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【题目】Last week, my granddaughter started kindergarten and I wished her success. I was ___. What I actually wished for her was failure.Success is ___. Success proves that you can do something that you ____ know you can do. First-time success is usually because of good luch.However, first-time failure is ____; it is the natural order of things.

Failure is ____ we learn. I have been told an African phrase that ____ a good cook as “he who has broken many pots” If you've spent enough time in the ____ and have broken many pots.”If you have spent enough time in the ____ and have broken a lot of pots, probably you know much about ____ .I once had dinner with a group of cooks, and they spent time ____ knife wounds and bum scars. They knew how much benefit their ____ had given them.

My younger daughter is a trapeze(高空秋千)artist.It took her three years to ____ an act.She did it successfully for years.There was no ____ for her to change the act,but she did it ____. She said she felt bored because it ____ offered her anything new.So she changed the act, ____ she was advised not to.She ____ failure and public embarrassment in order to feed her soul.

My granddaughter is a perfectionist(完美主义者),probably too much of one.I will ___ her when she feels sad about her failure.I will also ____ her about what she had learned,and how she can do whatever it is ____ next time.But I probably won’t tell her that failure is a good thing, because that’s not a(n) ____ she can learn when she is five. I hope I can tell her, though, that it’s not the end of the world. Indeed, with luck, it is the beginning.

【1】A. joking B. lying C. cheating D. doubting

【2】A. encouraging B. annoying C. exciting D.boring

【3】A. never B. hardly C. already D. also

【4】A. expected B.disliked C.honored D. valued

【5】A. when B. where C. how D. what

【6】A. describes B. explains C. announces D. mentions

【7】A. room B. kitchen C. restaurant D. office

【8】A. work B.life C.progress D. cooking

【9】A. examing B. treating C.watching D. comparing

【10】A. practices B. habits C. failures D. efforts

【11】A. put together B pick out C. take up D put on

【12】A. chance B. reason C.right D. permission

【13】A. as well B. somehow C.as usual D. anyway

【14】A. after all B. once more C. at first D. no longer

【15】A. but B. though C. as D. unless

【16】A. copied B.required C.rished D.forgot

【17】A. blame B. comfort C. protect D.accept

【18】A. warn B. find C. remind D. understand

【19】A. better B. more happily C. hard D.more easily

【20】A. example B. exception C.lesson D. course

Answer 1

【答案】【1】B

【2】 D

【3】 C

【4】 A

【5】 C

【6】 A

【7】 B

【8】 D

【9】 D

【10】 C

【11】 A

【12】B

【13】D

【14】 D

【15】 B

【16】 C

【17】B

【18】 C

【19】 A

【20】 C

【解析】【1】考查上下文理解。根据后句What I actually wished for her was failure可知，作者祝愿孙女成功是一句谎言。

【2】考查上下文理解。根据“成功是因为你做了你能够做的事情。”以及第三段中的She said she felt bored...可知，这种成功是乏味的。

【3】考查逻辑推理。因为已经知道自己能做什么事情，所以能够取得成功。

【4】考查逻辑推理。第一次做事就取得成功，这是因为运气好，与此相反，第一次做事失败则是可以预料的。

【5】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词语的把握。我们通过失败学到很多，即失败教我们如何学到有用的东西。

【6】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词语的把握。有一个非洲的谚语，把好厨师描述成打碎过很多锅碗的人。

【7】考查生活常识。厨师练就了一身本领，是在厨房里进行的。

【8】考查逻辑推理。打碎了很多锅碗，说明进行过大量的练习，也就掌握了很多烹调的方法。

【9】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词语的把握。在一次宴会上，作者看到很多厨师在比谁的刀伤烧伤留下的疤痕更多。这句话对应前面谚语的含义。

【10】 考查上下文理解。本段主要讲失败对人的成长的好处，因此本句表示：多次的失败让他们受益匪浅。

【11】 考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词语的把握。为了整合一个动作，她要花上三年的时间才能成功。put together“汇集，整合”，pick out“挑选”，take up“开始从事”，put on“演出”。

【12】考查逻辑推理。既然现在做得如此成功，她没有理由改变多年练成的那个动作。

【13】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词或词组的把握。根据后面So she changed the act...可知，不管怎样，她还是改变了动作。

【14】考查逻辑推理。作者的女儿感到厌倦，因为多年练好的动作已经不能为自己提供新鲜的东西。

【15】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词的把握。注意本题容易错选为but，但是根据语境可知，作者的女儿没有听从人们的建议，而是改变了自己表演的动作，故用though。

【16】考查上下文理解和对选项中记歌词的把握。女儿冒着失败和出丑的危险，坚持改变表演动作。risk在这里是动词，表示“冒险”。

【17】考查逻辑推理。当孙女为自己的失败感到难过时，需要亲人的安慰。

【18】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词的把握。除了安慰孙女，作者还会提醒孩子失败教给她什么。remind sb. about/of sth.“提醒某人某物”。

【19】考查上下文理解。作者会教给孙女在下一次如何把事情做得更好。

【20】考查上下文理解和对选项中几个词的把握。作者现在暂时不会告诉孙女失败其实是一件好事，因为这不是一个5岁的孩子能够得到的教训。