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【題目】 Being happy is an ability, which means we need to learn how to do it. This, perhaps, explains why around one in four undergraduate students at Yale University in the US have signed up (報(bào)名) for its Psychology and the Good Life course this semester. The course actually set a record of being the most popular in Yale’s 316-year history.

Laurie Santos, the psychology professor who will be running the course, believes that the high school lives which her students must have had are the reason that the course is so popular. It’s likely that students who get into top universities like Yale had a difficult time in high school. In order to stand out, they had to surround themselves with endless tests, competitions, and so-called “hobbies”, which made them very unhappy. "A lot of us are anxious (焦慮的), stressed, numb (麻木的)," Alannah Maynez, a 19-year-old undergraduate student at Yale, told The New York Times,“and I won’t miss such a chance.”

Yale isn’t the first university to offer such courses. Back in 2006, Harvard introduced its Positive Psychology class, and about 900 students signed up for it. There are now many universities in the US that have started courses on positive psychology, including the University of Pennsylvania and Claremont Graduate University.

It may sound sad when Harvard student Nancy Cheng called Positive Psychology a “self-help class”. But it’s a good thing that students accept that they have a problem, instead of having to pretend that everything is fine in front of everyone.

It’s true that being happy is an ability, and it’s OK that you may not have it yet. However, it’s never too early—or too late—to start learning.

【1】Many students at Yale University have signed for the Psychology and the Good Life course because ______ __.

A.students who get into top universities had a difficult time in high school

B.it is the most popular course in Yale’s 316-year history

C.Laurie Santos, the psychology professor will be running the course

【2】What does Alannah Maynez think of the psychology course?

A.Popular.B.Meaningless.C.Useful.

【3】How many universities that have positive psychology courses are mentioned in the passage?

A.FourB.One.C.Two.

【4】What does the underlined word “pretend” mean?

A.掩蓋B.假裝C.承認(rèn)

【5】From the passage, we can know that________.

A.it’s never too early or too late to start learning how to be happy

B.Yale is the first university to offer psychology courses

C.Nancy Cheng thought the course helped her a lot to be happy

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】A

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

這篇短文主要介紹了很多大學(xué)開(kāi)設(shè)各種心理學(xué)課程以幫助學(xué)生心態(tài)積極快樂(lè)。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“It’s likely that students who get into top universities like Yale had a difficult time in high school.”可知許多學(xué)生注冊(cè)心理學(xué)和美好生活課程是因?yàn)樗麄優(yōu)榱松项愃朴谝�魯這樣的大學(xué)在高中經(jīng)歷了艱難時(shí)光，故選A。

【2】推理判斷題。根據(jù)Alannah Maynez 所說(shuō)的話“"A lot of us are anxious (焦慮的), stressed, numb (麻木的)," “and I won’t miss such a chance.””可知她認(rèn)為心理學(xué)課程對(duì)她是有幫助的，故選C。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第三段提及的開(kāi)設(shè)心理學(xué)課程的大學(xué)Yale ，Harvard ，the University of Pennsylvania and Claremont Graduate University，可知共有四所大學(xué)，故選A。

【4】詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)“it’s a good thing that students accept that they have a problem, instead of having to pretend that everything is fine in front of everyone.”中accept與pretend的對(duì)比，可知學(xué)生們接受自己有問(wèn)題是件好事而不是在大家面前假裝一切都很好，故選B。

【5】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)“However, it’s never too early—or too late—to start learning.”可知學(xué)會(huì)開(kāi)始變得快樂(lè)永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)太早或者太遲，故A正確；根據(jù)“Yale isn’t the first university to offer such courses.”可知耶魯大學(xué)不是第一所提供這種課程的大學(xué)，故B錯(cuò)誤；根據(jù)“It may sound sad when Harvard student Nancy Cheng called Positive Psychology a “self-help class”.”可知南希并不認(rèn)可這門課程，故C錯(cuò)誤。故選A。