Reading- enjoyment V.S.pleasure

When considering the kind of experience that makes life better, most people first think that happiness ________experiencing pleasure: good food, good jobs, all the comforts that money can buy.

• depends on

• insists on

• pop up

• pick on

If we _________good food, good jobs and all the comforts that money can buy, we might as well sit in front of the television on a quiet evening.

• can't have

• couldn't have

• didn't have

• hadn't had

When people think further about what makes a worthy life, they tend to move ______ pleasant memories, and begin to remember other experiences.

• beyond

• over

• forward

• toward

These experiences that _______pleasurable ones but fall into a group with a separate name: enjoyment.

• overlap

• overlaps

• overlapped

• overlapping

Enjoyable events take place when people have not only ______ a need or met some earlier expectation, but also achieved something unexpected.

• satisfied

• satisfies

• satisfying

• to satisfy

Enjoyment __________a sense of curiosity, of achievement.

• takes credit for

• hangs around

• is characterized by

• taps the brakes on

Playing a tennis game that improves one’s ability ____(be)enjoyable, as is reading a book that _____(show) things in a new light, as is having a conversation that _____(lead)us to express ideas we didn’t know we had.

• is; shows; leads

• was; shows; led

• is; shows; led

• are; show; lead

_______ of these experiences may be especially pleasurable when they are taking place.(an inspiring conversation or reading experience)

• All

• None

• Some

• Most

 After an enjoyable event we know that we ______(change and grow).

• have changed and grown

• changed and grew

• change and grow

• have changed and grew

Experiences that give p______( 享乐) can also give e_______(享受）, but the two feelings are quite different.