When we think about happiness, we usually think of something extraordinary, a peak of great delight--and those peaks seem to get rarer the older we get.
For a child, happiness has a magical quality. I remember making hide-outs in newly cut hay, playing cops and robbers in the woods, getting a speaking part in the school play. Of course, kids also experience lows, but their delight at such peaks of pleasure as winning a race or getting a new bike is unreserved.
For teenagers, or people under twenty, the concept of happiness changes. Suddenly it’ s conditional on such things as excitement, love, and popularity. I can still feel the agony of not being invited to a party that almost everyone else was going to. But I also recall the great happiness of being invited at another event to dance with a very handsome young man.
In adulthood the things that bring great joy--birth, love, marriage--also bring responsibility and the risk of loss. Love may not last,
A. think of something extraordinary
B. experience delight at an old age
C. feel the magic quality of pleasure
D. enjoy what one has at the moment
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weeks of devastating storms, a generally hidden truth about its economy will
come to light again. Most of the builders and electricians who will have to
repair the houses, remake the roads and re-establish the electrical power lines
will have to take on undocumented workers in order to meet their contracts. In
1996 the Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) conservatively estimated
that Texas had over 600,000 undocumented immigrants doing the jobs no one else
wants: hauling carcasses in packing plants, picking fruit, cleaning hotel rooms,
or sorting out the unspeakable damage caused by natural disasters. Mention the issue of these workers to a Texan, and he is liable to fall uncharacteristically silent. Even state legislators avoid the issue. They know that many of their constituents e A. Many illegal workers look for work in areas near major cities. B. Employers never supply transportation to the place of work. C. Illegal workers do not present any documents in order to get the job. D. The illegal workers do jobs that others would consider undesirable. [单选题]下列说法正确的是（ ）。
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