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One effective way of destroying happiness is to lookat something and focus on even the smallest fault. It's like looking at thetiled(铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the spacewhere one tile is 1. .

Once I heard a bald(秃头的)man said. “Whenever I enter a room,  2.  Isee is hair." Once you've   3. what yourmissing tile is, explore whether getting it will   4.  makeyou happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different  5.  ,or forget about it and  6.  the tiles in yourlife that are not missing.

We all know people who have had a relatively  7.  life,yet are often unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but  8.  remainhappy.

The first  9.  isgratitude. All happy people are  10. . Ungratefulpeople cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to  11.  ,but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret, is 12. thathappiness is a byproduct(副产品) of something else. The most obvious 13. arethose pursuits(追求) that give our lives purpose—anything 14. studyinginsects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness weare  15. to experience.

Finally, the belief that something permanent goesbeyond us and that our  16.  has some largermeaning can help us to feel happier. We   17. aspiritual faith, or a philosophy of life. Whatever your philosophy, it should 18.  thistruth: if you choose to find the 19. in every situation, youwill be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. Aswith happiness itself, this is  20.   yourdecision to make.

21.               A．different       B．missing         C．short D．broken

22.               A．nothing        B．none          C．all    D．anything

23.               A．determined     B．predicted       C．assumed   D．imagined

24.               A．completely      B．naturally        C．hopefully  D．really

25.               A．tile            B．brick           C．ceiling D．house

26.               A．look on         B．focus on        C．count on  D．decide on

27.               A．peaceful        B．difficult         C．easy  D．ordinary

28.               A．certainly        B．merely         C．hardly D．generally

29.               A．secret         B．factor          C．rule  D．key

30.               A．wealthy        B．grateful        C．proud D．generous

31.               A．upset          B．quarrel         C．complain  D．depress

32.               A．admitted       B．assuming       C．proving   D．realizing

33.               A．sources        B．results         C．answers   D．goals

34.               A．among         B．from           C．through   D．for

35.               A．probable       B．possible        C．likely D．capable

36.               A．value          B．destination      C．survival   D．existence

37.               A．need          B．lack           C．demand   D．expect

38.               A．involve         B．include         C．absorb    D．mean

39.               A．worst          B．best           C．positive   D．negative

40.               A．absolutely      B．totally          C．exactly    D．Largely

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1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

5.A

6.B

7.C

8.D

9.A

10.B

11.C

12.D

13.A

14.B

15.C

16.D

17.A

18.B

19.C

20.D

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