A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable (有能力的) of it. A child may think he is ___ because he doesn"t understand how to make the ____ of his mental faculties (才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning new things because of their ____.
A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real ____ because he feels that it would be useless. He won"t go at a job with the confidence necessary for ___， and he won"t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is ____ likely to fail, and the failure will ____ his belief in his incompetence (无能)．
Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had ____ like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor ___ in maths. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in maths in order that they would not ____ too much of him. In his way, they two ____ the idea. He accepted ____ mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless ____ and was very poor at maths, ____ as they expected.
One day he worked at a problem which ____ of the other students had been able to solve.
Alder ___ in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now ___ with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at maths. He not only ____ that he could learn maths well, but luckily he learnt ____ in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job with determination and purpose, he may ____himself as well as others by his ability.
| 小题1: | | A．clever | B．shy | C．useless | D．stupid |
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| 小题2: | | A．biggest | B．most | C．highest | D．deepest |
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| 小题3: | | A．ability | B．age | C．brain | D．knowledge |
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| 小题4: | | A．decision | B．success | C．effort | D．trouble |
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| 小题5: | | A．work | B．study | C．improvement | D．success |
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| 小题6: | | A．truly | B．really | C．however | D．therefore |
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| 小题7: | | A．lead to | B．strengthen | C．increase | D．add to |
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| 小题8: | | A．an experience | B．an example | C．a thought | D．a story |
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| 小题9: | | A．state | B．mind | C．start | D．ending |
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| 小题10: | | A．blame | B．expect | C．get | D．win |
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| 小题11: | | A．developed | B．organized | C．discovered | D．found |
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| 小题13: | | A．managing | B．succeeding | C．trying | D．acting |
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| 小题14: | | A．only | B．almost | C．just | D．then |
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| 小题15: | | A．none | B．no | C．no one | D．nobody |
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| 小题16: | | A．gave | B．succeeded | C．failed | D．believed |
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| 小题17: | | A．lived | B．worked | C．played | D．graduated |
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| 小题18: | | A．made | B．took | C．expected | D．proved |
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| 小题19: | | A．early | B．deeply | C．late | D．simple |
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| 小题20: | | A．encourage | B．love | C．astonish | D．disappoint |
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小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:C
小题5:D
小题6:D
小题7:B
小题8:A
小题9:C
小题10:B
小题11:A
小题12:D
小题13:C
小题14:C
小题15:A
小题16:B
小题17:B
小题18:D
小题19:B
小题20:C |
小题1:答案 D [A、B不符合本文主旨。从该句的mental faculties (智力) 一词可知是认为自己笨，而不是无用。]
小题2:答案 B [固定词组。make full use of / make the best of / make the most of充分利用。]
小题3:答案 B [和前面的older搭配用age。]
小题4:答案 C [认为自己在某方面缺乏天赋的人往往不会在这一方面真正投入精力，因为他认为做了等于白做还不如不去努力。从下文的事例也可推知答案。]
小题5:答案 D [本题和41,42题呼应。自信是成功的必备因素。necessary for success作定语修饰confidence。]
小题6:答案 D [不认真工作又缺乏信心，失败也是理所当然。固选therefore。]
小题7:答案 B [多次失败往往会使人形成一种错误的认识，更加认为自己在某方面真的无能。在此之前他已经形成此观点，故排除A。]
小题8:答案 A [作者以Alfred Alder为例就是因为Alfred Alder曾经有过和本文所讲同样的经历。]
小题9:答案 C [从a small boy 可知是回忆数学启蒙时候的事情。]
小题10:答案 B [和49后的as they expected相呼应。老师认为他在数学上无天赋体现出老师对他在数学方面的期望值不高，告诉家长不要指望其儿子在数学方面有什么成就。]
小题11:答案 A [在听了老师的看法之后，家长也就自然对儿子形成了一种新的认识。organized / found一般是建立某机构，C不符合文意。故选A。]
小题12:答案 D [他接受了他们(老师和父母)的错误看法。]
小题13:答案 C [既然老师和父母都认为自己不行，自己肯定不行，在数学上先天不足再努力也没用。try努力。]
小题14:答案 C [因为没有用功所以学得很差，这种结果刚好和老师和家长的看法一致。]
小题15:答案 A [没有学生能解决的问题。]
小题16:答案 B [succeed in doing sth 成功做某事。]
小题17:答案 B [现在他带着兴趣，意志和目的学数学。]
小题18:答案 D [用自己的经历证明了一个道理。]
小题19:答案 B [从自己的经历他悟出了一个道理，用deeply才能表达出悟出道理这个漫长的过程。]
小题20:答案 C [从一个数学白痴到数学天才当然会让人astonish。] |
核心考点
试题【A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good wo】；主要考察你对
题材分类等知识点的理解。
[详细]举一反三
My uncle has a very beautiful umbrella. He has had it ____ and he is very careful with it. It still looks as good as new. “That umbrella must have ____ you a great deal of money, Uncle，” I said to him one day. “No，” he replied, “____.” “Was it a present？” I asked again. “No，” said he. “Then how did you get it？” I asked.
