Perhaps you think you could easily add to your happiness with more money. Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.
  Real riches consist of well-developed and hearty capacities (能力)  to enjoy life.  Most people are already swamped(淹没) with things. They eat, wear, go and talk too much. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.
   Your house of life ought to be a mansion (豪宅) , a royal palace.  Every new taste, every additional interest, every fresh enthusiasm adds a room.  Here are several rooms your house of life should have.
    Art should be a desire for you to develop simply because the world is full of beautiful things. If you only understood how to enjoy them and feed your spirit on them, they would make you as happy as to find plenty of ham and eggs when you're hungry.
    Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment. To gain that love would go toward making you a rich person, for a rich person is not someone who has a library but who likes a library.
    Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent. Real riches are of the spirit. And when you've brought that spirit up to where classical music feeds it and makes you a little drunk, you have increased your thrills and bettered them. And life is a matter of thrills.
   Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life. No matter who you are, you would be more human, and your house of life would be better supported against the had days, if you could, and did, play a bit.
  Whatever rooms you might add to your house of life, the secret of enjoying life is to keep adding.
68. The author intends to tell us that____________.
    A. true happiness lies in achieving wealth by fair means
    B. big houses are people's most valued possessions
    C. big houses can in a sense bring richness of life
    D. true happiness comes from spiritual riches
69. The underlined sentence in the second paragraph probably implies that__________.
    A. however materially rich, they never seem to be satisfied
    B. however materially rich, they remain spiritually poor
    C. though their house is big, they prefer a simple life
    D. though their house is big, it seems to be a cage
70. It can be learned from the passage that __________.
    A. more money brings more happiness
    B. art is needed to make your house beautiful
     C. literature can enrich your spiritual life
     D. sports contribute mainly to your physical fitness
71. What would be the best title for the passage?
    A. House of Life                               B. Secret of Wealth
C. Rest and Refreshment                         D. Interest and Enthusiasm
【考点】考察文化教育类阅读
【文章大意】很多人物质上非常丰富，住豪宅，享美食。但是他们真正幸福吗？他们的内心生活的房子又是如何呢？作者在文章里告诉我们，要想得到内心的幸福，需要了解艺术，文学，音乐等等不同的内容来丰富我们的内心世界。
68. 【答案】D
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章4,5,6,7段第一句Art should be a desire for you和 Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room和Music like Mozart's and Bach's shouldn't be absent.和Sports, without which you remain poor, mean a lot in life.真正幸福的人需要懂或者拥有：艺术，文学，音乐和运动等，而这些主要是与我们精神上的丰富有关系的。也就是说真正的幸福是精神上的富有。故D正确。
69. 【答案】B
【试题解析】推理题。根据本句h. They live in too big a house with too many rooms, yet their house of life is a hut.很多人住的是豪宅，但是他内心里的生命的住所是一个小棚屋。也就是说无论他物质上多么富有，但是内心的精神世界是贫穷的。故B正确。
70. 【答案】C
【试题解析】推理题。根据文章第五段Literature, classic literature, is a beautiful, richly furnished room where you might find many an hour of rest and refreshment.文学可以让我们的心灵得到丰富，在那里你可以得到心灵的安宁。故C正确。
71. 【答案】A
【试题解析】主旨大意题。现实生活里很多人物质上非常丰富，住豪宅，享美食。但是他们真正幸福吗？他们的内心生活的房子又是如何呢？作者在文章里告诉我们，要想得到内心的幸福，需要了解艺术，文学，音乐等等不同的内容来丰富我们的内心世界。A项中House of Life涵盖了这些内容。故A正确。
【长难句解析】
Strange as it may seem, if you're unsatisfied, the issue is not a lack of means to meet your desires but a lack of desires—not that you cannot satisfy your tastes but that you don't have enough tastes.
【翻译】尽管这听起来很奇怪，但是如果你不满意，问题不是缺少满足你的欲望的方法，而是你根本就没有欲望，不是你无法满足你的品味，而是你根本就没有品味。
【分析】本句中的Strange as it may seem是一个形式倒装，陈述语序是Though it may seem strange, ….；另外后面主句的表语是由not…but…组成的并列结构