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Many years ago, Dr Cronin occasionally wrote an unusual treatment for some of his patients who were feeling down. He would insist that for six weeks the pa?tients say "Thank you" for every kindness and he had a great cure rate.

Everyone gets down at times, and sharpening your sense of gratitude(感激)can make a difference. I have observed again and again that people's hap?piness is not usually found in getting what they want; it comes from apprecia?ting what they have.

Writer Arthur Gordon used to tell about asking a doctor friend for the name of the most effective treatment he knew. "Well, I'll tell you," his friend said. "A colleague of mine once had a woman patient who suffered from de?pression. The usual prescription didn't seem to help."

One day this doctor sent a small package to the woman's home. "I want you to take what's in this package," he said, "and spend ten minutes every?day looking through it at some objects in this room.，，

In the package there was a magnifying glass(放大鏡).She began looking at her sofa. She was amazed at what she saw. Then she examined a flower picked from her garden and even her own skin. She was amazed at the brand new world opening up before her eyes.

As this woman gazed at her world through a magnifying glass, she saw, in a completely different way, what had been around her all along. Her sense of wonder gave way to another more powerful emotion―gratitude. The doctor said that her experience with the glass was the turning point of her illness. She began to appreciate what she had and get well.

Do you practise gratitude? 1 think you'll discover that it is a great way to keep happy.

1.Why does the author mention Dr Cronin in the beginning?

    A.     To show that Dr Cronin was a great doctor.

B.     To introduce what the author wants to talk about.

C.     To introduce some good ways of recovering from illness.

D.     To show his attitude towards Dr Cronin's unusual treatment.

2.According to the passage, the woman was required to_________________ .

   A.     play with her furniture as often as she could

B.     look at the world through a magnifying glass

C.     look for some objects she had lost in her house

D.     spend ten minutes taking exercise every day

3.What did the doctor probably want the woman to understand?

   A.     Happiness comes from appreciating what we have.

B.     Our life will be ruined if we are too careful.

C.     The magnifying glass will open a brand new world to us.

D.     Our life will become colourful with the help of the magnifying glass.

4. What does the underlined word " prescription" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?

A. Paper.             B. Plan.             C.  Treatment.      D. Award

5. According to the passage, practising gratitude is a good way of

A.   calming down ourselves                 B. living a richer life

C.  curing some deadly diseases             D. curing some mental problems

Answer 1

 [文章大意]本文是一篇夾敘夾議文。作者通過一個故事教我們要學會感激。通過感激身邊的人和事，我們可以獲得快樂，更好地生活。

1.B推理判斷題。從文章的內容可知，作者通過列舉Cronin 醫(yī)生特殊的處方來引出文章的主題一一快樂來自于感激我們所擁有的東西。所以答案為B項.

2.B細節(jié)理解題。根據文章第四段最后一句和文章第五段的''She was amazed at the brand new world opening up before her eyes."這兩句話可知，醫(yī)生要求這位女士每天花十分鐘時間用放大鏡觀察生活中的東西，從而改變對生活的態(tài)度， 所以答案為B項。

3. A推理判斷題。從第五、六段的內容可知，醫(yī)生讓那位女士明白了這樣一個道理:生活中處處都有新鮮而美好的事情，只要以另外一種心態(tài)去觀察，就會有所發(fā)現(xiàn)。學會感激自己所擁有的，就會獲得快樂。所以答案為A項。

4. C 詞義猜測題。根據文章第三段的"…asking a doctor friend for the name of the most effective treatment he knew."可猜測，該詞意為"處理（治療）方法，藥方"，所以答案為c項。

5.D推理判斷題。從文章的內容可知，學會感激生活可以幫助治療那些患抑郁癥的病人，因此答案為D項。