Directions:In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in bank is identified by a letter. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 11 to 20 are based on the following passage.Is happiness 11 to income－to the money a person has? Is a man with two rooms and two loaves of bread happier than a man with only one of each? Clearly poverty and
12 do produce unhappiness. 13 , man needs money to buy the necessities of life.But this _ 14 another question. How many rooms and how many loaves of bread (and thus how much money) does a man need? Most people in the Western world can
15 a minimal requirement for the necessities of life, but they still desire to increase their incomes to buy more and more material
16 and status symbols, why?The answer may be that as things are today, if a man is not rich, 17 and respect are not given him by other people. This veneration from other people may be a greater source of happiness than the money or possessions themselves.
The modern desire for wealth is not 18 in human nature, and 19 with social values. If, by law, we all had exactly the same income, we should have to find some other way of being
20 to our peers as most of our craving for material possessions would cease. Thus a general increase of wealth gives no competitive advantage to an individual and therefore brings him no competitive happiness.
A) proportional I) satisfyB) generally J) inherentC) destitution K) variesD) consistent L) presentsE) obviously M) appropriate
F) superior N) achievesG) admiration O) regainH) possessions
短文大意：这篇文章讨论了幸福和财富的关系11. A)根据句法功能，形容词作表语，在备选的５个形容词“proportional （成比例的）” “superior（优越的） ” “appropriate （合适的）”“consistent（一致的）” “inherent（内在的）”中，前三个都可以和介词“to”连用，但只有“proportional”更符合句意，“幸福是和一个人拥有的金钱即收入成比例吗？”。
12. C)根据句法功能，名词做主语，在备选的３个名词中“destitution（贫困）”“possessions （财产）”“admiration（敬佩）”中，“destitution”属于词义重现，符合句意：“显而易见贫穷和贫困造成了不幸。
”13．E)这句话本身是一个完整的句子，很明显缺少一个副词作状语，在备选的２个副词“generally（一般，通常）”“obviously（明显地）”中，后者更符合句意，“很明显人需要 金钱来购买生活必须品。
”14．L)这句话缺少一个动词做谓语，有5个备选的动词“presents（提出）”“varies（不同）”“achieves(完成）”“regain（取得）”“satisfy（满足）”，主语“this”是单数，排除掉最后两个动词，剩下的只有“present” 符合句意: 这提出了另一个问题。
15．I)这句话缺少一个动词做谓语，主语 “many people”是复数，有２个备选的动词“regain（取得）”“satisfy（满足）”，只有“satisfy”可以和“需要”搭配这句话的意思是：西方社会大多数人可以满足生活必需品的最低需要。
16．H)根据句法功能，名词可以作宾语，在剩下的２个名词中，“possesions”符合句意，表示“物质财产”17．G)根据句法功能，名词做主语，剩下的最后一个名词“admiration”符合句意，表示“如果一个人不富有，别人不会给予他敬佩和尊重。
”18．J)根据句法功能，形容词作表语，在剩下的４个形容词中，“inherent”更符合句意，表示：现代人对财富的欲望是人类内在的本性19. K) 这句话缺少一个动词做谓语，在剩下的２个动词中，“varies”更符合句意，“现代人对财富的欲望因社会价值的变化而变化。
”20. F)根据句法功能，“being”后接形容词，在剩下的２个可以和介词“to”搭配的形容词“superior（优越的）”“appropriate（合适的）”中，前者更符合句意，“由于我们大多数人对物质财富的追逐停止下来，我们不得不寻找其它比我们的同辈优越的方式。
”资料来源：新大学英语四、六级考点透视丛书：六级阅读/李华田主编，武汉大学出版社，2006
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