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{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} There are 4 reading passages in this part.Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices markedA,B,C, andD、You should decide on the best choice and mark your answer on theANSWER SHEET by blackening the corresponding letter in the brackets.
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The single business of Henry Thoreau, during forty odd years of eager activity, was to discover an economy calculated to provide a satisfying life. His one concern, which gave to his ramblings inConcord fields a value of high adventure, was to explore the true meaning of wealth.As he understood the problems of economics, there were three possible solutions open to him, to exploit himself, to exploit his fellows, or to reduce the problem to its lowest denominator. The first was quite impossible——to imprison oneself in a treadmill when the morning called to great adventure. To exploit one’s fellows seemed to Thoreau’s sensitive social conscience an even greater infidelity. Freedom with abstinence seemed to him better than serfdom with material well-being, and he was content to move to Walden Pond and set about the high business of living, "to front only the essential facts of life and to see what it had to teach." He did not advocate that other men should build cabins and live isolateD、He had no wish to dogmatize concernig the best mode of living——each must settle that for himself.But that a satisfying life should be lived, he was virtually concerneD、The story of his emancipation from the lower economics is the one romance of his life, and Walden is his great book. It is a book in praise of life rather than of Nature, a record of calculating economies that studied saving in order to spend more largely.But it is a book of social criticism as well, in spite of its explicit denial of such a purpose. In considering the true nature of economy he concluded, with Ruskin, that the cost of a thing is the amount of life which is required in exchange for it, immediatey or in the long run. In Walden Thoreau elaborated the text: "The only wealth is life."
According to Thoreau, the wealth of an individual is measured by ______.A．the money he makes
B．the experience be gains
C、the amount he saves
D．the books he writes
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：根据…and so set about the high business of living，“to front only the essential facts of life and to see what it had to teach．”可以判断梭罗认为真正的财富要在生活中去发现，在经历事物中去发现。
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