2007-2011考英语试卷阅读篇及答案解析.docVIP

第三部分：阅读理解（共20小题，每题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。 A It is physically impossible for a well-educated , intellectual , or brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts ; as physically impossible as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them . All healthy people like their dinner , but their dinner is not the main object of their lives . So all healthy-minded people like making money-ought to like it and to enjoy the sensation of winning it ; but the main object of their lives is not money ; it is something better than money . A good soldier , for example , mainly wishes to do his fighting well . He is glad of his pay?very properly so , and justly grumbles (抱怨) when you keep him ten months without it ; still , his main notion of life is to win battles , not to be paid for winning them . So of doctors . They like fees no doubt — ought to like them ; yet if they are brave and well-educated , the entire object of their lives is not fees . They , on the whole , desire to cure the sick , and ?if they are good doctors , and the choices were fairly put to them ?would rather cure their patient and lose their fee than kill him and get it . And so with all other brave and rightly trained men ; their work is first , their fee second , very important always , but still second . But in every nation , there is a vast class of people who are cowardly , and more or less stupid . And with these people , just as certainly the fee is first and the work second , as with brave people the work is first and the fee second . And this is no small distinction (区别) . It is the whole distinction . It is the whole distinction in a man . You can’t serve two masters ; you first with you , and your fee second , work is your master . Observe , then , all wise work is mainly threefold in character . It is honest , useful , and cheerful . I hardly know anything more stranger than that you recognize honesty in play , and do not in work . In your lightest game