Question

Do you want to live with a strong sense of peacefulness, happiness, goodness, and self-respect? The collection of happiness actions broadly categorized as “honor” help you create this life of good feelings.

Here is an example to show how honorable actions create happiness.

Say a store clerk fails to charge us for an item. If we keep silent, and profit from the clerk’s mistake, we would drive home with a sense of mean excitement. Later we might tell our family of friends about our good fortune. On the other hand, if we tell the clerk about the uncharged item, the clerk would be grateful and thank us for our honesty. We would leave the store with a quiet sense of honor that we might never share with another soul.

Then, what is it to do with our sense of happiness?

In the first case, where we don’t tell the clerk, a couple of things would happen. Deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. In the process, we would lose some peace of mind and self-respect. We would also demonstrate that we cannot be trusted, since we advertise our dishonor by telling our family and friends. We damage our own reputations by telling others. In contrast, bringing the error to the clerk’s attention causes different things to happen. Immediately the clerk knows us to be honorable. Upon leaving the store, we feel honorable and our self-respect is increased. Whenever we take honorable action we gain the deep internal rewards of goodness and a sense of nobility.

There is a beautiful positive cycle that is created by living a life of honorable actions. Honorable thoughts lead to honorable actions. Honorable actions lead us to a happier existence. And it’s easy to think and act honorably again when we’re happy. While the positive cycle can be difficult to start, once it’s started ,it’s easy to continue. Keeping on doing good deeds brings us peace of mind, which is important for our happiness.

1.According to the passage, the positive action in the example contributes to our ______.

A．self-respect                           B．financial rewards

C．advertising ability                       D．friendly relationship

2.The author thinks that keeping silent about the uncharged item is equal to ______.

A．lying             B．stealing           C．cheating          D．advertising

3.The underlined phrase “bringing the error to the clerk’s attention” means ______.

A．telling the truth to the clerk

B．offering advice to the clerk

C．asking the clerk to be more attentive

D．reminding the clerk of the charged item

4.How will we feel if we let the clerk know her mistake?

A．We’ll be very excited.

B．We’ll feel unfortunate.

C．We’ll have a sense of honor.

D．We’ll feel sorry for the clerk.

5.Which of the following can be the best title of this passage?

A．How to Live Truthfully

B．Importance of Peacefulness

C．Ways of Gaining Self-respect

D．Happiness through Honorable Actions

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.A

2.B

3.A

4.C

5.D

【解析】

試題分析：本文是篇議論文，文章指出過高尚的生活，造就美好的正循環(huán)生活。高尚思想造就高尚行為，高尚行為造就幸福的存在。有了幸福感，再次思想高尚，行為得體就很容易。盡管正循環(huán)開始難，而一旦開始了，就容易持續(xù)下去。不斷做好事給我們以心靈的寧靜，這對幸福非常重要。

1.細節(jié)題，根據文章例子中所講的positive action 有助于什么？答案可在第1段和第2段中找到，positive actions=文中提到的honorable actions，BCD所提及的內容均未在第1，2段中出現(xiàn)，排除法，只有A，而self-respect確實在第一段的第一句話就提到過，故選A。

2.細節(jié)題，作者認為對沒有收費的東西，保持沉默不告訴收銀員相當于…?第5段開始的部分就圍繞這一點展開論述，用了 deep down inside we would know ourselves as a type of thief. ，故選B。

3.詞匯語義題，這種題目20題中也就會出現(xiàn)1-2題，考查語境下來的單詞，短語或句子的理解。在第5段中，用了對比法，先講如果不告訴收銀員意味著什么，如果告訴收銀員意味著什么，中間用了in contrast 來連接，形成對比，bring…to…，也就是答案A telling the truth to the clerk’s attention。故選A。

4.細節(jié)題，還是對第5段的內容進行提問，如果告訴收銀員，我們會有什么感覺，倒數第2句話說到 we feel honorable and our respect is increased.故選C。

5.主旨題，問文章的標題應該是哪個，也就是問文章主題，happiness和honorable 是文章中出現(xiàn)頻率比較高的詞，也就是標題happiness through honorable，故選D。

考點：議論文閱讀理解。

點評：這篇文章非常簡單，先看問題，再帶著問題仔細閱讀短文，理解了全文內容，很容易選出正確答案。閱讀注意事項：1、關注連詞，分析文章邏輯結構。2、聚焦代詞，明辨指代關系。3、抓住關鍵詞語，利用平行結構、上下文（包括定義、釋義、舉例、對比、標點）進行判斷與推理。4、了解一些構詞法，從詞根的特殊含義入手。