题目
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(热情的)! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience. " How right they were!
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. "wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson．It is the paste
that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, "I can do it!"
when others shout, "No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock,
a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop
working on her experiments．Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eye, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives
enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day
by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped (弯曲的)shoulders would
straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote, "Years
wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mcllrath,
retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her
enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, ‘I never made a dime until I stopped
working for money.’"
If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of
Wellsville, Kan was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had
trouble her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, "I am tempted to call
Layton a genius."
We can’t afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure
in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.
B. enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life
C. enthusiasm is more important than experience
D. enthusiasm can give people more success and fame
B. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed
C. enthusiasm can make people feel young
D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy
B. If you don’t have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing．
C. Enthusiastic people seldom consider money and fame．
D. Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor．
答案
核心考点
试题【 Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised, 】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，
选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，。
downstairs that Sunday morning was that her 1 window was open. In fact, it was so wide open that
she had 2 closing it. Then she realized that things were not in their proper 3 . Finally, when she
found her empty 4 on the kitchen table, she realized the awful 5 . At first, she didn’t know what to
do. Then she decided to 6 her son, Derek.
Derek’s wife Sybil answered the phone, "It’s your mother," she 7 him, coldly. Louise told Derek
about the open window, about things being in the wrong places and about the 8 missing from her purse.
"All right," said Derek, "Don’t 9 anything. I’ll be 10 in half an hour."
Louise 11 and made herself a pot of tea and some toast. Then she went from room to room
wondering 12 anything else was missing.
When Derek arrived, he was content to 13 her looking so calm. "Have you rung the 14 ?" he
asked. "No? Then I’ll do that straight away." So he rang the police.
As it was Sunday, 15 the only detectives were out. However, the police were polite, but vague
（含糊的）. "We’ll send 16 round as soon as possible,"they said.
Derek telephoned his wife. "I’m not sure when I’ll be home, love,"he told her. "I’ve got to 17 for
the police." While Derek and his mother waited, Derek 18 the catches（挂钩）on the windows and
locks on the doors. All of them were old and some of the catches hardly 19 at all. Derek felt 20 .
His mother was an old woman, after all. "I’ll have to change all these," he told her.
| ( )1. A. kitchen ( )2. A. strength ( )3. A. positions ( )4. A. purse ( )5. A. mistake ( )6. A. visit ( )7. A. invited ( )8. A. money ( )9. A. say ( )10. A. round ( )11. A. sighed ( )12. A. how ( )13. A. realize ( )14. A. hospital ( )15. A. generally ( )16. A. someone ( )17. A. hope ( )18. A. tested ( )19. A. locked ( )20. A. excited | B. bedroom B. trouble B. situations B. vase B. message B. ask B. informed B. coin B. move B. here B. relaxed B. why B. find B. neighbor B. luckily B. anyone B. ask B. repaired B. worked B. silly | C. washroom C. reason C. directions C. pot C. news C. ring C. stated C. note C. touch C. off C. whispered C. if C. know C. police C. considerably C. everyone C. wait C. fixed C. helped C. worried | D. bathroom D. puzzle D. places D. envelope D. truth D. punish D. scolded D. bill D. prepare D. away D. hurried D. where D. sense D. friend D. unfortunately D. none D. call D. examined D. opened D. guilty | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 阅读理解。 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| There’s a man in the habit of hitting me on the head with an umbrella. At first I couldn’t stand it; now I’m used to it. I don’t know his name. I know he’s average in appearance, wears a gray suit, and has a common face. One hot morning, when I was sitting on a tree-shaded bench in Palermo Park, reading the paper, suddenly I felt something touch my head. It was the very same man who now, as I’m writing, keeps striking me with an umbrella. On that occasion I turned around filled with anger. He just kept on hitting me. I asked him if he was crazy. He didn’t even seem to hear me. Then I threatened to call a policeman. Calmly, cool as a cucumber, he stuck with his task. After a few moments of hesitation, and seeing that he was not about to change his attitude, I stood up and hit him on the nose. The man fell down. But he immediately got back on his feet, obviously with great effort, and without a word again began hitting me on the head with the umbrella. His nose was bleeding and, at that moment, I felt sorry for him. I felt regret for having hit him so hard. After all, the man wasn’t exactly hitting me; he was merely tapping me lightly with his umbrella, not causing any pain at all. Of course, those taps were extremely bothersome. As we all know, when a fly lands on your forehead, you don’t feel any pain; what you feel is annoyance. Well then, that umbrella was one huge fly that kept landing on my head time after time. Convinced that I was dealing with a madman, I tried to escape. But the man followed me, wordlessly continuing to hit me. So I began to run（I should point out that not many people run as fast as I do）. He took off after me, trying to land a blow. The man was out of breath so that I thought, if I continued to force him to run at that speed, he would drop dead right then and there. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. When the man began to strike the author with an umbrella, the author _________. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. became angry B. called the police C. turned around and escaped D. turned around and fought back | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. The author would most probably agree that the man was_______. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. deaf B. blind C. dead D. mad | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. The author felt sorry for the man because _______. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. the man formed a bad habit of beating others B. he hit the man so hard that his nose bled C. the man couldn’t catch up with him D. there was a fly on the man’s head | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. It can be learned from the passage that the man _______. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| A. shouted loudly while hitting the author B. wanted to tell the author something C. ran after the author breathlessly D. acted as if he were a fly | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以 填入空白处的最佳选项，。 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| One night I decided to spend some time building a happier and closer relationship with my daughter. For several weeks she had been 1 me to play chess (棋) with her, so I suggested a game and she eagerly 2 . It was a school night, however, and at nine o’clock my daughter asked if I could 3 my moves, because she 4 to go to bed; she had to get up at six in the morning. I 5 she had strict sleeping habits, 6 I thought she ought to be able to 7 some of this strictness. I said to her, " 8 , you can stay up late for once. We’re having 9 ." We played on for another fifteen minutes, during which time she looked 10 . Finally she said, "Please, Daddy, do it quickly." "No," I replied. " If you’re going to play it 11 , you’re going to play it slowly." And so we 12 for another ten minutes, until 13 my daughter burst into tears, and 14 that she was beaten. Clearly I had made 15 . I had started the evening wanting to have a 16 time with my daughter but had 17 my desire to win to become more 18 than my relationship with my daughter. When I was a child, my desire to win 19 me well. As a parent, I 20 that it got in my way. So I had to change. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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