高中英語語法填空:短文題型能力練習 Test 28

高中英語語法填空:短文題型能力練習 Test 28

I live in Hollywood. You may think people in such a glamorous（迷人的）, fun-filled place are 　61　 (happy) than others. If so, you have some mistaken ideas about the nature of happiness.

Many intelligent people still equate（等同） happiness with fun. The truth is that fun and happiness have little or 　62　 in common. Fun is 　63　 we experience during an act. Happiness is what we experience after an act. It is a deeper, more abiding emotion.

Going to an amusement park or ball game, 　64　 (watch) a movie or television, are fun activities that help us relax, 　65　 (temporary) forget our problems and maybe even laugh. 　66　 they do not bring happiness, because their positive effects end when the fun ends.

I have often thought that if Hollywood stars have a role to play, it is to teach us that happiness has nothing to do with fun. These rich, beautiful individuals have constant access 　67　 glamorous parties, fancy cars, expensive homes, everything that spells “happiness”.

But in memoir after memoir, celebrities reveal the unhappiness 　68　 (hide) beneath all their fun: depression, alcoholism, drug addiction, broken marriages, troubled children, profound loneliness.

The way people cling to the belief that a fun-filled, pain-free life equates happiness actually diminishes their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equated with happiness, then pain must be equated with unhappiness. But, in fact, the 　69　 is true: More times than not, things that lead to happiness involve some pain.

As a result, many people avoid the very endeavors 　70　 are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment, civic or charitable work, and self-improvement.