单选题 It is physically impossible for a well-educated, intellectual, or a brave man to make money the chief object of his thoughts; as physically impossible as it is for him to make his dinner the principal object of them. All healthy people like their dinner, hut their dinner is not the main object of their lives. So all healthy-minded people like making money—ought to like it and to enjoy the satisfaction of winning it; but the main object of their lives is not money; it is something better than money.
A good soldier, for instance, mainly wishes to do his fighting well. He is glad of his pay—very properly so, and just complains when you keep him ten months without it; still, his main opinion of life is to win battles, not to be paid for winning them.
So of doctors. They like fees no doubt—ought to like them; yet if they are brave and well educated, the entire object of their lives is not fees. They would rather cure their patient and lose their fees than kill him and get it. And so with all other brave and rightly trained men; their work is first, their fees second, very important always, but still second.
单选题 The main idea of this passage is that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第一段讲,受过良好教育的人所追求的人生目标不是金钱。第二、三段举两个例子,一个是士兵,一个是医生,他们的人生目标都不是金钱而是工作,尽管金钱很重要。可知应选D项。
单选题 The passage implies that healthy-minded people best enjoy ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第一段讲到,所有心智健康的人都喜欢金钱并享受拥有钱的满足感,但他们的人生目标并不是金钱。他们的目标是什么呢?第二段和第三段的例子给出了答案,那就是工作。因此,可以推断本题的正确答案是A项:完成工作所带来的幸福。
单选题 According to the author, a good soldier ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第二段指出,士兵得到金钱作为报酬是应该的。
单选题 The author believes that a good doctor ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】[解析] 文章第三段第三句的意思是:“他们宁愿治好病人并失去了钱,也不愿意害死病人而得到钱。”。表明医生将治愈病人看得比什么都重要。
单选题 Which of the following is the chief technique used by the author to support his argument?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析] 第一段提出作者的观点,第二、三段举例论证自己的观点。即用例证说明的方法来论述作者的观点。故选D。