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Gamblers (赌徒）at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, But there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. Epicurus, a Greek philosopher, pursued it by living only in pleasant society and eating only dry bread for the sake of his poor health, with a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but something more nutritious would be needed for most people, for whom the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented (补充）in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life.

We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse (冲动)，and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. A cat will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the roof. Your needs are more complex than those of a cat, but they still have their basis related to nature. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too likely to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some topmost objective, and prevent all impulses that do not seem to serve it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that he sacrifices health and private affections . When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except annoying other people by inspirations to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies，although nature has not qualified them with any spontaneous (自发的）pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism (势利).

If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence. Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them. Also, many men devote their weekends to voluntary and unpaid laboi in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too seriously. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been led to unhappiness by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic (补*）when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic. It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fiatetlil, his children’s noise unbearable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new lifestyle 一 a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.

Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology (生理）more than he likes to think. This is a simple conclusion, but 1 cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, 1 am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any imaginable change of philosophy.

66. What does the author think of Epicurus' way of pursuing happiness?

A. It deserves wide recognition.

B. It helps gamblers pursue money.

C. It is suitable for a few individuals.

D. It is adequate as a personal rule of life.

67. From the passage, we can learn        .

A. humans can find pleasure without thinking too much

B. animals tend to be content with basic requirements

C. animals live in harmony with nature like humans

D. humans should learn to avoid high expectations

68. The businessman mentioned in the passage           .

A. succeeds in inspiring people around him

B. attaches little importance to his life goal

C. makes efforts to meet basic requirements

D. ends up with wealth but little happiness

69. According to the passage, what do happy people have in common?

A. They are good at reading some fashionable nev books.

B. They expect both family happiness and career success.

C. They possess the spirit of sacrifice without any reward.

D. They get satisfaction from their worthwhile activities.

70. What’s the author’s opinion of life philosophy?

A. Philosophy shouldn’t be stressed too much in our life.

B. Philosophy plays a more important role than lifestyle.

C. Philosophy will determine how happy people feel.

D. Philosophy is generally based on one’s physiology.

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