One effective way of destroying happiness is to look at something and focus on even the smallest fault. It's like looking at the tiled (铺瓦的) ceiling and concentrating on the space where one tile is    
Once I heard a bald man said, "whenever I enter a room     I see is hair. " Once you've   what your missing tile is, explore whether acquiring it will     make you happy. Then do one of the three things: get it, replace it with a different   , or forget about it and       the tiles in your life that are not missing.
We all know people who have a relatively    life, yet are essentially unhappy while people who have suffered a great deal but     remain happy.
The first   is gratitude. All happy people are    Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to    , but it's truer to say that complaining leads to people becoming unhappy.
The second secret is     that happiness is a byproduct (副产品) of something else. The most obvious    are those pursuit  (追求) that give our lives purpose—anything     studying insects to playing baseball. The more passions we have, the more happiness we are    to experience.
Finally, the belief that something permanent goes beyond us and that our     has some larger meaning can help us to feel happier. We        a spiritual faith, or a philosophy, it should     this truth: if you choose to find the     in every situation, you will be blessed, and if you choose to find the awful, you will be cursed. As with happiness itself, this is    your decision to make.
A. different    B. missing    C. short    D. broken
A. nothing    B. none    C. all    D. anything
A. determined    B. predicted    C. assumed    D. imagined
A. completely    B. naturally    C. hopefully    D. really
A. tile    B. brick    C. ceiling    D. house
A. look on    B. focus on    C. count on    D. focus on
A. peaceful    B. difficult    C. easy    D. ordinary
A. certainly    B. merely    C. hardly    D. generally
A. secret    B. factor    C. rule    D. key
A. wealthy    B. grateful    C. proud    D. generous
A. upset    B. quarrel    C. complain    D. depress
A. admitted    B. assuming    C. proving    D. realizing
A. sources    B. results    C. answers    D. goals
A. among    B. from    C. through    D. for
A. probable    B. possible    C. likely    D. capable
A. value    B. destination    C. survival    D. existence
A. need    B. lack    C. demand    D. expect
A. involve    B. include    C. absorb    D. mean
A. worst    B. best    C. positive    D. negative
A. absolutely    B. totally    C. exactly    D. largely

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