阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Schaumburg District 54, a school district in Schaumburg, Illino, has implemented a happiness curriculum. A key component of the curriculum is gratitude, where students develop four habits that take up just 21 minutes each day through exercises and learn to be thankful for not what they may want, but what makes them happy right now. And the four happiness habits are listed.
Two minutes of emailing
Write a two-minute maximum email each day praising or thanking a different person in your life. Not only do you often receive positive emails back, but this habit significantly increases your social connection, which is the greatest predictor of long-term happiness and is also as predictive of how long you will live as obesity or high blood pressure.
Fifteen minutes of movement
Fifteen minutes of movement each day can be the equal of taking an antidepressant, and acts as a gateway drug because people who do this start adding on entire groups of positive habits.
Two minutes of meditation
Two minutes of meditation—simply watching your breath go in and out—improves accuracy on tasks by 10 percent, significantly reduces stress, improves sleep and raises engagement scores.
Two minutes of journal
Two minutes of journal about a positive, meaningful experience each day can significantly decrease pain symptoms and stress and increase the amount of meaning you feel in your life. Simply think of one meaningful event that happened over the past 24 hours and then on a sheet of paper, write down some details you can remember, which is called “Doubler”. Your brain struggles to tell the difference between visualization and actual experience , so you are doubling a meaningful event each day.
1. What does the new curriculum focus on?
A. Being grateful. B. Being energetic.
C. Physical health. D. Interpersonal relationship.
2. Which habit promote you to develop good habits?
A. Two minutes of journal. B. Two minutes of emailing.
C. Two minutes of meditation D. Fifteen minutes of movement.
3. What is the benefit of keeping a diary?
A. Improving sleep. B. Boosting optimism.
C. Gaining insight into life. D. Increasing social connection.
B
For most people, graduation is an exciting day the celebration of years of hard work. My graduation day... was not.
I remember that weekend two years ago. Family and friends had flown in from across the country to watch our class walk across that stage. But like everyone else in my graduating class, I had watched the economy turn from bad to worse. What I thought would take a week dragged into two. and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself in the exact same spot as 1 was before. And the due date to begin paying back my student loans was creeping ever closer.
You know that feeling when you wake up and you are just consumed with fear? Fear about something you can’t control—that sense of approaching failure that remains over you as you hope that everything that happened to you thus far was just a bad dream? That feeling became a constant in my life. And the most frustrating part was no matter how much 1 tried, 1 just couldn’t seem to make any progress.
So what did I do to maintain my sanity（理智）? I wrote. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer — a little brighter. Something about writing gave me hope. And if you want something badly enough... sometimes a little hope is all you need! So I channeled my frustration into a children’s book. And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world — just a lot of hard work and perseverance — I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things slowly began to fall into place. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with The Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.
The moral of this story is... don’t give up. Even if things look bleak now, don’t give up. Things change If you work hard, give it time, and don’t give up, things will always get better Oftentimes all we need is the courage to push beyond the river.
4. From Paragraph 2, we can learn that the author probably_________.
A. was having an exciting graduation
B. was getting into financial difficulties
C. missed the life in the university
D. had just applied for the student loans
5. How did the author change the frustrating situation?
A. By sending applications. B. By offering contracts.
C. By keeping writing. D. By publishing books.
6. Which of the following can replace the underlined word “bleak” in the last paragraph?
A. Unattractive B. hopeless C. thrilling D. promising
7. What does the author mainly want to convey in the passage?
A. Success belongs to the persevering.
B. A contented mind is a perpetual（长久的）feast.
C. A smooth sea never makes a skillful mariner.
D. Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.
