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考试日期：2012年7月28日

Title：What Makes Happiness

Question types：配对题(7题)

填空

单选主旨题(问这篇文章的aim是什么)

文章内容回顾：关于科学家研究大脑，也就是 happiness的。填词的第一个是说一个科学家的实验分三组，当一组在reading的时候另外一组被给了什么，然后depression是说，现在 日益增长的什么，题目和原文是同义替换，landscape的题目是在那个实验里，参与实验的人会被提供关于什么和动物的图片，原文是landscape 和海豚，neutral那个是问什么是既不开心也不伤心。

英文原文阅读：

What good is living to a ripe old age if you aren't able to be happy? In fact, happiness probably helps increase your life expectancy while making life worth living. But what makes people happy? That is a tough question that researchers have recently tackled.

Searching for Happiness

There are excellent database of large-scale surveys that have been collected over decades. These databases allow researchers to address questions such as "What makes us happy?" By combing over 30 years of data from multiple sources, researchers have found some trends that make people happy and unhappy. Collectively, the researchers at the University of Maryland, led by John P. Robinson and Steven Martin used data from more than 30,000 people from 1975-2006. They looked at general surveys and time-use studies (studies that look at how people spend their time). Here is what they found:

What Makes Us Happy

In short, happy people read and socialize more while unhappy people watch more TV. In fact, very happy people watched 20% less television than unhappy people (controlling for education, age, income and other factors). Interestingly, while people are watching TV, they seem happy but in the long-term their happiness is lower than the people who watch TV less. So TV seems to be a short-term pleasure that leads to a long-term discontent. Most everything else was the same between happy and unhappy people.

TV As An Addiction

The researchers go so far as to talk about TV as an addiction. People get their TV "fix" and feel good as long as the TV is on, but then they suffer from a kind of withdraw. Overall, their happiness is lessened by watching TV.

Time and Happiness

Another interesting finding was that unhappy people reported having more unwanted free time (51% to 19% of happy people). But they also reported feeling more rushed than happy people (35% to 23%). This is a contradiction - to both have more free time and feel more rushed. Personally, I don't understand what "unwanted free time" is. Free time sounds pretty darn desirable to me . . .

So How Do I Get Happy?

Well, that seems clear -- turn off the TV. What I think is happening is that your brain has trouble separating TV from real life. You go through your day subconsciously thinking about TV characters and their lives and are distracted from appreciating the actual life you live in. I know that after I watch TV or a movie, my mind is racing to process and understand all the characters and stories. I think about them as I fall asleep, I dream about them. I find myself slipping into their speech patterns. It makes my real life seem pale and uninteresting in comparison. When I don't watch TV for a while, my own life starts getting more interesting as there is "room" in my brain for all the tiny and wonderful details that make life interesting and, well, happy. Try a TV fast for a week and just see what happens.

题型难度分析：本篇文章还是以配对题作为主打题型，填空定位人名就能找到答案。最后一道主旨题也不难，A是讲开心为什么这么难，然后D是描述一个可以获得快乐的渠道，BC有一个是批判对于快乐的研究。

题型技巧分析：段落细节信息配对题

1. 无序

2. 注意有可能出现NB

3. 注意大量题目和原文的近义替换

段落细节配对难度较大，建议考生放在本篇文章所有题型的最后去做。做时注意切不可逐题去原文整篇文章搜寻答案，这样会导致文章来来回回看很多遍，耗时太长。

1. 划出所有题目的keywords, 同时考虑到有可能出现近义替换的词，有针对性的去原文寻找答案。比如：看到be conscious of立刻想到雅思高频近义替换是be aware of, 看到reproduce想到copy。

2. 某些题目可以对题目进行细致的分析，预测所在段落(平时通过精读多多熟悉文章结构安排，了解行文模式)

3. 做题时以文章为基准，每看一段，浏览题目中的keywords是否与其相关。

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