Question

    The way we spend our time can be divided into three "bottles". These are the necessary tasks bottle, the voluntary tasks bottle and the happiness bottle.

Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks bottle with useful things, like making money, doing housework, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another bottle with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family. Those bottles are very important. If we don't fill them each day, our family won't run properly.

However, we often forget to fill the third bottle—the happiness bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy. Is your happiness bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies by, and before we know it, it is time for bed. We all have days like that.

This is why each day we have to make an effort to fill our happiness bottle. I fill mine by going to the dancing class. And I always leave classes more happily than when I enter. This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We show our musical talent and practice music for charity. It was a time of fun, friendship and music-making. At the end of the evening, my happiness bottle was filled to top.

Make sure to fill all the three bottles. Will your activities bring joy to your life? Or are the other two tasks eating up all your time? Try to find ways to achieve a balance between how you fill your three bottles. At the end of the day, hopefully we've done all we can to make sure that our happiness bottle is filled.

1.Which activity belongs to a voluntary task according to the passage?

A.Making money. B.Doing housework.

C.Making more friends. D.Cooking family meals.

2.What does Paragraph Three mainly tell us?

A.Necessary and voluntary tasks are less important.

B.We need time to do something to make ourselves happy.

C.All the three bottles are filled to top at the end of the day.

D.We require enough time to fill the necessary tasks bottle.

3.How did the writer fill the happiness "bottle" this week?

A.By practicing music for charity. B.By staying with children.

C.By listening to some nice music. D.By buying delicious food.

4.What does the underlined word "balance" in the passage probably mean?

A.right direction B.same importance

C.successful experience D.enough attention

5.What can we know from the passage?

A.Why to find more ways to get happiness. B.Why to make an effort to finish our tasks.

C.How to improve the way we spend our time. D.How to join the activities to show our talents.

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.C

【解析】

本篇文章难度适中，主要讲述我们花费时间的方式可以分为三个瓶，即任务瓶、自愿瓶和幸福瓶。我们应该试图让三个瓶平衡。在一天结束的时候，我们做了所有我们可以做的事情来确保我们的瓶子是满的。

1.细节理解题。根据We then fill another bottle with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing clothes for family“然后我们用另一个瓶子装满自愿任务。这些都是我们为别人做的事情，但我们可能并不喜欢。这个瓶子可以装满各种任务，比如带孩子去参加活动，为家人做饭，为家人洗衣服”可知，为家人洗衣服属于志愿瓶，故选D。

2.主旨大意题。根据However, we often forget to fill the third bottle—the happiness bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy“然而，我们经常忘记把第三个瓶子装满——装满让我们快乐的活动”可知，本段主要讲述要花费一些时间做让我们开心的事情，故选B。

3.细节理解题。根据This week, I had the pleasure of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We show our musical talent and practice music for charity“这周，我有幸参加了我的社区的吉他练习。我们展示我们的音乐天赋并为慈善事业练习音乐”可知，这周作者通过为慈善事业练习音乐来装满快乐的瓶子，故选A。

4.词义猜测题。根据Make sure to fill all the three bottles. Will your activities bring joy to your life? Or are the other two tasks eating up all your time?“确保填满所有的三个瓶子，你的活动会给你的生活带来快乐吗?还是其他两项任务占用了你所有的时间”以及At the end of the day, hopefully we've done all we can to make sure that our happiness bottle is filled“在一天结束的时候，希望我们已经做了我们所能做的一切来确保我们的幸福瓶子是满的”可知，表示的是平衡，即三个瓶子同样重要。故选B。

5.主旨大意题。However, we often forget to fill the third bottle—the happiness bottle that we fill with activities that make us happy“然而，我们经常忘记把第三个瓶子装满——装满让我们快乐的活动”以及Make sure to fill all the three bottles“确保填满所有的三个瓶子”可知，我们应该试图找到方法来实现三个瓶子之间的平衡，即改善我们花费时间的方式。故选C。