专题02 完形填空10篇（上海专用）-【好题汇编】备战2023-2024学年高一英语下学期期末真题分类汇编

专题02 完形填空10篇 （22-23高一下·上海·期末）When we think about lives filled with meaning, we often focus on people whose grand contributions benefited humanity. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela surely felt they had a worthwhile life. But how about us ordinary people, burying ourselves in a(n) 1 existence? Many scholars 2 a subjectively meaningful life to three factors: the feeling that one’s life makes sense (coherence), the possession of clear and satisfying long-term goals (purpose) and the belief that one’s life matters in the overall scheme of things ( 3 mattering). But we believe there is another element to consider. Think about the first butterfly you stop to admire after a long winter. Sometimes existence delivers us small moments of beauty. When people are 4 to appreciating such experiences, these moments may enhance how they view their life. We call this element experiential appreciation, which represents the detection of and 5 for life’s inherent beauty. To better understand this form of appreciation, we conducted a series of experiments in which we gave people specific tasks and asked them to report how strongly they 6 statements linked to the factors of meaningful life. In one case, we found that participants who watched an awesome video, such as the BBC documentary Planet Earth, reported having a greater sense of experiential appreciation and meaning in life, compared with participants watching more 7 videos, such as an instructional woodworking video. 8 , participants who wrote about a recent experience for which they were 9 had a greater sense of meaning when compared with those who simply wrote about a common place they had 10 last week. The results confirmed our original theory: people are born with the ability to appreciate beauty, and appreciating small things can make life feel more meaningful. But 11 that insight can be difficult. Our modern, fa