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根据以下资料，回答36~39题。
Key James, Secretary of Health and Human Resources in the Virginia State government, loves to turn the tables on those who don't think it's possible to be middle-class, conservative, educated and still be truly black.Once, during an abortion debate, a woman in the audience angrily told James she was so middle-class she didn't have a clue about real African American life."If you understood what these women go through," the woman said, "you would realize that abortion is their only choice."
James then asked the woman to consider a poor black mother on welfare.She already has four children and an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family.Now she discovers another child is on the way."How would you counsel that woman?" asked James.
"Have an abortion," the woman responded."That child would have a very poor quality of life."
"I have a vested interest in your answer," James said."The woman I described was my mother.I was the fifth of six children born into poverty.And, in case you're interested, the quality of my life is just fine!"
第36题 "To mm the tables" means __.
A.to move the tables
B.to carry the tables away
C.to gain courage
D.to gain an advantage after having been at a disadvantage
【正确答案】：D
试题解析：从上下文进行推测可知。
第37题 James' father __.
A.divorced his wife
B.liked to drink
C.deserted his family
D.B and C
【正确答案】：D
试题解析：文中“an alcoholic husband who has all but abandoned the family”就是对James的父亲的描绘。
第38题 James' mother __.
A.was educated
B.was conservative
C.was poor
D.A and B
【正确答案】：C
试题解析：A、B项都是用来说明James本人的，而不是他母亲。
第39题 James' family led a __ life when she was born.
A.miserable
B.happy
C.well-off
D.hardly
【正确答案】：A
试题解析：从“a poor black mother on welfare”可得出答案，应选A。
根据以下资料，回答40~43题。
Years ago, a cigarette commercial asked if you were smoking more, but enjoying it less.That describes the way many of us live today.We are doing more, but enjoying it less.And when that doesn't work, we get the problem.In our extremely hurried search for satisfaction, we try stuffing still more into our days, never realizing that we are taking the wrong approach.
The truth is simple; so simple it is hard to believe.Satisfaction lies with less, not with more.Yet, we pursue the myth that this thing, or that activity, will somehow provide the satisfaction we so desperately seek.
Arthur Lindman, in his very effective book, "The Harried Leisure Class," described the uselessness of pursuing more.His research focused on what people did with their leisure time.He found that as income rose, people bought more things to occupy their leisure time.But, ironically, the more things they bought, the less they valued any one of them.Carried to an extreme, he predicted massive boredom in the midst of tremendous variety.That was more than twenty years ago, and his prediction seems more accurate every year.
Lindman of course, is not the first to discover this.The writer of Ecclesiastes expressed the same thought thousands of years ago.It is better, he wrote, to have less, but enjoy it more.
If you would like to enjoy life more, I challenge you to experiment with me.How could you simplify your life? What could you drop? What could you do without? What could you stop pursuing? What few things could you concentrate on?
The more I learn, the more I realize that fullness of life does not depend on things.The more I give up, the more I seem to gain.But words will never convince you.You must try it for yourself.
第40题 Lindman wrote his book __.
A.ten years ago
B.twenty years ago
C.more than twenty years ago
D.thousands of years ago
【正确答案】：C
试题解析：第三段最后。Arthur Lind man预言，巨大的无聊存在于极度的丰富之中。而这还是20多年前的预言，并且，他的预言越来越准确。选项D是第四段中另一本书的时间。
第41题 We can make our life happier if we __.
A.get rid of useless things
B.buy more things
C.sell things we do not need
D.give up more
【正确答案】：D
试题解析：通篇都在讲我们做得越多、获得的越多，我们就越不满足。所以应当学会放弃。
第42题 The best title for the passage is __.
A.Simplify Your Life
B.Enjoy Your Life
C.Smoking Less
D.Satisfaction
【正确答案】：A
试题解析：文章通过抽烟越多享受越少为引子点明主题：获得的越多，并不意味着就越满足。 又以两位作者的书为观点支持，说明要放弃一些东西，使我们的生活简单一些，才能获得真正的满足。
第43题 Arthur Lindman wrote __.
A.a popular novel
B.a research paper
C.Ecclesiastes
D.The Harried Leisure Class
【正确答案】：D
试题解析：第三段。第一句就明确点明Arthur Lindman写了一本很有影响的书，其书名是The Harried Leisure Class。
