A n s w e r k e y test 1, Paper 1, Reading

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A N S W E R K E Y
Part 3: The impossible moment of delight
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A: Some studies conclude that happiness comes from being 
wealthier than the people near you, but others say that 
happiness comes from having a ‘good attitude’ and not from 
‘comparison with the wealth of others’. 
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B: The survey found that the common idea of rich people not being 
happy is true and that it was not invented simply so that poor 
people would be ‘happy with their lot’ (to persuade the poor 
that their position is OK and that they shouldn’t envy the rich). 
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C: Bloom thinks people are in ‘a state of perfect pleasure’ at the 
moment when they get something they want, but the writer 
believes that it’s hard to ‘pin down’ (define, be certain about) 
the moment when people feel happiness most clearly. So he 
does not agree with Bloom that it’s possible to say exactly when 
people are at their happiest. 
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A: ‘Everything else’ means the times when happiness is not ‘at 
its peak’. Happiness is only at its highest for a very brief time; 
the rest of the time is spent with feelings of ‘expectation’ 
or ‘anticipation’ before getting something and ‘memory’ or 
‘retrospective glee’ after getting it. 
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C: These musical works fully illustrate his point that happiness is 
half expectation and half memory because half of them involves 
the music building up to a high point and half of them involves 
peaceful ‘recall’ after that high point. 
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A: The company’s slogan stating that ‘getting ready is half the fun’ 
is ‘honest and truthful’. Girls are happier getting ready for a
party than when they are at the party, where they often do not 
have a good time (they may be ‘standing around’ or ‘crying’
at the party). 
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D: He believes they were at their happiest when they thought about 
completing their research and after completing it. This means 
that his main point about people being happiest before and after 
getting or doing something they want applies to the researchers 
and Bloom too.