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When I decided to quit my full. time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
When I decided to quit my full. time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend.
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2011-02-11
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When I decided to quit my full. time employment it never occurred to me that I might become a part of a new international trend. A lateral move that hurt my pride and blocked my professional progress prompted me to abandon my relatively high profile career although, in the manner of a disgraced government minister, I covered my exit by claiming "I wanted to spend more time with my family".
Curiously, some two-and-a-half years and two novels later, my experiment ill what the Americans term "downshifting" has turned my tired excuse into an absolute reality. I have been transformed from a passionate advocate of the philosophy of "having it all", preached by Linda Kelsey for the past seven years in the page of She magazine, into a woman who is happy to settle for a bit of everything.
I have discovered, as perhaps Kelsey will after her much-publicized resignation from the editorship of She after a build-up of stress, that abandoning the doctrine of "juggling your life", and making the alternative move into "downshifting" brings with it far greater rewards than financial success and social status. Nothing could persuade me to return to the kind of life Kelsey used to advocate and I once enjoyed: 12 hour working days, pressured deadlines, the fearful strain of office politics and the limitations of being a parent on "quality time".
In America, the move away from juggling to a simpler, less materialistic lifestyle is a well-established trend. Downshifting — also known in America as "voluntary simplicity"—has, ironically, even bred a new area of what might be termed anticonsumerism, There are a number of best-selling downshifting self-help books for people who want to simplify their lives; there are newsletters, such as The Tightwad Gazette, that give hundreds of thousands of Americans useful tips on anything from recycling their cling-film to making their own soap; there are even support groups for those who want to achieve the mid-90’ s equivalent of dropping out.
While in America the trend started us a reaction to the economic decline — after the mass redundancies caused by downsizing in the late 80’s — and is still linked to the politics of thrift, in Britain, at least among the middle-class downshifters of my acquaintance, we have different reasons for seeking to simplify our lives.
For the women of my generation who were urged to keep juggling through the 80’s, downshifting in the mid-90’s is ant so much a search for the mythical good life — growing your own organic vegetables, and risking turning into one — as personal recognition of your limitations.
The writer’ s experiment shows that downshifting ______.
选项
A、enables her to realize her dream
B、helps her mold a new philosophy of life
C、prompts her to abandon her high social status
D、leads her to accept the doctrine of She magazine
答案
B
解析
细节判断题。根据第二段,经过了大约两年半的时间并发表了两部小说之后,我的被称之为“激流勇退” (downshifting)的实验把我的那个令人厌倦的借口变成了绝对的现实。我从一个“全力以赴”哲学观狂热的倡导者变成了一个乐于随遇而安的女子。A使她实现了自己的梦想。这种生活方式是她辞职时没有预料到的。C促使她放弃了较高的社会地位。事实是作者先放弃了较高的社会地位后才开始了这种新的生活方式。D使她接受了“她”杂志所倡导的生活哲学。在经过了新的生活方式的实验后,作者是不会再过从前的那种生活的。
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