World’s Happiest Countries全球最快乐的国家.docVIP

World’s Happiest Countries全球最快乐的国家 　　本篇阅读材料的难度属中等，全文约369词，因此建议阅读时间（含做题）为15分钟。阅读要求：认真阅读短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 　　As the richest country in the world, Qatar may also be the happiest in your mind. And you’d also 1 Japanese people to be extremely 2 , seeing that they have the highest life expectancy. 3 clearly wealth and good health do not guarantee（保证） 4 after both countries failed to 5 the top ten most positive countries. 　　The poll（调查） of nearly 150,000 people around the world found that seven of the world’s 10 countries with the most positive attitudes 6 their life are in Latin America. The poll asked about 1,000 people in each of 148 countries if they were well?rested, had been treated with respect, smiled or laughed a lot, learned or did something interesting and felt 7 of enjoyment the previous day. In Panama and Paraguay, 85 percent of those polled said yes to all five, 8 those countries at the top of the list. They were 9 closely by El Salvador, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Thailand, Guatemala, the Philippines, Ecuador and Costa Rica. 　　The people least likely to report positive emotions lived in Singapore, the wealthy and orderly city?state that 10 among the most developed in the world. Other wealthy countries also sat surprisingly 11 on the list. Germany and France tied with(并列) the poor African state of Somaliland for 47th place. 　　Many of the seven countries which were most positive do 12 in traditional measures of well?being, like Guatemala, a country 13 from decades of civil war followed by waves of criminality（犯罪） that give it one of the 14 homicide（杀人） rates in the world. 15 Guatemala sits just above Iraq on the UN’s Human Development Index（指数）, which is a combination of life 16 , education and income, it ranks seventh in positive emotions. 　　“In Guatemala（危地马拉）, it’s a culture of 17 people who are always smiling,” said Luz Castillo, a 30?year?old surfing instructor. 18 all the problems that we’re facing, we’re surrounded by natura