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It seems that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is t
It seems that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is t
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2023-10-31
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It seems that happiness is something to do with simplicity, and that it is the ability to extract pleasure from the simplest things—such as a peach stone, for instance.
It is obvious that it is nothing to do with success. For Sir Henry Stewart was certainly successful. It is twenty years ago since he came down to our village from London, and bought a couple of old cottages, which he had knocked into one. He used his house as a weekend refuge. He was a barrister. And the village followed his brilliant career with something almost amounting to paternal pride.
I remember some ten years ago when he was made a King’s Counsel, Amos and I, seeing him get off the London train, went to congratulate him. We grinned with pleasure; he merely looked as miserable as though he’d received a penal sentence. It was the same when he was knighted; he never smiled a bit, he didn’t even bother to celebrate with a round of drinks at the "Blue Fox". He took his success as a child does his medicine. And not one of his achievements brought even a ghost of a smile to his tired eyes.
I asked him one day, soon after he’d retired to potter about his garden, what it was like to achieve all one’s ambitions. He looked down at his roses and went on watering them. Then he said, "The only value in achieving one’s ambitions is that you then realize that they are not worth achieving." Quickly he moved the conversation on to a more practical level, and within a moment we were back to a safe discussion on the weather. That was two years ago.
I recall this incident, for yesterday, I was passing his house, and had drawn up my cart just outside his garden wall. I had pulled in from the road for no other reason than to let a bus pass me. As I set there filling my pipe, I suddenly heard a shout of sheer joy come from the other side of the wall.
I peered over. There stood Sir Henry doing nothing less than a tribal war dance, of sheer unashamed ecstasy. Even when he observed my bewildered face staring over the wall he did not seem put out or embarrassed, but shouted for me to climb over.
"Come and see, Jan. Look! I have done it at last! I have done it at last! "
There he was, holding a small box of earth in his hand. I observed three tiny shoots out of it.
"And there were only three! " he said, his eyes laughing to heaven.
"Three what?" I asked.
"Peach stones", he replied. "I’ve always wanted to make peach stones grow, even since I was a child, when I used to take them home after a party, or as a man after a banquet. And I used to plant them, and then forgot where I planted them. But now at last I have done it, and, what’s more, I had only three stones, and there you are, one, two, three shoots," he counted.
And Sir Henry ran off, calling for his wife to come and see his achievement—his achievement of simplicity. [br] To Sir Henry Stewart, doing gardening work was
选项
A、his long-cherished ambition.
B、an enjoyable life style.
C、a turning point in his life.
D、a tedious work for his age.
答案
B
解析
根据题干的doing gardening work定位到第4段首句和最后几段。第4段首句说斯图亚特爵士在花同里随便走走,干些轻松的闲活,最后几段说到他种出桃核的喜悦,由此可知他非常享受园艺生活这种生活方式,故选B。A较具干扰性,原文只是说斯图亚特爵士从小就想种桃核,而种桃核只是园艺生活的一部分,A属过度推断,故不对;C无原文依据;斯图亚特爵士非常喜爱园艺生活,D与原文不符。
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