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    “Be nice to people. ” This sounds like a platitude（老生常谈）, but I’ll never forget my father’s words. I was 10, and I had been mean to someone. He said, “There is no point in being mean to anyone at any time. You never know who you’re going to meet later in life. And by the way, you don’t change anything by being mean. Usually you don’t get anywhere. ”

    “Remember you can do anything you want to do. Don’t let anyone say, ‘You’re not smart enough, it’s too hard, it’s a foolish idea, no one has done that before, girls don’t do that. ’ ”My mom gave me that advice in 1973. And it allowed me to never worry what others were saying about my career direction.

    “Always do the best job you can do at whatever you’re assigned（分派）, even if you think it’s boring. ” Jerry Parkinson, my boss at P&G, told me this in 1979. Here I was fresh out of Harvard Business School(HBS), and I was assigned to determine how big the hole in the Ivory shampoo bottle should be: 3/8 of an inch or 1/8 of an inch. I did research, focus groups and I would come home at night wondering how I had gone from HBS to this. But later I realized any job you’re given is an opportunity to prove yourself.

    “Don’t be a credit hog. If you’re constantly in the neighborhood of good things, good things will happen to you. ” Tom Tierney, who was my boss at Bain in 1981 and is now on the eBay board, told me this. It’s true that you get ahead by praising other people.

    Finally, in 1998, I was in New York watching the ticker as eBay went public. My husband is a surgeon（外科医生）. I called him and told him the great news. And he said, “That’s nice. But Meg, remember that it’s not brain surgery. ”

63. We can learn that________from the passage.

A. “Be nice to people” is the topic that people like

B. it’s not necessary for us all to be too mean at any time

C. I never forget any word that father spoke to me

D. we won’t be successful if we are too mean to others

64. How many pieces of advice were given by her family?

A. Two.          B. Four.

C. Three.         D. One.

65. This passage was written by_________order.

A. story development         B. time

C. working conditions        D. ideas

66. The author’s husband is more concerned__________than eBay’s going public.

A. his success

B. opportunity to prove himself

C. brain surgery

D. his career

Answer 1

   本文是一篇夹叙夹议性的文章。文章主要讲述了“我”在生活中获得的一些忠告的确对“我”产生了十分重大的影响。

63. 【解析】选D。推理判断题。由文章第一段. . . you don’t change anything by being mean. Usually you don’t get anywhere. 可知，刻薄待人于事无补，通常只会一无所获。故D是惟一答案。

64. 【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据文章第一、二段分析，第一则忠告是父亲提出的；第二则是母亲提出的，因此由亲人提出的忠告总共有两则。

65. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。从全文分析，这里出现了I was 10; in 1973; in 1979; in 1981和in 1998五个时间，而且每则忠告都是作者随时间而得到的教训。因此可推测，本文是按照时间顺序来写的。

66. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。由最后一段可知，脑外科手术比易趣上市重要得多是“我”丈夫的观点。