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The way we spend our time can be divided into three "bottles". These are the Necessary Tasks Bottle, the Voluntary Tasks Bottle and the Happiness Bottle.

Every day, we spend time filling the Necessary Tasks Bottle with useful things, like making money, doing housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another bottle with Voluntary Tasks. These are things that we do for others, we may not enjoy, but we do them anyway This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family members, Those bottles are very important if we don't fill them each day.

However, we often forget to fill the third bottle-the Happiness Bottle. This is the bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your Happiness Bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks, time flies by, and before we know it. it is time for bed. We all have days like that.

This is why each day we have to make an effort(努力) to fill our Happiness Bottle. Most days, I fill mine by going to the dancing class. And I always leave classes more happily than when I enter. This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We show our musical talent and practice music for charity(慈善) It was a time of fun, friendship and music-making. At the end of the evening, my Happiness Bottle was filled to top.

The challenge(挑战)for each of us is to not let the day go by without filling our Happiness Bottle. That takes some planning. Many of us probably need to pencil happiness activities into our schedule(日程表) Or, we will fill our schedule with those Necessary and Voluntary Tasks.

This week. Think about how your time is being spent. Are you doing enough activities that bring joy to your life? Or are the Necessary and Voluntary Tasks using up all your time? At the end of the day. Hopefully we've done all we can to make sure that our Happiness Bottle is filled.

1.Which activity belongs to(属于) a Necessary Task according to the passage?

A.Having fun with your good friend

B.Preparing a big dinner for your family.

C.Going to work although it is raining heavily.

D.Sending your son to a piano lesson on Sunday.

2.People can fill the Happiness Bottle by________.

A.planning our schedule without any Voluntary Tasks

B.spending time on activities that make us happy

C.using up all the time to find happiness.

D.doing more things for other people

3.What can we learn from the passage?

A.People often fill the Happiness Bottle at bedtime.

B.People are happy to fill the Voluntary Tasks Bottle each day

C.It is necessary for people to plan happiness activities on the schedule.

D.It is OK if we don't fill the Necessary Tasks or Voluntary Tasks Bottle.

4.What is the writer's main purpose in writing this passage?

A.To describe what the Happiness Bottle is like

B.To introduce ways to fill the Harness bottle

C.To share the experience of filling the Happiness Bottle

D.To tell people to spend time filling the Happiness Bottle

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