题目内容
During my second year of college I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.
To be 36 , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the 37 would be ― a very low figure that 38 one home―cooked meal a day. I thought about the 39 and decided to move in.
At the end of the term I had planned to find 40 living place, since the daughter was to 41 home. To my delight, they 42 that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their 43 ―her people became my people. I 44 accepted the offer.
As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be 45 to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I 46 that she was more independent than I first 47 .
We finally fell in love, 48 , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more 49 than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go 50 largely because we knew that we are deeply 51 .
It isn’t about marriage… it’s about 52 . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as 53 as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be 54 ―you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.”
Is there somebody you can depend on? And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is 55 to look after, and when someone is looking after us.
36. A. honest | B. surprised | C. friendly | D. pleased |
37. A. price | B. rent | C. money | D. pay |
38. A. had | B. included | C. made | D. contained |
39. A. idea | B. plan | C. service | D. offer |
40. A. same | B. different | C. another | D. extra |
41. A. return | B. go | C. get | D. leave |
42. A. ordered | B. agreed | C. arranged | D. suggested |
43. A. house | B. family | C. group | D. friends |
44. A. happily | B. sorrowfully | C. evidently | D. efficiently |
45. A. bad | B. exciting | C. nice | D. strange |
46. A. realised | B. thought | C. knew | D. doubted |
47. A. saw | B. told | C. imagined | D. believed |
48. A. separated | B. parted | C. left | D. married |
49. A. smooth | B. challenging | C. hard | D. different |
50. A. backward | B. eastward | C. forward | D. westward |
51. A. hated | B. cared | C. felt | D. liked |
52. A. friendship | B. relation | C. love | D. family |
53. A. close | B. good | C. far | D. long |
54. A. away | B. out | C. in | D. around |
55. A. nobody | B. somebody | C. anybody | D. everybody |
36-40 ABBDC 41-45 ADBAC 46-50 ACDBC 51-55 BCADB

I once had my Chinese MBA students brainstorming on “two-hour business plans”. I separated them into six groups and gave them an example: a restaurant chain. The more original their idea, the better, I said. Finally, five of the six groups presented plans for restaurant chains. The sixth proposed a catering(饮食)service. Though I admitted the time limit had been difficult, I expressed my disappointment.
My students were middle managers, financial analysts and financiers from state owned enterprises and global companies. They were not without talent or opinions, but they had been shaped by an educational system that rarely stressed or rewarded critical thinking or inventiveness. The scene I just described came in different forms during my two years’ teaching at the school. Papers were often copied from the Web and the Harvard Business Review. Case study debates were written up and just memorized. Students frequently said that copying is a superior business strategy, better than inventing and creating.
In China, every product you can imagine has been made and sold. But so few well developed marketing and management minds have been raised that it will be a long time before most people in the world can name a Chinese brand.
With this problem in mind, partnerships with institutions like Yale and MIT have been established. And then there’s the “thousand talent scheme”: this new government program is intended to improve technological modernization by attracting top foreign trained scientists to the mainland with big money. But there are worries about China’s research environment. It’s hardly known for producing independent thinking and openness, and even big salary offers may not be attractive enough to overcome this.
At last, for China, becoming a major world creator is not just about setting up partnerships with top Western universities. Nor is it about gathering a group of well-educated people and telling them to think creatively. It’s about establishing a rich learning environment for young minds. It’s not that simple.
【小题1】Why does the author feel disappointed at his students?
A.Because there is one group presenting a catering service. |
B.Because the six groups made projects for restaurant chains. |
C.Because all the students copied a case for the difficult topic. |
D.Because the students’ ideas were lacking in creativeness. |
A.China can make and sell any product all over the world |
B.high pay may not solve the problem of China’s research environment |
C.cooperation with institutions has been set up to make a Chinese brand |
D.the new government program is aimed at encouraging imagination |
A.Look for a New Way of Learning. |
B.Reward Creative Thinking. |
C.How to Become a Creator. |
D.Establish a technical Environment. |