题目内容
fortune A. comfort B. doctor C. forbid D. report
The discovery of gold in Australia led thousands to believe that a fortune——
A is made B would make C was to be made D had made
完形填空（共20小题；每小题。1.5分，满分30分）
There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people 36 to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you 37 is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you 38 others. Because while there will be times 39 outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely 40.. The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are 41 . Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision 42 anyway.
You were 43 with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and 44 the appropriate actions, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone against your own 45 .
Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of 46 a few important business decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the 47 necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to 48 on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being 49 to Wall Street, I intended to assume that my more senior 50 knew more than I did, and so I 51 too much significance to their opinions.
You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in 52 . Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by 53 and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to 54 this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to 55 and to life.
A. easy B. ready C. unwilling D. hard
A. lead B. lend C. take D. earn
A. look at B. pick up C. turn to D. learn from
A. that B. since C. when D. while
A. useless B. useful C. priceless D. clever
A. getting B. making C. suffering D. facing
A. on one hand B. on your own C. on the whole D. on all sides
A. born B. tired C. satisfied D. covered
A. enjoy B. step C. plan D. take
A. assumption B. judgment C. condition D. fortune
A. basing B. depending C. relying D. focusing
A. research B. search C. resources D. activity
A. poverty B. laziness C. fear D. diligence
A. used B. accustomed C. new D. old
A. students B. brothers C. colleagues D. classmates
A. attached B. paid C. gave D. held
A. disaster B. progress C. failure D. success
A. either B. another C. each D. others
A. think B. remember C. realize D. recall
A. payment B. dreams C. happiness D. business
A friend is better than fortune. A friend is worse than poison in some cases.
The two sentences above have opposite meanings and seem to be unreasonable, but they can be explained as follows: the first refers to all good friends who drive us towards good while the second all bad ones who lead us into bad ways.
My ideal friend is of course a good friend whose goodness is shown below — he has no bad habits, such as smoking and drinking. He lives in frugality (节俭). He studies hard so as not to waste his golden time. At home he honors his parents and loves his brothers; at school he respects his teachers and shares the feelings of his classmates. He treats those truly who are true to him. In a word, he has all the good characteristics that I don’t have. I can follow him as a model. With his help I can be free from all difficulties.
Indeed, if I have such a person as my friend, I shall never fear difficulty and I shall never know the existence of the word “failure”.
1.This passage tells us ____.
A. how to make friends with others B. how to help friends
C. what kind of person the writer’s friend is
D. what kind of person we should make friends with
2.According to the writer, an ideal friend refers to _______.
A. a friend without bad habits B. a famous man
C. a perfect man D. a respectable man
3.From the passage we can learn that ________.
A. the writer and his ideal friend have a lot to learn from each other
B. the writer has a lot to learn from his ideal friend
C. the writer’s ideal friend has a lot to learn from him
D. the writer has only a little to learn from his ideal friend
4.From the second paragraph, we can infer the writer is sure that _______.
A. friendship means a great deal to him
B. nothing can be done without friends
C. he who does not smoke or drink must be a good friend
D. good friends should always help each other
The discovery of gold in Sahara Desert led thousands to believe that a fortune________.
A. is made B. was to be made C. would make D. had made
He came here without friends or ______and made his fortune.
A. possessions B. possession C. wealth D. good
