题文
Too Much Happiness was written by Alice Munro，winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature，one of our greatest contemporary writers of fiction and the owner of the Man Booker Price for Fiction．Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker，The Atlantic Monthly，and other publications，and her collections have been translated into thirteen languages．
The main character is Sophia Kovalevsky，a great Russian mathematician，writer and advocator拥护者）of women’s rights in the late nineteenth century. After visiting her lover Maxsim Kovalevsky in Riviera，she travels in Europe，ending up in Sweden，where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician．The book writes about her journey from Riviera to Sweden．
The story tells the typical struggle of an intellectual（知识分子）woman to achieve success and happiness．However，when she is going to die，Sophia says“too much happiness”．I think it’s irony（讽*11的）．As reading the story，she has too many mental problems·First，as a woman mathematician，she was born in a wrong time ．She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love，called“a white marriage”．She explained that“no a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country．”She satisfied her marriage to seek her career．
Furthermore，when she sees a man look like Maxsim in the station，she says to herself，“of course，it would not be Maxsim，what could he be doing in Paris？”She doesn’t want to face the fact because she doesn’t want to lose her hope．She believes they will marry in spring．And in her letter to Julia she says：“it is to be happiness after all，happiness after all．Happiness．”She is cheating herself. In fact，the man does not want to marry her，and the happiness she expected doesn’t take place at all．
Finally, I conclude that the end must be a tragedy（悲剧）．From the very first pages the atmosphere is gloomy黯淡的）and threatening.“One of us will die this year.”“Because we have gone walking in a graveyard（墓地）on the first day of the New Year.”Some pages further，“a black cat across their path”all reflect it will be a bad ending．Not because she had some problems with her lung，but because her life does not bring her happiness，and because of these disharmony things that happen in her life．
小题1:We can infer from the passage that＿＿·A．Sophia was born in a wrong time and was mentally illB．women were not fairly treated in Europe in Sophia’s timeC．Sophia loved travelling around Europe to meet `different peopleD．unmarried women were forbidden to learn mathematics at that time小题2:The underlined phrase“the fact”in Paragraph 4 most probably refers to the fact thatA．her husband refuses to divorceB．she can’t teach in universityC．she falls in love with MaxsimD．Maxsim doesn’t want to marry her小题3:Why does the author name this book Too Much Happiness？A．It is used to suggest that the story must be a comedy．B．It’s a phrase repeatedly used by Sophia herself to her friend．C．It’s used in an ironic way to show that Sophia isn’t happy at all．D．It’s to show Sophia is very happy to achieve success in her career．小题4:What can we conclude from Sophia’s experience？A．It’s hard for an educated woman to achieve success in Europe at that time．B．Russian women were not allowed to go abroad without a white marriage．C．Married women could travel freely across Europe in the late nineteenth century．D．Seeing a black cat across the path would bring people to death in the end．小题5:In a newspaper，this passage is most probably in the section of____．A．EntertainmentB．TravelC．CareerD．Culture 题型：未知 难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:B
小题2:D
小题3:C
小题4:A
小题5:D
解析
试题分析: 本文介绍了2013年普利策奖和曼布克小说奖的获得者、现代作家爱丽丝·门罗的作品Too Much Happiness 。在她的这部作品中描述了一名19世紀女數學家的冬季旅程與她的愛及渴望，小说从侧面反映了当时时代妇女地位的低下。
小题1:B推理判断题。根据第二段中where she teaches at the only university in Europe willing to employ a female mathematician．以及第三段中“no a young Russian woman who was unmarried could leave the country．”可知在当时的欧洲妇女没有受到公平的待遇，答案选B。
小题2:D词义猜测题。文章第二段提到She was married to Vladimir Kovalevsky without love，called“a white marriage”，以及下文In fact，the man does not want to marry her可知答案选D.
小题3:C推理判断题。根据故事的内容可知女主人公口口声声说的幸福其实是不存在的，她没有获得所追求的幸福，故事是悲剧的结尾，由此推断作者把Too Much Happiness做为书名，是为了做为反语，说明她的不幸福。
小题4:A推理判断题。在这篇小说中女主人公是一个为了获得成功和幸福而付出艰辛的数学家，但是最终却一无所获，由此判断在当时的欧洲妇女是很难成功的。
小题5:D推理判断题。A娱乐；B旅游；C职业；D文化。文章主要介绍的是获得普利策奖的一部文学作品，由此推测D选项正确。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“ Too Much Happiness .....”主要考查你对 [政治经济类阅读 ]考点的理解。政治经济类阅读
政治经济类文章的概念：
要做好这类阅读，平时就要注意了解国内外发生的政治经济大事，掌握一定背景知识，对这类文章的叙述特点及内容安排有一定了解，还要扩展这方面的词汇。阅读这类文章，要抓住文章的核心，即文章整体和各段主要在说什么，也要注意段落之间的逻辑关系。
如何备考政治经济类阅读理解题：
【题型说明】政治经济类阅读文章是高考常选材料之一。该类文章时代气息浓郁，语言鲜活，但熟字新义词、超纲词及专业词语多，长句、难句多。政治类文章大多数是同学们感性趣的内容，读起来倒有似曾相识的感觉，经济类文章读起来就像是雾里看花，文章看完，一头雾水。再加之这类文章的命题侧重于词义猜测、推理判断和文章主旨，同学们对这类题材是望而生畏。
【备考策略】建立心理优势。针对不同体裁的文章，我们要采取相应的阅读方法和技巧。政治类文章多采用记叙文形式，我们可采取“顺读法”，以便抓关键语句，领会文章主旨；而经济类文章则多采用说明文形式，我们则可以采取“逆读法”，先读试题，再从文章中查找有用信息。若遇到的确难读的材料。千万不用着急，因为你觉得难，其他人也一定是同感。在高考前，我们就要有这种心理准备，高考试卷肯定有一、两篇难以阅读的材料。不过，我们平时可以有意识地从报刊杂志上找一些较难的阅读材料来阅读，以培养自己迎难而上的心理素质。
【答题方法】
1、寻找主干：
根据英语中五种基本句型结构，把句子中的主语、谓语、宾语、表语等主要成分找出来，其他成分如定语、状语、补语等则易于理解。找到了句子主干，句子的意思至少明白了一半。
2、剔除从句：
在一个长句中可能会出现若干个从句，在理解时，如果把各个从句剔除出来单独理解，然后把大意拼凑起来，整个长句的意思就会明白六、七分。
3、辨别分句：
一个长句如果是由几个并列、转折、递进、对比关系的分句组成，句中往往有表示这些分句关系的连接词，只要能弄清楚分句和分句之间的逻辑关系，再把各层分句的意思加以连贯，整个长句的句意基本上能跃然脑中。
4、寻找关键词：
如果一个句子看完，一点句意的感觉也没有，下下策就是抓住句中的关键词，通过关键词大体弄懂这个长句的意思。
