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    One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It’s like looking up at the tiled(铺瓦的)ceiling and concentrating on the space where on tile is   21   .

    Once I heard a bald(*顶的)man said, "Whenever I enter a room,  22   I see is hair." Once you've __23__what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will  24  make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different __25__,or forget about it and __26__the tiles in your life that are not missing.

      We all know people who have had a relatively __27__ life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have ___28   a great deal but generally remain happy.

      The first  29  is gratitude. All happy people are __30__. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to  31   , but it’s true to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.

The second secret is __32__that happiness is a result of something else. The more obvious  33  are those pursuits that give our lives purpose—anything from studying insects to playing baseball. The more  34  we have, the more happiness we are  35   to experience.

  36  , the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our existence has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We  37  a spiritual faith, or a philosophy of life.

Whatever your philosophy is, it should  38  this truth: if you choose to find the positive in every situation, you will be  39  , and if you choose to find the awful, you will be affected. As with happiness itself, this is  40 your decision to make.

21. A. colorful             B. shining              C. short            D. missing

22. A. something            B. all                  C. none             D. anything

23. A. imagined             B. predicted            C. assumed              D. determined

24. A. really               B. naturally            C. hopefully        D. completely

25. A. ceiling              B. brick            C. tile                 D. house

26. A. focus on             B. go on            C. put on           D. rely on

27. A. easy                 B. difficult            C. ordinary             D. nervous

28. A. shared           B. owned            C. enjoyed              D. suffered

29. A. factor               B. secret           C. rule                 D. key

30. A. wealthy              B. kind                 C. grateful             D. generous

31. A. upset                B. quarrel              C. depress              D. complain

32. A. realizing            B. forgetting       C. proving              D. doubting

33. A. answers              B. results              C. sources              D. goals

34. A. money            B. passions             C. information          D. purposes

35. A. curious              B. satisfied            C. capable              D. likely

36. A. Finally              B. Therefore        C. However          D. Truly

37. A. demand           B. lack                 C. need             D. lose

38. A. teach                B. contain              C h            D. explain

39. A. controlled           B. blessed              C. watched              D. admitted

40. A. absolutely           B. totally              C. largely              D. exactly

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21-25 DBDAC   26-30 AADBC   31-35 DACBD 36-40 ACBBC

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