Question

 

 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

    A person may have an idea about himself that will prevent him from doing good work. He may have the belief that he is not capable of it. A child may think he is  1because he doesn’t understand how to make the   2of his mental faculties(才能). Older people may be mistaken that they are incapable of learning things new because of their 3.

  A person who believes that he is incapable will not make a real  4because he feels that it would be useless. He won’t go at a job with the confidence necessary for  5, and he won’t work his hardest way, even though he may think he is doing so. He is  6likely to fail, and the failure will  7his belief in his incompetence.

  Alfred Alder, a famous doctor, had  8like this. When he was a small boy, he had a poor   9in math. His teacher told his parents he had no ability in math in order that they would not  10too much of him. In this way, they two  11the idea. He accepted  12mistaken thinking of his ability, felt that it was useless  13and was very poor at math,  14as they expected.

   One day he worked at a problem which   15of the other students had been able to solve.

   Alder   16in solving the problem. This gave him confidence. He now   17with interest, determination and purpose, and he soon became especially good at math. He not only   18that he could learn math well, but luckily he learnt  19in his life from his own experience that if a person goes at a job, with determination and purpose, he may   20himself as well as others by his ability.

1.A. clever        B. shy             C. useless         D. stupid

2.A. biggest       B. most            C. highest         D. deepest

3.A. ability       B. age             C. brain           D. knowledge

4.A. decision      B. success         C. effort          D. trouble

5.A. work          B. study           C. improvement     D. success

6.A. truly         B. really          C. however         D. therefore

7.A. lead to       B. strengthen      C. increase        D. add to

8.A. an experience B. an example      C. a thought       D. a story

9.A. state         B. mind            C. start           D. ending

10.A. blame         B. expect          C. get             D. win

11.A. developed     B. organized       C. discovered      D. found

12.A. his           B. her             C. its             D. their

13.A. managing      B. succeeding      C. trying          D. acting

14.A. only          B. almost          C. just            D. then

15.A. none          B. no              C. No one          D. nobody

16.A. gave          B. succeeded       C. failed          D. believed

17.A. lived         B. worked          C. played          D. graduated

18.A. made          B. took            C. expected        D. proved

19.A. early         B. deeply          C. late            D. simple

20.A. encourage     B. love            C. astonish        D. disappoint

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.B

3.B

4.C

5.D  

6.D

7.B

8.A

9.C

10.B  

11.A

12.D

13.C

14.C

15.A  

16.B

17.B

18.D

19.B

20.C