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PART Ⅰ Cloze (20 points)
Directions: Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank.
During the mid–1980s, my family and I spent a (1)_____ year in the historic town of St. Andrews, Scotland. Comparing life there with life in America, we were impressed by a (2)_____ disconnection between national wealth and well-being. To most Americans, Scottish life would have seemed (3)_____. Incomes were about half that in the U.S. Among families in the Kingdom of Fife surrounding St. Andrews, 44 percent did not own a car, and we never met a family that owned two. Central heating in this place (4)_____ south of Iceland was, at that time, still a luxury.
In hundreds of conversations during our year there and during three half summer stays since, we (5)_____ notice that, (6)_____ their simpler living, the Scots appeared (7)_____ joyful than Americans. We heard complaints about Margaret Thatcher, but never about being underpaid or unable to afford wants.
Within any country, such as our own, are rich people happier? In poor countries, being relatively well off does make (8)_____ somewhat better well off. But in affluent countries, where nearly everyone can afford life’s necessities, increasing affluence matters (9)_____ little. In the U.S., Canada, and Europe, the correlation between income and happiness is, as University of Michigan researcher noted in a 1980s 16–nation study, “virtually (10)_____”. Happiness is lower (11)_____ the very poor. But
once comfortable, more money provides diminishing returns.
Even very rich people are only slightly happier than average. With net worth all (12)_____ $100 million, providing (13)_____ money to buy things they don’t need and hardly care about, 4 in 5 of the 49 people responding to survey agreed that “Money c an increase or decrease happiness, depending on how it is used”. And some were indeed unhappy. One fabulously (14)_____ man said he could never remember being happy. One woman reported that money (15)_____misery caused by her children’s problems.
At the ot her end of life’s circumstances are most victims of disabling tragedies. Yet, remarkably, most eventually recover a near-normal level of day-to-day happiness. Thus, university students who must cope with disabilities are (16)_____ able-bodied students to report themselves happy, and their friends agree with their self-perceptions.
We have (17)_____ the American dream of achieved wealth and well-being by comparing rich and unrich countries, and rich and unrich people. That leaves the final question: Over time, does happiness rise with affluence?
Typically not. Lottery winners appear to gain but a temporary jolt of joy from their winnings. On a small scale, a jump in our income can boost our morale, for a while. But in the long run, neither an ice cream cone nor a new car nor becoming rich and famous produces the same feelings of delight that it initially (18)_____ . Happiness is not the result of being rich, but a (19)_____ consequence of having recently become richer. Wealth, it therefore seems, is like health: Although its utter
absence can breed misery, having it does not guarantee happiness. Happiness is (20)_____tter of getting what we want than of wanting what we have.
1. A. underpaid
B. prosperous
C. affluent
D. sabbatical
2. A. assumed
B. seeming
C. seemed
D. seemly
3. A. precarious
B. imprudent
C. spartan
D. gallant
4. A. not far
B. as far as
C. far from
D. far to
5. A. virtually
B. remarkably
C. ideally
D. repeatedly
6. A. forasmuch
B. despite
C. considering
D. inasmuch
7. A. no less
B. less
C. more
D. no more
8. A. for
B. up
C. out
D. over
9. A. scarely
B. intentionally
C. surprisingly
D. provisionally
10. A. diminishing
B. negligible
C. tripled
D. perceivable
11. A. in
B. on
C. upon
D. among
12. A. exceeded
B. exceeding
C. excess
D. excessive
13. A. utter
B. messy
C. greedy
D. ample
14. A. prosperous
B. triumphant
C. jubilant
D. victorious
15. A. could undo
B. could intensify
C. could not undo
D. could not intensify
16. A. as plausible as
B. not as plausible as
C. as likely as
D. not as likely as
17. A. ventilated
B. deliberated
C. speculated
D. scrutinized
18. A. does
B. did
C. has done
D. is
19. A. new
B. favorite
C. temporary
D. normal
20. A. more
B. less
C. better
D. worse
【答案与解析】
1. D 根据句意，在二十世纪八十年代中期我和家人在苏格兰的一个历史小镇度过了一年的
假期。underpaid所得报酬过低的。affluent富裕的。作者没有提到报酬高低的问题。
sabbatical（指假期）给大学教师的（用于旅行、研究等）。故选D。
2. B 根据句意，我们印象特别深的是，国家的富裕和人民的康乐似乎毫无联系。因此此处
应选择表示“似乎的”的选项，并且能修饰名词。故选B。seemly得体的；适当的。
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