2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：The road to happiness
passage 11. what do animals live on?
2. what are human needs based on?
3. what would a business man sacrifice to grow rich, health and...?
4. why do many rich ladies spend boring hours learning to talk about
fashionable new books?
to be thought
The road to happiness
There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of
happiness. For example health and sufficient income and who nevertheless are
profoundly unhappy. In such cases, it would seem as if the fault must lie with
the wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as
to how to live is wrong, we imagine ourselves more different from the animals
than we are. Animals live on imports and they are happy as long as the external
conditions are favorable. If you have a cat, it will enjoy life if it has food
and warmth and opportunities for the occasional light on the ties. Your needs
are more complex than those of your cat but they still have their basis on
instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English speaking societies, this
is too apt to be forgotten. People proposed to themselves someone paramount
objective and restrain all imposes that do not minister to them. A business man
maybe so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifice his health and
private affections when at last he becomes rich, no pleasure remains to him
except hearing other people by exaltations to immitate his noble example. Many
rich ladies although nature has not indult them with any spontaneous pleasure in
the literature or art, decide to be thought cultured and spend boring hours
learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books lead a reason to
give delight not to afford opportunities for dirtiest sno bism.
sufficient
profoundly
imports
paramount
sacrifice
harry
exaltation
indult
spontaneous
snobism
You can't work around the clock, you can't injure too much pressure.
I know, but I just seem unable to simply done.
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