Question

A wise man once said, “A man who makes no mistakes usually does not make anything.” It took me a long time to gather the   36  to admit that I had been making mistakes since my earliest days.   37  , many of the things that I had learned were   38  .

As a child from a poor family, I learned that when you had money, you were   39   to spend it on whatever brought you happiness   40  . I didn’t understand that even though putting money in the bank would not   41   me that quick joy, it could provide a sense of   42  — I still had that money.

One problem is that I never had an opportunity to   43   any money of my own until late in my teen years. All of my gift money   44   to my parents for “saving”, which actually   45   to be an emergency fund(风险基金) for things such as food.

On rare   46  , some relatives would give me some money, but they would   47   in my ear not to tell my mother and to spend it quickly on something fun. Their   48   was good — they wanted to bring joy to the life of a “  49  ”boy, but it didn’t teach me any   50   skills. Soon I would go back to having no money.

Another thing is that I believed that   51   help from others was bad. My parents were strict, and in many ways I   52   their philosophy (处事原则), but their personal beliefs prevented them from ever accepting any help.   53   we often had to live on a single part-time income, we never asked   54   anything. In this way, I was led to believe that accepting a helping hand, even in   55   of great need, was a sign of weakness.

36. A. time                          B. power                      C. courage                    D. chance

37. A. Otherwise                  B. Also                         C. Instead                         D. However

38. A. different                    B. common                   C. big                          D. wrong

39. A. supposed                    B. determined               C. ordered                    D. left

40. A. naturally                    B. immediately             C. probably                  D. eventually

41. A. buy                           B. prove                       C. sell                          D. show

42. A. direction                    B. guilty                       C. safety                       D. difference

43. A. receive                   B. lend                         C. manage                    D. earn

44. A. gave                          B. went                        C. borrowed                 D. left

45. A. added up                    B. came up                   C. gave out                   D. turned out

46. A. states                         B. occasions                  C. situations                  D. moments

47. A. shout                         B. explain                     C. whisper                    D. insist

48. A. plan                          B. information                     C. look                         D. intention

49. A. naughty                          B. poor                       C. hopeless                   D. lovely

50. A. financial                    B. imaginative                     C. popular                    D. formal

51. A. offering                          B. accepting                C. begging                    D. demanding

52. A. disobeyed                  B. ignored                    C. respected                  D. agreed

53. A. Even if                    B. Now that                C. Unless                      D. Until

54. A. about                         B. around                            C. against                            D. for

55. A. groups                     B. terms                            C. ways                        D. times

Answer 1

36—40 CBDAB  41—45 ACCBD  46—50 BCDBA  51—55 BCADD

解析:

不犯错误的人往往也是无所作为的人。多年以后，“我”才有勇气承认早年犯的错误，如：不会理财，拒绝他人帮助。

36. C。 可知人们在犯了错误的时候多是没有“勇气”承认自己的错误，和courage; power“权力，势力”；courage“勇气”；chance“机会”。

37. B。除了自己犯的那些错误，还有一点就是自己学到的一些看法或者做法是不对的；otherwise“否则”；also“而且，此外”；instead“相反”；however“然而”。

38. D。根据末段内容以及作者的语气判断父母教给他的一些处事原则是不对的。

39. A。be supposed to do“应该做”；这里指作者小时候认为，只要有了钱，就应该快点花掉，去买一些让自己高兴的东西；be determined to do“决定做某事”；be ordered to do“被命令做”；be

left to do“被留下做”，都不合题意，因此选择supposed。

40. B。根据本段中的quick joy可知作者想要表达的是“有了钱就去买东西，从而让自己迅速地获得幸福”。

41. A。把钱存在银行，因此不能让你立刻去“购买”幸福，因此选择buy。

42. C。根据I still had that money可知，把钱存在银行里，没有把它都花掉，因此心里会有一种安全感。

43. C。根据后面的内容，作者所得到的钱都被父母存起来最终用于餐桌食物等方面的“风险基金”了，可判断作者没有机会“管理”自己的钱，用manage;根据下文，“my gift money”,可排除receive“收到”；lend “借给”；earn“赚”。

44. B。sth go to sb.“某物由某人得到”；give“给予”，leave“留下”，在此处都应用被动形式。

45. D。父母名义上为作者存着钱，但是这些钱最终都成了紧急救济款，用在别处上了；turn out to be“结果是，最终是”；add up “加起来”；give out“用完，耗尽”；come up“出现，被提出”。

46. B。在极少数情况下，一些亲戚会给作者一些钱；on…occasion“在……场合下”；state“状态”；situation“形势”；moment“时刻”。

47. C。根据后面的in my ear not to tell…可知她们是偷偷给作者钱，所以在他的耳边“低语”，让他不要告诉他的妈妈，并且赶紧把这笔钱花掉；whisper“低语，窃窃私语”。

48. D。她们的“意图”是好的，想让作者高兴，用intention; plan“计划”；information“信息”；look “表情”，不合题意。

49. B。根据上文可知作者自己手里没有钱，由第二段开头也可知，作者是个“穷孩子”。

50. A。本文讲述的是理财的经历，因此此处用financial“金融的”。Imaginative“富有想象力的”；popular“流行的”，formal“正式的”，和本文内容不符。

51. B。根据本段末句可得提示，此处说“从别人那里获得帮助”。

52. C。根据My parents were strict and in many ways…中的and判断父母的处事原则；and连接并列含义的词，因此作者不会是对父母的处事原则表示反对或者忽略；选项D中agree后不能直接跟宾语。

53. A。即便我们有时穷得只靠打工的钱生活，我们也决不接济生活。

54. D。ask for“要某物”。

55. D。in times of“在……时候”；这里指因为父母的影响使得作者认为即使是在最困难的时候接受别人的帮助也是一种软弱的表现。