Question

Money can buy happiness, but only when you spend it on other people, researchers said.

1.______. The results showed that people feel happier when they spend money on others. They asked the following questions: what made them happy, what was their salary(薪水), and how they spent money, including bills(帳單), gifts for themselves, gifts for others and money for charity. “2._____,” the research team leader Dunn said.

Dunn’s team also talked with 16 people at a company before and after they received a reward(獎金). Their reward was between $3,000 and 48,000. “If a person gave more of their money to the charity, he or she would experience greater happiness. 3._________,” the researcher said in their report.

Finally, the researchers did an experiment. They gave $ 5 and $ 20 bills to each of the 630 people and told half of them to buy something for someone else. Those people felt happier after spending the money on others. Dunn said, “4._____.”

閱讀短文，完成下列任務(wù)。

任務(wù)一：將下列句子填入文中恰當(dāng)?shù)目瞻滋帯?/p>

A. No matter how much money each person made, those who spent more money on others seemed to be happier, but those who spent more on themselves did not

B. How they spent the money was more important for their happiness than how much money they got

C. Researchers from American university did experiments on more than 630 Americans

D. Spending as little as $ 5 on others can give people happiness

任務(wù)二：

5.What’s the best title for the passage?

A. How to Spend Your MoneyB. Money Can Bring Happiness

C. Research on MoneyD. Research on Happiness

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.B

4.D

5.B

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了一項(xiàng)調(diào)查，無論一個人賺多少錢似乎只有花費(fèi)錢在別人身上才會感到更幸福。

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4.的試驗(yàn)內(nèi)容，故選D

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考點(diǎn)：社會現(xiàn)象類短文閱讀。