新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后答案Unit6(2)

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage.

1) According to the speaker, happiness _____________.

A) is not easily obtained by poor people

B) is what movie stars are most eager to obtain

C) does not naturally follow wealth or success

D) necessarily results from wealth or success

2) According to the speaker, happiness lies in the following EXCEPT ___________.

A) wealth obtained through honest effort

B) wealth obtained by winning lotteries

C) your contribution to others happiness

D) your successful work

3) Instead of being an end, happiness is a(n) ____________.

A) beginning

B) process

C) unattainable goal

D) business of the community

4) The passage is mainly about ____________.

A) the secret to happiness

B) the definition of happiness

C) the misunderstanding of happiness

D) the relationship between happiness and wealth

▇ Answers for Reference:

1) C

Section C Task Two: Zooming In on the Details

▇Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.

1) The world is full of very rich people who are as ___________ as if they were ______________.

2) If you obtain wealth through ________ or______________, you will not be happy with it. You will think you are a mean person.

3) Long-term happiness is based on ____________, and ______________, contribution, and self-esteem.

4) If your happiness depends on ______________, you will always feel unfulfilled because there will always be something ___________.

▆ Answers:

2) B 3) B 4) A

新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后答案Unit1-Unit8

1) The world is full of very rich people who are as 2) If you obtain wealth through or a mean person.

3) Long-term happiness is based on and , contribution, and self-esteem.

4) If your happiness depends on always be something

Script:

Happiness

Many people think that when they become rich and successful, happiness will naturally follow. Let

me tell you this is not true. The world is full of very rich people who are as miserable as if they were living in hell. We have read stories about movie stars who committed suicide or died from drugs. Quite clearly, money is not the only answer to all problems.

Wealth obtained through dishonest means does not bring happiness. Lottery winnings do not bring

happiness. To my mind, the secret to happiness lies in your successful work, in your contribution to others happiness and in the wealth you have earned through your own honest effort. If you obtain wealth through luck or dishonest means, you will not be happy with it. You will think you are a mean person.

Long-term happiness is based on honesty and productive work, contribution, and self-esteem.

Happiness is not an end; it is a process. It is a continuous process of honest and productive work which makes a real contribution to others and makes you feel you are a useful, worthy person. As one writer put it, “There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.” It s no use saying, “Someday when I achieve these goals, when I get a car, build a house and own my own business, then I will be really happy.” Life just does not work that way. If you wait for certain things to happen and depend on external circumstances of life to make you happy, you will always feel unfulfilled. There will always be something missing.

Part III Read and Explore

Text A

Section A Discovering the Main Ideas

1. Answer the following questions with the information contained in Text A.

1) Why did the author bring the news story about Ted Turner to Morrie?

2) What problem did Morrie think Ted Turner actually had?

3) Who paid a visit to Morrie the night before? And how did he feel about it?

4) What did material things mean to Morrie?

5) According to Morrie, what are Americans brainwashed into believing? What do they expect from material things?

6) Does the author think that Morrie was rich? Why or why not?

7) What did Morrie suggest that we should do to find a meaningful life?

▆ Answers for Reference:

1) Because he wondered how Morrie would react to Ted Turner s failure in “snatching up the CBS network”. At the same time he wanted to know if Ted Turner would still lament his failure if he were stricken down by the same terminal disease as Morrie was suffering from.

2) His problem was a typical one that Americans all have: Americans tend to value the wrong things.

3) A local a cappela group came to visit him. He showed an intense interest in their musical performance and felt excited.

4) They held little or no significance to him, especially at a time when he knew his days were numbered. He seemed to know the expression “You can t take it with you” a long time ago.

5) They are brainwashed into believing that it is good to own things. Actually, they are hungry for gentleness, tenderness or for a sense of comradeship and, therefore, they desperately seek after material things as

新世纪大学英语综合教程3课后答案Unit1-Unit8

substitutes.

6) Morrie was far from better off in material things, but he was wealthy in spiritual ways. For years, Morrie hadn t bought anything new — except medical equipment. And his bank account was rapidly depleting. But he was rich in love, friendship, caring and he derived plenty of satisfaction and gratification from teaching, communication, and such simple pleasures as singing, laughing, and dancing.

7) He advised us to devote ourselves to loving others, to our community around us, and to creating something that gives us purpose and meaning. In other words, if w …… 此处隐藏：5503字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……