head in a special way to successfully municate its message. In the end, they hope to create an exchange between the human and the cat in which the human feels the cat needs them. By doing so, the researchers hope they can even help prevent feelings of loneliness and sadness among elderly people. （1）What39。s the purpose of the project? A.To relieve the pain of the elderly.B.To promote the sales of a medicine.C.To invent a robotic cat for the elderly.D.To help make the robotic cat smarter.（2）Compared with the old model, the new robotic cat will be A.smallerB.cheaperC.more talkativeD.more expensive（3）What does Paragraph 3 intend to tell us? A.The cat gives much help to the elderly.B.The more functions of the cat, the better.C.There is no cure for dementia at present.D.Mary Derr would have died without the cat.（4）What can we infer from the last paragraph? A.A talkin