Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do .some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to be really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do ,it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

31. Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ________.

A. the reasons for success                                B. the meaning of success

C. the standards of success                               D. the importance of success

32. In Paragraph 2,the underlined word that refers to ______.

A. being good at something                             B. setting a practical goal

C. putting in more time                                D. succeeding in life

33. Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain                        B.one tends to enjoy his work

C.one gives up his work easily                      D.it takes a lot of time to succeed

34. What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. Successful people like to show their great skills.

B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

35.What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

D. Luck,talent and family help to achieve success.

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56. What is mainly discussed in paragraph 2?

A. the heat of the EP                                   B. the safety of the EP

C. the appearance of the EP                  D. the material of the EP

57. From the passage, we can learn that the EP ______.

A. doesn’t burn up oxygen                    B. runs without any noise

C. makes people get sleepy                    D. is unsuitable for children and pets

58. The underlined word “evenly” in paragraph 4 probably means ______.

A. continuously                                    B. separately

C. quickly                                           D. equally

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第二节:完形填空(共20小题:每小题1.5分,满分30分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A, B, C, D) 中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Hundreds of people, adults and children, come and go every day from the Kingsley School in Evanston, and police say that right now none of them has been eliminated(排除) as a(n)  21  suspect.  22 ,police have the weapon and detectives are trying to find out to whom it last  23 .
Investigators say that  24  Tuesday morning a few minutes before lunch a second grader found the weapon in a toilet in a first floor laboratory. It is a five-shot, 38 caliber(口径) revolver that was fully loaded.  25  the 7-year-old girl reported her discovery immediately.
“We’ve taken  26  . We’ve called the police. It’s being  27  . And we are concerned,” said Evanston School’s spokesperson Jan Roy.
Wednesday school officials sent students home with a  28  addressed to their parents about the  29  .
“At this point I don’t have enough answers and I would really like to get  30 ,” said Emily Gregrich, one of the parents.
31  parents who waited for their kids Thursday afternoon still had not  32  about the gun.
The principal conducted two assemblies(集会) to put to rest rumors  33  the 475 children who  34  the school. For  35 , the police investigation is focused on interviewing adults, teachers and nonprofessional staff members who were in the building the 24-hour period  36  the weapon was found.
“Where they were, what was going on, did they see anybody, you know, anybody in the school, anything unusual  37  , and we hope to  38  information through those interviews,” said Dep. Chief Joe Bellino of the Evanston Police Department.
Thursday afternoon the school district announced  39  to improve its efforts to communicate with  40  . It will make a phone tree Thursday night, and we are told the principal has invited parents who need more information about this to meet him here at the school Friday morning.
21.A.possible    B.unknown  C.strange     D.unusual
22.A.However  B.Later C.Meanwhile       D.Still
23.A.given       B.offered     C.devoted    D.belonged
24.A.after  B.before      C.early D.late
25.A.Suddenly  B.Fortunately      C.Quickly    D.Soon
26.A.advice      B.measures   C.notice       D.notes
27.A.investigated     B.discussed  C.questioned       D.removed
28.A.book B.speech      C.letter D.record
29.A.incident    B.accident    C.discovery  D.gun
30.A.angry       B.shocked    C.less   D.more
31.A.Some       B.Many       C.Any  D.Other
32.A.heard       B.read       C.talked    D.told
33.A.in   B.among   C.between        D.within
34.A.attend    B.love       C.escape    D.protect
35.A.all  B.certain   C.now       D.example
36.A.when     B.while     C.before   D.after
37.A.goes on  B.went on  C.were going on      D.going on
38.A.search    B.develop  C.prove     D.check
39.A.news      B.plans      C.instructions    D.introductions
40.A.parents   B.teachers   C.adults     D.Students

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