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Some people think if you are happy, you are blind to reality. But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain. How did we miss this? Why do we have these social misunderstandings about happiness? Because we assumed you were average. When we study people, scientists are often interested in what the average is.
Many people think happiness is genetic. That's only half the story, because the average person does not fight their genes. When we stop studying the average and begin researching positive outliers —people who are above average for a positive aspect like optimism or intelligence —a wildly different picture appears. Our daily decisions and habits have a huge impact upon both our levels of happiness and success.
Scientifically, happiness is a choice. It is a choice about where your single processor brain will devote its limited resources as you process the world. If you scan for the negative first, your brain really has no resources left over to see the things you are grateful for or the meaning embedded(嵌入) in your work. But if you scan the world for the positive, you start to acquire an amazing advantage.
I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on “Happiness Leads to Profits.” Based on my article called “Positive Intelligence” and my research in The Happiness Advantage, I summarized our researched conclusion: the single greatest advantage in the modern economy is a happy and busy workforce.
A decade of research in the business world proves that happiness raises nearly every business and educational outcome: increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and accuracy on tasks by 19%, as well as a number of health and quality-of-life improvements.
（1）The underlined word “this” in the first paragraph refers to ________.
A.the fact that people are happy
B.the connection between happiness and educational outcome
C.the fact that people often misunderstand happiness
D.the fact that most people are average
（2）What can we learn from the passage?
A.Scientists are only interested in what the average is.
B.You can choose to be happy or not.
C.The average are not happy at all.
D.Our decisions and habits have nothing to do with happiness.
（3）Why does the writer mention his articles and research?
A.To advertise himself.
B.To arouse the readers' interest.
C.To support his point about happiness.
D.To attract the readers to read his articles.
（4）What is the author's purpose of writing this article?
A.To explain what is happiness.
B.To describe the misunderstandings about happiness.
C.To show people the importance of happiness.
D.To make the point that happiness promotes business and educational outcome.

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）B
（2）B
（3）C
（4）D
【解析】本文論述了幸福不是遺傳，而是一種選擇，幸福感的提升對我們?nèi)粘５慕?jīng)濟業(yè)務(wù)與教育成果有重大益處。
（1）指代判斷題。由文章第一段第二句But when we research it, happiness actually raises every single business and educational outcome for the brain.可知，當(dāng)我們研究幸福的時候，它實際上為大腦提出了一個非常單一的業(yè)務(wù)和教育結(jié)果。故可推知，下文中的this指代的是上一句中幸福和教育結(jié)果之間的關(guān)系，故選B。
（2）主旨大意題。由第三段第三、四句If you scan for the negative first, ... in your work.及But if you scan the world for the positive, ... advantage.可知，你如果心態(tài)消極，那么你就看不見你所感恩的東西，同樣也看不到工作的意義。但是如果你積極的細看這個世界，你會開始獲得令人意想不到的益處。通過這兩種態(tài)度可以得出，幸福就是一個選擇，你可以選擇快樂你也可以選擇悲傷，關(guān)鍵在于你自己，故選B。
（3）推理判斷題。由文章第四段第一、二句I wrote the cover story for the Harvard Business Review magazine on “Happiness Leads to Profits.”及Based on my article called “Positive Intelligence”and my research in The Happiness Advantage.可推知，作者提及自己寫的文章和調(diào)查研究，是為了支撐中心論點——幸福感，故選C。
（4）寫作意圖題。本文主要圍繞人的幸福感展開論述的，通過人們對幸福的不同理解和作者的佐證，以及利用研究調(diào)查得出一重要結(jié)論，即：幸福感可以促進業(yè)務(wù)和增強教育成果，故選D。