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新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版） Unit 6 Happiness and Pleasure Part I Exercises I. Reading for information 。 A. Reading to find main ideas 1. A 2. D B. Reading to find major details 3 . C 4. D C. Reading to find relevant facts 5. B 6. D II. Translation Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1. True happiness is such a rare commodity that the whole of the world is continuously seeking it and failing to find it. 真正的幸福是稀有之物，芸芸众生苦苦寻觅却求之不得。 2. Only a small percentage of all our wishes is fulfilled in spite of all our endeavors. 任凭我等费尽努力，能实现的愿望却少之又少。 3. Desire is a seed which grows fruits of unhappiness. 欲望是一颗催生不幸之果的种子。 4. Then why keep desiring constantly and exposing ourselves to unhappiness? 既然如此，人们为什么还要总是有所欲求，使自己感到不幸福呢？ 5. We do derive pleasure when our desires are fulfilled, but for every desire fulfilled there are numerous others that remain unfulfilled. 我们如愿以偿时，确实能得到快乐，但是满足了此愿，却满足不了其他诸多愿望。 III. Summary Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms. 1 The whole trouble starts when we want something. 2 Only a small percentage of all our wishes is fulfilled in spite of all our endeavors . 3 The frustration , of failing to fulfill most of our wishes, sets in. 4 We must explore the possibility of a life of no desires or minimum desires. 5 Are we ourselves always willing or able to fulfill the demands of others around us? 6 Almost all of the time we live inside our minds, either making plans to fulfill our present desires or ruing the desires which could not be fulfilled and in this process miss out all the pleasures lying all around us. 7 We have to consider carefully whether we are not paying too high a price, in terms of all the frustrations we experience as a result of failures, for a few fulfilled desires. 8 Whatever comes our way we should try to extract all the pleasure possible from it. Part II Reading for Pleasure Exercise Answer the following questions. 1 Why does the author feel fort