2018年6月大学英语六级听力常考时文：Love Your Life
1.What does the author think of the town's poor? They live ...lives.2.How does the speaker tell us to deal with new things? ... to get
them.
3.According to the passage, in order to get rid of poverty, what should we
turn to? ...
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it or call it
hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest.
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it
is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a
poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the window of the alms-house as
brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its door as early
in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and
have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace. The town’s poor seem to me often to
live the most independent lives of any. Maybe they are simply great enough to
receive without misgivings. Most think that they are above being supported by
the town; but it often happens that they are not above supporting themselves by
dishonest means, which should be more disreputable. Cultivate poverty like a
garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether
clothes or friends. Turn to the old, turn to them. Things do not change; we
change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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