The Key to Happiness

Read this text. Then choose which statements you can infer.

The key to happiness may be great relationships with family and friends, or it might be a full and busy life. It could be having a job that you really enjoy. But whatever the key is for you, you must try to make it happen! If you're not happy, you should ask yourself why and try to change things. Think about your abilities and interests. What are you doing at? What do you like doing? What kind of life do you want to have? You don't have to change everything immediately, but never think that what you want is impossible. What you decide to change, you shouldn't worry about what other people may think. Just do it!

1. It's always good to be busy.
2. Different things make different people happy.
3. It's important to change your situation if you are unhappy.
4. Married people are happier than single people.
5. It's important to listen to the advice of other people.

Modal Verbs

Possibility (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခကိုေဖာ္ျခင္း) -- may, might, could  - ႏိုင္သည္။
The key to happiness may/ might/ could be great relationship.

Impossibility (ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခမရွိေၾကာင္းေဖာ္ျပျခင္း) -- can't - မ..... ႏိုင္။
Some people say you can't be happy without money.

Strong Obligation (ေလးေလးနက္နက္ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္အႀကံျပဳခ်က္ကိုေဖာ္ျပျခင္း) -- must - ရမယ္။ 
Whatever the key is for you, you must try to make it happen.

Weak Obligation (သာမန္အႀကံျပဳခ်က္ကိုေဖာ္ျပျခင္း) - should - သင့္သည္။
If you're not happy, you should ask yourself why.

No Obligation (မလိုအပ္ေၾကာင္းကိုေဖာ္ျပျခင္း) - don't have to - မလိုအပ္ဘူး။
You don't have to change everything immediately.


Study the modal verbs above, and then choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1. Believe it or not, you _____ be rich to be happy.
(a)  must not   (b)  shouldn't (c)  don't have to  (d) might not

2. Continuing to do a job you dislike _______make you unhappy.
(a) should (b) could (c) shall (d) ought to

3. Expert agree that you _____ except to be completely happy all the time.
(a) shall not (b) may not (c) should not to (d) shouldn't

4.  Happiness _______ be connected to religious beliefs, too.
(a) would (b) had better (c) shall (d) might

5.  Some people think that you _______ measure happiness.
(a) wouldn't (b) can't (c) must not (d) may not

6.  It _____ sound strange, but the best way to find out is simply to ask yourself "How happy am I?"
(a) can't (b) would (c) might (d) should

7. Research shows that you _____ be healthy to be happy, but it helps.
(a) shouldn't (b) can't (c) don't have to (d) must not

8.  To say happy in difficult situations, you ______ keep thinking positively.
(a) must (b) must not (c) can't (d) might not



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Reading Comprehension - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Develop your reading skills. Read the following text about Martin Luther king, Jr. Then answer the comprehension questions.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement whose methods were similar to Mahathma Ghandhi's. He used nonviolent methods to fight for the advancement of civil rights in the USA.

Martin Luther King, Jr was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia. He was an excellent student and entered Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, when he was only 15 years old. He has become a national icon in the history of modern American liberalism.

A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. As a result of Rosa Parks refusal to leave her seat for a white passenger, King led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott. He also helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he expanded American values to include the vision of a color blind society, and established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other nonviolent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and stopping the Vietnam War. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986.

Source: Wikipedia

Comprehension

Unlike Mahatma Ghandhi, King used violent methods in his Civil Rights Movement.
a.   True
b.   False
The bus boycott was the starting point of King's activism.
a.   True
b.   False
"I have a dream" was a speech given in Washington by Martin Luther King, Jr.
a.   True
b.   False
He was assassinated at the age of sixty eight.
a.   True
b.   False

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