Question

    閱讀下面的短文，并根據(jù)短文后的要求答題(請(qǐng)注意問題后的字?jǐn)?shù)要求)。

   1 ]Soerates once asked his students, "Do not all men desire happiness?" A student answered him, "There is no one who does not. " But how can one get happiness?

     [2 ]Think for a moment about your last big pay raise. Why did you feel such joy over it?Most likely, it' s because of what your higher pay meant to you--evidence that you had succeeded and created value. It is success (not money) that we really desire.

      [3]Take the ease of billionaire Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle. As the world' s 14^th richest man, he still continues to slave away, earning billion after billion. Being rich, and having more than the average Joe, simply cannot be driving Larry Ellison. It is the will to succeed and create value at greater and greater heights. Oracle has not made Larry Ellis0n a rich man without any benefit to society. The firm currently has offered well ~ paying jobs to tens of thousands of employees so they are able to ____________________________The company has introdueed technology that has benefited all parts of the economy, and it has paid billions to its shareholders. And in 2007 alone, it paid $1.2 billion in corporate taxes, totally apart from the personal taxes paid by Ellison and his employees.

      [4] There is nothing strange about measuring our success with money--we measure things indirectly all the time. In the same way, we measure our professional success with green pieces of paper called "dollars. "

      [5 ] But there is a dark side to this fact: People usually forget money is only a measure and some even focus on money only. They confuse money for what it is supposed to measure. Jus as President Franklin Roosevelt once said, "Happiness is not in the mere possession of money it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. "Money doesn' t buy happiness but success does.

76. What's the main idea of this passage? (Please answer within 10 words)

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77. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

   His company has made him wealthy and the society is also sharing his success.

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78. Fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)

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79. Why do you think the writer take the case of Laity Ellison as an example? What do you think of him? (Please answer within 30 words)

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80. Translate the underlined sentence in the last paragraph into Chinese

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Answer 1

76．Money doesn’t buy happiness, but Success does．

77．Oracle has not made Larry Ellisen a rich man without any benefit to society．

78．1ive happy lives／support their families

79．Larry Ellisen feels happiness because of not money but one Success after another. That’s

    why he is very successful．We should also work harder for a new achievement．

80．但這一事實(shí)也有不好的一面，因?yàn)槿藗兺�往忘記了金錢只是一個(gè)衡量尺度，甚至有人僅僅關(guān)注金錢。