“Well，” he answered, “it is a strange true story. About ten years ago I was walking along a quiet London street one evening ____ it suddenly rained. I had no ___ and no umbrella. No buses ____that street and there were no taxis in sight. As I was on my way to a party I didn"t want to get ___.So I stood in a doorway and waited for the rain to stop. By and by it grew quite ____， there wasn"t a person around，and still it rained and rained.____ a young man came to the place where I was standing, ____ a large umbrella over his head. As I hoped he would ____ me to walk to the next corner with him, ___ I could have got a taxi，I stepped ____ the dark doorway where I had been standing, and said, ‘____， where are you going with that umbrella？’
____ by my sudden appearance, the young man ____ the umbrella which I am afraid, he had just stolen, ran away, and ___ into the darkness. I picked up the umbrella and ____ my walk. I knew it would be ____ in this big city to try and discover the owner and so I"ve kept it ____.”
| 小题1: | | A．for months | B．for years | | C．since childhood | D．since then |
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| 小题2: | | A．used | B．cost | C．taken | D．spent |
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| 小题3: | | A．very little | B．only a few pounds | | C．not a penny | D．not a great deal |
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| 小题5: | | A．car | B．hat | C．raincoat | D．friend |
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| 小题6: | | A．moved through | B．ran through | | C．went across | D．passed across |
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| 小题8: | | A．dark | B．wet | C．late | D．helpless |
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| 小题9: | | A．At once | B．At last | C．Strangely | D．Secretly |
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| 小题10: | | A．raising | B．carrying | C．holding | D．lifting |
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| 小题11: | | A．allow | B．let | C．agree | D．promise |
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| 小题12: | | A．there | B．where | C．from which | D．in which |
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| 小题13: | | A．into | B．out of | | C．towards | D．from behind |
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| 小题14: | | A．By the way | B．Pardon | C．Excuse me | D．Sorry |
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| 小题15: | | A．Encouraged | B．Forced | | C．Warmed | D．Frightened |
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| 小题16: | | A．shut | B．took | C．dropped | D．forgot |
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| 小题17: | | A．disappeared | B．wandered | C．marched | D．came |
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| 小题18: | | A．stopped | B．started | C．continued | D．delayed |
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| 小题19: | | A．endless | B．interesting | C．exciting | D．hopeless |
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| 小题20: | | A．ever since | B．forever | C．long enough | D．in the end |
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In the fall of 1985，I was a brighteyed girl heading off to Howard University, aiming at a legal career and dreaming of sitting on a Supreme Court bench somewhere. Twentyone years later I am later I am still a brighteyed dreamer and one with quite a different tale to tell.
My grandma, an amazing woman, graduated from college at the age of 65. She was the first in our family to reach that goal. But one year after I started college, she developed cancer. I made the choice to withdraw from college to care for her. It meant that school and my personal dream would have to wait.
Then I got married with another dream: building my family with a combination of adopt and biological children. In 1999, we adopted our first son. To lay eyes on him was fantastic...and very emotional. A year later came our second adopted boy. Then followed son No. 3. In 2003, I gave birth to another boy.
You can imagine how fully occupied I became, raising four boys under the age of 8！Our home was a complete zoo...a joyous zoo. Not surprising, I never did make it back to college fulltime. But I never gave up on the dream either. I had only one choice: to find a way. That meant talking as few as one class each semester.
The hardest part was feeling guilty about the time I spent away from the boys. They often wanted me to stay home with them. There certainly were times I wanted to quit.But I knew I should set an example for them to follow through the rest of their lives.
In 2007, I graduated from the University of North Carolina. It took me over 21 years to get my college degree!
I am not special, just singleminded. It always struck me that when you"re looking at a big challenge from the outside it looks huge, but when you"re in the midst of it, it just seems normal. Everything you want won"t arrive in your life on one day. It"s a process. Remember；little steps add up to big dreams.
