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  3. Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Lo

Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, "I Lo

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问题                     Bring Up the Kid’s Happy Feeling
    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 chidless. 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 experiene, 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.
Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
选项 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.
答案B
解析 推理判断题。末段最后一句指出“但有趣的是，我们不知道我们每周看到的毫无压力、幸福感日增的父母形象是否没有以某种不为人注意、潜意识的方式造成我们对现实经历的不满”，这说明作者认为杂志上的明星妈妈对普通人的育儿心态产生影响，有可能会让大家的心态更不好，[B]“明星妈妈们影响了我们对养育孩子的态度”符合文章，故为答案。作者在末段指出了明星父母菜象的消极影响，即可能会降低普通父母在养育孩子方面的幸福感。文章主要使用了例证和说理两种论证手段。[A]“有孩子对明星妈妈的魅力影响不大”是针对首句中的Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous设置的干扰项，这里是用“瑞茜和安吉丽娜”来说明人们要孩子的理由，[A]“有孩子对明星妈妈的魅力影响不大”不符合原文，故排除。末句中使用的并非肯定的语气，是作者的质疑，句中的the actual experience是指养育孩子这件事，[C]“有孩子加剧了我们对生活的不满”范围过大，文中没有谈及生活的其他方面。末段没有谈及养育孩子的乐趣，[D]“我们有时忽略了从养育孩子中获得的快乐”无法推出，排除。
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