题目
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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 Mc Clintock,
a geneticist (遗传学家) who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she
didn"t let up on (放松) her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought
of stopping.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic
people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist (大提琴家) Pablo Casals would start his day by
playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would
reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote,"Years make the skin old, but to give up
enthusiasm makes the soul old."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, 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 penny until I stopped working for money."
If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of
Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for
at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,"I am persuaded 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 backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.
B. enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree
C. enthusiasm makes us experience more life
D. we can do nothing without enthusiasm
B. enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work
C. you can"t make any achievement if you have no enthusiasm
D. enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end
B. we grow old as time goes on
C. people feel young with enthusiasm
D. our soul becomes old with enthusiasm
B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat
C. we have not enough money to buy what we need
D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need
答案
核心考点
试题【阅读理解。 Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers said】；主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
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viewed personal growth as an external (外在的) result or a product that can easily be identified and measured.
The worker who gets a rise, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language-all
these examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.
By contrast (对照), the process of personal growth is much more difficult to determine, since it is a
journey and not the specific signposts or landmarks along the way. The process is not the road itself, but the
attitudes, feelings people have, and their caution or courage, as they meet with new experiences and unexpected
difficulties. In this process, the journey never really ends; there are always new ways to experience the world,
new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.
In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to face the unknown,
and to accept the possibility that they may "fail" at first. How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being
is necessary for our ability to grow. Do we see ourselves as quick and curious? If so, we tend to take more
chances and be more open to unfamiliar experiences. Do we think we"re shy and indecisive? Then our sense
of fear can cause us to hesitate, to move slowly, and we think we are slow to adapt change or that we"re not
smart enough to deal with a new challenge. Then we are likely to take a more passive role or not try at all.
These feelings of insecurity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and
grow. If we protect ourselves too much, then we stop growing. We become trapped inside a shell of our
own making.
B. he has made great efforts in his work
C. he is interested in making anything new
D. he has tried to determine where he is on his journey
B. Jane won the first prize in the speech competition.
C. Jerry picked up French during his stay in Paris.
D. Father"s salary rose from 5, 000 to 7,000.
B. judge his ability to grow from his own achievements
C. face difficulties and take up challenges
D. aim high and reach his goal each time
B. a new way of taking risks
C. a new method of finding ourselves
D. a new system of adapting to change
B. being quick in self-adaptation
C. having an open mind to new experiences
D. staying away from failures and challenges
wings of their own and who will fly with me. I seek friends whose qualities illuminate
(照亮) me and train me up for love. It is for these people that I reserve the glowing
hours, too good not to share.
When I was in the eighth grade, I had a friend. We were shy and "too serious" about
our studies when it was becoming fashionable with our classmates to learn acceptable
social behaviors. We said little at school, but she would come to my house and we would
sit down with pencils and paper, and one of us would say:"Let"s start with a train whistle
today." We would sit quietly together and write separate poems or stories that grew out
of a train whistle. Then we would read them aloud. At the end of that school year, we, too,
were changing into social creatures and the stories and poems stopped.
When I lived for a time in London, I had a friend. He was in despair (失望) and I was
in despair. But our friendship was based on the idea in each of us that we would be sorry
later if we did not explore this great city because we had felt bad at the time. We met
every Sunday for five weeks and found many excellent things. We walked until our despairs
disappeared and then we parted. We gave London to each other.
For almost four years I have had remarkable friend whose imagination illuminates mine.
We write long letters in which we often discover our strangest selves.Each of us appears,
sometimes in a funny way, in the other"s dreams.She and I agree that, at certain times, we
seem to be parts of the same mind. In my most interesting moments, I often think:"Yes, I
must tell…." We have never met.
It is such comforting companions I wish to keep. One bright hour with their kind is
worth more to me than the lifetime services of a psychologist (心理学家), who will only
fill up the healing (愈合的) silence necessary to those darkest moments in which I would
rather be my own best friend.
to _____.
B. go to her friend"s house regularly
C. learn from her classmates at school
D. share poems and stories with her friend
B. we were unwilling to tear ourselves away from London
C. our unpleasant feeling about London disappeared
D. we parted with each other in London
B. have similar personalities
C. enjoy writing to each other
D. dream of meeting each other
Better still, do this with partner or friend. Before we practice gratitude (感恩), we are in the dark and there
appears to be very little to be grateful for. Once we begin, a new light dawns, sometimes a brilliant light, a
light as bright as heaven itself.
To whom are you grateful in your life? Do these people know the full extent of your gratitude? Do you
realize how grateful they will be when you tell them? Gratitude is more important than an attitude; gratitude
is philosophy. The philosophy of gratitude being as a hope, grows into a belief, and finally becomes an
absolute knowing. It is a knowing that within any given situation-peaceful or painful or ugly-there is always
a gift waiting, waiting for to see.
If it appears you have nothing to be grateful for, it is because you are not allowing yourself to receive.
Just because you do not receive does not mean there is nothing to receive. On the contrary (相反), there
is always ____ and so there is always a reason to be grateful. Pray:"Dear God, teach me I am worthy to
receive, teach me how to receive, teach me gratitude". Gratitude is good medicine. One single serving of
gratitude is often enough to open the heart, energise the body, warm the bones, make your hair curl, put a
spring in your step, start you humming, and make you smile like a baby.
