题目内容
A group of graduates got together to visit their old university professor.
The conversation soon turned into complaints about ______ in work and life. To offer his _______ coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and ______ with a large pot of coffee and a ______ of cups — porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain-looking, some expensive, some beautiful — telling them to ______ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said, “if you have ______, all the nice-looking expensive cups have been taken up, ______ the plain and cheap ones. While it is ______ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the ______ of your problems and stress.”
“Be assured that the cup itself ______ no quality to the coffee. ______ it is just more expensive and in some cases ______ hides what we drink.”
“______ all of you really want is the coffee, not the cup, ______ you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began ______ each other’s cups.”
Now consider this: ______ is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and ______ life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the ______ of life we live. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we ______ to enjoy the coffee. Value the coffee, not the cups! Don’t let the cups ______ you … enjoy the coffee instead.
1.A. stress B. dream C. sorrow D. truth
2.A. friends B. customers C. fellows D. guests
3.A. carried B. returned C. arrived D. reached
4.A. kind B. variety C. sort D. number
5.A. devote B. expose C. help D. absorb
6.A. searched B. witnessed C. noticed D. discovered
7.A. leaving behind B. leaving over C. falling about D. falling behind
8.A. strange B. normal C. wonderful D. important
9.A. purpose B. answer C. source D. result
10.A. takes B. links C. passes D. adds
11.A. At no time B. At all times C. In no case D. In most cases
12.A. ever B. even C. never D. hardly
13.A. What B. That C. Which D. Whether
14.A. but B. so C. and D. for
15.A. suspecting B. liking C. praising D. eyeing
16.A. Love B. Life C. Future D. Failure
17.A. contain B. create C. support D. own
18.A. quantity B. style C. quality D. standard
19.A. have B. manage C. plan D. fail
20.A. envy B. drive C. force D. assess