问答题 Most of the idle rich suffer unspeakable boredora as the price of their freedom from drudgery. At times they may find relief by hunting big game in Africa, but the number of such sensations is limited, especially after youth is past. 46. Accordingly more intelligent rich men work nearly as hard as if they were poor, while rich women mostly keep themselves busy with innumerable trifles of whose earth- shaking importance they are firmly persuaded.
47. Work is desirable as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom a man feels when doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom he feels when having nothing to do. With this advantage of work another is associated, namely that it makes holidays much more delicious when they come. 48. Provided a man does not have to work so hard as to impair his vigor, he is likely to find far more zest in free time than an idle man could possibly find.
The second advantage of most paid work and of some unpaid work is that it gives chances of suecess and opportunities for ambition. In most work success is measured by income and while our capitalistic society continues, this is inevitable. It is only where the best work is concerned that this measure ceases to be the natural one to apply. 49. The desire that men feel to increase their income is quite as much a desire for success as for the extra comforts that a higher income can procure. However dull work may be, it becomes bearable if it is a means of buihliug up a reputation, whether in the world at large or only in one' s own circle. Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run, and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
50. The satisfaction of killing time and of affording some outlet, however modest, for ambition, belongs to most work, and is sufficient to make even a man whose work is dull happier on the average than a man who has no work at all. But when work is interesting, it is capable of giving satisfaction of a far higher order than mere relief from tedium. The kinds of work in which there is some interest may be arranged in a hierarchy. I shall begin with those which are only mildly interesting and end with those that are worthy to absorb the whole energies of a great man.

【正确答案】[参考译文] 因此比较聪明的富翁尽量努力工作,好似他们是穷人一般。而有钱的女人,则大多忙于无数琐碎之事,坚信那些事情具有震天动地的意义。
【答案解析】[测试点] 并列结构,定语从句
【正确答案】[参考译文] 工作是人所希望的,因为工作可以解除烦闷,一个人做着虽然乏味但必要的工作时,固然感到烦闷,但决不能和无所事事时所感到的烦闷相比。
【答案解析】[测试点] 原因状语从句,定语从句,时间状语从句,固定短语
【正确答案】[参考译文] 只要一个人没有过分辛苦劳累以致消耗自己的精力,那么在自己的闲暇时间里,他可能会比一个整日闲荡的人感觉到更大的快乐。
【答案解析】[测试点] 条件状语从句,比较状语从句
【正确答案】[参考译文] 人们想增加收入的愿望,是渴望成功的愿望,也是渴望以更多的收入来得到更多安逸的愿望。
【答案解析】[测试点] 定语从句,省略,固定短语
【正确答案】[参考译文] 多数工作令人感到消磨时间的快慰,使得抱负纵使微不足道但仍得以实现,这两点足以使一个即使工作乏味的人,也比一个毫无工作的人通常要快乐得多。
【答案解析】[测试点] 并列成分,插入结构,定语从句,宾补,比较结构