题目内容：

As a child, I was generally happy, singing and dancing to my favorite songs, smiling and laughing with my friends and family. But as far back as second grade, I noticed a “darkness” about me. I didn’t enjoy engaging in many things.

In middle school things in my life began to get even worse. I began withdrawing from everything I once enjoyed—swimming, tennis, family. I hated going to sleep knowing I had to wake up to another day. I was always tired. Everything was horrible. Finally, midway through eighth grade, I was told I had a chemical imbalance, diagnosed with clinical depression, and put on medication. It took months for me to feel the effects of the medication.

When I began to feel happy again is when I realized that I had to take the responsibility for getting better myself, rather than relying on medicine. Aristotle said, “To live happily is an inward power of the soul,” and I believe that this quote describes what I had to do to achieve happiness. Happiness is a journey. Everyone seems to need different things to be happy. But I believe people are blinded from what truly makes one happy.

“The essentials to happiness are something to love, something to do, and something to hope for,” a quote from William Blake sums up what I believe people need to realize to be truly happy in life. People need love; I feel they need their family and their friends more than anything in the world. People need work to do, something to make them feel they are making a difference in the world. People need to know that more good is to come in the future, so they continue to live for “now” instead of constantly worrying about the bad that could come. And most importantly, people need to know that happiness is not something that happens overnight. Love and hope are happiness.

1.What can we know from Paragraph 2?

A. He was diagnosed with clinical depression in Grade Six.

B. He hated going to sleep because he couldn’t sleep well.

C. He suffered a lot from clinical depression.

D. He spent months recovering from the clinical depression.

2.What made the author feel happy again?

A. His understanding of happiness.    B. The medicine’s effect.

C. Aristotle’s words.    D. His families’ love.

3.People who want to be truly happy should have the following EXCFPT       , according to the author.

A. hope    B. belief

C. love    D. work

4.What is the text mainly about?

A. Ways to overcome depression.    B. The importance of being happy.

C. The essentials to happiness.    D. Love and happiness.