【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 than those who earn little. But the research also shows that you have to spend your money properly if you expect it to bring you happiness. Here are some suggestions for you to spend your money in a better way:Buy experiences, not material goods.In a recent study, Ryan Howell, a professor from San Francisco State University in the US, found that when people didn’t have enough money to enjoy a trip, they preferred to buy some material goods. But travelling with your family or friends may bring you more happiness and the wonderful memory of the travel experience will stay in your mind for many years.Buy lots of little things, rather than one big thing.No matter how much money you spend on something and how special that product is, you will get used to having it over time and it will bee just another object. People like having new things, but the happiness it brings to you will soon disappear. Buying small things can give us small pleasures often and you can get different surprises and happiness from different small things.Be sure to buy time, too.It’s also important to consider how the things you buy will affect how you spend your time. For example, buying that big house in the countryside may seem to be a good idea, but according to The Wall Street Journal, people who spend more time on the way to work are not so happy as those who live near the workplace. Try giving it away.Elizabeth Dunn, a professor of a University in Canada, found that in countries such as Canada, South Africa and Uganda, giving away money to the poor made people happier. This was even true when people were giving away even when they themselves were really poor.48．From the passage we know ________.A．Money sometimes can buy happiness B．Money can’t buy happiness at allC．Money is not everything D．People who earn more money are not happy49．Ryan Howell thought buying experience was better than buying material goods because ________.A．people preferred travelling to buying things.B．the memory of the travel experience will stay for a long timeC．travelling is cheaperD．people are poor50．People may feel much happier if they ________.A．don’t give away money B．buy a good house in the countrysideC．live near the workplace D．buy what others have51．The best title of this passage may be “________”.A．How to spend money B．Ways to earn moneyC．Money D．How can money buy happiness?【答案】48．A49．B50．C51．D【分析】文章中作者否定了金錢買不到幸福的觀點(diǎn)，并提出了建議，如何更好地花錢以得到更多的幸福。48．主旨大意題。根據(jù)“Money can’t buy happiness, right? Well, not true…you have to spend your money properly if you expect it to bring you happiness.”以及整個(gè)文章的理解可知，金錢有時(shí)候也可以買到幸福，故選A。49．細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“But travelling with your family or friends may bring you more happiness and the wonderful memory of the travel experience will stay in your mind for many years.”可知，和家人或朋友一起旅行可能會(huì)帶來更多的快樂，旅行經(jīng)歷的美好記憶會(huì)留在你的腦海中很多年。故選B。50．細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“people who spend more time on the way to work are not so happy as those who live near the workplace.”可知，那些花更多時(shí)間在上班路上的人并不像那些住在工作地點(diǎn)附近的人那么快樂，相反住在工作地點(diǎn)附近的人可能會(huì)更快樂，因?yàn)榛ㄔ谏习嗦飞系臅r(shí)間更少，故選C。51．最佳標(biāo)題題。根據(jù)“Money can’t buy happiness, right…you have to spend your money properly if you expect it to bring you happiness. Here are some suggestions for you to spend your money in a better way:”以及整個(gè)文章的理解可知，主要是介紹如何更好地花錢以得到更多的幸福，故選D。DOnce a circle lost a piece of its own. The circle wanted to be whole, so it went around looking for its missing piece. But because it was inplete, it could only roll very slowly. It admired the flowers, chatted with worms and enjoyed the sunshine along the way. It found lots of different pieces, but none of them fit. So it left them all by the side of the road and kept on looking for the missing piece. Then one day the circle found a piece that fit perfectly. The circle put the missing piece into itself. It could be whole with nothing missing. It was so happy and began to roll. Now that it was a perfect circle, it could roll very fast, too fast to see flowers or talk to worms. It realized how different the world was when it rolled so quickly. It felt so sad that_____▲　 . Sometimes we are more perfect when we lose something. A man who has everything is a poor man in some ways. He will never have hopes, dreams or something better. He will never know someone is loving him or someone is giving him something. Life is not a spelling game. No matter how many words you got right, you fail if you make one mistake. Life is more like a basketball season. Even the best team loses one third of its games and even the worst team has its good days. Our goal is to win more games than we lose. When we accept that imperfection is part of being human, and when we can continue rolling through life and enjoy it, we will have reached a wholeness. We couldn39。t be perfect, but we must be brave enough to love, strong enough to forgive（原諒）, kind enough to share happiness with others and clever enough to know there is enough love around us and then we can always live a wonderful time in our lives.52．The circle did the following things EXCEPT（除了）__________ when it rolled slowly.A．enjoying the sunshine B．talking with wormsC．a(chǎn)dmiring the flowers D．drinking water53．Which of the following sentences can be put in the _____▲ .A．it dropped that piece and rolled away slowlyB．it continued to roll more and more quicklyC．it decided to find a better piece to fitD．it sang and laughed all the way home54．The writer gives examples in Paragraph 4 to ________.A．show his opinion B．lead into a discussionC．begin a story D．give an introduction55．The passage mainly tells us that ________.A．nobody loves us if we give nothing to othersB．a(chǎn) man who has everything is the happiest oneC．losing something may not be a bad thing sometimesD．we should always try our best to be perfect【答案】52．D53．A54．A55．C【分析】本文通過一個(gè)圓的故事告訴我們這個(gè)世界上沒有完美的事情，有的時(shí)候失去某些東西也不一定是壞事情。52．細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文中“It admired the flowers, chatted with worms and enjoyed the sunshin