题目内容
He can______to get us some tickets; I always trust him.
- A.try
- B.attempt
- C.manage
- D.succeed
manage to do sth“设法做成某事”,含有成功之意,由I always trust him可知他能够做成此事,答案为C。try to do sth“尽力做某事”,只表示做出努力,但不表示成功;attempt to do sth“努力地去做某事”,但肯定没有或一定不会成功;succeed 用作“成功”之意时,后接介词in doing sth。
Silence is unnatural to man.He begins life with a cry and ends it in stillness.In between he does all he can to make a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else.Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence.If he is introduced to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as a failure, a worthless person, and is full of envy of the emptiest headed chatterbox(喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation means no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure(蜡塑人像).
The aim of conversation is not, for the most part, to communicate ideas; it is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as annoying as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子).But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito than a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear, and some of it is pleasant even to the mind. He would be a foolish man if he waited until he had a wise thought to take part in the buzzing -with his neighbors.
Those who hate to pick up the weather as a conversational opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of learning anything new. Some of them are content if they are merely allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears, though they have nothing to tell them except that they have seen two or three new plays or that they had food in a Swiss hotel. At the end of an evening during which they have said nothing meaningful for a long time, they just prove themselves to be successful conservationists.
【小题1】According to the passage, people usually talk to their neighbors_____.
A.in the hope of learning something new |
B.in the hope of getting on well |
C.about whatever they have prepared |
D.about whatever they want to |
A.achieve success in life |
B.exchange ideas |
C.overcome their fear of silence |
D.prove their value |
A.To persuade people to stop making noises. |
B.To explain why people keep talking. |
C.To discuss why people like talking about weather. |
D.To encourage people to join in conversations. |
A.the voice of a chatterbox |
B.meaningless talk sound |
C.a low whispering |
D.the noise of an insect |