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2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one? Showing even a bit of gratitude
can make everything look fine, and it will be of great benefit to you.
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3. Please fill in the blank in the last paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence.
(Please answer within 10 words.)
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4. Do you agree with the author"s opinion of gratitude? Why? (Please answer within 30 words.)
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5. Translate the underlined sentence in the first paragraph into Chinese.
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wisdom, in experience and education. Our 1 have done a lot for us, directly or indirectly and most of us 2
everything to their kindness and love.
When we 3 them respect, whether ii is by bowing to them, or 4 them with a smile, or offering them
any help they need, it is one way of 5 our own love and gratitude (感激) to them. 6 , elders have also been
through all the years you are 7 and know a little more about the world than you do.
It is 8 that you do not agree with the belief of your elders but this is nothing new. All younger generations
have always 9 with their elders and it is these differences that bring changes in human 10 . However much
you disagree with them, give them credit (信任) for their 11 .
With changing times and 12 influences, youngsters no longer know what is interpreted as disrespect to
elders. Youngsters should 13 express their views and if there are arguments, they should not 14 their voices.
If there is no space on sofas or chairs, children will immediately 15 their places, and sit on the carpet. In
buses and trains, youngsters are 16 to give up their places to older people. This is not a 17 of who has more
rights. It is simply that those who are youngsters have the strength to bear 18 , or stand unpleasantness, so it
is natural to show consideration (体贴) to those who are older and perhaps at a 19 disadvantage (劣势).
When you do simple things as a mark of respect, elders become 20 that youngsters care for them, and they respond
with affection and kindness.
| ( )1.A. youngsters ( )2.A. devote ( )3.A. show ( )4.A. greeting ( )5.A. expressing ( )6.A. However ( )7.A. experiencing with ( )8.A. maybe ( )9.A. quarreled ( )10.A. community ( )11.A. experience ( )12.A. cultural ( )13.A. quietly ( )14.A. rise ( )15.A. give away ( )16.A. expected ( )17.A. doubt ( )18.A. suffering ( )19.A. serious ( )20.A. aware | B. elders B. owe B. explain B. receiving B. describing B. Therefore B. going through B. likely B. dealt B. organization B. reality B. special B. slightly B. raise B. get rid of B. forced B. question B. pressure B. light B. alive | C. parents C. pay C. exhibit C. supplying C. sending C. Besides C. suffering from C. perhaps C. lived C. society C. emotion C. environmental C. silently C. support C. give up C. needed C. wonder C. trouble C. heavy C. knowing | D. juniors |
| 阅读理解。 | |||
| An idea came to me, and I turned off the lights in the studio. In the darkness, I took off my shirt and took up the cello (大提琴); it was the first time in my life I"d felt the instrument against my bare chest. I"d never thought about that; music scholars always talk about the resonating properties (共振) of various instruments, but surely the performer"s own body must have some effect on the sound. As I dug into the notes I imagined that my own chest and lungs were extensions of the sound box; I seemed to be able to change the sound by the way I sat, and by varying the muscular tightness in my upper body. After improvising for a while, I started playing, still in the darkness. I heard the music through my skin. For the first time I didn"t think about how it would sound to anyone else, and slowly, joyfully, gratefully, I started to hear again. The notes sang out, first like a trickle, then like a fountain of cool water bubbling up from a hole in the middle of a desert. After an hour or so I looked up, and in the darkness saw the outline of the cat sitting on the floor in front of me, cleaning her paws and purring loudly. I had an audience again, humble as it was. So that"s what I do now with my cello. At least once a day I find time to tune it, close my eyes and listen. It"s probably not going to lead to the kind of comeback I"d be thirsty for-years of playing badly have left scars on my technique-but I might eventually try giving a concert if I feel up.to it. Occasionally I feel a stab of longing, and I wish I could give just one more concert on a great stage before my lights blink off, but that longing passes more quickly now. I take comfort in the fact that, unlike the way I felt before, I can enjoy playing for myself now. I feel relaxed and expansive when I play, as if I could stretch out my arms and reach from one end of the apartment to the other. A feeling of completeness and dignity surrounds me and lifts me up. | |||
| 1. The writer put the cello against his bare chest to _____. | |||
| A. test music scholars" ideas about the resonating properties B. experience the effect of his body on the musical sound C. reduce his muscular tightness in his upper body D. check the function of the sound box | |||
| 2. In Paragraph 2, the writer intends to _____. | |||
| A. explain his feelings of playing before a cat B. identify specific pieces of music he played C. express his feelings of playing against his body D. describe the sound when he played against his body | |||
| 3. From the last paragraph we can infer that the writer was _____. | |||
| A. optimistic B. discouraged C. nervous D. enthusiastic | |||
| 4. The passage is mainly about _____. | |||
| A. a musician playing the cello for an audience B. a musician"s feelings when playing the cello C. a musician finding joy in playing music in a new way D. a musician"s desire to return to his former profession |