36. Jennifer Senior suggests in her article that raising a child can bring
- A. temporary delight.
- B. enjoyment in progress.
- C. happiness in retrospect.
- D. lasting reward.
答案：C
答案句：Rather than concluding that children make parents either happy or miserable, Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness: instead of thinking of it as something that can be measured by moment-to-moment joy, we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition. Even though the day-to-day experience of raising kids can be soul-crushingly hard, Senior writes that “the very things that in the moment dampen our moods can later be sources of intense gratification and delight.”
参考译文：与其得出结论说孩子让父母要么幸福要么痛苦，Senior建议我们需要重新定义幸福：不要把它看作可以用瞬间的快乐来衡量的事物，而应该把幸福视为一种过去时态的状态。尽管抚养孩子的日常经历可能艰难得令人心力交瘁，但Senior写道，“那些在当时让我们情绪低落的事情，日后可能成为强烈满足和快乐的源泉。”
定位线索：题干“Jennifer Senior suggests in her article”→答案句取自第1段“Senior suggests we need to redefine happiness”；文中“past-tense condition”和“later be sources of intense gratification and delight”对应选项C“happiness in retrospect”（回顾中的幸福）。
解析：题干问Jennifer Senior在文章中暗示抚养孩子能带来什么。答案句中明确提到“we should consider being happy as a past-tense condition”（把幸福视为过去时态的状态），以及“later be sources of intense gratification and delight”（日后成为满足和快乐的源泉），这些都指向“回顾中的幸福”，即选项C。选项A“temporary delight”与原文“moment-to-moment joy”对应，但原文明确否定这种即时快乐；选项B“enjoyment in progress”是进行时态，与“past-tense”矛盾；选项D“lasting reward”虽提到“later”，但“lasting”（持久的）在原文中未体现，属于过度推断。
37. We learn from Paragraph 2 that
- A. celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip.
- B. single mothers with babies deserve greater attention.
- C. news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining.
- D. having children is highly valued by the public.
答案：D
答案句：In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation, is it any wonder that admitting you regret having children is equivalent to admitting you support kitten-killing?
参考译文：在一个如此执着地颂扬生育的社会里，承认你后悔生孩子等同于承认你支持杀小猫，这有什么奇怪的吗？
定位线索：题干“Paragraph 2”→答案句取自第2段“In a society that so persistently celebrates procreation”；文中“celebrates procreation”对应选项D“having children is highly valued by the public”（公众高度重视生育）。
解析：题干问从第2段能了解到什么。答案句指出社会“persistently celebrates procreation”（持续颂扬生育），这直接对应选项D“having children is highly valued by the public”。选项A“celebrity moms are a permanent source for gossip”中“permanent”（永久的）在原文中无依据，属于过度推断；选项B“single mothers with babies deserve greater attention”是价值判断，原文未提及“deserve”；选项C“news about pregnant celebrities is entertaining”中“entertaining”（娱乐性的）在原文中未体现，属于无中生有。
38. It is suggested in Paragraph 3 that childless folks
- A. are constantly exposed to criticism.
- B. are largely ignored by the media.
- C. fail to fulfill their social responsibilities.
- D. are less likely to be satisfied with their life.
答案：A
答案句：Unhappy parents rarely are provoked to wonder if they shouldn't have had kids, but unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message that children are the single most important thing in the world: obviously their misery must be a direct result of the gaping baby-size holes in their lives.
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参考译文：不快乐的父母很少被激起去思考自己是否不该要孩子，但不快乐的没有孩子的人却被这样的信息所困扰：孩子是世界上唯一最重要的事情——显然他们的痛苦一定是生活中巨大的、孩子大小的空洞的直接结果。
定位线索：题干“Paragraph 3”和“childless folks”→答案句取自第3段“unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message”；文中“bothered with the message”对应选项A“are constantly exposed to criticism”（不断受到批评）。
解析：题干问第3段暗示没有孩子的人怎样。答案句说“unhappy childless folks are bothered with the message”（不快乐的没有孩子的人被这样的信息所困扰），即他们不断接收到“孩子最重要”的暗示，这相当于不断受到批评，对应选项A。选项B“are largely ignored by the media”与原文相反，原文说他们被“bothered”；选项C“fail to fulfill their social responsibilities”在原文中未提及，属于无中生有；选项D“are less likely to be satisfied with their life”是原文中“their misery”的同义转述，但这是原文直接陈述的事实，不是“suggested”的推断，且题干问的是“childless folks”受到的对待，而非他们的生活满意度，属于答非所问。
39. According to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is
- A. soothing.
- B. ambiguous.
- C. compensatory.
- D. misleading.
答案：D
答案句：Of course, the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic, especially when the parents are single mothers like Bullock.
参考译文：当然，像《我们周刊》和《人物》这样的名人杂志所呈现的父母形象是极其不真实的，尤其是当父母是像布洛克这样的单身母亲时。
定位线索：题干“Paragraph 4”和“the message conveyed by celebrity magazines”→答案句取自第4段“the image of parenthood that celebrity magazines like Us Weekly and People present is hugely unrealistic”；文中“hugely unrealistic”对应选项D“misleading”（误导性的）。
解析：题干问第4段中名人杂志传达的信息是什么。答案句明确指出名人杂志呈现的父母形象“hugely unrealistic”（极其不真实），不真实的形象自然具有误导性，对应选项D“misleading”。选项A“soothing”（令人安慰的）、选项B“ambiguous”（模糊的）、选项C“compensatory”（补偿性的）在原文中均无对应，属于无中生有。
40. Which of the following can be inferred from the last paragraph?
- A. Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms.
- B. Celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing.
- C. Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life.
- D. We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing.
答案：B
答案句：But it’s interesting to wonder if the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions with the actual experience, in the same way that a small part of us hoped getting “the Rachel” might make us look just a little bit like Jennifer Aniston.
参考译文：但有趣的是，我们每周看到的那些无压力、提升幸福感的父母形象，是否在某种微小、潜意识的方式上助长了我们对实际体验的不满，就像我们中一小部分人希望拥有“瑞秋”发型能让我们看起来有点像詹妮弗·安妮斯顿一样。
定位线索：题干“inferred from the last paragraph”→答案句取自最后一段“the images we see every week of stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood aren't in some small, subconscious way contributing to our own dissatisfactions”；文中“the images we see every week”对应选项B“celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing”（名人妈妈影响了我们对养育孩子的态度）。
解析：题干问从最后一段能推断出什么。答案句提到每周看到的“stress-free, happiness-enhancing parenthood”形象在潜意识中影响我们对实际育儿体验的感受，这对应选项B“celebrity moms have influenced our attitude towards child rearing”。选项A“Having children contributes little to the glamour of celebrity moms”与原文“make it look so glamorous”矛盾；选项C“Having children intensifies our dissatisfaction with life”中“intensifies”（加剧）程度过重，原文说的是“contributing to”（助长），且是“dissatisfactions with the actual experience”而非“life”，范围扩大；选项D“We sometimes neglect the happiness from child rearing”在原文中未提及，属于无中生有。