The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are  playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1.Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?

A. The Indian holy man                B. The great Irish poet Yeats

C. Advertisers                      D. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market

2.What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?

A. It means a place in which people can buy things happily

B. It means a market which lacks happy customers

C. It means a pure state for the world and mankind

D. It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3.According to the passage, which of the following is Right?

A. The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.

B. The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C. There is no fun without playing by the rules

D. Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

 

The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.
A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. If wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these desires but to create them---and to create them faster than any man’s money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.
I doubt the holy man’s idea of happiness, and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing --- in changing the world and mankind into pure states.
To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high we choose our difficulties.
It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fun of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.
The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are  playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.
The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.
【小题1】Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author?

A．The Indian holy man	B．The great Irish poet Yeats
C．Advertisers	D．The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market

【小题2】What does “happiness-market” mean in the second paragraph?

A．It means a place in which people can buy things happily

B．It means a market which lacks happy customers

C．It means a pure state for the world and mankind

D．It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

【小题3】According to the passage, which of the following is Right?

A．The Indian holy man is much happier than westerner.

B．The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C．There is no fun without playing by the rules

D．Both the eastern weakness and western weakness are the same.

    The right to pursue happiness is issued to us all with our birth, but no one seems quite sure what it is.

    A holy man in India may think that happiness is in himself. It is in needing nothing from outside himself. In wanting nothing, he lacks nothing. We westerners, however, are taught that the more we have from outside ourselves, the happier we will be, and then we are made to want. We are even told it is our duty to want. Advertising, one of our major industries, exists not to satisfy these de, sires but to create them--and to create them faster than any man's money in his pocket can satisfy them. Here, obviously someone is trying to buy the dream of happiness and spending millions upon millions every year in the attempt. Clearly the happiness-market is not running out of customers.

    I doubt the holy man's idea of happiness, ,and I doubt the dreams of the happiness-market, too. Whatever happiness may be, I believe, it is neither in having nothing nor in having more, but in changing--in changing the world and mankind into pure states.

     To change is to make efforts to deal with difficulties. As Yeats, a great Irish poet once put it, happiness we get for a lifetime depends on how high We choose our difficulties. Robert Frost, a great American poet, was thinking in almost the stone terms when he spoke of "the pleasure of taking pains."

It is easy to understand. We even demand difficulty for the fun in our games. We demand it because without difficulty there can be no game. And a game is a way of making something hard for the fan of it. The rules of the game are man-made difficulties. When the player ruins the fun, he always does so by refusing to play by the roles. It is easier to win at chess if you are free, at your pleasure, to cast away all the rules, but the fun is in winning within the rules.

The same is true to happiness. The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market seem to have lost their sense of the pleasure of difficulty. Heaven knows what they are playing, but it seems a dull game. And the Indian holy man seems dull to us, I suppose, because he seems to be refusing to play anything at all.

The western weakness may be in the dreams that happiness can be bought while the eastern weakness may be in the idea that there is such a thing as perfect happiness in man himself. Both of them forget a basic fact: no difficulty, no happiness.

1．Who shares the same idea of happiness with the author.?

A．The Indian holy man.         B．The great Irish poet Yeats.

C．Advertisers.                D．The buyers and sellers at the happiness-market.

2．What does "happiness-market" mean in the second paragraph?

A．It means a place in which people can buy brings happily.

B．It means a market which lacks happy customers.

C．It means a pure state for the world and mankind.

D．It means a market where people try to buy happiness with money.

3．According to the passage, which of the following is right?

A．The Indian holy man is much happier than westerners.

B．The westerners understand happiness better than the Indian holy man.

C．There is no fun without playing by the rules.

D．Both the eastern weakness and western Weakness are for the same reason.

4．What does the author do in the fifth paragraph?

A．He supports a point of view with an example.

B．He argues against a point of view.

C．He introduces a point of view.

       D．He tries to understand a point of view.

Recently, two professors of the University of Nebraska made a weekly television programme in which they discussed worthwhile books．Even primary school graduates watched, listened and learned．Therefore, it is not true that ETV has not been taught in the United States．I doubt the statement that "programmes which inform and enrich the mind in a general manner are wasted in schools"．There is a need to teach directly by television if we take teaching in the broad sense of the term.

Direct teaching by television has been explained as a series （系列）of television lessons directly related to a particular classroom textbook to satisfy the needs of pupils and teachers in a particular subject．Each lesson will be prepared by a teacher - specialist who also knows tele- vision production techniques and uses the modern technology in a television studio to put across his subject.

Will such TV lessons do without the services of a classroom teacher or will they cost him his reputation （名誉） or job? No! In fact, without the classroom teacher to review the material,  enlarge on it and answer questions that the students may bring up, such TV lessons would not be of very great value.

The children who watch ETV do so with different results - from very good to fair．Possibly,  the programs are too similar or too serious．Generally, they are not too long．Very likely, the  children who benefit least are the slow learners．However, it is believed that there is a bright  future for ETV inside and outside the classroom．The time may come, when bigger and clearer  screens will be used in the classroom, bigger and better programs will be exchanged between  countries and more foreign experts will be brought in, listened to and followed by newcomers in  the ETV field.

1．Which of the following suggests the programme is popular?______.

       A．it was shown every week.

       B．Even children enjoyed watching it.

       C．It was made by university professors.   

       D．Worthwhile books were discussed in it.

2．Which of the following is true about ETV according to the text?______.

       A．It requires a good command of modern technology.

       B．It can be valuable without classroom teachers.

       C．It can meet all the needs of both teachers and students.

       D．It is sure to help different students achieve good results.

3．The underlined phrase "to put across his subject" probably means ______

       A．to explain his subject                   B．to learn his subject well

       C．to discuss his subject                    D．to know what he is talking about

4．What would be the best title for the text?

       A．The Future of ETV                     B．ETV---A New Way of Teaching

       C．The Excitement of ETV                   D．The Advantages and Disadvantages of ETV