人教专题18 时文阅读七选五（3）社会现象-2023年高考英语时文阅读理解、完形填空、语法填空专练.docx

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专题18 时文阅读七选五(3)-社会现象
1.【导语】本文是一篇新闻报道，文章介绍印度首都德里推出“幸福课程”，关注学生的情绪健康。
重点词汇：
limited有限的；
decreasing减少；
standards标准；
tough艰难的；
For the past three weeks, students across India’s capital have been attending a new course: happiness. The Delhi government introduced “happiness classes”. ____1____. In a country that uses normal testing to determine student success, offers a limited number of seats in top universities and sets high expectations, educators have been seeing mental health effects. ____2____. He said, “It will address the growing concern, which is that levels of happiness and well-being are decreasing.”
“We have given best-of-the-best talents to the world,” Sisodai said, according to The Washington Post. “____3____. We have been successful so far. But have we been able to deliver best-of-the-best human beings to society, to the nation?”
The Washington Post says children came out of their first happiness class with some excitement. “We should work happily,” 11-year-old Aayush Jha, a seventh grader at a public school in Delhi, told the paper. “When you work sadly, your work will not be good.”
Sisodai hopes to deliver these tools to help students live more happily inside and outside of the classroom, whether or not they’re achieving their academic standards. “I don’t know if happiness can be learned, but yes, it can be practised,” he says. “____4____.”
One in four Indian children aged 13 to 15 struggles with low spirits, the World Health Organization reported last year. As journalist Susan Brink reported, “The government has made changes after noticing that some young people under great stress to do well in school tended to commit suicide (***) if they felt they did poorly.” “In South India, they observed higher suicide rates after exam periods among schoolchildren who failed,” Alexandra Fleischmannn, a project coordinator for the WHO’s Preventing Suicide report, told Brink. “____5____, and that reduced suicides.”
A．Many Indian students are faci