题目内容
One day, not too long ago, the employees of a large company in St. Louis, Missouri returned from their lunch break and were greeted with a sign on the front door. The sign said, “Yesterday the person who had been hindering(阻碍) your 1 in this company passed away. We 2 you to join the funeral in the room that has been 3 in the gym.”
At first everyone was sad to 4 that one of their colleagues had died, 5 after a while they started getting 6 about who this person might be.
The excitement 7 as the employees arrived at the gym to pay their last 8 . Everyone wondered, “Who is this person that was hindering my growth? Well, 9 he’s no longer here!”
One by one the 10 got closer to the coffin(棺材) and when they looked inside it, they 11 became speechless. They stood over the coffin, 12 into silence, as if someone had 13 the deepest part of their soul.
There was a mirror inside the coffin—everyone who looked inside it could see himself. There was also a 14 next to the mirror that 15 ,“There is only one person who is capable to 16 limits to your growth: it is YOU.”
You are the only person who can revolutionize your 17 . You are the only person who can 18 your happiness, realization and success. You are the only person who can help yourself. Your life does not change when your boss changes, your friends change, your parents change, your partner changes or your company changes. Your life changes when YOU change, when you go 19 your limiting beliefs and when you realize that you are the only one 20 for your life.
1．A．ability B．progress C．talent D．practice
2．A．demand B．allow C．invite D．advise
3．A．started B．prepared C．opened D．created
4．A．learn B．receive C．notice D．find
5．A．for B．or C．so D．but
6．A．angry B．sorry C．curious D．nervous
7．A．grew B．appeared C．improved D．developed
8．A．sights B．attentions C．appreciations D．respects
9．A．at least B．in fact C．at once D．in general
10．A．employees B．managers C．friends D．citizens
11．A．quickly B．finally C．obviously D．suddenly
12．A．worried B．depressed C．shocked D．embarrassed
13．A．broken B．touched C．stolen D．changed
14．A．letter B．sign C．mark D．page
15．A．told B．warned C．wrote D．read
16．A．set B．take C．put D．get
17．A．business B．heart C．life D．success
18．A．realize B．satisfy C．influence D．consider
19．A．for B．upon C．over D．beyond
20．A．reasonable B．responsible C．suitable D．valuable
1—5 BCBAD 6—10 CADAA 11—15 DCBBD 16—20 ACCDB
I moved to a new neighborhood two months ago. In the house with a large 31 across the road lived a taxi driver, a single parent with two school-aged children. At the end of the day, he would 32 his taxi on the road. I 33 why he did not park it in the garage.
Then one day I learnt that he had another car in his garage. In the afternoon he would come home 34 work, leave his taxi and go out for his 35 affairs in his other car, not in his taxi. I felt it was a 36 .
I was curious to see his personal car but did not make it until I 37 to be outside one evening two weeks 38 , when the garage door was 39 and he drove out in his “own” car: a Rolls-Royce（劳斯莱斯）! It shook me completely 40 I realized what that meant. You see, he was a taxi driver. But 41 inside, he saw himself as something else: a Rolls-Royce owner and a（n） 42 . He drove others in his taxi but himself and his children in his Rolls-Royce. The world looked at his taxi and 43 him a taxi driver. But for him, a taxi was just something he drove for a living. Rolls-Royce was something he drove fo
r a (n） 44 .
We go to bed every night and 45 every morning as parents or children, not as bankers, CEOs or professors. We go for a 46 as close friends or go for a vacation as a 47 . We love life as it is. Yet often, we base our entire 
happiness and success on how much bigger and better a 48 we have. And we ignore our Rolls-Royce, by 49 it dusty in our garage. We should focus more on 50 we are than what we do!
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Mark Twain was asked one day if he could remember the first money he got. He thought for a long time before answering and then said, "Yes, it was at school. I can remember 1 about it. Schoolboys in those days never 2 teachers and never took care of thing of the school. They often damaged their desks. There was a(n) __3 in our school that anybody who damaged his desk with a pencil or knife would be beaten before the 4 school or have to pay five dollars."
"One day, I damaged my desk in some 5 . I had to tell my father I had broken the rule, and had to pay five dollars or be beaten before the whole school. My father said it __6 be too bad to have our face lost in front of the whole school. He 7 to give five dollars to hand over to the teacher. But before giving me the money he took me upstairs and give me a beating."
"But as I had had one beating and wasn't afraid of it any 8 , I decided I would take __9 beating at school and 10 the dollars. So that was what I did. That was the first money I ever got."
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