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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项。
Do you know what’s sadness? For twenty
years, I saved all my college course notes and textbooks. Two and a half
college degrees: that’s a lot of paper. Worse, I carried them around — and
trust me; they weren’t light — on at least seven moves(搬迁). Yet I never once looked at
them.
They sat in our basement(地下室), covered in a thick layer of
dust. If books and papers could wonder, they’d wonder why they were still under
our stairs after all those years. What were my plans for them? When would the
Big Day come? Well, the Big Day eventually did arrive — only it was different
than expected. My wife, always more accepting of change than I am, finally
convinced me to recycle the entire mess. The pain I experienced was also
unexpected. I didn’t feel nostalgia(怀旧), or suffer pains for long-lost magical moments of my education.
No, what hurt was to come across those terrible papers I’d written, reminders
of poor study habits, immaturity(幼稚), and an embarrassing lack of comprehension.
Thank goodness,I won’t have to lug those
dusty, dirty things on our next move. But what really happened was a purging(清除) of personal history. At first I
struggled with this. The truth is in the record — my books, my notes, and my
papers were primary source materials, documenting an important time in my life.
To trash them was to trash the truth.
What I’ve learned since taking this leap is
that the lesson is more important than the truth. I feel as if much of my real
education has been a direct reaction to killing time during my college years.
The lessons aren’t in the documents—they’re now in me. So I was glad to free
myself of this physical burden and the mental one too: I don’t need to relive
the painful moments, as the lessons have now sunk in.
You might want to consider doing something similar.
