PAGE 第 1 页 共 12 页 单元质量检测（二） Ⅰ.阅读理解(共10小题；每小题2.5分，满分25分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A When I was a small boy, I noticed that though many of the adults around me were wealthy and educated, they were not always happy and this sometimes led them to behave in ways, which I, as a child, thought strange. As a result of that, I decided to try to understand what happiness was and how best to achieve it. It was not surprising, then, that I decided to study psychology. On arrival at the university, I was disappointed to find that academic psychologists were trying to understand human behaviour by studying rats in a lab. I felt that there must be other more useful ways of learning how we think and feel. I decided to build my career on trying to discover what made others happy. I started out by studying creative people such as musicians, artists and athletes because they were people who devoted their lives to doing what they wanted to do, rather than things that just brought them financial rewards. Later, I expanded the study by inventing a system called “the experience sampling method”. Ordinary people were asked to keep an electronic pager (传呼机) for a week which gave out a beeping sound eight times a day. Every time it did so, they wrote down where they were, what they were doing, how they felt and how much they were concentrating. This system has now been used on more than 10,000 people, and the answers are consistent: as with creative people, ordinary people are happiest when concentrating hard. I found that the most obvious cause of happiness is intense concentration. This must be the main reason why activities such as music, art, literature, sports and other forms of leisure have survived. In order to concentrate, whether you're reading a poem or building a sandcastle, what you need is a challenge that matches your ability. The way to remain continually happy, therefore, is to keep finding new opportunities to improve your skills. This may mean learning to do your job better or faster, or doing other more difficult jobs. As you grow older, you have to find new challenges which are more appropriate to your age. 1．What led the author to study psychology A．His determination to become rich. B．His observation of adults. C．His unhappy childhood. D．His interest in strangers. 2．Who were the author's study subjects at the start of his career A．People having deep affection for their career. B．People very aware of their personal life. C．People successful in acquiring wealth. D．People with more freedom. 3．The author used his system to show that _____. A．people's happiness depends on who they are with B．people are happier when they focus on an activity C．creative people are happier than ordinary people D．ordinary people find it hard to concentrate 4．According to the text, people concentrate most when they are doing _____. A．something strange and enjoyable B．something difficult b ... ...
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