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It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter–nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive–and newly single–mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.
In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the children. Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn’t have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.
It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren’t in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “ the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.

It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks

A.are constantly exposed to criticism.
B.are largely ignored by the media.
C.fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.
D.are less likely to be satisfied with their life.

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参考答案:C

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John Snow was born and worked as a __36__ in Great Britain.Exactly, he was an anaesthetist,37 means that he put people to sleep during operation.He also began to experiment using the same drugs to help women when they had   38 .That is why he became the doctor who  39 Queen victoria to give the birth of her babies.
At the time he lived,cholera was the most  40 disease.Neither its cause,nor its  41 was understood.So many thousands of people died  42 there was an outbreak.John Snow was  43 to help ordinary people   44  from cholera.He  45  the disease began in the stomach and the patients died quickly after severe vomiting(呕吐)and diarrhea (腹泄).46 ,he believed cholera resulted from water.When another  47 hit London in 1854,John Snow set to work.
John Snow approached the problem in a systematic way.He marked on a map  48 all the dead people had lived and found many of the   49  were near a water pump.It seemed the water was the 50 .So he collected information about the  51 habits of the dead people and used them eventually to prove his theory.With the information  52  ,John Snow was sure  that   53  water was the cause.
Then people were required to 54  the water company to supply them with clean water.Thanks __55___ John Snow there was no more outbreaks of cholera.
小题1:
A.scientistB.an officialC.an officerD.doctor
小题2:A.who           B.that          C which        D.it
小题3:
A.painB.acheC.difficultiesD.babies
小题4:
A.assisted withB.took careC.look afterD.joined
小题5:
A.surprisingB.interestingC.interestedD.frightening
小题6:
A.cureB.methodC.resultD.threat
小题7:
A.each timeB.at one timeC.in no timeD.the first time
小题8:
A.delightedB.devotedC.absorbedD.determined
小题9:
A.sufferedB.having sufferedC.sufferingD.being suffered
小题10:
A.noticedB.was noticingC.has noticedD.had noticed
小题11:
A.ThereforeB.As a result ofC.SoD.According to
小题12:
A.diseaseB.disasterC.outbreakD.case
小题13:
A.howB.whereC.whatD.in which
小题14:
A.womenB.menC.deathD.injuries
小题15:
A.resultB.causeC.originD.case
小题16:
A.drinkingB.1ivingC.workingD.housing
小题17:
A.having collectedB.being collectedC.collectedD.collecting
小题18:
A.being pollutedB.pollutedC.pollutingD.having polluted
小题19:
A.take onB.call onC.depend onD.carry on
小题20:
A.toB./C.forD.on