One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before he fell ill he wasn't happy. Happiness was "having the cookie". Only if you had the cookie could things be good.
Unluckily, the cookie kept changing. Some of the time it was money, sometimes power, sometimes fancy things.
A year and a half after his diagnosis(诊断)of cancer, he sits in my office shaking his head. "It's like I stopped learning how to live after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. If I take the cookie away or it breaks, he is unhappy. But he is 2 years old and I am 43. It has taken me this long to understand that the cookie will never make me happy for long," he says. "The minute you have the cookie, you start to worry about someone trying to take it away from you."
My patient laughs and says cancer has changed him. For the first time he is happy. No matter if his business is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. "Two years ago, cancer asked me: ‘What is really important?' Well, life is important -- life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness doesn't have anything to do with the cookie; it has something to do with being alive." he pauses thoughtfully. "I guess life is the cookie."
71.What was "the cookie" for the businessman before he fell ill?Money,power or fancy things.Money,power or fancy things.
72.How does the patient's 2-year-old son feel when he gets a cookie?Happy./He feels happy.Happy./He feels happy.
73.What makes the patient change his mind to be happy?Cancer./Cancer has changed him.Cancer./Cancer has changed him.
74.What question did the patient start to think about after he got cancer?What's really important?What's really important?
75.What does the patient think happiness is at present?Being alive./To be alive.Being alive./To be alive.
【答案】Money,power or fancy things.;Happy./He feels happy.;Cancer./Cancer has changed him.;What's really important?;Being alive./To be alive.
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