专题05 阅读理解（议论文）-备战2024年高考英语近两年名校联考模拟试题精选分类汇编（上海专用）

专题05 阅读理解（议论文） 目录 1. 上海交通大学附属中学2023年高三试题 2. 上海市实验学校2023年高三试卷 3. 2023年上海市复兴高级中学模拟预测 4. 上海市金山中学2023年高三试题 5. 上海华东师范大学第二附属中学2022届高三试题 6. 上海市南洋模范中学2022年高三试题 7. 上海市2022年徐汇中学高三试题 8. 上海市2023年高三“六校联合教研”调研试题 9. 2023高三上海市建平中学校考开学考试 10.上海复旦附中2022年高三模拟 1.【上海交通大学附属中学2023年高三试题】 The Happiness Myth Happiness is not natural. It is a mere human construct. A state of contentment (let alone happiness) is discouraged by our genetic design because it would lower our guard against possible threats to our survival. Chasing happiness is like chasing an elusive (难寻踪迹的) ghost, but the positive thinking industry claims to know its secrets. Self-help was popularized by Norman Vincent Peale, a colorful American pastor (牧师). He invented “positive thinking”, a concept now deeply embedded in our culture and steadily growing in influence. The global personal development industry was valued at $38. 28 billion in 2019 and is expected to grow at a rate of 5. 1%. Popular films and books are full of supposedly inspirational statements about how all you need to do is believe in yourself and then you’ll be able to achieve anything in life. This is simply, and obviously, not true. I don’t think there is a need to explain that many obstacles and misfortunes in life are inevitable, or unmanageable. Our ancestors knew this, and many philosophical and religious traditions are based on the acceptance that being alive is a very challenging task, which comes with significant amounts of suffering. It goes without saying that we should do all we can to maximize our sense of wellbeing and minimize our suffering (as the “utilitarian” philosophers explain), but the end result cannot be a state of sustained bliss (极乐). We are not designed that way. The self-help genre is not a homogeneous (同种类的) beast, however. It is, in fact, ironic how self-help books on happiness and those on how to make it big in life are put together in the same bookshop shelves, given that many of the former tell us that caring too