Question

Perhaps you think you could easily add to your hap?piness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue (問題)is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires―not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.

Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty ca?pacities (育 g 力) to enjoy life. Most people are already swamped(淹沒)with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut(茅屋).

Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅)，a royal palace. Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm (熱情)adds a room. Here are several rooms your house of life should have.

Art should be a desire for you to develop simply be?cause the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.

Literature* classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go to?wards making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.

Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be ab?sent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.

Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more hu?man* and your house of life would be better supported against the bad days, if you could, and did, play a bit.

Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.

1.    The author intends to tell us that .

A.    true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means

B.    big houses are people's most valued possessions

C.    big houses can in a sense bring richness of life

D.    true happiness comes from spiritual riches

2.    The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that .

A.    however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied

B.    however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor

C.    though their house is big, they prefer a simple life

D.  though their house is big, it seems to be a cage

3.    It can be learned from the passage that .

A.    more money brings more happiness

B.    art is needed to make your house beautiful

C.    literature can enrich your spiritual life

D.    sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness

4.    What would be the best title for the passage?

A.    House of life

B.    Secret of wealth

C.    Rest and refreshment

D.    Interest and enthusiasm

Answer 1

【文章大意】這篇文章論證了精神富有與真正快樂之間的關(guān)系。有些人物質(zhì)上富足，精神上卻很貧窮。文學(xué)藝術(shù)等可以豐富人們的精神生活，真正的快樂來自于精神的富有。

D推理判斷題。根據(jù)全文最后一句話"Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding."可知，真正的快樂來自于精神的富有。選D項(xiàng)。

B 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第二段中"Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities(能力)to enjoy life."及后面的描述可知，人們被淹沒在物質(zhì)的追求中，而缺少精神家園建

設(shè)。選B項(xiàng)。

C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第五段"Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go towards making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library."可知，文學(xué)可以豐富人的精神生活，故選C項(xiàng)。

A主旨大意題。文章多次提到了房子，且這篇文章論證了精神富有與真正快樂之間的關(guān)系，所以A項(xiàng)最合適。