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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

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问题    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 story of Snow White is used to
选项 A、make the description more vivid only.
B、bring out the central idea.
C、serve as another example of successful dreams.
D、warn readers against fantastic thinking.
答案B
解析 本题考查推理判断。在最后一段讲述白雪公主：“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!(她梦想她的王子总有一天会来到她身边，但同时她并没有忧郁地闲荡，而是和七个小矮人过的很好。)”由第42题解析得知本文的中心思想是“Illusions can be positive forces which bring about happiness and growth．”。由此推断这个故事是用来进一步阐述中心思想的。
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