a lifetime.
What about having kids? While children, on their own, don't appear to raise the happiness level (they actually tend to slightly lower the happiness of a marriage), studies suggest that children arc almost always part of an overall lifestyle of happiness, which is likely to include such things as marriage and religion. Charity
We've all heard that money doesn't buy happiness, and that’s certainly true. But there is one way to get it: Give money away. The evidence is clear that gifts to charitable organizations and other worthy causes bring substantial life satisfaction to the givers. If you want $50 in authentic happiness today Just donate it to a favorite charity.
People who give money to charity are 43 percent more likely than nongivers to say they're very happy. Volunteers are 42 percent more likely to be very happy than nonvolunteers. It doesn’t matter whether the gifts of money go to churches or concerts; religious giving and unreligious giving leave people equally happy, and far happier than people who don't give. Even donating blood, an especially personal kind of giving, improves our attitude.
Fundamentally, the more people give, the happier they get. Freedom
In fact, freedom and happiness are intimately related: People who consider themselves free are a lot happier than those who don't. In 2000 the General Social Survey revealed that people who personally feel \” were twice as likely as those who don't to say they’re very happy about their lives.
Not all types of freedom are the same in terms of happiness, however. Researchers have shown that economic freedom brings happiness, as does political and religious freedom. On the other hand, moral freedom ----a lack of constraints on behavior ----does not. People who feel they have unlimited moral choices in their lives when it comes to matters of sex or drugs, for example, tend to be unhappier than those who do not feel they have so many choices in life.
Lessons for America
The data tell us that what matters most for happiness is not having a lot of things but having healthy values. Without these values，our jobs and our economy will bring us joyless riches. The
facts can help remind us of what we should be paying attention to, as individuals and as families, if we want to be happy. Our happiness is simply too important to us -- and to America -- to do anything less.
will probably bring about overall happiness?
A)To be satisfied with one's job. B) To earn a lot of money. C) To work for big companies. D) To gain a college degree. , men in marriage _____ than women in marriage. A) are probably under greater pressure B) are more inclined to feel they are happy C) are less likely to state they arc happy D) are contributing more to the family
to the author, in what way can money bring happiness? A) Buy anything you want. B) Give your money away. C) Pay to listen to a concert. D) Own a large amount of it. rarely brings in happiness?
A) Religious freedom. B) Economic freedom. C) Political freedom. D) Moral freedom.
Passage two
Reading is thought to be a kind of conversation between the reader and the text. The reader puts questions, as it were, to the text and gels answers. In the light of these he puts further questions, and so on.
For most of the time this “conversation” goes on below the level of consciousness. At times,
however, we become aware of it. This is usually when we arc running into difficulties, when
mismatch is occurring between expectations and meaning. When successful matching is being experienced, our questioning of the text continues at the unconscious level.
Different people converse with the text differently. Some stay very close to the words on the page, others take off imaginatively from the words, interpreting, criticizing, analyzing and examining. The former represents a kind of comprehension which is written in the text. The latter represents higher levels of comprehension. The
balance between these is important, especially for advanced readers.
There is another conversation which from our point of view is equally important, and that is to do not with what is read but with how it is read. We call this a “process”conversation as opposed to a “content” conversation. It is concerned not with meaning but with the strategies we employ in reading. If we are an advanced reader our ability to hold a process conversation with a text is usually pretty well developed. Not so our ability to hold a content conversation. It is precisely this kind of conversation that is of importance when we are seeking to develop our reading to meet the new demands being placed upon us by studying at a higher level. to the author, when will our reading become conscious?
A)When the readers expectations match with what is said in the text.
B)When the reader has trouble understanding what the author says. C)When the reader asks tough questions and gets proper answers. D)When the reader understands a text with no difficulties. a lower level of comprehension, readers tend to_____.
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