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As a poor kid growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto, I had dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher—a seemingly impossible
As a poor kid growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto, I had dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher—a seemingly impossible
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As a poor kid growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto, I had dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher—a seemingly impossible desire considering our financial condition. Mama, who had her share of dreams, was always more of a realist when it came to the dreams of her children. She wanted me to become a barber. "People will always have hair," she’d argue logically. "It keeps growing. They’ll always need a good barber. You can’t fail."
I was a stubborn kid and refused to relinquish my dream. I found a way to realize it. After five years of higher education, I became a teacher with the monumental salary of six thousand dollars a year. Mama was quick to point out that, figuring the price of haircuts, I’d have made a lot more than that and after much less preparation. Are mamas ever wrong?
I can’t even imagine a world without those dreamers who have the feeling that things will be better tomorrow. With the feeling comes a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy and causes us to work actively to make things better.
I’m not suggesting that we all start living an illusion, but it’s an interesting psychological finding that one hundred percent realists are often among the most depressed persons in our society. I’ll take healthy illusion any day. If our dreams cause us to become active seekers and partakers of life, setting up the necessary contingencies for making things happen, then they can be positive forces which are conducive to happiness and growth.
We might learn a lesson from Snow White. She dreamed that someday her Prince would come. But in the meantime, in place of moping around, she had a good life with the Seven Dwarfs!
The central idea of the passage is
选项
A、how my dream of becoming a teacher came true.
B、dreams are of great significance but can not substitute for hard-working.
C、illusions can be positive forces which bring about happiness and growth.
D、your dreams are sure to come true so long as you stick to them.
答案
C
解析
本题考查主旨大意。可从各段的主题句(一般为第一个句子)来归纳出。从第一段第一句“As a poor kid growing up in a Los Angeles ghetto,I had dreams of going to college and becoming a teacher—a seemingly impossible desire considering our financial condition.”以及第二段第一、二两句“I was a stubborn kid and refused to relinquish(放弃) my dream.I found a way to realize it”得知作者自己虽然穷,但实现了上大学、当老师的梦想。第三、四段两段以心理学上的发现来证明实际生活中只讲现实,没有幻想不行,得出“they can be positive forces which are conducive to happiness and growth.(它们是有助于幸福和成长的积极力量)”的结论,“they”这里指“our dreams”,作者认为我们的梦想可以是“healthy illusion”。最后一段通过白雪公主的故事说明有了梦想就能以积极的态度对待现实生活。所以整篇文章的中心思想是 C 项。
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