While going through life with the pursuit of money on our mind, we're often told that money can't buy happiness. But what truth is there in the saying? Is there a relation between money and happiness? 【1】

Humans are very sensitive to change. When we get a rise, we really enjoy it. But some studies have shown that in North America, additional income beyond 75,000 dollars a year stops impacting day-to-day happiness. 【2】 They often end up spending all the money, going into debt, and experience ruined social relationships.

So surely money can't really buy happiness. Well, recent studies suggest that the problem may actually be in the way that we spend money. 【3】 Studies show that people who spend their money on others feel happier. As for the people who spend money on themselves, their happiness is unchanged.

【4】 0ne experiment showed that instead of an organization writing a large check to a charity, dividing the amount up among employees, allowing them to contribute to a charity of their choice, increased their job satisfaction. Similarly, individuals that spend money on each other, as opposed to themselves, not only increase job satisfaction, but improve the team performance.

【5】 Interestingly, the specific way money is spent on others isn't important. Spending something on others is the important aspect of increasing your happiness.

A. The same principle has been tested on teams and organizations as well.

B. Money has more effect on the vast majority of people in the long run.

C. Instead of buying things for yourself, try giving some of it to other people and see how you feel.

D. And if so, how can we use it to our advantage?

E. Almost everywhere we look in the world, we see that giving money to others is positively related to happiness,

F. And while you're saving up for these greatest experiences, don't forget the daily joys in life.

G. In fact, people who win a lottery often report becoming extremely unhappy.

【1】Kissing in Italy is only used to __________ very close friends or family.

【2】The aerial can be __________ to the range of those signals by lengthening or shortening it.

【3】In order to __________ success we must have a complete and thorough plan.

【4】There is a law __________ people from smoking in the subway.

【5】Jim __________ himself out of the competition when he learned who his opponent was.

【6】He received as many as a hundred letters of __________ on that single day.

【7】People live in the kingdom of language, which __________ their way of thinking and behaviour.

【8】Some __________ potatoes or baked potatoes at night will not increase your weight.

permit sb. to do，adjust to，grow accustomed to

【1】Having __________ authority, many Americans now find China’s boom worrying.

【2】Some of the students are still __________ being back at school after a long time of summer holiday.

【3】She had a clear list of what her daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were not __________.

【4】It is strange that they should be such good friends, especially as they __________.

【5】I’m new and I __________ not __________ the rules in this school.

【6】When I came back, he asked me to __________ my wet shoes and sit by the fire.

【7】—I like bread with butter.

—But there is none left at home. I’m afraid that you have to __________ it.

【8】__________, no one knows me better than myself.

【1】The company takes environmental issues into account wherever possible.

The company ______________ environmental issues wherever possible.

【2】This is a project designed to provide young people with work.

This is a project designed to __________ work __________ young people.

【3】I will not go to his birthday party even if I am invited to.

I will not go to his birthday party even if ______________.

【4】If he had followed me closely, he would be here with you now.

______________ me closely, he would be here with you now.

【5】It is supposed that vitamin C can prevent colds.

Vitamin C ______________ prevent colds.

A. that B. when

C. since D. before

Looking back on the strong friendship between the group of three men and three women who frequently gather at each other’s apartments and at Greenwich Village’s Central Perk coffee house, Friends was created by television producers, David Crane and Marta Kauffman. In 1993, the pair met producer Kevin S. Bright. Then the three became partners and got a deal to produce a new comedy for Warner Brothers. What they came up with was based on Crane and Kauffman’s after-college years, when they hung out at the local coffee house and involved themselves in every aspect of each other’s lives.

It didn’t take long for viewers to make friends with Friends. The situation comedy quickly became a top ten hit. Critics loved it as well. Entertainment Weekly said the show operated like a Broadway show, with twisty plots and unique jokes. The television theme song has also been a success with the public. The song’s success helped save the television theme song. An ABC(美國廣播公司) executive was ready to order very short music intros(前奏) on his network’s shows, thinking that viewers would hit the remote control as soon as the opening started. But the success of the Friends theme song led the ABC executive to change his mind—remote controls or not, the TV theme song would stay.

Years have gone by, but Friends remains and will remain an example of a modern US situation comedy that is both hugely entertaining television and nothing short of a genuine latter-day social phenomenon.

【1】What is stressed in the second paragraph?

A. The role models of Friends.

B. The popularity of Friends.

C. The origin of Friends.

D. The brilliance of Friends.

【2】Which of the following is TRUE about Friends?

A. It has a simple but entertaining plot.

B. It is about friendship between college students.

C. It was criticized by Entertainment Weekly.

D. It first came into being in the 1990s.

【3】What can we learn from the passage?

A. The ABC executive thought highly of the theme song of Friends.

B. Producer, Kevin S. Bright, graduated from the same college as David Crane.

C. ABC once replaced the theme song of its TV show with a short music intro.

D. Marta Kauffman expected Friends to achieve great success.

【4】What might the author think of Friends?

A. Its merits outweigh its shortcomings.

B. He/she shows great affection towards it.

C. Its success lies in the lack of good situation comedies.

D. He/she has a reserved attitude towards its success.

A. Had I known; would ring him up B. Should I know; would have rung him up

C. If I knew; would ring him up D. Had I known; would have rung him up

內(nèi)容應(yīng)包括：

1．簡要描述這一社會(huì)現(xiàn)象

2．分析微信紅包的優(yōu)缺點(diǎn)（方便，增添歡樂…過度沉迷，浪費(fèi)時(shí)間…）

3．闡述你的看法

參考詞匯：壓歲錢：gifting money 微信：We Chat 電子紅包： Red envelopes

電子支付：electronic payments

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注意：1.詞數(shù)100左右；

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3.參考詞匯：tune 曲調(diào)。

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