Extensive reading B1+. Интерактивные упражнения

Text 3. Happiness depends on health and friends, not money

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3. Comprehension check

Match the excerpts from the article with their meanings.

Understanding the article.

1. Most human misery comes from failed relationships.

a. People should not say that children are successful only because they do well at school.

2. pay for itself

b. be the most important thing from now on

3. Having a partner is as good for you as
being made unemployed is bad for you.

c. make enough money to cover its
own costs

4. become centre stage

d. Different schools can make children happy or unhappy.

5. Children should not be judged by society just on their educational success.

e. Being together with a husband or wife, or boyfriend or girlfriend, increases people’s happiness levels by the same amount as losing a job decreases their happiness levels.

6. Which school a child goes to will affect their emotional wellbeing.

f. People are very often unhappy because their marriage or other relationship is not successful.