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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness, then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment(承担的义务), self-improvement.
Ask a bachelor(单身汉)why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less satisfying. If he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night' s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don' t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to increase our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.

单选题 According to the author, a bachelor resists marriage chiefly because ______ .

A. he is reluctant to take on family responsibilities
B. he believes that life will be more cheerful if he remains single
C. he finds more fun in dating than in marriage
D. he fears it will put an end to all his fun, adventure and excitement

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 事实辨别题。根据文章的第三段的第二行和第三行可知其原因是“he is afraid of making a commitment”。

单选题 Raising children, in the author' s opinion, is ______ .

A. a moral duty
B. a thankless job
C. a rewarding task
D. a source of inevitable pain

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 要点判断题。根据文章第四段的内容说明抚养子女是一种有回报的工作。

单选题 From the last paragraph, we learn that envy sometimes stems from ______ .

A. hatred
B. misunderstanding
C. prejudice
D. ignorance

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 事实辨别题。根据文章的最后一段的第四行实际是给出了为什么会使我们免于嫉妒的原因，反之，可得出答案。

单选题 To understand what true happiness is one must ______ .

A. have as much fun as possible during one' s lifetime
B. make every effort to liberate oneself from pain
C. put up with pain under all circumstances
D. be able to distinguish happiness from fun

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 要点归纳。根据文章的第一段第一行和第二行和文章的最后一句话可知要将乐趣和幸福区别开来。

单选题 What is the author trying to tell us?

A. Happiness often goes hand in hand with pain.
B. One must know how to attain happiness.
C. It is important to make commitments.
D. It is pain that leads to happiness.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 主旨题。作者的意图出现在文章的第一段的第三行。