【正文】 tinental air services by making these areas as light as day. Present flying routes will be pletely changed, for the Antarctic refueling bases will make flights from Australia to South America paratively easy over the 5,000 miles journey. The climate is not likely to offer an insuperable problem, for the explorer Admiral Byrd has shown that the climate is possible even for men pletely untrained for expeditions into those frozen wastes. Some of his parties were men who had never seen snow before, and yet he records that they survived the rigors of the Antarctic climate fortably, so that, provided that the appropriate installations are made, we may assume that human beings from all countries could live there safely. Byrd even affirms that it is probably the most healthy climate in the world, for the intense cold of thousands of years has sterilize this continent, and rendered it absolutely germfree, with the consequences that ordinary and extraordinary sickness and diseases from which man suffers in other zones with different climates are here utterly unknown. There exist no problems of conservation and preservation of food supplies, for the latter keep indefinitely without any signs of deterioration。 without others we would soon die. Tiny amounts of some hormones can modify moods and actions, our inclination to eat or drink, our aggressiveness or submissiveness, and our reproductive and parental behavior. And hormones do more than influence adult behavior。 王長喜 六級考試標準閱讀 160 篇 第一篇 (Unit one Passage 1) I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and yearround sun. You may think people in such a glamorous, funfilled place are happier than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still equate happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or nothing in mon. Fun is what we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion. Going to an amusement park or ball game, watching a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, temporarily fet our problems and maybe even laugh. But they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends. I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access to glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “ happiness”. But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children and profound loneliness. Ask a bachelor why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he’s honest, he will tell you that he is afraid of making a mitment. For mitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure and excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features. Similarly, couples that choose not to have children are deciding in favor of painless fun over painful happiness. They can dine out ever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a threeday vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations we can ever e to. 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 rich and glamorous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. of the following is true? creates longlasting satisfaction. provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness. is enduring whereas fun is shortlived. that is longstanding may lead to happiness. the author, Hollywood stars all have an important role to play that is to __. memoir after memoir about their happiness. the public that happiness has nothing to do with fun. people how to enjoy their lives. happiness to the public instead of going to glamorous parties. the author’s opinion, marriage___. greater fun. to raising children. mitment. in pain. having infant children___. lucky since they can have a whole night’s sleep. fun in tucking them into bed at night. more time to play and joke with them. happiness from their endeavor. one get the meaning of the true sense of happiness, he will__. playing games and joking with others. the best use of his time increasing happiness. a free hand to money. himself with his family. 第一篇答案： CBCDB 第二篇 (Unit one Passage 2) Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the ine to support their families, while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children. These roles were firmly fixed for most people, and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles. But by the middle of this century, men’s and women’s roles were being less firmly fixed. In the 1950s, economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture. The people involved in this movement did not value the middleclass American goals. The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare, men began to share childraising tasks with