题目内容
When I was a teenager I volunteered to work at the water station at a 10,000m race. My job was to 34 water to the runners. I remember being so 35 to see all the different kinds of people who passed by and grabbed a cup of water. Some ran past, some walked past and a few wheeled past. I saw so many types of people doing it. I thought maybe I could do it too! So the next year I 36 up for the race.
That first 10,000m race was quite an experience. I jogged, I walked, I jogged and I walked 37 , I didn’t know if I could finish. Then came a defining (决定性) 38 .
At one point near the end, a 70-year-old man ran past me, very, very fast, and I felt 39 because I was 50 years younger than he but I couldn’t even keep up with him. I felt 40 for a second.
But then I realized something. He was running his race and I was running mine. He had 41 abilities, experience, training and goals for himself. I had mine. Remember my 42 was only to finish.
After a minute, it 43 me that this was a lesson I could draw from. I learned something about myself in that moment. I turned my embarrassment into 44 .
I decided that I would not give up on running races. In fact, I would run even more races and I would learn how to train and prepare 45 and one day I would be one of those 70-year-old persons who were still running. As I crossed the finish line, I was proud of my accomplishment. In life we all have those moments where we 46 ourselves to others. It’s only natural . Don’t allow those moments to 47 you. Turn them into motivation and let them inspire you. With the proper preparation and training, you can improve your result to 48 anything you want in life.
1.A. bring out B. pass out C. take out D. pick out
2.A. excited B. worried C. concerned D. anxious
3.A. gave B. made C. signed D. dressed
4.A. At times B. In time C. In all D. After all
5.A. victory B. decision C. moment D. conclusion
6.A. embarrassed B. annoyed C. moved D. thrilled
7.A. relaxed B. defeated C. puzzled D. inspired
8.A. special B. evident C. common D. different
9.A. motto B. plan C. goal D. direction
10.A. worried B. hit C. reached D. hurt
11.A. attraction B. devotion C. inspiration D. expectation
12.A. slightly B. hardly C. clearly D. properly
13.A. introduce B. relate C. present D. compare
14.A. weaken B. wound C. amuse D. cheer
15.A. reserve B. deliver C. achieve D. abandon
1.B
2.A
3.C
4.A
5.C
6.A
7.B
8.D
9.C
10.B
11.C
12.D
13.D
14.A
15.C
【解析】
1.考查动词短语。我的工作是为运动员发水。pass out”意为“分发。”
2.考查形容词。看着各种各样的人经过水站拿水,我还记得当时非常兴奋。
3.考查动词。我想也许自己也能做到!所以第二年我也报了名参加比赛试试看。sign up for报名参加。
4.考查介词短语。我跑跑走走,跑跑走走,有时候(at times 有时)还不知道自己能不能完成,然后到了一个决定性的时刻。
5.考查名词。时间副词then置于句首且谓语动词为go,come等时句子全部倒装。 moment时刻。
6.考查形容词。由下文 “...that I was younger than him and I couldn’t keep up with him” 得知,作者竟然在比赛中落后于一位70岁老者,自然感到难堪与尴尬了 。
7.考查形容词。一瞬间,我很有挫败感。defeat打败。
8.考查形容词。他的能力、经验、训练和目标不同,那是他的,我有自己的。由上文作者在难堪之感后同时也能自嘲地从中意识到什么和获此哲理 “He was running his race and I was running mine. He had different experience,training and goals and I had mine”可知答案。
9.考查名词。要记得我的目标goal只是要跑完全程。
10.考查动词。“It hit sb that从句”意思是“某人突然想到……”。
11.考查名词。(被老人超越的)羞辱转化成了激励inspiration。
12.考查副词。我要参加更多的赛事,并且要学习如何正确地properly训练准备,以致有一天,我会是70岁还在跑的一个人。结合下文的With the proper preparation and training可知此处的答案。
13.考查动词。在生活中,我们都有把自己与别人相比较compare的时刻。这是很自然的。
14.考查动词。结合下文可知此处表达的含义应是“不要让这些时刻消弱weaken自己的自信”。
15.考查动词。靠着适当的准备和训练,你可以不断进步,实现achieve任何想要达到的人生目标。
完形(15%)
Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man who seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new and better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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