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Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside

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问题     Like many lovers of books, Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, seldom walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.
    When Mary was hospitalized with heart trouble in 1989, they decided it was time to get serious. Richard, who worked for a business company, was eager to work for himself, and Mary needed to slow down from her demanding job.
    They started by talking to bookstore owners and researching the industry. "We knew it had to be a specialty store because we couldn’t match the big chains dollar for dollar," says Mary. One figure caught her attention: She’d read somewhere that roughly 20 percent of books sold were mysteries (推理小说), and many buyers spent more $300 a year on books. She and Richard were themselves mystery readers.
    On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Café near their home. With three children in college, the couple could not spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the $100 000 cost, they drew some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.
    The store merely broke even in its first year, with only $120 000 in sales. But Mary was always coming up with new ways to attract customers. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered gifts to mystery lovers and served dinners for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited dozens of writers to discuss their stories.
    Today Mystery Lovers makes sales of about $420 000 a year. After paying taxes, business costs and the six part-time sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34 000.
    "The job you love may not go hand in hand with a million-dollar income," says Richard. "This has always been about an enjoyable life for ourselves, not about making a lot of money."
When Mary was in hospital, the couple realized that______.
选项 A、they had to put their plan into practice
B、health was more important than wealth
C、heart trouble was a serious illness
D、they both needed to stop working
答案A
解析 这道题考查综合判断的能力。答案主要可以从第一、二段得出。在第一段中作者告诉我们，玛丽和她的丈夫喜欢书店，他们很少在经过一家书店的时候不进去看一看的。并且他们经常谈论有一天他们要开自己的书店。第二段中说玛丽因病住院后，他们决定认真考虑这件事了。而且，“玛丽意识到自己必须放慢工作的节奏，不能再做那些令人劳累的工作了”。据此，可以断定A选项“他们不得不实施他们的计划了”为正确选择。Put something into practice的意思是“把……付诸实施”。篇幅较长的应用文，如广告，可采用“逆读法”，先读理解题，从中把握题干与选项所含重要信息。然后，从短文中查找相关内容，快速找到信息点，增强解题的针对性。
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