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二、阅读理解
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Money can't buy you happiness? Well, what if it could? Not by making it or spending it, but by giving it away.

In an experiment(实验) in Switzerland, researchers gave each of the 50 volunteers 20 yuan every week for four weeks and asked half of the volunteers to spend the money on themselves and write down how they spent the money. But researchers asked the other half to spend the money on another person.

After that, all 50 volunteers did the same task in a laboratory(实验室). They needed to think of a person who they would like to give money to. Then they had to decide how much money, from 3 yuan to 20 yuan, they wanted to give away. While the volunteers thought about this, researchers studied their brain activity using an MRI machine.

The results showed two things. First, the 25 volunteers who gave their money to others during the four weeks were more generous and chose to give more money to others in the laboratory task. Second, those same people were much happier than the people who once spent the money on themselves. In the experiment, the volunteers must give away money.

But would you like to do this in your daily life? Can you really make yourself happy by giving? The answer is yes, but remember to start small. You can start by giving £1 to a homeless person. Little by little, you can try to change your habits so you save money to give away. For example, stop buying something that you don't really need. Then you can save some money and give it to people in need.

Learning to give away money is all about changing the way you behave. It's about living with less money and being more generous. And this will make you happy.
( )1. What did the researchers ask the volunteers to decide in the laboratory?
A. Who did the same task in a laboratory.
B. How they wanted to spend their money.
C. If they wanted to join the experiment.
D. How much money they would like to give away.
( )2. What does the underlined word “this” in Paragraph 5 refer to?
A. Being volunteers. B. Giving away money.
C. Changing your habits. D. Making yourself happy.
( )3. Which of the following shows the structure(结构) of the passage?
A. ①②/③④⑤⑥ B. ①/②③④/⑤⑥
C. ①②/③④⑤/⑥ D. ①/②③/④⑤⑥
( )4. What's the best title for the passage?
A. “Buy” happiness? B. “Sell” happiness?
C. How to save money? D. How to be a generous person?

答案： 答案速递　阅读理解1~4DBBA
[文章大意]本文是一篇说明文，主要通过阐述瑞士的一项实验，表明给予他人可以让人更慷慨、更快乐。
1. D 细节理解题。根据第三段“they had to decide how much money, from 3 yuan to 20 yuan, they wanted to give away”可知，研究者让志愿者们决定捐多少钱给别人，故选D。
2. B 代词指代题。根据第四段“the volunteers must give away money”可知，指示代词“this”指代前文提到的捐钱的事情，故选B。
3. B 篇章结构题。根据开头第一段“Money can't buy you happiness? Well, what if it could? Not by making it or spending it, but by giving it away.”可知，作者采用设问法导入文章主题；二、三、四段主要介绍了一项实验；根据第五段“But would you like to do this in your daily life? Can you really make yourself happy by giving? The answer is yes, but remember to start small.”和第六段“Learning to give away money is all about changing the way you behave ...”可知，第五段和第六段主要是总结出的结论，从而与开头文章主题相呼应，因此文章的结构应是①/②③④/⑤⑥，故选B。
4. A 标题归纳题。根据第一段“Money can't buy you happiness? Well, what if it could? Not by making it or spending it, but by giving it away.”可知，文章主要的主题是金钱能够“买”来快乐，即给予他人让人感到快乐，故选A。