阅读下面短文 ,掌握其大意 ,然后从36-55各题所给的四个选项中 ,选出最佳选项。
Preparing for tomorrow
Sixth-grade
schoolteacher Ms.Shelton
believed in readiness.Students remembered how she walked in on the first day of class and
began writing words of eighth-grade on the 36
.They quickly
protested that the words were not on their 37
and they couldn’t learn them.
Their
teacher insisted that the students could and would learn these 38
.She said
that she would teach them something that should be given.Ms.Shelton 39
by saying that one of the students in the classroom could go on
to 40 , maybe even be president
someday, and she wanted to prepare them for that day.
Ms.Shelton spoke those words many
years ago.
41 did she know that
someday one of her students—Jesse Jackson—would take them 42 .She believed that if they were
well prepared, they could 43 high
goals.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson once said, “People only see what they are 44
to see.”
If that’s true,
then it is also 45 that they
only become what they are prepared to become.And many things in life are just about getting
ready.
“I want to be doing something
more 46 with my life than what
I am doing now,” a
young man once said to me.He 47 what he was
doing was just not that important.Other people have said things to me such as, “I only 48
I had a meaningful relationship.” And, “I’d really like to get a better
job, but I just don’t see 49 .”
You
fill in the blanks.What
is it you would like to 50 that
isn’t happening?
Perhaps the answer is that you are not yet 51
.Maybe you need
more time to prepare before you are truly ready for that which you 52
.
Think
of today as another chance to 53 yourself
for the exciting future you are looking for.Today is not wasted.If you desire more from 54
, then you can use today as training.For you will experience only what you are prepared
to 55 .Something wonderful can happen.And you can use today to get
ready for tomorrow.
1.A.desk B.wall C.chalkboard D.door
2.A.duty B.desk C.mind D.level
3.A.words B.grammars C.pronunciations D.sentences
4.A.started B.ended C.warned D.reminded
5.A.greatness B.wealth C.honor D.failure
6.A.Seldom B.Little C.Hardly D.Totally
7.A.nervously B.eagerly C.seriously D.simply
8.A.keep B.have C.set D.achieve
9.A.prepared B.forced C.attracted D.tempted
10.A.proper B.exact C.legal D.true
11.A.difficult B.significant C.pleasant D.interesting
12.A.boasted B.behaved C.felt D
looked
13.A.wish B.expect C.hope D.imagine
14.A.what B.when C.why D.how
15.A.survive B.happen C.gain D.win
16.A.adventurous B.active C.ready D.intelligent
17.A.concern B.arrange C.adore D.desire
18.A.prepare B.enjoy C.imagine D.conduct
19.A.history B.nature C.life D.marriage
20.A.suffer B.experience C.struggle D.work