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Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Lo

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问题                     Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling
    It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Love My Children, I Hate My Life" is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that "the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight."
    The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual "Jennifer Aniston is pregnant" news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
    In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the chidless. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
    Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like US Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their "own" (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
    It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous : most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experiene, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting "the Rachel" might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.
选项 A、temporary delight
B、enjoyment in progress
C、happiness in retrospect
D、lasting reward
答案C
解析 事实细节题。根据题干中的Jennifer Senior和her article定位至首段末句。该句提到，老詹妮弗写道：“那些在当时打击我们情绪的东西日后成为强烈的满足感和喜悦感的来源。”也就是说当时的痛苦日后成为强烈的满足感和喜悦感的来源，即养育孩子能够带给父母的是“回想起来的幸福”，故[C]为答案。作者开篇提到老詹妮弗的杂志封面中，引出养育孩子这一话题。指出了老詹妮弗认为，应对幸福重新定义，她认为幸福是过去时。末句则指出那些在当时打击我们情绪的东西日后成为强烈的满足感和喜悦感的来源。文中没有提到[A]“暂时的快乐”和[D]“持久的回报”，故排除。首段第二句后半句指出，不要认为幸福是可以用时时刻刻的欢乐加以衡量的东西，显然[B]“当时的乐趣”与老詹妮弗观点相反，故排除。
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