Question

【题目】Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years.【1】. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then.

1. Caring too much just puts yourself in trouble【2】. There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.

2.Following the latest fashion blindly in work or in life is spiritual and intellectual suicide.【3】; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours.

3.【4】. The worst way to spend your time is even spreading more. People who spread unreal news are the virus-carriers of our day. Cockroaches(蟑螂) are cleaner, kinder creatures in comparison.

4.Hoping for the best is not always the right attitude. Maybe something will take twice as long as you plan for and produce results about half as good as you hope.【5】. Just allow for it and move on.

The most efficient way of learning is to bear the above in your mind and take action now. Waiting until you can be sure of doing something exactly right means waiting forever.

A.Much of what you get excited about, or anxious about, turns out not to matter.

B.Killing time is bound to ruin your career and future..

C.There’s no reason to be downhearted about this.

D.So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago.

E.You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment

F.Listening to gossip is the quickest way to damage your relationship with others.

G.There is no better way for you to learn and develop.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】E

【4】F

【5】C

【解析】本文主要讲了随着时间的流逝我们一直在获得新的知识，但是这些学问却往往在我们需要它的时候姗姗来迟。下面有几点是我很久以前就希望自己能够了解的。期待它们能帮助大家，即使是小部份人，能够避免重蹈我的覆辙。

【1】语义理解题。由There are certainly many things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years. 可知这里意思是所以这里是一些我希望我很久以前就学会的东西，选D。

【2】语义理解题。由Caring too much just puts yourself in trouble和There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.可知这里意思是大多数你为之而激动的事情或者为之而烦恼的事情，被证明都是不重要的，选A。

【3】语义理解题。由Following the latest fashion blindly in work or in life is spiritual and intellectual suicide和or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours. 可知这里意思是此刻，你可以成为一个廉价的偶像模仿品，选E。

【4】语义理解题。由The worst way to spend your time is even spreading more. People who spread unreal news are the virus-carriers of our day. 可知这里意思是破坏关系的最快最简单的方法就是听信谣言，选F。

【5】语义理解题。由Hoping for the best is not always the right attitude. Maybe something will take twice as long as you plan for and produce results about half as good as you hope.____5____. Just allow for it and move on. 可知这里意思是没什么好为此沮丧的，让它去吧，你要继续前行，选C。