山西省广灵县第一中学2013-2014学年高二下学期期中考试英语试题.docVIP

（考试时间120分钟，满分150分） I．阅读理解（共60分，每小题3分） （A） When asked about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, an absolute delight, which seems to get rarer the older we get. For kids, happiness has a magical quality.Their delight at winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved(毫无掩饰的)． In the teenage years the concept of happiness changes.Suddenly its conditional on such things as excitement, love and popularity.I can still recall the excitement of being invited to dance with the most attractive boy at the school party. In adulthood the things that bring deep joy—love, marriage, birth—also bring responsibility and the risk of loss.For adults, happiness is complicated(复杂的)． My definition of happiness is “the capacity for enjoyment”．The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are.Its easy to overlook the pleasure we get from the company of friends, the freedom to live where we please, and even good health. I experienced my little moments of pleasure yesterday.First I was overjoyed when I shut the last lunch－box and had the house to myself.Then I spent an uninterrupted morning writing, which I love.When the kids and my husband came home, I enjoyed their noise after the quiet of the day. Psychologists tell us that to be happy we need a mix of enjoyable leisure time and satisfying work.I dont think that my grandmother, who raised 14 children, had much of either.She did have a network of close friends and family, and maybe this is what satisfied her. We, however, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, have turned happiness into one more thing weve got to have.Were so self－conscious about our “right” to it that its making us miserable.So we chase it and equal it with wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things arent necessarily happier. Happiness isnt about what happens to us—its about how we see what happens to us.Its the skillful way of finding a positive for every