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【题目】根据短文理解，选择正确答案。
Time is more precious than money for an increasing number of people who are choosing to live more with less—and liking it.
Kay and Charles Giddens, two lawyers, sold their home to start a B&B hotel. Four years later, the couple dishes out banana pancake breakfast, cleans toilets and serves homemade chocolate chip cookies to guests in a B&B hotel surrounded by trees on a hill known for colourful sunsets.
“Do I miss the freeways? Do I miss the traffic? Do I miss the stress? No,” says Ms. Giddens, “This is a phenomenon that's fairly widespread. A lot of people are revaluating their lives and figuring out what they want to do. If their base is being damaged, what's the payoff?”
Simple living ranges from cutting down on weeknight activities to sharing housing, living closer to work, avoiding shopping malls, borrowing books from the library instead of buying them, and taking a cut in pay to work at a more pleasurable job.
Vicki Robin, a writer, lives on a budget equal to a fifth of what she used to make. “You become conscious about where your money is going and how valuable it is,” Ms. Robin says, “You tend not to use things up. You cook at home rather than eat out…”
Janet Luhrs, a lawyer, quit her job after giving birth and leaving her daughter with a nanny for two weeks. “It was not the way I wanted to raise my kids,” she says, “Simplicity is not just about saving money; it's about me sitting down every night with my kids to a candlelit dinner with classical music.”
Mrs. Luhrs now edits a magazine, Simple Living, which publishes tips on how to buy recycled furniture and shoes, organize potluck dinners instead of expensive receptions, and generally how to consume less.
Mrs. Luhrs explains, “It's not about poverty. It's about conscious living and creating the life you want. The less stuff you buy, the less money goes out of the door, and the less money you have to earn.”
（1）Kay and Charles Giddens sold their home to ______.
A.pay off the debt
B.start a private hotel
C.cut down expenses
D.buy living necessities
（2）Simple living includes ______.
A.building a home library
B.living in the countryside
C.enjoying a colourful night life
D.sharing housing with others
（3）It can be learned from the passage that now Janet Luhrs ______.
A.spends more time with her kids
B.has an interest in classical music
C.works as a reporter of a magazine
D.helps people buy recycled clothes

Answer 1

【答案】
（1）B
（2）D
（3）A
【解析】本文通过几个例子向人们证明“时间比金钱更宝贵”。

（1）B细节理解。根据文章第二段中的sold their home to start a B&Bhotel，可知他们把房子卖掉是为了经营自己的酒店，故选B。

（2）D细节理解。根据第四段中的Simple living ranges from cutting down on weeknight activities to sharing housing，可看出D选项中所描述的内容就包含了simple living的内容，故选D。

（3）A推理判断。根据文章第六段中的It was not the way I wanted to raise my kids,”she says,“Simplicity is not just about saving money，可知JanetLuhrs没工作是把时间花在跟她的小孩子一起，故选A。