水木艾迪：阅读理解冲刺之新题型四_大学英语阅读

水木艾迪：阅读理解冲刺之新题型四

　　44.

　　I used to get up at dawn to practice before I left for downtown, distracting my poor mother by bolting a hasty breakfast at the last minute. Instead of lunching with my business associates, I would seek out some cheap caf, order a meager meal and scribble my harmony exercises. I continued to make money, and finally, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to go abroad. The family being once more solvent, and my help no longer necessary, I resigned from my position and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for Europe. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and enjoyed every minute of it. Enjoyed is too mild a word. I walked on air. I really lived. I was a free man and I was doing what I loved to do what I meant to do.

　　45.

　　If I had stayed in business I might be a comparatively wealthy man today, but I do not believe I would have made a success of living. I would have given up all those inner satisfactions that money can never buy, and that are too often sacrificed when a mans primary goal is financial success.

　　When I broke away from business it was against the advice of practically all my friends and family. So conditioned are most of us to association of success with money that the thought of giving up a good salary for an idea seemed little short of insane. If so, all I can thought of giving up a good salary for an idea seemed little short of insane. If so, all I can say is Gee, its great to be crazy. Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high a price for it.