Question

【题目】How to spur people on to success

Praise will inspire the other person to keep on ___【1】_____ (improve).

In the early nineteenth century, a young man in London aspired to be a writer. But everything seemed to be against him. He had never been able to attend school for more than four years. His father had been put into jail ___【2】____he couldn’t pay his debts and the young man had often known the pangs of hunger. Finally, he got ___【3】__ job __【4】____ (attach) labels to bottles of blacking in a rat-infested warehouse. He slept at night in a dismal attic room with two other boys—guttersnipes from the slums of London. He had so little __【51】___ (confident) in his ability to write that he sneaked out and mailed his first manuscript in the dead of night so nobody would laugh ___【6】__ him. Story after story was refused. At last, the great day came when one was accepted. True, he ___【7】___ (pay) a shilling for it, but an editor praised him. He was so ___【8】___ (thrill) that he wandered ___【9】___ (aim) around the streets with tears rolling down his cheeks. The praise and the recognition ___【10】____he received through getting one story in print changed his whole life. If it hadn’t been for that encouragement, he might have spent his entire life working in rat-infested factories. You may have heard of that boy. His name was Charles Dickens.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】improving

【2】because

【3】a

【4】attaching

【5】confidence

【6】at

【7】wasn’t paid

【8】thrilled

【9】aimlessly

【10】that/which

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了一个旅途上充满坎坷的作家，因为一次善意的表扬而影响一生的故事，告诉我们成

功的路上有时候需要这种赞扬。

【1】improving。考查名词。介词后面应是名词，故填improving。

【2】because考查连词。由前文后文可知是因果关系，故应该填because。

【3】a。考查冠词。工作可数，而且是泛指，所以必须填不定冠词a。

【4】attaching。考查动名词。动名词此处做伴随状语，所以attach变为attaching。

【5】confidence。考查名词。so little后面应该是名词，所以应该把confident变为confidence。

【6】at。考查固定搭配。laugh at是固定搭配，嘲笑……所以此处填at。

【7】wasn’t paid。考查过去式。由后文but可知，他并没有帮他们，而且由praised可知此处应该

是过去式，所以应填was't paid。

【8】thrilled。考查形容词。由前文的so可知，此处一定是形容词形式，所以变成了过去分词形容

词，他激动的毫无目的的漫步，故填thrilled。

【9】aimlessly。考查副词。由前文可知他激动的毫无目的的漫步，而且应该是修饰动词的一个副词，

所以aim变成了否定副词形式aimlessly。

【10】that/which。考查定于从句。由后文he received through getting one story in print changed his

whole life.可知此处是定语从句，缺少个关系代词代指he received，指的是物所以应用that或者which。