山东省淄博市张店区2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编：阅读表达

山东省淄博市张店区 2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编 阅读表达 2023年山东省淄博市张店区中考二模英语试题 五、阅读表达（共5小题，满分10分） 阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 请务必将47-51小题的答案写在答题卡的相应位置! I used to think the whole purpose of life was looking for happiness. What truly makes people happy? What I discovered changed my life. Looking for happiness may make people stressed and unhappy. Even though life is getting better, more people feel hopeless, sad and alone. According to the research, what causes this is not a lack(缺乏) of happiness but a lack of having meaning in life. Many psychologists(心理学家) think of happiness as feeling comfortable or good in the moment. Meaning, though, is deeper. The famous psychologist Martin Seligman says meaning comes from belonging, achieving something beyond yourself and developing from the best inside you. Belonging, purpose, transcendence(超越), telling stories-these are the four parts of meaning. We need to build them inside our families and organizations to help people make an excellent person. I remember a powerful experience I had with my father. Several months after I graduated from college, my dad had a serious heart attack(心脏病). He survived(活下来), and when I asked him his feelings as he faced death, he said all he could think about was needing to live, so he could be there for my brother and me, and this gave him the courage to fight for life. When doctors were giving him an operation(手术), he didn't feel afraid. Instead, he repeated our names. He wanted our names to be the last words he spoke on earth if he died. My dad lives a common, but a good life. Lying there facing death, he had a reason to live: love. His sense of belonging inside his family, his purpose as a dad, his unusual thinking, repeating our names-these are why he survived. That's the power of meaning. Happiness comes and goes. But whether life is good or bad, having meaning gives you something to hold on to. 47. Why do some people feel hopeless even though their life is getting better? 48. If a person has meaning in life, what does