单选题 Now and again I have had horrible dreams, but not enough of them to make me lose my delight in dreams. To begin with, I like the idea of dreaming, of going to bed and lying still and then, by some queer magic, wandering into another kind of existence. As a child I could never understand why grown-ups took dreaming so calmly when they could make such a fuss about any holiday. This still puzzles me. I am mystified (迷惑的) by people who say they never dream and appear to have no interest in the subject. It is much more astonishing than if they said they never went out for a walk. Most people or at least more Western Europeans do not seem to accept dreaming as part of their lives. They appear to see it as an irritating little habit, like sneezing or yawning.
I have never understood this. My dream life does not seem as important as my waking life, if only because there is far less of it, but to me it is important. As if there were at least two extra continents added to the word, and lightning excursions running to them at any moment between midnight and breakfast. Then again, the dream life, though queer and confusing and unsatisfactory in many respects, has its own advantages. The dead are there, smiling and talking. The part is there, sometimes all broken and confused but occasionally as fresh as a daisy. And perhaps, as Mr. Dunne tells us, the future is there too, winking at us. This dream life is often overshadowed (蒙上阴影) by huge mysterious anxieties, with luggage that cannot be packed and trains that refuse to be caught; and both persons and scenes there are not as dependable and solid as they are in waking life, so that Brown and Smith merge into one person while Robinson splits into two, and there are thick woods outside the bathroom door and the dining room is somehow part of a theatre balcony; and there are moments of loneliness or terror in the dream world that are worse than anything we have known under the sun. Yet this other life has its interests, its happiness, its satisfactions, and at certain rare interval's, a serene glow or a sudden joy, like glimpses of another form of existence altogether, that we cannot match with open eyes. Silly or wise, terrible or excellent, it is a further helping of experience, a bonus after dark, another slice of life cut differently, for which, it seems to me, we are never sufficiently grateful. Only a dream! Why only? It was there and you had it.
'If there were dreams to sell, ' Beddoes inquires, 'What would you pay?' I cannot say off hand, but certainly the price would be rather more than I could afford.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】由该句可知，在孩提时代，作者不能理解为什么成人谈起梦时能如此平静，但一说到度假，却夸夸其谈，大惊小怪。联系上一句，作者认为做梦时能凭借着某种神奇的魔力，漫游进入另一个世界。由此可见，他觉得大人们不会享受梦境，这很可惜。因此D项与文意相符，故为答案。 [参考译文] 我不时就会做噩梦，但是这些噩梦却不足以夺走我从梦中得到的快乐。首先，我喜欢做梦，喜欢上床睡觉，静静躺着，然后凭借着某种神奇的魔力，漫游进入另一个世界。当我还是个孩子时，我绝对不能理解为什么成年人谈起梦时能如此平静，但一说到度假，却夸夸其谈，大惊小怪。这一点现在仍让我困惑。如果有人说他们从没做过梦或者看上去对这个话题不感兴趣，我就会感到困惑不已。这可比他们说从未出去散过步更令人惊讶。大多数人，或者至少可以说，大多数西方人似乎都没把做梦当做他们生活的一部分。他们似乎把它看做一个恼人的小习惯，就像打喷嚏或打哈欠一样。我从来就不理解这种想法。我的梦中生活似乎没有清醒时的生活重要，这只是因为梦中生活更为短暂。但是，对我来说，梦是很重要的。这就像世界上多了至少两块大陆，并且，在午夜到早餐之间，我们会随时短暂而快速地远游至此。其次，尽管从很多方面看，梦中的生活很奇怪、混乱且无法令人满意，它却有着自身的优势。死者在那里谈笑风生。过去的片段在那里，有时支离破碎、一片混乱，但有时，它却活灵活现。而且，就像邓恩先生告诉我们的那样，或许未来也在那里冲我们眨眼呢。这种梦中生活经常会因巨大的、诡秘的焦虑而蒙上阴影：行李无法打包，赶不上火车等，那里的人和景不像现实生活中那样可靠、有形。因此，布朗和史密斯融合成一个人，而罗宾逊却分裂成了两个人。浴室门口有茂密的森林，而饭厅却莫名其妙地成了某个剧院阳台的一部分。此外，梦中的生活里还会有比现实生活中我们所知的人和事物都糟糕的孤独或恐怖的时刻。然而，这另一种生活里有着它自身的乐趣、幸福及满足感。而且，在某些罕见的时刻会出现一道宁静的光芒或一阵突如其来的快乐，仿佛另一种生命形式的惊鸿一瞥，它是我们睁开眼睛后所不能看到的。不管梦是愚昧的或机智的、可怕的或极好的，它都是经验提供的另一份食物、黑夜提供的一份红利，是用不同方法切割出来的另一片生命蛋糕。在我看来，我们应该为此感到无尽的感激。只是一场梦!为什么说只是?它就在那里，而你也拥有过它了。贝多斯问：“如果有梦出售的话，你会付出什么去购买?”我无法随口说出，但是，梦的价格必定是我支付不起的。【议论文：美妙的梦境】第一段：“我”喜欢做梦，而且无法理解人们对于梦的态度。第二段：具体论述梦的重要性。第三段：对梦的进一步评价。