Today the messages your average Westerner is bombarded with are not religious but commercial, and forever happy .Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agenda--to lure us to open our wallets to make the very idea of happiness seem unreliable. "Celebrate!" commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found out it could increase the risk of heart attacks.

　　What we forget--what our economy depends on is forgetting--is that happiness is more than pleasure without pain. The things that bring the greatest joy carry the greatest potential for loss and disappointment. Today, surrounded by promises of easy happiness, we need someone to tell us as religion once did, Memento mori: remember that you will die, that everything ends, and that happiness comes not in denying this but in living with it. It’s a message even more bitter than a clove cigarette, yet, somehow, a breath of fresh air.

　　38. In the author’s opinion, advertising

　　[A] emerges in the wake of the anti-happy part.

　　[B] is a cause of disappointment for the general peer

　　[C] replace the church as a major source of information

　　[D] creates an illusion of happiness rather than happiness itself.

　　[答案] D

　　[解题思路]

　　本题在文章中的对应信息为第四段和第六段。第四段最后一句话提出广告和大众文化所描述的幸福更是一种“ideology”，一种意识形态，ideology在这里可以等同于D选项中的illusion(幻觉)。第六段也指出了这种幸福感非常“unreliable”，很不可靠，因为它只是一种幻想，因此D为正确选项。A选项中“in the wake of”是“在……之后”的意思，但却颠倒了前后顺序，应该是反幸福艺术随着广告的出现而出现，文章在第四段中有对应信息“The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence of mass media”，因此A选项错误。B与文章意思相反，因为广告给人们创造了幸福感。

　　[题目译文]

　　作者认为广告

　　[A] 是随着反幸福艺术而出现的

　　[B] 是大众感到失望的一个原因

　　[C] 作为一种主要信息来源而取代了教堂

　　[D] 创造出了一种幸福的幻觉，而不是幸福本身