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When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a peak of great delight--and those peaks seem to get

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问题    When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a peak of great delight--and those peaks seem to get rarer the older we get.
   For a child, happiness has a magical quality. I remember making hide outs in newly cut hay, playing cops and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at such peaks of pleasure as winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved.
   For teenagers, or people under twenty, the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’s conditional on such things as excitement, love, and popularity. I can still feel the agony of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. But I also recall the great happiness of being invited at another event to dance with a very handsome young man.
   In adulthood the things that bring great joy--birth, love, marriage--also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last, sex isn’t always good, and loved ones die. For adults, happiness is complicated.
   My dictionary explains happy as "lucky" or "fortunate", but I think a better explanation of happiness is "the capacity for enjoyment". The more we can enjoy what we have, the happier we are. It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from loving and being loved, the company of friends, the freedom to love where we please, even good health. Nowadays, with so many choices and such pressure to succeed in every area, we have turned happiness into one mode thing we "gotta have".
   We’re so self-conscious about our "right" to it that it’s making us extremely unhappy. So we chase it and consider it to be the same as wealth and success, without noticing that the people who have those things aren’t necessarily happier.
   While happiness may be more complex for us, the solution is the same as ever. Happiness isn’t about what happens to us--it’s about how we perceive what happens to us. It’s the ability to find positive for every negative, and view a setback as a challenge. It’s not wishing for what we don’t have, but enjoying what we do possess.
As is suggested in the passage, failure to feel happy often results from ______.
选项 A、taking everything one has for granted
B、lack of freedom to love and be loved
C、lack of company of friends
D、ignoring the choices one is given in life
答案A
解析 这道题同样考查考生的推理能力。从文章第五段说“The more we can enjoy what we have，the happier we are．It’s easy to overlook the pleasure we get from loving and being loved…”可知我们越能享受我们拥有的东西，我们就越高兴。我们忽略了生活中那些可以带给我们快乐的事情，并把一切当作是理所当然的。这和选项A“把每件我们拥有的事情看成是理所当然”的意思一致，所以答案选A。
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