Question

【题目】Eating the Cookie

One of my patients, a successful businessman, tells me that before his cancer he would become depressed unless things went a certain way.

【1】 was “having the cookie”. If you had the cookie, things were good. If you didn’t have the cookie, life was 【2】 .

Unfortunately, the cookie kept 【3】 some of the time it was money, and sometimes power. At 【4】 times, it was the new car, the biggest contract… A year and a half after his diagnosis of prostate(前列腺)cancer, he sits 【5】 his head regretfully. “It seems that I stopped learning how to 【6】 after I was a kid. When I give my son a cookie, he is happy. if I take the cookie away or it 【7】 , he is unhappy. But he is two and a half and I am forty-three. It has taken me this long to understand that the 【8】 will never make me happy for long.

The 【9】 you have the cookie it starts to fall to pieces or you start to 【10】 about it crumbling(弄碎)or about someone trying to take it away from you. You know, you have to 【11】 a lot of things to take care of the cookie, to keep it from crumbling and be 【12】 that no one takes it away from you. You may not even get a chance to eat it 【13】 you are so busy just trying not to lose it. 【14】 the cookie is not what life is about.”

My patient laughs and says 【15】 has changed him. For the first time he is 【16】 . No matter if his 【17】 is doing well or not, no matter if he wins or loses at golf. “Two years ago, cancer 【18】 me, ‘What is really important?’ Well, life is important. Life any way you can have it, life with the cookie, life without the cookie. Happiness does not have anything to 【19】 with the cookie: it has to do with being 【20】 . ”

A. Happiness B. Success C. Business D. Love

A. normal B. Common C. worthless D. Useless

A. increasing B. changing C. decreasing D. recovering

A. one B. other C. no D. other

A. shaking B. nodding C. knocking D. raising

A. grow B. learn C. live D. work

A. burns B. breaks C. shares D. throws

A. disease B. change C. kid D. cookie

A. hour B. time C. second D. minute

A. think B. come C. worry D. doubt

A. give up B. add up C. use up D. call up

A. brave B. curious C. aware D. sure

A. unless B. because C. though D. until

A. Eating B. Protecting C. Having D. Making

A. death B. energy C. life D. cancer

A. happy B. weak C. pset D. sad

A. result B. fortunate C. business D. behavior

A. asked B. left C. deserted D. recognized

A. deal B. do C. connect D. link

A. alone B. alive C. ambitious D. active

Answer 1

【答案】【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】D

【5】A

【6】C

【7】B

【8】D

【9】D

【10】C

【11】A

【12】D

【13】B

【14】C

【15】D

【16】A

【17】C

【18】A

【19】B

【20】B

【解析】【1】考查名词。根据后文语境的暗示可知，本文主要谈论的是生活幸福的问题。

【2】考查形容词。从本段前文If you had the cookie, things were good.可知，此处是表达与good相反的意思与其形成对比，因此选C。

【3】考查动词。根据后文所说，有时是金钱，有时是权利，可见这个cookie是不断变化的。

【4】考查短语理解。从前文的some of the time， sometimes可知，作者在对事情的表现形式进行列举，因此此处用other。

【5】考查动词。说话时有regretfully的表情，显然是伴随不满意的动作，故shaking符合语境要求。

【6】考查动词。本文谈论的是生活的问题，不难想到live。

【7】考查动词。句意：如果小饼干被拿走了或弄碎了，儿子就会不高兴。

【8】考查名词。小孩年纪小，能够有小饼干吃就满足了，大人却因为要求高，对一个饼干是不会满足的。

【9】考查名词。考查对名词引导的时间状语从句的理解，the minute“一……就……”。

【10】考查动词。根据语境，此处表达的是一种担忧。

【11】考查动词短语辨析。一旦自己拥有的东西有被人拿走的危险，人就会放弃许多其他的事情来保护自己的cookie。

【12】考查形容词。确保没人能够拿走自己的cookie。

【13】考查从属连词。此处表示原因，故选B。

【14】考查动名词。根据前文语境，不难想到用having。

【15】考查名词。这个病人患了癌症，正是因为得了癌症，所以他改变了对生活的看法。

【16】考查形容词。改变了对生活的看法后，他的心情就快乐了。

【17】考查名词。因为他是商人，所以经营的应该是自己的生意business。

【18】考查动词。后文的句式是一个问句，故用ask。

【19】考查动词。从后文中的it has to do with可知答案。

【20】考查形容词。活着就是最重要的，活着就是人生最大的幸福。这是整篇短文的落脚点。