单选题 To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. It is no use starting late in life to say: "I will take an interest in this or that." Such an attempt only aggravates the strain of mental effort. A man may acquire great knowledge of topics unconnected with his daily work, and yet hardly get any benefit or relief. It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Broadly speaking, human being may be divided into three classes: those who are tired to death, those who are worded to death, and those who are bored to death. It is no use offering the manual laborer, tired out with a hard week's sweat and effort, the chance of playing a game of football or baseball on Saturday afternoon. It is no use inviting the politician or the professional or business man, who has been working or worrying about serious things for six days, to work or worry about trifling things at the weekend.
It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one. Of these the former are the majority. They have their compensations. The long hours in the office or the factory bring with them as their reward, not only the means of sustenance, but a keen appetite for pleasure even in its simplest and most modest forms.
But Fortune's favored children belong to the second class. Their life is a natural harmony. For them the working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays when they come are viewed as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation. Yet to both classes the need of an alternative outlook, of a change of atmosphere, of a diversion of effort, is essential. Indeed, it may well be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of forgetting about their work from time to time.

单选题 What does the author think of hobbies in people's lives?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】考查细节。原文的第一段中出现了hobbies，对比阅读第一段，我们可以发现，选项的设置都围绕这一部分进行设计；A认为“无论何时开始寻找生活的小爱好都为时不晚”，可原文中“It is no use starting late in life”，即“等到年纪大了才去寻找爱好已经来不及了”这样的描述是相互冲突的，不能选；B选项中的work-related和原文的“unconnected with his daily work”是相互冲突的。

单选题 Which one of the following is NOT mentioned as human's sufferings in life?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】考查细节。该题在原文中的定位从题干中得到的信息是有限的，需要结合选项来确定，这是考生在备考和真实考试环境下需要注意的一个问题，有些时候单靠题干是不能确切地定位到文章中的某个位置的，但这些题目有一个共同的特点就是选项的设置比较集中在原文的某个段落或者意群，选项可以起到帮助我们定位的作用。这些选项可以帮助我们回到文章的第二段，作者对于人的划分“human being may be divided into three classes”，作者没有明确的表示这种分类是如题干所说的“human's sufferings in life”，但是从其表达“tired to death”，“worded to death”，and“bored to death”我们可以看出作者确实是在讨论“human's suffering”这样一个话题。对比阅读之后，我们看到，A选项的“Too much tiring work to do”对应原文的“fired to death”；B选项的“Too much worries to put them under stress”对应原文的“worded to death”；C选项的“Too little interesting things going on”对应原文的“bored to death”；只有D选项在原文中是找不到支撑的信息的，是文章没有提到的，符合题干要求选择的内容，为正确选项。

单选题 Who constitutes the fortune's favored children?

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】考查细节。“for tune's favored children”这样的表达在原文中是可以直接找到完全一致的信息的，原文后面的信息提到“belong to the second class”，结合上下文我们知道这里所说的“the second class”是前面段落所提到的“human beings are divided into two classes”之中的后面一种，从原文我们可以看到，这后者指的是“those whose work and pleasure are one”；C选项是对这一，意义的正确改写，为正确选项；A和D是对原文信息的错误理解，B是文章中所说的两类人的第一类人，也不符合题目的要求。

单选题 According to the author's division of human beings in paragraph 3, how does the second class feel about vocations?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】考查细节。结合上面一个题目，我们知道“the second class”在后面被连续的人称代词接力替换，它在后面一句话中以they和them的形式出现，所以这样一句话“Each day is a holiday，and ordinary holidays when they come are viewed as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vacation”是我们应该寻找的答案所在，也就是“工作和娱乐混合在一起的人眼中的假期是怎样的”，对比选项，B选项和这样的含义最为接近。

单选题 What kind of suggestion does the author give at the end of the passage?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】考查细节。文章结尾处提出了“the means of forgetting about their work from time to time”这样的一个建议，从原文的信息和我们对文章含义的把握都可以看到这样的建议是给那些只知道工作而忘记了休息的人的，这两个信息点结合在一起，从四个选项中，D选项是对这两点都给出了正确的总结和概括的选项，是正确答案。