小题1:When the author went to Howard University, her dream was to be ________.| A．a writer | B．a teacher | C．a judge | D．a doctor |
小题2:Why did the author quit school in her second year of college?| A．She wanted to study by herself. | | B．She fell in love and got married. | | C．She suffered from a serious illness. | | D．She decided to look after her grandma. |
小题3:What can we learn about the author from Paragraphs 4 and 5?| A．She was busy yet happy with her family life. | | B．She ignored her guilty feeling for her sons. | | C．She wanted to remain a fulltime housewife. | | D．She was too confused to make a correct choice. |
小题4:What does the author mostly want to tell us in the last paragraph?| A．Failure is the mother of success. | | B．Little by little，one goes far. | | C．Every coin has two sides. | | D．Well begun, half done. |
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The American newspaper publisher Arthur Sulzberger Sr died at the age of 86.Mr Sulzberger led The New York Times for more than three decades，before passing the business to his son.He took over the paper in 1963 when it was in financial trouble，and transformed it into the heart of a multibillion dollar media empire.
His family announced he had died at his home in Southampton，New York State，after a long illness.His son，Arthur Sulzberger Jr，said in a statement that his father，whom he referred to by his childhood nickname of Punch，was “one of our industry’s most admired executives”．“Punch，the old Marine captain who never backed down from a fight，was an absolutely fierce defender of the freedom of the press，” he said.
The New York Times was bought by Mr Sulzberger Sr’s grandfather Adolph Ochs in 1896.During Mr Sulzberger’s tenure，The New York Times won 31 Pulitzer prizes.
Born in New York City,5 February 1926，Sr served in Marine Corps during World War Ⅱ and Korean War，joined The New York Times in 1951 after graduating from Columbia College，took over as publisher in 1963 after his brotherinlaw died suddenly，stepped down in 1997 and passed stewardship to his son，Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
He oversaw a huge circulation boost at the paper，and increased its parent company’s annual revenues (年收入) from $100m in 1963 to $1.7bn by the time he stepped down in 1997.He also led the paper through highlevel clashes with the political establishment.In 1971，The Times published a series of stories saying that politicians had systematically lied over the US involvement in Vietnam.The source was thousands of leaked government documents known as the Pentagon Papers.The Nixon administration demanded that the paper stop publishing the stories on grounds of national security.But the paper refused，and then won the subsequent court case by arguing that the First Amendment of the US Constitution (宪法) guaranteed free speech.The case is seen as a landmark in the history of free speech in the US.Mr Sulzberger said he read more than 7,000 pages of the Pentagon Papers before personally deciding to publish them.
His family still holds a controlling stake (控股权) in The New York Times.He was a strong believer in family ownership of newspapers.He once joked：“My conclusion is simple.Nepotism works.”
小题1:When did Arthur Sulzberger Sr die?| A．In 1997. | B．In 2012. | | C．In 1963. | D．In 1971. |
小题2:Punch，the old Marine captain was actually________.| A．Arthur Sulzberger Jr | | B．Adolph Ochs | | C．Arthur Sutzberger Sr’s father | | D．Arthur Sulzberger Sr |
小题3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．Arthur Sulzberger Sr took over The New York Times from his brotherinlaw. | | B．Arthur Sulzberger Jr’s grandfather bought The New York Times. | | C．Arthur Sulzberger Sr resigned when The New York Times was in financial trouble. | | D．Arthur Sulzberger Jr took over The New York Times after graduating from Columbia College. |
小题4:In the political case in the 1970s，Mr Sulzberger________.| A．failed the case in the end | | B．lost the controlling stake in The New York Times | | C．gave in to the government | | D．succeeded in guarding free speech of the paper |
小题5:What does the underlined word “Nepotism” probably refer to?| A．Friendship. | B．Politics. | | C．Family ownership | D．Freedom of speech. |
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Lilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community.When she was 16，her father____her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income.With English as her second language and____education，the____didn’t look bright for Lilly.
Lilly’s father was a stubborn man who___took “no” for an answer.He____Lilly to find a job.With small hope of gaining____，each day she would just ride to the city，walk____about and return home at dusk.
On one of her____，Lilly saw a sign at a big company.___，she knocked on the very first door.In her____English，Lilly told the office manager she was interested in the secretarial position.The manager ____to give the girl a chance.He directed her to type a letter，and then____.Lilly looked at the clock and saw it was 11∶40 am.She thought everyone would be leaving for____at noon，when she could____away in the crowd.But she knew she should____the letter.
