2016南京市中考英语阅读理解选编(4份打包)及答案.docVIP

最大最全最精的教育资源网 2016 南京市中考英语二轮阅读理解精练及答案 【先睹为快】 第一篇 【2016 中考模拟】阅读下列材料，从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳的答案。 Does money make people happier? Studies show that it does－when people at the poverty level are suddenly paid more. Other studies also show that people who lose the money they are used to having become very unhappy. But the most important thing seems to be that people are happiest when they make more than other people. Perhaps one secret of happiness is just to think about people who don ’t haasvemuch money as you. Sadly, however, the opposite is also true. When you compare yourself to friends and neighbors who have higher incomes, this may make you unhappy. Poor people need enough food to feed themselves but what happens when people suddenly become very rich? This is the case in China right now where people have become much better off, but can only have one child. The result is an army of “little emperors ”: fat, spoiled cmh iel darseunr.eAs (衡ch量ild ) happiness in love, not food, and there ’s nothing good about overfeeding a child. Richard Layard, di rector of the London School of Economics, says, “The因s素ix k)enyofwacstcoiresn( tifically established to affect(影响 ) happiness most are: mental health, satisfying and secure(安定的 ) work, a secure and loving private life, a safe community, freedom, and moral values ” It is quite interesting that only one of these do with making money. People who realize this think that it is better to be paid in something other than money, for example, time. Many people are now starting to take time off in different ways. Rather than saving up their vacations for a rushed trip once a year, people are taking a day or so here and there to have smaller, quieter vacations. In some cases, people are going in the other direction and taking vacations of several months or even a year. On these vacations, they don generally just lie on a beach. Instead, they might volunteer in another country or learn a new skill like a foreign language. 81. The passage is