Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions

Read the passage and choose the best answers to the questions.

Think back to the last time you helped someone, whether it was holding the door open for a classmate or raking your elderly neighbour’s leaves. While you were doing it and afterward, how did you feel? We are going to make a safe bet you felt happy and more positive about life. That’s because the fastest way to feel joy is serving others.

An old Chinese proverb tells it perfectly, “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”

But serving does not just make your heart feel good. Studies have shown that there are mental and physical health benefits to serving, like reducing depression, lowering blood pressure and lengthening your lifespan.

Putting other people’s needs before yours also strengthens your relationships. It connects you with the one you’re serving, and if that someone is someone you know, it creates a stronger bond with them.

It also enriches other people’s lives. Taking time out of your busy day to even bring a friend a bowl of soup when they are sick makes them feel better and can uplift them during their rough time.

And perhaps the best benefit of service is the chance of that person paying it forward. If you help someone, they are more likely to do something nice for someone else that day. Your one act of kindness could have a major domino effect.

Question 41. Which of the following best serves the title of the passage?

A. How to Live Happily B. Time to Help Others

C. Why It’s Important to Help Others D. Strengthening Relationships

Question 42. Why does the author quote the Chinese proverb in the second paragraph?

A. To give an example of the period of time it takes to help somebody

B. To show how important it is to help others

C. Because happiness varies depending on people’s needs

D. Because the author wants to compare kindness with happiness

Question 43. The word ‘It’ in the fifth paragraph refers to ______.

A. your good deed or kindness

B. a stronger bond between you with someone you know

C. strengthening your relationships

D. the act of putting other people’s needs before yours

Question 44. What does the last sentence of the passage imply?

A. Other acts of kindness will highly likely to happen due to yours.

B. You could make more people feel happy with your kindness.

C. There will be more acts of kindness, but yours is the major.

D. Without your act of kindness, other people can still behave well.

Question 45. As we learn from the passage, which of the following is unlikely to be considered as an act of kindness?

A. Giving someone your seat on a crowded bus

B. Helping the elderly cross the crowded street

C. Speeding up so everyone cannot merge in front of you in traffic

D. Bringing your neighbour a bowl of porridge when they are sick