On her first try，Lilly____one line of five words and made four mistakes.On her second attempt，she completed a full paragraph，but still made many mistakes.She looked at the clock：11∶55—five minutes to____.Just then the manager walked in.He came directly to Lilly，read the letter and said，“Lilly，you’re doing____work！”
With those simple words of encouragement，her desire to escape disappeared and her____began to grow.Lilly thought，“Well，if he thinks it’s good，then it must be good.I think I’ll stay！” Lilly did stay—all because someone had given a____and uncertain girl the gift of selfconfidence when she knocked on the door.
| 小题1: | | A．reminded | B．forced | | C．encouraged | D．helped |
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| 小题2: | | A．poor | B．formal | | C．good | D．modern |
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| 小题3: | | A．advice | B．promise | | C．future | D．change |
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| 小题4: | | A．always | B．usually | | C．sometimes | D．rarely |
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| 小题5: | | A．warned | B．told | | C．allowed | D．begged |
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| 小题6: | | A．employment | B．experience | | C．judgment | D．independence |
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| 小题7: | | A．carefully | B．happily | | C．aimlessly | D．rapidly |
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| 小题8: | | A．steps | B．trips | | C．purposes | D．choices |
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| 小题9: | | A．Bravely | B．Proudly | | C．Calmly | D．Cautiously |
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| 小题10: | | A．broken | B．perfect | | C．written | D．fluent |
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| 小题11: | | A．refused | B．decided | | C．pretended | D．failed |
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| 小题12: | | A．stopped | B．continued | | C．left | D．sighed |
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| 小题13: | | A．lunch | B．life | | C．fun | D．luck |
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| 小题14: | | A．break | B．slip | | C．pass | D．drive |
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| 小题15: | | A．read | B．write | | C．attempt | D．deliver |
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| 小题16: | | A．went over | B．picked up | | C．gave away | D．got through |
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| 小题17: | | A．freedom | B．success | | C．discussion | D．reward |
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| 小题18: | | A．terrible | B．excellent | | C．honest | D．easy |
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| 小题19: | | A．belief | B．patience | | C．confidence | D．strength |
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| 小题20: | | A．shy | B．lonely | | C．selfless | D．modest |
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My sister and I were flying from our home in Kansas to a summer camp in Minnesota. Our plane had a two-hour at the airport in Omaha, where I saw a toy airplane that I really . I had $10 and I had no idea what I needed to at camp, but I spent $8 on the airplane anyway.
When we reached the camp, I discovered that there were no showers! , we bathed in a lake every night. I needed to buy soap. Because the regular soap I brought had chemicals that could the fish. The special soap cost $4 at the camp store. After buying the plane, I had $2 left, so I couldn’t buy the soap.
After a few days, I was a . Sally, our camp teacher, asked me if I needed some soap. When I her that I had spent my soap money on a toy airplane, she laughed and said, “You need to budget.” She then explained that a budget was a(n) for spending money to help make sure you save enough for things you — like soap — before you buy fun things — like . Sally gave me her extra soap, which I took.
When I returned home from , I decided to make my budget. Every week I spent time writing down everything I bought, and some weeks, I would have more in my “Money In” account I did odd jobs (零活) around the house.
Budgeting was , especially when my friends bought soda at the store after school and I couldn’t because I had spent all my “Want to Spend” money. But I with it, and by the next summer, I had enough money to buy a Paula Pilot doll at Omaha Airport, as well as at the camp store to Sally!
| 小题1: | | A．rest | B．trip | C．flight | D．stop |
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| 小题2: | | A．made | B．wanted | C．left | D．remembered |
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| 小题4: | | A．Besides | B．However | C．Instead | D．Anyhow |
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| 小题5: | | A．special | B．common | C．small | D．expensive |
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| 小题6: | | A．catch | B．raise | C．hurt | D．control |
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| 小题7: | | A．hero | B．mess | C．star | D．failure |
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| 小题8: | | A．warned | B．told | C．suggested | D．reminded |
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| 小题9: | | A．plan | B．idea | C．example | D．promise |
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| 小题10: | | A．lose | B．gather | C．need | D．hate |
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| 小题11: | | A．chemicals | B．clothes | C．bills | D．toys |
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| 小题12: | | A．fortunately | B．cautiously | C．unhappily | D．gratefully |
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| 小题13: | | A．school | B．airport | C．camp | D．hospital |
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| 小题14: | | A．daily | B．weekly | C．monthly | D．yearly |
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| 小题15: | | A．so | B．and | C．because | D．until |
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| 小题16: | | A．hard | B．boring | C．safe | D．fresh |
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| 小题17: | | A．dealt | B．began | C．agreed | D．stuck |
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| 小题18: | | A．received | B．saved | C．earned | D．borrowed |
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| 小题19: | | A．fish | B．water | C．soap | D．soda |
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| 小题20: | | A．apologize for | B．call on | C．care for | D．pay back |
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