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“Home is where you are happy.” Sentimental, perhaps, and certainly not conventionally patriotic, but is appropriate for a country that wrote the pursuit of happiness into its founding document. That continues for the immigrant in America, and it never stops, but it comes to rest at a certain moment. The moment is hard to pin down, but it occurs perhaps when the immigrant’s double life and double vision joint together toward a single state of mind. When the old life, the old home fade into a certain unreality: places one merely visits, in fact or in the mind, practicing the tourism of memory. It occurs when the immigrant learns his ultimate lesson: above all countries, America, if loved, returns love.
【文章大意】文章主要通过美国文化中对于家概念的理解阐述家的本质是让你感到快乐的地方。
66. How can we understand the underlined sentence in Para1?
  A. Parents have nothing to do with home.
  B. Home is irreplaceable just like parents.
  C. New home can somewhat represent parents.
  D. Parents and home are essentially different.
67. What’s the result of American’s unique attitude toward immigrants?
  A. Immigrants have played an important role in America’s history.
  B. Immigrants have endured more sufferings than those in other countries.
  C. Immigrants have been a disaster to America’s development.
  D. Immigrants have posed fear and hatred on America.
A  细节理解题  依据文章第三段中的“Throughout history, exile has been a disaster; America turned it into a triumph and placed its immigrants in the center of a national epic.”可知移民成了美国民族历史史诗的中心组成部分，故A项适合。
68. Why are principles real and important for immigrants in America?
  A. Because they have to accept those principles as a deal for living in America.
  B. Because they can sense the power of those principles related to religion.
  C. Because those principles are laws and regulations in America.
  D. Because those principles are consistent with their beliefs.
D  细节理解题  依据文章第四段中的“To immigrants, those principles are especially real because so often they were absent or violated in their native lands.”可知“对于移民来说那些原则之所以真切和重要在于在他们的故土上，那些原则不是被频繁践踏就是已经不复存在”，而那些原则也正是移民在故土的信念所在，故选D项适合。
69. What does the underlined word “That” in Para5 refer to?
  A. Traditional patriotism           B. Immigrants’ double life and vision
  C. The pursuit of happiness.        D. Returned love from America
70. What can be the best title of the passage?
  A. Love America, Love Yourself      B. Home Is Where You Are Happy
  C. Experience a New World          D. Be a Real American Immigrant
B  标题归纳题  文章主要通过美国文化中对于家概念的理解阐述家的本质是让你感到快乐的地方，故B项适合。
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It’s no secret that doing good makes others happy – but did you know it can make you happy as well?
According to a study, people participating in meaningful activities were happier and felt that their lives had more purpose than people who only engaged in pleasure-seeking behaviors.
Try giving these four things to others to start your journey to a happier and healthier lifestyle.
1. Your Time
With a busy life, it can be hard to find any time to give away. However, volunteering your time has great benefits, including making new friends and connections, learning new skills and even advancing your career.
According to a paper about the link between health and volunteering, volunteering is connected with lower instances of depression and reduces the risk of dying by 22 percent.
2. Your Attention
Most of us think we’re good listeners, but according to psychologist Paul Donoghue, most people are aware that others don’t listen as well as they could. In addition, they’re not fully aware that they themselves aren’t listening.
When practicing mindfulness meditation(正念禅修), you focus on what you experience in the moment and let your thoughts and emotions pass through without judgment. Did you know that giving someone your undivided attention helps you also? When done well, active listening strengthens your focus－which is a major part of good meditation.
3. Your Compassion
The psychological meaning of compassion is the ability to understand another person’s emotional state. Compassion differs from empathy(移情) in that those who experience compassion not only put themselves in another person’s shoes, but also want to reduce that person’s suffering.
A brain-imaging study showed that the brain’s pleasure centers are equally active when we give money to the poor as when we receive money ourselves.
4. Your Money
According to an experiment, those who spend money on other people are significantly happier than those who spend the same quantity of money on themselves.
Whether or not you can offer other gifts, donating money helps make real change happen. It represents time spent, compassion and careful attention to the needs of others.

Topic	Doing good makes others and yourself happy
____71____ of a study	People, who ____72___ in meaningful activities were happier and felt that they lived more ___73____ than those only engaged in pleasure-seeking behaviors.
Four things offered to others can __74____ to a happier and healthier lifestyle	Your Time	Benefits: ★Making new friends and connections; ★Learning new skills; ★Making ___75___ in your career.
	Your Attention	★Giving someone your ___76___ attention can also help yourself; ★Active listening can strengthen ___77___ is a major part of good meditation.
	Your Compassion	★It __78____ people to understand others’ emotional state. ★People with compassion want to reduce others’ sufferings as well.
	Your Money	★___79___ the same amount of money, people felt happier while spending on others.
Conclusion	___80___ away money helps make real change happen no matter whether you can offer other gifts or not.

【答案】
71. Finding(s)
72. participated
73. purposefully
74. lead/contribute
75. progress
76. undivided
77. what
78. helps/enables
79. Despite
80. Giving
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