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aising 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 truly 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 frees us from envy: we now understand that all those rich and famous people we were so sure are happy because they are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all. 63. What is the passage mainly about? A. Fun and happiness. B. Success and satisfaction. C. Marriage and mitment. D. Entertainment and responsibility. 64. The author probably agrees that ____. A. fun creates long lasting satisfaction B. long standing fun may lead to happiness C. fun is shortlived while happiness is longlasting D. fun provides enjoyment while pain leads to happiness 65. What does the author think of marriage? A. It ends in pain. B. It means mitment. C. It affords greater fun. D. It leads to raising children. 66. If one gets the real meaning of happiness, he ____. A. will start a business B. won39。t accept the truth that his son was disabled 62. The author wrote the passage to ____. A. remember his father B. encourage disabled children C. show the difficulty the disabled face D. give advice to the parents of disabled children C I live in the land of Disney, Hollywood and year round sun. You may think People ,n such an attractive, fun filled place are happier than others. If so you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness. Many intelligent people still think fun equals happiness. 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 deep, longlasting emotion. Going to an amusement park or a ball game, watching a movie or television are fun activities that help us relax, temporally 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. They have constant access to exciting parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells happiness But in memoir( 回憶錄 ) after memoir, they expose Ac unhappiness hidden beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages and loneliness. Ask a bachelor 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 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 whenever they want and sleep as late as they want. Couples with babies are lucky to get a whole night39。t give up hope easily B. believed his son was a normal child C. blamed the doctors for his son39。t think his father should be so strict with him. 61. Paragraph 3 suggests that the author39。s forceps. C. An accident in a game. D. Shrunken and twisted muscles. 60. What do we learn from the passage? A. The author has a talent for boxing. B. The author achieved a lot thanks to his father39。 m no longer disabled. 59. What caused the author39。 s Day, like every Father39。 s love guaranteed I walked and more. In high school, I became a football star. In 1997, a brain surgeon in San Jose told me I didn’t t have cerebral palsy after all. He explained how and where the doctor39。t stop there. For my 13th birthday, he threw me a special party. When everybody was gone, he brought me to open a large box, it was aset of boxing gloves. We put them on. My dad kept on beating me mercilessly. Each time I tried to get up, leather kissed my nose, eyes and jaw. I begged him to stop. He said he beat me to get me ready for the tough world. That same year, I was the only kid in my neighborhood that wasn39。 s was going to be disabled. Every morning before breakfast and every evening before bed, my dad placed me on the bedroom floor to exercise my right leg. The muscles were shrunk and twisted together. Back and forth up and down, my dad pushed and pulled the muscles into shape. But my dad39。 t want is kids going down that path, he said. Nearly 20% of Americans smoke and tobacco use kills about 440,000 people a year in the United States due to cancer, heart disease, and other serious diseases. 56. The new law makes life difficult for . A. Obama B. tobacco industry C. White House D. US Food and Drug Administration 57. What do we know about Obama? A. He no longer smokes. B. He still smokes as usual. C. He began to smoke at eighteen. D. He is trying hard to give up smoking. 58. According to the passage, Obama is most concerned about . A. children B. officials C. his family D. businessmen B Thanks a Million, Dad I was born disabled. A difficult birth, feet first, my head stuck. By my first birthday, I couldn39。 s something you continually struggle with, which is exactly why the law is so important. The new law is not about me, it39。 A Obama Still Smokes in Secret US President Barack Obama has just made life more difficult for cigarette makers. He has just signed a law that will set tough new rules for the tobacco industry. The new law gives the US Food and Drug Administration the power to strictly limit the making and