Question

One of Britain's leading fee-paying schools, Wellington College, is to offer classes on happiness to fight against the negative influences in society caused by materialism (功利主義) and celebrity obsession (名譽崇拜), its headteacher announced.

Wellington school was founded in 1853 and currently has 750 boys aged 13 to 18 and 50 girls aged 16 plus. Fees range from 6,132 pounds per term for day pupils to 7,665 pounds per term for boarders.

"We are introducing classes on happiness," said Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College. "We have been focusing too much on academics (學術) and missing something far more important."

A psychologist will oversee a pilot project teaching "happiness lessons" from the start of the next academic year. Pupils aged 14 to 16 will be given one lesson a week, learning skills such as how to manage relationships, physical and mental health, negative emotions and how to achieve one's ambitions.

The college's religious education staff will teach the course as a complement to, rather than a substitute for, usual religious education classes, said Seldon, who is also a political critic and author.

"To me, the most important job of any school is to turn out young men and women who are happy and secure (可靠的)." explained Seldon. "Celebrity, money and possessions are too often the touchstones for teenagers and yet these are not where happiness lies. Our children need to know that as societies become richer, they don't become happier -- a fact regularly shown by social science research."

Wellington school is to offer students classes on happiness because _____.

         A．students want to learn more about materialism and celebrity obsession

         B．students have poor knowledge about materialism and celebrity obsession

         C．students are often unhappy about the courses taught at school

         D．the school wants to smooth away the bad effects caused by materialism and celebrity obsession

Which statement is true according to the text?

         A．Wellington College has been focusing much attention on happiness lessons.

         B．Science research shows that the richer people are, the happier they will become.

         C．British teenagers often judge things by celebrity, money and possessions.

         D．Happiness lessons will take the place of religious education classes in college.

In happiness lessons, students learn the following except _____.

         A．how to get along with others

         B．how to become wealthy and famous

         C．how to get rid of negative emotion

         D．how to keep healthy both in physical and mental ways

Answer 1

【小題1】D

【小題2】C

【小題3】B

解析:

這是一篇教育類閱讀材料。心理健康教育一直是教育工作者所關注的問題，為培養出快樂的、可靠的年輕一代，在英國校園將推出“快樂學”新課程。

【小題1】細節題。根據第一段惠靈頓學院校長的介紹，推出此課程的目的是為了抵制由功利主義和對名譽的崇拜造成的不良社會影響。

【小題2】事實判斷題。第三段提到：惠靈頓學院的男教師安東尼·塞爾頓說：“我們準備推出快樂學課程，之前，學校對于學術方面關注過多而忽視了一些更為重要的東西”，由此可排除A項；短文最后一句提到：我們的孩子們需要明白：雖然社會越來越富裕，他們并不是越來越快樂，這也是社會科學研究常發現的一個事實，由此可排除B項；短文第五段提到：“快樂學”課程并非要替代傳統的宗教類課程，而是要作為此類課程的補充，由學校的宗教教育職員講授，由此可排除D項；短文最后一段第二句提到：名譽、金錢和財產常常成為青少年們衡量事物的標準，但這些東西都不是快樂的真諦。由此可得答案。

【小題3】細節題。根據第四段內容“14歲至16歲的學生每周上一節快樂學課，他們將學到諸如如何處理人際關系、保持生理和心理健康、消除消極情緒以及如何實現人生理想等技巧”，B項內容不在其中。