How often one hears children wishing they were grown-ups, and old people wishing they were young again. Each age has its pleasures and its pains, and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.
Childhood is a time when there are few responsibilities to make life difficult. If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do. It is impossible that he will ever again in his life be given so much without having to do anything in return. What’s more, life is always giving new things to the child--- things that have lost their interest for older people because they are too well-known. But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do; he is repeatedly being told not do something or being punished for what he has wrongly done.
When a young man starts to earn his own living, he can no longer expect others to pay for his food, his clothes, and his room, but has to work if he wants to live comfortably. If he spends most of his time playing about in the way he used to as a child, he will go hungry. And if he breaks the laws of society as he used to break the laws of his parents, he may go to prison. If, however, he worked hard, keeps out of trouble and has good health, he can have the greatest happiness of building up for himself his own position in society.
小題1:What is the happiest person according to the passage?
A．A child who can do whatever he likes.
B．An old person who lives in a comfortable life.
C．A grown-up who no longer expects other to pay for him.
D．A person who never wastes his time in his whole life.
小題2:What pains does a child have?
A．He has few responsibilities to make life difficult.
B．He doesn’t have to do anything in return.
C．He is not so free to do what he wishes to do.
D．He has to work if he wants to live comfortably.
小題3:Which of the following is true, according to the second paragraph?
A．Life for a child is fairly easy.
B．A child is always loved whatever he does.
C．If much is given to a child, he must do something in return.
D．Only children are interested in life.
小題4:What is the main idea of the passage?
A．Life is not enjoyable since each age had some pains.
B．Young men can have the greatest happiness if they work hard.
C．Childhood is the most enjoyable time in one’s life.
D．One is the happiest if he can make good use of each age in his life.
小題5:What will the fourth paragraph most probably discuss following this passage?
A．Examples of successful young men.
B．How to build up one’s position in society.
C．Joys and pains of old people.
D．What to do when one has problems in life.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D
小題5:C

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了在人生的三個(gè)階段當(dāng)中的幸福問(wèn)題。從而告訴我們?nèi)绻粋�(gè)人能很好地利用自己人生的每個(gè)階段，他就會(huì)成為最幸福的那個(gè)人。
小題1:根據(jù)第一段and the happiest person is the one who enjoys what each age gives him without wasting his time in useless regrets.描述，可知選D。
小題2:根據(jù)第二段But a child has his pains: he is not so free to do what he wishes to do;描述，可知選C。
小題3:根據(jù)第二段If a child has good parents, he is fed, looked after and loved, whatever he may do.描述，可知選B。
小題4:這篇短文主要介紹了在人生的三個(gè)階段當(dāng)中的幸福問(wèn)題。從而告訴我們?nèi)绻粋�(gè)人能很好地利用自己人生的每個(gè)階段，他就會(huì)成為最幸福的那個(gè)人。故選D。
小題5:這篇短文主要介紹了在人生的三個(gè)階段當(dāng)中的幸福問(wèn)題。在接下來(lái)的討論中最有可能討論的就是遇到困難時(shí)應(yīng)該怎么做，故選C，當(dāng)生活中有困難時(shí)應(yīng)該怎么做。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文中長(zhǎng)句較多，一時(shí)很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強(qiáng)求非得理解一詞一句的含義，能把握文章大意就行。然后帶著問(wèn)題閱讀短文，一般就能順利找出答題依據(jù)。對(duì)于不能直接找到根據(jù)的問(wèn)題注意聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)短文中心總結(jié)出正確答案。
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