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It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursu

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问题       It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it 【C1】______  Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often 【C2】______  So it is with happiness. If you pursue it 【C3】______  drink, you are forgetting the hang-over (宿醉). Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, 【C4】______  by  a little  cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian (体弱多病的人), and most people would need something more 【C5】______ .For most people, the pursuit of happiness, 【C6】______ supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be 【C7】______  as a personal rule of life. But I think that 【C8】______  personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be 【C9】______  with happiness.
     There are a great many people who have all the 【C10】______  conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, 【C11】______ , are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the 【C12】______  must lie with a 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 【C13】______  , and are happy as long as external conditions are 【C14】______  If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an 【C15】______  night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too 【C16】______  to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and 【C17】______ all impulses that do not minister to it. A business-man may be so 【C18】______  to grow rich that to this end he 【C19】______  health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no 【C20】______  remains to him except harrying (折磨) other people by exhortations (训词) to imitate his noble example.   [br] 【C5】
选项 A、prosperous
B、rigorous
C、vigorous
D、gorgeous
答案 C
解析 形容词辨析。根据上文，Epicurus追求幸福的简单方式对他来说是成功的，但并不适用于大多数人。由but可知此处需要一个与Epicurus的生活方式相对的词，因此选vigorous“有活力的”。本题中的rigorous“严格的”、gorgeous“华丽的”在语义上都明显不合题意。只有prosperous“繁荣的”意义上有干扰，但它指经济或发展状况繁荣，与上下文不协调。
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