One thing almost everyone is agreed on, including Americans, is that they place a very high valuation upon success. Success does not necessarily mean material rewards, but recognition of some sort preferably measurable. If a boy turns out to be a preacher (传道者) instead of a businessman, that’s all right. But the bigger his church is, the more successful he is judged to be.
A good many things contributed to this accent on success. There was the Puritan(清教徒的) belief in the virtue of work, both for its own sake and because the rewards it brought were regarded as signs of God’s love. There was the richness of opportunity in a land waiting to be settled. There was the lack of a settled society with fixed ranks and classes, so that a man was certain to rise through achievement.
There was the determination of an immigrant to gain in the new world what had been denied to him in the old, and on tile part of his children an urge to throw off the immigran
A. people agree on what success means
B. success surely brings material rewards
C. success equals measurable recognition
D. success is highly valued in American society
Passage Four
There is one thing that everyone wants more than anything else. Some people try to get it by making money. They think that when they have enough money to buy such things as houses, farms, and cars, they will have the one thing that everyone wants.
Other people believe that if they know enough they will find this thing. They study all their lives in search of it. Still others think that if they have power, they will find this thing. They keep telling themselves: when I am a boss, I will no longer have to search for this thing.
What is it that everyone wants more than anything else What is it that all of us keep working and striving for each day It is happiness.
Happiness is a strange thing. It does not mean the same to all men. What will make one man happy may not make another man happy. Some men say that happiness comes from helping others; other men say that happiness comes from making life more pleasant for everyone. What do y
A. Happiness means the same to everyone
B. Happiness is the thing that everyone wants most of all
C. Money makes one happy, so does helping others
D. Both A and C
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