题目内容
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Down-to-earth means someone or something that is honest, practical and easy to deal with. It is _________ to find someone who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk to and _________ other people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the _________ of someone who acts important and proud.
Down-to-earth persons _________ be important members of society. _________ they don’t let their importance “go to their heads”. They do not _________ themselves to be better persons than others of less importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and pride, often without cause, is _________ to have “his nose in the air”. There is _________ way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.
Americans _________ another expression that means almost the same as down-to-earth. The expression is “both-feet-on-the-ground”. Someone with both-feet-on-the-ground is a person with a good _________ of reality. He _________ what is called “common sense”. He may have 52 , but he does not allow them to_________ his knowledge of what is real. The opposite kind of 54 is one who has hid “head-in-the-clouds”. A man with his head-in-the-clouds is a dreamer whose _________ is not in the real world.
_________ , such a dreamer can be brought back to reality. _________ words from a teacher can usually get a day-dreaming student to put both feet back on the ground.Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very _________ to have both feet on the ground. _________we have both our feet firmly on the ground, we are down-to-earth, and we act honestly and openly _________ others. Our lives are like the ground below us, said and strong.
1.A.pleasant B.sad C.common D.surprising
2.A.meets B.welcomes C.receives D.accepts
3.A.case B.kind C.opposite D.example
4.A.must B.may C.should D.will
5.A.But B.So C.For D.And
6.A.wish B.expect C.desire D.consider
7.A.said B.told C.asked D.made
8.A.some B.a C.no D.every
9.A.discover B.find C.make D.use
10.A.understanding B.wish C.reason D.expectation
11.A.demands B.lacks C.has D.likes
12.A.fortunes B.dreams C.achievements D.disadvantages
13.A.block B.protect C.own D.gain
14.A.idea B.people C.attitude D.person
15.A.mind B.life C.body D.head
16.A.Always B.Therefore C.However D.Sometimes
17.A.Sharp B.All C.No D.Bad
18.A.possible B.probable C.likely D.able
19.A.Though B.Since C.When D.Unless
20.A.towards B.for C.over D.onto