题目内容
In 1982, I was a young marketing person in a company in Mumbai. I had a very senior colleague named Paul, who taught me how to 36 marketing effectively and how to deal with life 37 .
It was one of those 38 days…management, sales calls, planning my travel schedule, booking hotels, arranging appointments and the 39 was endless. By the end of the day, I was not only exhausted but was getting 40 . It was at this time that Paul invited me to his house to have a rest.
We made our way to Paul’s house. Although 41 after a day’s hard work, I was excited to chat with Paul and 42 his rich experience in marketing. As we entered his house 43 the main door, Paul started singing his favourite song, I have a dream. I was in no 44 to listen to his song. I only wanted to hear about how he handled 45 sales calls.
As I leaned over Paul’s shoulder to tell him that, two young girls walked up to Paul and hugged him. They couldn’t walk steadily, and neither could they talk 46 , but their faces were full of 47 and they also sang a song: No mummy’s kisses only daddy’s smiles; nobody wants us, and daddy hugs us tonight.
I was watching what was going on, totally 48 in the beautiful singing, when Paul tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to sit down. 49 to know, I asked Paul who these girls were. To my 50 , Paul told me they were his daughters and they were born as “ 51 children” (mentally disabled). His wife died and he was both Mother and Father to them.
I was moved to tears. In the office, no one knew what Paul was 52 in his personal life. He never looked for 53 from his friends and colleagues. On the contrary, he always helped us at the office. And being head of the Department, he always 54 us to move forward in life.
Paul’s life has been a great 55 to me. If a man can smile through these troubles, nothing can prevent him from achieving success in work or life.
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【小题1】D
【小题2】B
【小题3】A
【小题4】C
【小题5】D
【小题6】B
【小题7】A
【小题8】C
【小题9】B
【小题10】D
【小题11】A
【小题12】C
【小题13】B
【小题14】A
【小题15】D
【小题16】C
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【小题18】A
【小题19】D
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解析
As I write this, I have half an eye on an old James Bond film that is showing on my computer. But this is a story about how I stopped watching TV and began reading again for pleasure, after ten years in which I hardly turned a page.
I suppose I was an enthusiastic reader of "literature" between the ages of nine and fourteen. I had enough time to be White Fang, Robinson Crusoe, and Bilbo Baggins and Jeeves. Of course there was room in the schoolboy's imagination for some real historical figures: Scott of the Antarctic, all of the Vikings, and Benjamin Franklin were good friends of mine.
Then, in adolescence, I began a long search for strange and radical (激进的) ideas. I wanted to challenge my elders and betters, and shock my fellow students with amazing points of view. Of course, the only place to look was in books. I hunted out the longest titles and the authors with the funniest names; I searched the library for completely unread books. Then I found one which became my bible for the whole of 1982, it had a title composed of eleven long words and an author whose name I didn't know how to pronounce. It was really thick and looked dead serious. Even better, it put forward a whole world-view that would take days to explain. Perfect. I took it out of the library three times, proud to see the date-stamps lined up on the empty library insert.
Later, I went to university. Expecting to spend long evenings in learned discussion with clever people, I started reading philosophy. For some reason I never found the deep-thinking intellectuals I hoped to meet. Anyway, I was ready to impress with my profound (深奥的) knowledge of post-structuralism, existentialism and situationism. These things are usually explained in rather short books, but they take a long time to get through. They were the end of my youthful reading.
Working life was hard to get used to after so much theory. It was the end of books for me. There didn't seem to be much in books that would actually get things done. To do things you had to answer the telephone and work a computer. You had to travel about and speak to people who weren't at all interested in philosophy. I didn't stop reading, you can't avoid that. I read all day. But no books came my way, only manuals (操作手册) and contracts and documents. Maybe most people satisfy their need for stories and ideas with TV and, to tell the truth, it was all I needed for ten years. In those days I only had a book "on the go" for the duration of aeroplane flights. At first I would come home and watch TV over dinner. Then, I moved the TV so I could watch it from bed. I even got a switch so I could turn it off without getting out of bed. Then, one fateful day, my TV broke and my landlady took it away.
My new TV is an extra circuit board (电路板) inside my computer. It's on a desk in front of a working chair and I can't see it from the bed. I still use it for the weather forecasts and it's nice to have it on while I'm typing this… but what to do last thing at night? Well, have another go with books.
Now, I just like books. I have a pile of nice ones by my bed and I'm reading about six at the same time. I don't want to be any of the characters. I don't care if a thousand people have already read them. I don't have to search through libraries. There are books everywhere and all of them have something to read in them. I have the strange feeling that they've been there all along, waiting for me to pick them up.
【小题1】The writer enjoyed reading “literature” between the ages of nine and fourteen because ________.
| A．he thought it was important for a schoolboy to do so |
| B．he was still too young to understand other books |
| C．he believed all the real historical figures were his friends |
| D．he could imagine himself being the characters in the books |
| A．a library intended for teenagers | B．a kind of books on traditions |
| C．a philosophy theory | D．a kind of reading skill |
| A．he found watching TV was more interesting |
| B．he became too busy to read any books |
| C．he found books were of little use to his work |
| D．he had to read a lot of manuals, contracts and documents |
| A．to find back his youth in books | B．for the pure pleasure of reading |
| C．so as to help kill his spare time | D．for only business purposes |
| A．The Years with Books | B．Books and TV Programs |
| C．Don’t Judge a Book by Its Cover | D．Reading Makes One Excellent |
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| In 1982, I was a young marketing person in a company in Mumbai. I had a very senior colleague named Paul, who taught me how to 1 marketing effectively and how to deal with life 2 . It was one of those 3 days…management, sales calls, planning my travel schedule, booking hotels, arranging appointments and the 4 was endless. By the end of the day, I was not only exhausted but was getting 5 . It was at this time that Paul invited me to his house to have a rest. We made our way to Paul's house. Although 6 after a day's hard work, I was excited to chat with Paul and 7 his rich experience in marketing. As we entered his house 8 the main door, Paul started singing his favourite song, I have a dream. I was in no 9 to listen to his song. I only wanted to hear about how he handled 10 sales calls. As I leaned over Paul's shoulder to tell him that, two young girls walked up to Paul and hugged him. They couldn't walk steadily, and neither could they talk 11 , but their faces were full of 12 and they also sang a song: No mummy's kisses only daddy's smiles; nobody wants us, and daddy hugs us tonight. I was watching what was going on, totally 13 in the beautiful singing, when Paul tapped me on the shoulder and asked me to sit down. 14 to know, I asked Paul who these girls were. To my 15 , Paul told me they were his daughters and they were born as " 16 children" (mentally disabled). His wife died and he was both Mother and Father to them. I was moved to tears. In the office, no one knew what Paul was 17 in his personal life. He never looked for 18 from his friends and colleagues. On the contrary, he always helped us at the office. And being head of the Department, he always 19 us to move forward in life. Paul's life has been a great 20 to me. If a man can smile through these troubles, nothing can prevent him from achieving success in work or life. | ||||
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