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If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition--wealth, distinction, control over one’s destiny--must be deemed wor
If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition--wealth, distinction, control over one’s destiny--must be deemed wor
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If ambition is to be well regarded, the rewards of ambition--wealth, distinction, control over one’s destiny--must be deemed worthy of the sacrifices made on ambition’s behalf. If the tradition of ambition is to have vitality, it must be widely shared; and it especially must be highly regarded by people who are themselves ad- mired, the educated not least among them. In an odd way, however, it is the educated who have claimed to have given up on ambition as an ideal. What is odd is that they have perhaps most benefited from ambition--if not always their own then that of their parents and grandparents. There is heavy note of hypocrisy in this, a case of closing the barn door after the horses have escaped, with the educated themselves riding on them.
Certainly people do not seem less interested in success and its signs now than formerly. Summer homes, European travel, BMWs--the locations, place names and name brands may change, but such items do not seem less in demand today than a decade or two years ago. What has happened is that people cannot confess fully to their dreams, as easily and openly as once they could, lest they be thought pushing, acquisitive and vulgar. In- stead, we are treated to fine hypocritical spectacles, which now more than ever seem in ample supply: the critic of American materialism with a Southampton summer home; the publisher of radical books who takes his meals in three-star restaurants; the journalist advocating participatory democracy in all phases of life, whose own children are enrolled in private schools. For such people and many more perhaps not so exceptional, the proper formulation is, "Succeed at all costs but avoid appearing ambitious."
The attacks on ambition are many and come from various angles; its public defenders are few and unimpressive, where they are not extremely unattractive. As a result, the support for ambition as a healthy impulse, a quality to be admired and fixed in the mind of the young, is probably lower than it has ever been in the United States. This does not mean that ambition is at an end, that people no longer feel its stirring and prompting, but only that, no longer openly honored, it is less openly underground, or made sly. Such, then, is the way things stand: on the left angry critics, on the right stupid supporters, and in the middle, as usual, the majority of ear- nest people trying to get on in life. (418)
The last sentence of the first paragraph most probably implies that it is ______.
选项
A、customary of the educated to discard ambition in words
B、too late to check ambition once it has been let out
C、dishonest to deny ambition after the fulfillment of the goal
D、impractical for the educated to enjoy benefits from ambition
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。要求读者推断第一段最后一句的含义。文章第一段说“受到教育的人却扬言放弃以抱负为理想,然而奇怪的是,受过教育的人也许是抱负的最大受益者——如果不是自己确立的抱负便是父辈为他们确立的”。接着作者就打了个比方“马逃走后就关上马棚的门,骑在马上的正是这些受过教育的人,这真是太虚伪了”。可见,作者所作的比喻意思是说“达到目的后就否认抱负是不诚实的”,因此C为正确答案。
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