题目内容
I can remember a period in my life when I was unemployed and money was running out. I needed a job very 36 . A friend of mine approached me one day with an 37 . “I’m going to have to let this job go and I was wondering if you would like to take it 38 ?” “That would be great,” I replied.
I went to the manager and he said I could start on Monday morning.
When I went inside I was 39 that I would buff (擦) the floors. My friend was there to 40 me how to operate the buffer.
“It’s really 41 ,” he said, running the machine very 42 . He handed it over to me and said, “Here, you have a try.” I 43 the handlers(把手). To my surprise, the buffer whipped around in a big circle, running over my friend’s brand new pair of boots, and sending him 44 up on a check-out counter.
For several times, I tried to run it again and 45 . I really had to fight that thing to make it go. “What am I going to do?” I thought to myself. “I finally found a job and I can’t do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to 46 ?”
After several 47 days of buffing, I finally made up my mind that I was going to do this. For about a week, I 48 with the buffer, putting all my weight and 49 into it. Eventually, I learned the trick and was not to struggle with it at all, just 50 with the flow of it, and by the second week, I was showing off and running it with one hand.
A few months later, I 51 back and wondered what would have happened 52 I had given up that first week. I certainly would not have had the newly-founded confidence or paycheck. 53 after that experience, I started a new job that 54 the use of a buffer.
Obstacles (障碍) don’t have to stop you. If you run into a 55 , don’t turn around or give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or walk around it.
( ) 36. A. badly B. well C. quickly D. extremely
( )37. A.apology B. invitation C. offer D. opinion
( ) 38. A. over B. off C. out D. on
( )39.A.warned B.informed C.forced D. cheated
( ) 40. A. watch B. train C. explain D. show
( )41.A.hard B.easy C.interesting D. meaningful
( )42. A. rapidly B. hardly C. slowly D. smoothly
( )43.A.grabbed B.equipped C. wiped D. sought
( )44. A. rising B. looking C. turning D. jumping
( )45.A.remained B.insisted C.failed D.succeeded
( ) 46. A. stop B. repeat C. continue D. speed
( ) 47. A. simple B. harmful C. rough D. endless
( ) 48. A. met B. struggled C. lived D. combined
( ) 49. A. body B. spirit C. soul D. strength
( ) 50. A. do B. go C. start D. match
( ) 51. A. went B. came C. thought D. recalled
( ) 52. A. when B. unless C. as D. if
( )53.A.Even B. Seldom C. Sometime D. Sometimes
( )54.A.required B. introduced C.reducedD. rejected
( ) 55. A. car B. wall C. river D. problem
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名校课堂系列答案The school was across the street from our home and I would often watch the kids as they played on the playground. She seemed so small as she pushed her way 36 the crowd of boys on the playground. She 37 from them all. I began to notice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing 38 . She would practice dribbling（运球）and shooting over and over again, sometimes until 39 . One day I asked her 40 she practiced so much. She looked 41 in my eyes and without a moment of hesitation she said, “ I want to go to college. The only way I can 42 is to get a scholarship. I am going to play college basketball. I want to be the best. My daddy told me if the dream is 43 enough, the facts don’t count.”
Well, I had to give in to her—she was 44 . One day, I saw her sitting in the grass, head 45 in her arms. I walked toward her and 46 asked what was the matter. “Oh, nothing,” came a soft reply, “ I am just too short.” The coach told her that at her height she would probably 47 get to play for a top ranked team, 48 offered a scholarship. So she 49 stop dreaming about college.
She was 50 and I sensed her disappointment. I asked her if she had talked to her dad about it yet. She told me that her father said those coaches were wrong. They just did not 51 the power of the dream. He told her 52 she really wanted to pay for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, 53 could stop her except one thing---her own attitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as she and her team went to the Northern California Championship game, she was 54 by a college recruiter(招聘人员). She was indeed offered a scholarship. She was going to get the college education that she had 55 and worked for all those years.
| A. through | B. across | C. over | D. into |
| A. brought out | B. showed out | C. stood out | D. worked out |
| A. friendly | B. lonely | C. simply | D. alone |
| A. dark | B. dawn | C. midnight | D. daybreak |
| A. how | B. when | C. why | D. what |
| A. worriedly | B. shyly | C. quietly | D. directly |
| A. go | B. get | C. enter | D. attend |
| A. small | B. big | C. real | D. false |
| A. determined | B. encouraged | C. fascinated | D. struck |
| A. covered | B. enclosed | C. dropped | D. buried |
| A. quietly | B. excitedly | C. angrily | D. hurriedly |
| A. ever | B. even | C. once | D. never |
| A. far more | B. much less | C. much fewer | D. many more |
| A. should | B. must | C. can | D. may |
| A. overjoyed | B. satisfied | C. embarrassed | D. heartbroken |
| A. understand | B. experience | C. learn | D. lose |
| A. even if | B. as if | C. that if | D. only if |
| A. anything | B. nothing | C. something | D. everything |
| A. seen | B. refused | C. treated | D. annoyed |
| A. dreamed of | B. accepted | C. thought of | D. appreciated |