Recently, CCTV reporters asked many people a simple question, “Are you happy?”
小题1:_________ Even Mo Yan, who recently won a Nobel Prize, responded by saying, “I don’t know.”
While the question has become a popular phrase and the Internet plays host to heated discussions, we ask, 小题2:__________________
Last year, China’s Premier Wen Jiabao told the nation, “We do everything to let people live more happily.” At last year’s Nation’s People’s Congress(人代会), officials agreed that increasing happiness would be a top goal for the 12
th five-year- plan.
Many think that happiness is difficult to describe and that it is from many ways. 小题3:___________ For some, happiness can be as simple as having enough money to buy a new bicycle; for others, it’s about having wealth, keeping healthy or finding the perfect marriage.
Chen Shanguyan is a college student. 小题4:_____________ “At present it relates to how well I study in a day, “ he said. “It might be linked to a good job after I graduate.”
小题5:______________ Does it depend on how many friends we have, or whether we own the latest smartphone? Is it even quantifiable(量化)?
Economists(经济学家) are trying to measure happiness in people’s lives. Since 1972, Bhutan’s GDP measurement has been taken the place of g Gross National Happiness index国民幸福指数), according to the people’s sense of being well-governed(管理), their relationship with the environment, their satisfaction with economic(经济的) development, and their sense of national belonging. But is well-being more easily measured?
| A．What exactly is happiness and how do you measure it? |
| B．The question is really too difficult for us to answer. |
| C．Then there is the question of measuring happiness. |
| D．He said his idea of happiness always developed. |
E.It also means different things to different people.
