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(1)Observe a child: any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him
(1)Observe a child: any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him
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2017-06-17
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(1)Observe a child: any one will do. You will see that not a day passes in which he does not find something or other to make him happy, though he may be in tears the next moment. Then look at a man: any one of us will do. You will notice that weeks and months can pass in which every day is greeted with nothing more than resignation, and endured with polite indifference. Indeed, most men are as miserable as sinners, though they are too bored to sin—perhaps their sin is their indifference. But it is true that they so seldom smile that when they do we do not recognise their face, so distorted is it from the fixed mask we take for granted. And even then a man cannot smile like a child, for a child smiles with his eyes, whereas a man smiles with his lips alone. It is not a smile, but a grin: something to do with humour, but little to do with happiness. And then, as anyone can see, there is a point(but who can define that point?)when a man becomes an old man, and then he will smile again.
(2)It would seem that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things—such as a peach stone, for instance.
(3)It is obvious that it is nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Stewart was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He used his house as a weekend refuge. He was a barrister. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
(4)I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King’s Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure: he merely looked as miserable as though he’d received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted: he never smiled a bit, he didn’t even bother to celebrate with a round of drinks at the "Blue Fox". He took his success as a child does his medicine. And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes. (5)I asked him one day, soon after he’d retired to potter about his garden, what it was like to achieve all one’s ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he said, "The only value in achieving one’s ambitions is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving." Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level, and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
(6)I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his house, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall. I had pulled in from the road for no other reason than to let a bus pass me. As I set there filling my pipe, I suddenly heard a shout of sheer joy come from the other side of the wall.
(7)I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance, of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out or embarrassed, but shouted for me to climb over.
(8)"Come and see, Jan. Look! I have done it at last! I have done it at last! "
(9)There he was, holding a small box of earth in his hand. I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
(10)"And there were only three! " he said, his eyes laughing to heaven.
(11)"Three what?" I asked.
(12)"Peach stones", he replied. "I’ve always wanted to make peach stones grow, even since I was a child, when I used to take them home after a party, or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them, and then forgot where I planted them. But now at last I have done it, and, what’s more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots," he counted.
(13)And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement—his achievement of simplicity.
By saying "there were only three", Sir Henry_____.
选项
A、was happy that he found the peach stones
B、was happy that they actually grew
C、felt regretful that only three stones grew
D、felt regretful that he didn’t have more stones
答案
B
解析
根据题干直接定位到第10段。斯图亚特爵士因自己种的桃核发芽了而高兴,B正合此意。C和D的re-gretful与文意相悖,可以马上排除;斯图亚特爵士是因为自己种的桃核发芽了而高兴,并不是因为找到桃核而高兴,可排除A。
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