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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
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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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 underlined sentence "I’ll take healthy illusion any day" in paragraph 4 implies that the author
选项
A、is against being a realist.
B、is no guard against unhealthy illusion.
C、believes that illusions are indispensable.
D、is afraid of getting depressed.
答案
C
解析
本题考查细节理解。本句意思为:“我随时都抱有健康的幻想。”因此暗含作者相信幻想是必不可少的。选项C 为正确答案。
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