根據(jù)以下資料，回答40~43題。

　　Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less.That describes the way many of us live today.We are doing more, but enjoying it less.And when that doesn't work, we get the problem.In our extremely hurried search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.

　　The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe.Satisfaction lies with less, not with more.Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.

　　Arthur Lindman, in his very effective book, "The Harried Leisure Class," described the uselessness of pursuing more.His research focused on what people did with their leisure time.He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time.But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them.Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety.That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.

　　Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this.The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago.It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.

　　If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me.How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?

　　The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things.The more I give up, the more I seem to gain.But words will never convince you.You must try it for yourself.

　　第40題 Lindman wrote his book __.

　　A.ten years ago

　　B.twenty years ago

　　C.more than twenty years ago

　　D.thousands of years ago

　　【正確答案】：C

　　試題解析：第三段后。Arthur Lind man預(yù)言，巨大的無聊存在于極度的豐富之中。而這還是20多年前的預(yù)言，并且，他的預(yù)言越來越準確。選項D是第四段中另一本書的時間。

　　第41題 We can make our life happier if we __.

　　A.get rid of useless things

　　B.buy more things

　　C.sell things we do not need

　　D.give up more

　　【正確答案】：D

　　試題解析：通篇都在講我們做得越多、獲得的越多，我們就越不滿足。所以應(yīng)當學會放棄。

　　第42題 The best title for the passage is __.

　　A.Simplify Your Life

　　B.Enjoy Your Life

　　C.Smoking Less

　　D.Satisfaction

　　【正確答案】：A

　　試題解析：文章通過抽煙越多享受越少為引子點明主題：獲得的越多，并不意味著就越滿足。 又以兩位作者的書為觀點支持，說明要放棄一些東西，使我們的生活簡單一些，才能獲得真正的滿足。

　　第43題 Arthur Lindman wrote __.

　　A.a popular novel

　　B.a research paper

　　C.Ecclesiastes

　　D.The Harried Leisure Class

　　【正確答案】：D

　　試題解析：第三段。句就明確點明Arthur Lindman寫了一本很有影響的書，其書名是The Harried Leisure Class。

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