题目
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 adoptiveand newly singlemom 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 childless. 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.
Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring______.
A.temporary delight.
B.enjoyment in progress.
C.happiness in retrospect.
D.lasting reward.
第1题
A.Who's there?
B.Who's that speaking?
C.Who are you?
D.Who wants to speak to tark?
第2题
—How isyour business going?
—_________________
A、Good, it's growing all the time.
B、Thank you.
C、I’m going to Beijing.
第3题
In the author's opinion,______.
A. it is true that life in America is much faster than that in any other city
B. people living outside big cities are lazy and miserable
C. most American people enjoy living in the suburbs of big cities
D. those who are busy are not necessarily unfriendly
第5题
A.satisfaction
B.surprise
C.joy
D.pleasure
第6题
第8题
A.Because he thinks that woman is not suitable for leading a wandering life
B.Because he thinks that women will increase competition
C.Because he thinks that woman is too weak physically to work as a tinker
D.Because he thinks that it’s not worth it to give up a stable life
第9题
A.Thank you
B.It’s a piece of cake
C.That’s a surprise
D.I deserve it
第10题
A.To, with
B.In, with
C.To, in
D.For, in
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