题目内容
Thinking that you know _________ in fact you don’t is a serious mistake.
- A.what
- B.that
- C.when
- D.however
本题考查学生对主语从句和宾语从句的穿插理解。在that you know _________ in fact you don’t宾语从句中缺少一个能承前启后的联系;同时又作know和you don’t know的宾语,因此只有A项,what疑问代词最充分。
Think back to this time last year. What was on your mind?
Most likely, you were thinking about finals or the holidays, although in this city I’ve noticed that thinking about the holiday is a fancy way of saying how much stuff will I get.
Now reflect on your thoughts for this holiday season. Most people are still thinking about the holidays, but I say that with a grain of salt. Everybody with a functioning brain and the ability to communicate knows that this holioday season comes with a pretty large price tag: the debt of all the hardships, both domestic and foreign, that we’ve faced over the past 12months.
Let’s face it: some of us will get everything we want over the holidays. But there are others whose parents have lost their jobs or who have lost jobs themselves because of the current economic situation. As much as we try to ignore it, there is still economic unrest in the blue and gold suburb.
In this situation, we have three options. One: We ignore the situation, like we seem to do for every bad thing that happens around us, because by God, it’s the American Way! Two: We recognize that our economy is shot, feel bad about it and spend our time wishing for the good old days. Three: We recognize that our economy is shot, but instead of moping, reflect on every good thing that we have going for us. Now, which option sounds best to you?
I spent a week this summer working in and around New York City with the city’s homeless population. Or so I thought. Although a lot of the people I served were in fact homeless, a significant number of them had a job or a home or both. The truth of the importance of this situation is that they and thousands of others across the country can’t afford even the most basic things of life, even while working two jobs. Yet no one that I met complained about their hardships. Instead, they took whatever I happened to give them(which was, more often than enough, not enough) and were genuinely grateful for what they had.
Wrap your heads around that statement for a second. These people worked their butts off to stay alive with minimal results, yet were overjoyed by a flimsy(脆弱的) paper plate with donated green beans on it. Although I am ashamed to admit it( both as a girthy figure and an affluent citizen), I have taken for granted most of my meals, let alone green beans, and I know for a fact that I am not alone.
64. 【小题1】According to the passage when people think about holidays they care much for ____.
A.where to spend their holidays | B.how to spend their holidays |
C.what they can get for their holidays | D.who they should go to visit |
A.began to go bad. | B.began to improve | C.was still serious | D.was favorable for middle class. |
A.to be thankful in time of hardship. | B.to spend their holidays in a wise way |
C.to think little about their holidays | D.to help the country to sail through the crisis |
A.a homeless child | B.an old professor | C.a famous scientist | D.a young student |
You wake up in the morning, the day is beautiful and the plans for the day are what you have been looking forward to for a long time. Then the telephone rings, you say hello, and the drama starts. The person on the other end has a depressing (令人沮丧的 )tone in his voice as he starts to tell you how terrible his morning is and that there is nothing to look forward to. You are still in a wonderful mood? Impossible!
Communicating with negative (消极的 ) people can wash your happiness. It may not change what you think, but communicating long enough with them will make you feel depressed for a moment or a long time.
Life brings ups and downs, but some people are stuck in the wrong idea that life has no happiness to offer. They only feel glad when they make others feel bad. No wonder they can hardly win other’s pity or respect.
When you communicate with positive people, your spirits stay happy and therefore more positive things are attracted. When the dagger (匕首)of a negative person is put in you, you feel the heavy feeling that all in all, brings you down.
Sometimes we have no choice but to communicate with negative people. This could be a co-worker, or relative. In this case, say what needs to be said as little as possible. Sometimes it feels good to let out your anger back to negative person, but all this is to lower you to that same negative level and they won’t feel ashamed of themselves about that.
Negativity often affects happiness without even being realized. The negative words of another at the start of the day can cling to (附着)you throughout the rest of your day, which makes you feel bad and steals your happiness. Life is too short to feel negative. Stay positive and avoid negativity as much as possible.
【小题1】The purpose of the first paragraph is to _______.
A.make a comparison | B.introduce a topic |
C.offer an evidence | D.describe a daily scene |
A.By telling us the nature of life. | B.By changing our way of thinking. |
C.By comparing their attitude to life with ours. | D.By influencing our emotion. |
A.other people’s pity for them | B.making other people unhappy |
C.building up a positive attitude | D.other people’s respect for them |
A.to communicate with negative people as little as possible |
B.to change negative people’s attitude to life |
C.to show our dissatisfaction to negative people |
D.to make negative people feel ashamed of themselves |
A.Its effect can last. |
B.Its effect can be completely avoided. |
C.It hardly happens among family members. |
D.Its effect is smaller than the effect created by a positive person. |