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When I decided to quit my full-time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.

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问题     When I decided to quit my full-time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family".
    Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment in what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
    I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12-hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".
    In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a well-established trend. Downshifting—also known in America as "voluntary simplicity"—has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anti-consumerism. There are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-’90s equivalent of dropping out.
    While in America the trend started as a reaction to the economic decline—after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late ’80s—and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
    For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the ’80s, downshifting in the mid-’90s is not so much a search for the mythical good life—growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one—as a personal recognition of your limitations.
According to the passage, all of the following are true EXCEPT________.
选项 A、The Tightwad Gazette is in favor of mater-ialistic lifestyle
B、a lot of self-help books can help people simplify their lives
C、downshifting has brought about a new area of anti-consumerism
D、newsletters give useful tips on how to lead a simple life
答案A
解析 本题没有关键词，但根据选项中的关键词可以定位于第四段。选项A属于正反混淆，第四段第三句话指出：对于那些想要简单生活的人来说，有许多畅销的自助书籍；有各种简讯，例如《守财奴报》(Tightwad Gazette)，会给美国人提供成千上万条有用的建议去做事……即《守财奴报》是支持简单生活的，而不是讲究物质主义(materialistic)的生活，由于本题要求选错误选项作为正确选项，因此选项A为正确选项。选项B和原文属于相同含义，其中a lot of相当于a number of；选项C也和原文同义替换，其中的brought about(带来)与原文第二句话中的bred(产生)含义相同；选项D“卸S on how to lead a simple life”与原文tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap含义相同，因此选项B、C、D都为正确表述，均不可选。
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