Question

 

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

Years ago, when Barbara started looking for her first job, wise advisers urged, "Be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were. Enthusiastic people can   1a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

"Nothing great was ever   2without enthusiasm," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.     3is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the   4voice that whispers, "I can do it!" when others shout, "No, you can't!"

    It  5years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't 6on her experiments. Work was  7a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

    As author and poet Samuel Ullman once wrote, "Years wrinkle(使起皱纹) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul." How do you rediscover the enthusiasm of your childhood? The answer, I believe,   8the word itself. “Enthusiasm” comes from the Greek and means "God within." And what is God within is but a long-lasting sense of   9-- proper love of self and, from that, love of others.

    Enthusiastic people also love what they do,   10money or title or power. Patricia McIlrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, `I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.'" If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can as a part-time hobby   11the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, and the executive who handcrafts furniture.

    Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville was 68  12she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had   13her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say, " I have to say, Layton is  14a genius." Elizabeth has  15her enthusiasm. _￥

We can't   16to waste tears on "might-have-beens." We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment   17with all our senses -- finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the   18picture of a six-year-old, and the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of   19that puts a sparkle(火花) in our eyes, a lift in our steps and   20the wrinkles from our souls.

1.A. put                B. make         C. turn         D. get

2.A. expected       B. adopted      C. predicted        D. achieved

3.A. It             B. That         C. This         D. As

4.A. slight         B. outside      C. inner            D. low

5.A. spent          B. took         C. cost         D. paid

6.A. give off           B. give in          C. give out     D. give up

7.A. such           B. so           C. too          D. rather

8.A. links with     B. refers to        C. lies in          D. leads in

9.A. responsibility B. humor            C. trust            D. love

10.A. in case           B. regardless of    C. for fear of      D. in terms of

11.A. like          B. namely       C. as           D. likewise

12.A. after         B. since            C. before           D. until

13.A. pleased       B. shocked      C. worried      D. annoyed

14.A. nothing but       B. anything but C. everything but   D. something but

15.A. recalled          B. reflected        C. rediscovered D. remembered

16.A. pay           B. afford           C. affect           D. provide

17.A. thoroughly        B. absolutely       C. wholeheartedly   D. warm-heartedly

18.A. colored           B. white            C. green            D. red

19.A. money         B. title            C. power            D. life

20.A. pushes            B. softens      C. smoothes     D. folds

 

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.C

2.D

3.A

4.C

5.B    

6.D

7.A

8.C

9.D

10.B   

11.A

12.C

13.D

14.A

15.C   

16.B

17.C

18.A

19.D

20.C