Question

Teenagers at one German school are learning how to achieve happiness alongside other traditional subjects such as math and languages.

      The class sit in a circle with their eyes shut and they count from one to ten: someone starts, the next voice comes from the far right, a third from the other side.

      The aim of the game is to listen for an opportunity to shout out the number without clashing (沖突) with another voice or leaving a pause. On the first try, most of the young Germans try to be first, while a few are too shy to join in, but by the fifth time round, they develop a rhythm. The message: give other people space but also confidently claim your own. This is a requirement for social well-being.

     The Willy Hellpach School in Heidelberg is the first in the nation to develop a happiness course. It is intended for students preparing for university entrance exams.

      "The course isn't there to make you happy," Ernst Fritz -Schubert, the school principal, warned pupils, "but rather to help you discover the ways to become happy."

      Cooking a meal together is one of the class exercises. Improving body language under the guidance of two professional actresses is another.

     The course is taught for three periods a week. Despite the happy subject, the pupils themselves insist it is no laughing matter.

      "In the first period, we had to each say something positive about another member of the class and about ourselves. No laughing at people." said Fanny, 17.

      Research by the school shows it is not the first to start happiness classes: they also exist at some U. S. universities, mainly based on positive thinking, using findings from studies of depression.

1.What's the writing purpose of this passage?

A. To help students struggle against being sad.        

B. To describe all the traditional courses.

C. To arouse the readers' interest in happiness. 

D. To introduce the happiness course.

2.The game intended for the students in the 2nd paragraph is mainly to _________.

A. try their best to get opportunities for themselves

B. practice how to speak in front of people

C. equip them with required social skills

D. confidently speak out one's opinions

3.According to the passage, the happiness course is _________.

A. to help students discover the ways to happiness

B. to make all the students happy all the time

C. required to be taken by the first year students

D. created by the Willy Hellpach School

4.It can be inferred from the passage that _________.

A. the students can certainly become happy after the course

B. the students just took the course as a laughing matter

C. the students' self'-respect can also improve happiness

D. the students waste time learning something without value

 

Answer 1

1.D

2.C

3.A

4.C

【解析】

試題分析: 快樂是人的一種健康的心理情感。目前德國的一家學(xué)校給學(xué)生開設(shè)了一門如何去獲得快樂的課程。這門課程目的不是為了讓人們快樂，而是幫助孩子們?nèi)グl(fā)現(xiàn)如何才能獲得快樂。其中增加自信心，使用肢體語言都是課程的內(nèi)容。

1.D推理判斷題。文章開頭提出在德國的一家學(xué)校孩子們學(xué)習(xí)如何獲得快樂的課程，然后在下文中對此進(jìn)行了詳細(xì)的介紹，由此判斷文章的目的就是要介紹這門課程，故答案選D。

2.C推理判斷題。文章第二段介紹這種獲得快樂的方法，然后在第三段對此進(jìn)行細(xì)致的講解，根據(jù)This is a requirement for social well-being.可以判斷游戲的目的是讓孩子獲得一些社交技能，故答案選C。

3. A細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第一段和第五段內(nèi)容 "The course isn't there to make you happy," "but rather to help you discover the ways to become happy."可知這種課程是為了幫助學(xué)生發(fā)現(xiàn)快樂的方法，故答案選A。

4.】C推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二段可知不嘲笑人，給自己說積極鼓勵的話，也是課程的一方面，由此判斷增加學(xué)生自信也會提高他們快樂的感覺，故答案選C。

考點：考查社會教育類短文閱讀。