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2014-2015学年度???学校12月月考卷 第I卷（选择题） 一、单项选择 二、完形填空 三、阅读理解  第II卷（非选择题） Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually ______every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we ______ this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were ______. When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is. Many people think happiness is genetic. Thats only half the story, because the average person does not fight their ______. When we stop studying the average and begin ______ positive outliers(离群值) -- people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence -- a ______ different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and ______. ______, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its finite resources as you process the world. If you scan for the ______ first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded（嵌入） in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an ______advantage. I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on Happiness Leads to Profits. Based on my article called Positive Intelligence and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I ______ our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a ______ and busy workforce. A decade of research in the business world ______ that happiness raises nearly every business and educational ______: increasing sales by 37%， productivity by 31%， and ______ on tasks by 19%， as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements. 1．A. rises B. arises C. raises D. realizes 2．A. think B. miss C. know D. understand 3．A. usual B. single C. unique D. average 4．A. bodies B. faces C. genes D. fates 5．A. rese