单选题
{{B}}Directions:{{/B}}{{I}} In this part of the test, there are five short passages.
Read each passage carefully, and then do the questions that follow. Choose the
best answer from the four choices given and mark the corresponding letter with a
single bar across the square brackets on your Machine-scoring Answer
Sheet.{{/I}} {{B}}Passage One {{/B}}
As a rule, there is more genuine satisfaction, a truer life, and more obtained
from life in the humble cottages of the poor than in the palaces of the rich. I
always pity the sons and daughters at a later age, but I am glad to remember
that they do not know what they have missed. They have kind
fathers and mothers, and think that they enjoy the sweetness of the blessings to
the fullest: but this they cannot do; for the poor who has in his father his
constant companion, tutor, and model, and in his mother—holy name—his nurse,
teacher, guardian angel, saint, all in one, has a richer, more precious in life
than any rich man's son who is not so favored can possible know, and compared
with which all other fortunes count for little. It is
because I know how sweet and happy and pure the home of honest poverty is, show
free from perplexing care, from social envies and emulations, how loving and how
united its members may be in the common interest of supporting the family, that
I sympathize with the rich man's boy congratulate the poor man's boy; and it is
for these reasons that from the ranks of the poor so many strong, eminent,
self-reliant men have always sprung and always must spring.
If you will read the list of the immortals who "were not born to die,"
you will find that most of them have been born to the precious heritage of
poverty. It seems, nowadays, a matter of universal
desire that poverty should be abolished. We should be quite willing to abolish
luxury, but to abolish honest, industrious, self-denying poverty would be to
destroy the soil upon which mankind produces the virtues which enable our race
to reach a still higher civilization than it now possesses.
单选题
The author pities those born in rich families because______.