天津2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解与书面表达素能达标练19

天津2014届高考英语二轮复习阅读理解与书面表达素能达标练18i.、阅读理解（本大题共3小题，共0分）A错误！未找到引用源。

You just think you know what will make you happy. Researchers in the new science of happiness know better. They have evidence that married people on average end up being no happier than they were before the wedding. Winning the lottery will probably reduce your pleasure in ordinary events that used to make you happy. And being in good health isn’t as much of a factor as the right genes when it comes to satisfaction.A couple of years ago, Seligman and Diener studied 222 Illinois college students to find out what the happiest 10% had in common. It turned out they were extroverts（性格外向）, had more friendships and romantic relationships, but didn’t exercise more and didn’t feel they had more good events in their lives than those who weren’t as happy.Some of the results come as a surprise. A classic study of lottery winners and people with spinal cord（脊髓）injuries, for instance, found that neither event changed their lives as much as observers thought they would.Gilbert is looking into how accurately people predict what will make them happy. It turns out, not accurately at all, what we think will bring us pleasure---a new car, the home teaming winning the NCAA championship, a move to California---usually doesn’t bring us as much as we expected, and the positive impact doesn’t last as long. The good news is that we also overestimate the impact of catastrophic events.Even with data from research pouring in, scientists still don’t h ave an easy answer to what we all want to know: How do I get long-term life satisfaction? The answers they do have are often the same ones that philosophers and priests have been giving us for centuries. It’s just nice to have them backed up with hard data.A. a research on happinessB. the level of happinessC. the secrets of happinessD. the prediction of happiness58. The most important factor of happiness lies in ______.A. the proper genesB. healthC. marriageD. unexpected money59. The happiest people have the following characters except that ______.A. they are richB. they are outgoingC. they are very sociableD. they don’t pay more attention to exercise60. Which of the following is true according to the passage?A. We ourselves know what makes us happy the best.B. The happiest 10% in the world have nothing in common.C. People can predict the things that make them happy accurately.D. We just need to do what the philosophers and priests tell us to keep happy.【答案解析】答案：57-60 CAADB错误！未找到引用源。

（2013北京卷）BTaIL SpinTwo dolphins race around in a big pool in the Ocean Park. The smaller dolphin Grace, shown off a few of her tricks, turning around and waving hello to the crowd. The most amazing thing about her, however, is that she’s even swimming at all. She doesn’t have a tail.Grace lost her tail as a baby when she got caught up in a fish trap.When the dolphin arrived at the Ocean Park in December 2005, shewas fighting fo r her life. “Is she going to make it?” Her trainer, Abbey Stone, feared the worst. Grace did make it --- but her tail didn’t. She ended up losing her flukes and the lower part of her peduncle.Over the past six years, she has learned to swim without her tail. Dolphins swim by moving their flukes and peduncle up and down. Grace taught herself to move another way---like a fish! She pushed herself forward through the water by moving her peduncles from side to side.The movement put harmful pressure on Grace’s backbone. So a company offered to create a man-made tail for her. The tail had to be strong enough to stay on Grace as she swam but soft enough that it wouldn’t hurt her.The first time Grace wore the artificial tail. She soon shook it off and let it sink in the bottom of the pool. Now, she is still learning to use the tail. Some days she wears it for an hour at a time, others not at all. “The tail isn’tnecessary for her to feel comfortable,”says Stone, “but it helps to keep that range of motion(动作) and build muscles(肌肉).”Now, the dolphin is about to get an even happier ending. This month, Grace will star in Dolphin Tale, a film that focus on her rescue and recovery. Her progress has inspired more than just a new movie. Many people travel from near and far to meet her. Seeing Grace swim with her man-made tail gives people so much courage.60. When Grace first arrived at the Ocean Park, her trainer worried about her .A. physical buildB. potential abilityC. chance of survivalD. adaptation to the surroundings.61. A man-made tail is created for Grace to _.A. let her recover fasterB. make her comfortableC. adjust her way of swimmingD. help her perform better tricks62. The story of Grace inspires people to_ .A. stick to their dreamsB. treat animals friendlyC. treasure what they haveD. face difficulties bravely【答案解析】B篇60【答案】：C【解析】：此题为细节题，考生需要直接定位到文章的具体情节。