专题05 强基计划之议论文篇- 2023年高考英语完形填空名校好题100篇

专题05 强基计划之议论文篇- 2023年高考英语完形填空名校好题100篇(原卷版) 1 （2022·上海金山·统考一模）In 2007, a group of researchers began testing a concept that seems as if it would never need testing: Is more happiness always better than less? The researchers asked college students to rate their feelings on a scale from “unhappy” to “very happy” and compared the results with academic and social outcomes. Although the “very happy” participants had brilliant social lives, they performed ____1____ in school than those who were merely “happy”. The researchers then examined a data set from another study that rated college freshmen’s “cheerfulness” and ____2____ their income nearly two decades later. They found that the most ____3____ were not the highest earners. That distinction (荣誉) once again went to the second-highest group, which rated their cheerfulness as “above average.” As with everything in life, happiness has its  ____4____. Pursuing happiness to the exclusion of other goals-known as psychological hedonism (享乐主义)—is____5____. It gives a life where you do not reach your full potential, where you are ____6____ to take risks, where you choose temporary pleasures over challenging experiences that give life meaning. When I talk with people about their fear of negative outcomes in life, their true source of fear, in many cases, ____7____ how they will feel about having failed, not about the consequence of the failure itself. This is similar to the way that discomfort with ____8____ causes more anxiety than guaranteed bad news. To ____9____ these bad feelings, people give up kinds of opportunities that involve the possibility of failure. However, bringing good things into your life, whether love or career success, usually involves risk. Risk does not, of course, _____10_____ make us happy. A risky life will very likely bring disappointment, but it can bring greater _____11_____ than a life played safe, as the studies above suggested. None of this is to say that we are foolish for wanting to be happy. _