①It’s no surprise that Jennifer Senior’s insightful, provocative magazine cover story, “I love My Children, I Hate My Life,” is arousing much chatter—nothing gets people talking like the suggestion that child rearing is anything less than a completely fulfilling, life-enriching experience. 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.” 

②The magazine cover showing an attractive mother holding a cute baby is hardly the only Madonna-and-child image on newsstands this week. There are also stories about newly adoptive—and newly single—mom Sandra Bullock, as well as the usual “Jennifer Aniston is pregnant” news. Practically every week features at least one celebrity mom, or mom-to-be, smiling on the newsstands.

③In 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? It doesn’t seem quite fair, then, to compare the regrets of parents to the regrets of the childless. 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.

④Of 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. According to several studies concluding that parents are less happy than childless couples, single parents are the least happy of all. No shock there, considering how much work it is to raise a kid without a partner to lean on; yet to hear Sandra and Britney tell it, raising a kid on their “own” (read: with round-the-clock help) is a piece of cake.

⑤It’s hard to imagine that many people are dumb enough to want children just because Reese and Angelina make it look so glamorous: most adults understand that a baby is not a haircut. 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.

1.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

解析：选C。C 推理判断题。题干意为：Jennifer Senior在她的文章中表明，抚养孩子可以带来_______。答案出处定位到第一段。第二三句是Jennifer Senior的观点，应将育儿的幸福进行重新定义，即将之当作“一种过去式状态”(consider being happy as a past-tense condition)：当下的育儿过程虽然可能令人崩溃，但以后却可能会成为父母满足和幸福的源泉。由此可见Jennifer Senior认为养育子女的经历会让人们日后回想起来觉得非常幸福，即C项。

2.We learn from Paragraph 2 that_______.

A celebrity morns 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

解析：选D。D 推理判断题。第二段主要指出，报刊杂志每周都会对明星妈妈或者准妈妈们育儿或怀孕的故事进行专题报道，并且结合第一段中的“‘育儿绝非完全是成就自我、丰富生活的体验’这提议总能引发广泛的讨论”可知媒体如此热衷于报道这类新闻的原因：生育是公众高度关注的话题。第三段第一句“当今社会执着地颂扬生育”也是佐证。故选D。

3.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

解析：选A。A 推理判断题。根据题干中的关键词childless folks定位到第三段第三句中的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不快乐的无子女者总是不断被外界信息所烦扰：孩子是世界上唯一最重要的，他们的痛苦肯定是因为缺少了孩子。由此可见，外界总是对无子女者评头论足。故选A。

4.According to Paragraph 4, the message conveyed by celebrity magazines is_______.

A soothing

B ambiguous

C compensatory

D misleading

解析：选D。D 细节理解题。第四段第一二句指出，名人杂志所呈现的为人父母的形象是非常不现实的：事实上做父母的人不如无子女夫妻幸福，单亲父母最不幸福。然而最后一句中，（名人）桑德拉和布兰妮说，靠“自己”(解读:24小时有人帮忙)抚养孩子是小菜一碟（反讽，名人单亲父母表面看是独自一人抚养孩子，其实背后24小时都有人帮忙，比如有保姆、司机等），由此可见，名人杂志传递出来的信息具有误导性。故选D。

5.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.

解析：选B。B 推理判断题。第五段第一句指出，有很多人会仅仅因为（名人妈妈）瑞茜和安吉莉娜让“要孩子”看起来如此令人向往就决定身体力行生养一个孩子；最后一句又指出，经常看到名人杂志上报道的幸福完美的为人父母形象正在造成我们对现实育儿体验的不满。由此可推知，明星妈妈对我们养育孩子的态度/看法产生了影响，故选B。