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, but 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】文章的第一段就点明（最后三行）：心智健康的人喜欢挣钱，但这并不是他们生活的主要目的，在他们的生活中有比钱更重要的东西。第二段和第三段分别以医生和士兵为例说明心智健康的人视自己的工作高于钱。

单选题 The passage implies that healthy-minded people best enjoy ______.

单选题 According to the author, a good soldier ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】第二段和第三段连起来读。一个优秀的士兵，他会很高兴得到报酬，如果十个月不给他工资，他也会抱怨，但只是抱怨而已。他生活的主要目标是打胜仗，但不是为了报酬而打胜仗。医生跟士兵是一样的，他们无疑高兴得到报酬——本来就应该高兴，但他们宁愿给病人治好病而丢了报酬，也不愿把病人杀了而得到报酬。所以，对所有其他勇敢的并受到很好训练的人来说，工作是第一位的，报酬是第二位的。

单选题 Which of the following is the chief technique used by the author to support his argument?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】这篇文章采用的不是比较的手法，文章中也没有细节的描述。虽然，在文中作者通过医生和士兵两类人说明自己的观点，但只是泛指，并未用具体的事例证明自己的观点。通篇作者采用的是逻辑说理的方法来表明观点。