Ⅰ. 完形填空
"Money can't buy me love," a well-known rock band(摇滚乐队) once sang. But what about 1?
According to Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, money "can make you more 2 with life", reported Times Higher Education. The secret is that you need to know how 3 it. In their book Happy Money: The New Science of Smarter Spending, Dunn and Norton offer some tips for happy spending.
Buy 4 instead of things. A pair of new shoes may make you happy for a while, but the joy soon disappears. Spend your money 5 experiences—go on holiday or visit a museum. Such experiences will make you much 6 than owning material things and give you something to talk about when you are with your friends.
Make it a treat(犒赏). You love hamburgers, but if you have one every day, the enjoyable experience 7 boring. So, make a hamburger a special treat after a week of hard work.
Invest(投入) in 8. The combination(合并) of using time and money on someone else will bring you happiness. If you are going to buy your friend a bracelet(手镯) as a birthday gift, buy the beads(珠子) and make the bracelet 9. Your friend will be very happy, even moved.
Even with these tips, however, Dunn and Norton said that you shouldn't spend money buying happiness. "Happiness 10 be sought(寻觅), but it sneaks up (悄悄接近) on you. It's the effect of having something useful to do, someone to love and something to hope for."
1. A. health
B. friendship
C. time
D. happiness
2. A. pleased
B. please
C. pleasure
D. pleasant
3. A. spend
B. to spend
C. spending
D. spends
4. A. trips
B. shoes
C. experiences
D. friends
5. A. with
B. for
C. at
D. on
6. A. happier
B. happy
C. happiness
D. the happiest
7. A. became
B. will become
C. would become
D. is becoming
8. A. another
B. the other
C. other
D. others
9. A. yourself
B. yourselves
C. you
D. your
10. A. must
B. mustn't
C. can
D. can't
"Money can't buy me love," a well-known rock band(摇滚乐队) once sang. But what about 1?
According to Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton, money "can make you more 2 with life", reported Times Higher Education. The secret is that you need to know how 3 it. In their book Happy Money: The New Science of Smarter Spending, Dunn and Norton offer some tips for happy spending.
Buy 4 instead of things. A pair of new shoes may make you happy for a while, but the joy soon disappears. Spend your money 5 experiences—go on holiday or visit a museum. Such experiences will make you much 6 than owning material things and give you something to talk about when you are with your friends.
Make it a treat(犒赏). You love hamburgers, but if you have one every day, the enjoyable experience 7 boring. So, make a hamburger a special treat after a week of hard work.
Invest(投入) in 8. The combination(合并) of using time and money on someone else will bring you happiness. If you are going to buy your friend a bracelet(手镯) as a birthday gift, buy the beads(珠子) and make the bracelet 9. Your friend will be very happy, even moved.
Even with these tips, however, Dunn and Norton said that you shouldn't spend money buying happiness. "Happiness 10 be sought(寻觅), but it sneaks up (悄悄接近) on you. It's the effect of having something useful to do, someone to love and something to hope for."
1. A. health
B. friendship
C. time
D. happiness
2. A. pleased
B. please
C. pleasure
D. pleasant
3. A. spend
B. to spend
C. spending
D. spends
4. A. trips
B. shoes
C. experiences
D. friends
5. A. with
B. for
C. at
D. on
6. A. happier
B. happy
C. happiness
D. the happiest
7. A. became
B. will become
C. would become
D. is becoming
8. A. another
B. the other
C. other
D. others
9. A. yourself
B. yourselves
C. you
D. your
10. A. must
B. mustn't
C. can
D. can't
答案:
1~5 DABCD 6~10 ABDAD
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