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1、阅读理解专练一 2016.12AEveryone agrees that all the creatures want happiness and are afraid of pain and grief. The question, however, is “What is real happiness?” The desire for happiness has no meaning without understanding the real nature of happiness.Generally, ordinary beings consider sensual（感觉的） plea
2、sures as happiness, and their actions are directed toward gaining these. According to them, searching for happiness means searching for pleasures of the senses. The question, “What is happiness?”, does not arise（出现） in their hearts, because in their hearts they think of a life full of sensual joys a
3、s a happy life.Some thinkers say, “Happiness does not lie in the objects of enjoyment; happiness or unhappiness lies in the imagination.” To prove their belief they give examples like the following one. A man has a two-storey house. When he thinks of those who have a house with three storeys or more
4、, he feels unhappy. When he thinks of those who have just a cottage, he feels happy. Such happiness does not lie in possessions（占有物）, but in the imagination. They advise people to take inspiration from those who have few possessions but are quite happy. If you only consider people wealthier than you
5、rself, you will always be unhappy.If you want to be happy, they say, look at the poor. But it is unreasonable to hold that happiness lies in the imagination. And it is inappropriate to think that someone is happy if he only imagines himself better than the poor and the unhappy. This attitude also sa
6、tisfies the sense of pride of possession. This can never be called happiness. Unless we find out where happiness lies, we cannot really become happy.Some ask people to do this or that, and say, “This way your desires will be satisfied. That way you will get what you want and become happy.” People ho
7、lding these views regard happiness as satisfaction of desires and unhappiness as denial(否定) of such satisfaction.71. What kind of life can make common people feel happy?A. Life without pain and grief. B. Life full of sensual pleasures. C. Life with desire for possessions. D. Life full of imagination
8、.72. The underlined word “cottage” in Paragraph 3 probably refers to _.A. a house in ones imagination B. a modern building C. a desired object D. a small house 73. The author may agree that _.A. by comparing themselves with the poor, people will feel happyB. people wont feel happy without a desire f
9、or happinessC. possessing wealth may lead to a sense of prideD. people have to experience pain and grief before finding happinessBEight-year-old Bethany and seven-year-old Eliza are having a great time jumping around in the orchard （果园）of their home in a village near Penrith. They can play any time
10、they like because they dont go to school. Instead, they are educated at home by their parents, Paul and Veronika Robinson. But they dont have lessons, have never used a timetable and learn only what and when they want to learn.I want my kids to have freedom in their childhood, not spend it in an ins
11、titution, says 37-year-old Veronika, School is all about control and following the rules. Veronika and her 56-year-old husband Paul have never experienced the daily rush to get dressed and out of the door that is common in most households with school-aged children. We get up at our leisure - usually
12、 around 8:30, says Veronika. We might visit a friend, or go to the library, and on Tuesdays we shop at the market. In summer, we spend most of our time outside and the girls entertain themselves a lot.New research due to be published this spring reveals a very different picture of Britains home educ
13、ators. Out of 297 families, 184 said that they never use a timetable, says Mike Fortune-Wood of Home Education UK. Ninety per cent never or rarely use textbooks, and nearly all said that happiness, contentment and self-fulfillment were more important than academic achievement. Only 15% felt that pla
14、nning what to learn was important.So far, so good. But what, you might ask, are the children actually learning?It wasnt important to me that the girls could read by a certain age, but they both picked it up for themselves at around seven, says Robinson. Weighing cooking ingredients uses maths, and m
15、aking a shopping list teaches them to write. Observing five hens has taught the girls about survival of the fittest. But what about when the children grow up? Can they go to university? The home educators answer is they can if they want to. There are a variety of routes into higher education, but pr
16、obably the most common is to join a local college. This is what Gus Harris-Reid has done. I was educated at home all my life. Id never had a lesson or been inside a classroom until I started GCSEs, says the 18-year-old. Im now studying for 4 A-levels at Exeter College. Ive had no problem with the work or with fitting in. When asked to reflect on his experience of home education, his considered response is, Like a
