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The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attai

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问题     The way people hold to the belief that a fun-filled, painfree life equals happiness actually reduces their chances of ever attaining real happiness. If fun and pleasure are equal to happiness then pain must be equal to unhappiness. But in fact, the opposite is true: more often than not things that lead to happiness involve some pain.
    As a result, many people avoid the very attempts that are the source of true happiness. They fear the pain inevitably brought by such things as marriage, raising children, professional achievement, religious commitment(承担的义务), self - improvement.
    Ask a bachelor(单身汉)why he resists marriage even though he finds dating to be less and less sat isfying, ff he is honest he will tell you that he is afraid of making a commitment. For commitment is in fact quite painful. The single life is filled with fun, adventure, excitement. Marriage has such moments, but they are not its most distinguishing features.
    Couples with infant children are lucky to get a whole night’s sleep or a three-day vacation. I don’t know any parent who would choose the word fun to describe raising children. But couples who decide not to have children never know the joys of watching a child grow up or of playing with a grandchild.
    Understanding and accepting that true happiness has nothing to do with fun is one of the most liberating realizations. It liberates time: now we can devote more hours to activities that can genuinely increase our happiness. It liberates money: buying that new car or those fancy clothes that will do nothing to in crease our happiness now seems pointless. And it liberates us from envy: we now understand that all those who are always having so much fun actually may not be happy at all.
Raising children, in the author’s opinion is ______.
选项 A、a moral duty
B、a thankless job
C、a rewarding task
D、a source of inevitable pain
答案C
解析 文章第四段开头作者写道：“带有婴儿的父母要是能睡上一晚整觉或度上一个三天的假日，那真是太幸运了；在我认识的人中，不会有人用fun(好玩)来描述他们抚养孩于的感受。”看到这里读者似乎会认为作者的意图是B, a thankless job(出力不讨好，毫无回报的事)而实际上，作者真实想法在But之后的句中体现，但是决定不生孩子的夫妻永远也体会不到看着孩子成长以及和孩子玩耍的那种乐趣，那种欣喜。这种乐趣，欣喜实际就是一种回报。所以C正确。
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