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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.”

（PS:The way to contact yumingkaobo TEL:si ling ling-liu liu ba-liu jiu qi ba QQ:772678537)毫无疑问，Jennifer Senior在有煸动意味的的杂志封面故事中表达了

她的独到见解，“我爱我的孩子们，我讨厌我的生活”——这唤起了人们

的谈兴。人们一谈到养孩子就会觉得这是一件完全令人愉悦、生活充实的事

情。Jennifer Senior没有指出养孩子到底是使得父母快乐呢还是痛苦呢，

她倒是认为，我们需要重新定义幸福：幸福不应该是一个个瞬间的快乐组合

的可以被衡量的东西;我们应该把幸福视为一种过去式的状态。尽管抚养孩

子的日子漫长难熬，令人筋疲力尽，但是Jennifer Senior认为，正是那些

心绪沉重的时刻，日后却成为我们欢乐的源泉。

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.

杂志封面上一位给力的母亲抱着一个可爱的婴儿，这种圣母与圣子(麦当娜和孩子)的图画这周在杂志上多次出现。例如杂志上讲到最近刚收养孩子的母亲——有时是刚变成单身母亲——桑德拉布鲁克，以及那种很常见的“詹尼弗阿尼斯顿怀孕了”的新闻。实际上，每周都有至少一位名人母亲、或者准母亲在杂志上笑迎读者。

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.

在一个不断地庆祝生育的社会中，承认自己后悔生育孩子就相当于承认自己支持杀小猫，这难道不值得反思吗?把父母的后悔与孩子的后悔相比较，这显然并不合理。没有人会去让不情愿养孩子的父母去反思自己是否不该养孩子，但是那不幸福的没有孩子的人却为类似这样的信息所困扰：“孩子是世上唯一最可珍惜的东西”，显然，你们的不幸必须通过生儿育女才能得以

消除。

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.

当然，像美国周刊与人物这样的杂志提供的名人父母的形象是非常不切实际的。特别是像Bullock这样的单身母亲时更是如此。多项研究表明，有孩子的父母很少比没有孩子的夫妇更快乐，而单亲家庭是最不快乐的。这并不奇怪，因为一个人养一个孩子实在太麻烦了，没有人可以依靠。然而，你听听Sandra和Britney说的话：自己“一个人”养孩子，其实非常简单。(她们当然觉得简单了，因为她们是在周围有一帮人全天侯的侯着啊。) 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.

很难想象有的人生孩子就只是很傻很天真因为Reese和Angelina这种名流使这种行为变的很光鲜，——多数成年人其实理解：养孩子可不是剪头发那样简单。但这确实有趣：反思一下我们每周看到的无忧无虑，幸福诱人的为人父母的生活会不会从一种微小的，无意识的方面加剧我们对于现实生活的不满。这种方式就好像：我们有那种想成为“the Rachel”(老友记中的单身妈妈)的心理，这种心理，使得我们看上去有点像詹尼弗安尼斯顿(Rachel的扮演者)。

语篇分析：

源自：2010年9月7日的Newsweek题目Not On Board With Baby：Parenthood—the condition,not the TV show—sucks.Or so everyone keeps saying.这篇文章是典型的观点议论文了。抓住观点很重要。一二段引入，后面表明作者的观点。

36.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

解析：题干关键词是：suggest这个题在问观点，那我们就找观点：在第一段Jennifer Senior两处表明了观点：信号词：suggests we need to redefine happiness:we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition和Senior writes that“the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”the very things that in the moment dampen our moods=题干中的raising a child同意改写，你懂得。can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.=happiness in retrospect(回看)这样答案

锁定为C.

37.We learn from Paragraph2that

[A]celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip.

[B]single mothers with babies deserve greater attention.

[C]news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.

[D]having children is highly valued by the public.

解析：二段第一句：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?：后面的话语是围绕这句展开的。[D]having children is highly valued by the public.对于要孩子的事情这个社会是关注的，以至于作者会在后文质疑这样做不是合理所以答案就是D.主题优先啊。

38.It is suggested in Paragraph3that 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.

解析：这个题有一定的难度，主要是有个对比：

Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to…

unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message

都是被动态，所以这里都和外界的影响有关系：

第一个不受外界影响

第二个受到影响

只是这个message在答案中改写为了criticism,同学不是很习惯而已

了。

39.According to Paragraph4,the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is

[A]soothing.[B]ambiguous.

[C]compensatory.[D]misleading.

解析：

Of course,the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic,这句话中的unrealistic有理由让我们觉得其他的选项都是浮云。

40.Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?

[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.

[B]Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.

[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.

[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.

解析：又是段落推理题，需要看全部的选项。

[A]Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.

完整句需要和原文的主谓宾对应，

[C]Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.

文章中说道了我们对生活的不满，但是有没有讲有孩子加剧了我们对生活的不满，这就是我经常在课上讲到的一定要对应主谓宾消除视觉上的干扰。落实到动作是否有发生，动作的施动者和受动者分别是谁。

把那个句子的主干搞出来就是：

the images are contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience

就是加剧了对于我们现实生活的不满的也是那些image状语都去了!

[D]We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.

同样的方法和视角来处理这个选项。正确选项B来自两个地方：

首先是but的转折：

前面说我们不会傻到由于这些明星的形象而要孩子的。

那么转折就应该是：但是我们确实受了他们的影响。这样由转折而起的推理在我的阅读课堂中可以说是比比皆是。

其次是最后一句：

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.

要是看过老友记的同学应该能知道，Rachel是个单生妈妈，但是这样的方法不推荐。

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