Question

A lecture was delivered two years ago by Jeff Bezos,founder and CEO of Amazon,com. Bezos is nothing if not a master of 1       —he has built his company,and his fortune,on the rise of the Internet and his own 2       . But he spoke that day not about computing power or brainpower,but about his grandmother—and what he learned 3        he made her cry.

Even as a 10-year-old boy,it turns out,Bezos had a steeltrap mind and a 4       for crunching numbers. During a summer road trip with his grandparents,young Jeff 5        his grandmother's smoking in the car—and 6       to do something about it. From the backseat,he 7       how many cigarettes per day his grandmother smoked,how many puffs she took per cigarette,the health risk of each puff,and 8       to her with great fanfare, "You've taken nine years 9        your life!"

Bezos' calculations may have been 10       ―but the reaction was not what he ex?pected. His grandmother burst into tears. His grandfather 11        the car off to the side of the road and asked young Jeff to 12       . And then his grandfather taught him a lesson: "My grandfather looked at me and after a bit of 13, he gently and calmly said, 'Jeff,one day you'll understand that it's harder to be 14        than clever. '”

That's a lesson I wish more business people understood.  So by all means,15       your people to embrace technology,get great at business analytics,and otherwise 16.        the efficiency of everything they do.  But just make sure all their 17        doesn't come at the expense of their  humanity.  Small gestures can send big 18        about who we are,what we care about? and why people should want to 19        with us. It's harder and more 20        to be kind than clever.

1. A. history   B. literature   C. culture   D. technology

2. A. wisdom   B. experience   C. adventure   D. experiment

3. A. why   B. when   C. whether   D. how

4. A. passion   B. plan   C. sense   D. hope

5. A. got the hang of   B. got along with   C. got away with   D. got fed up with

6. A. promised   B. pretended   C. remembered   D. decided

7. A. thought   B. calculated   C. imagined   D. guessed

8. A. announced   B. suggested   C. referred   D. devoted

9. A. up   B. for   C. off   D. in

10. A. careless   B. necessary   C. wrong   D. accurate

11. A. directed   B. pulled   C. ordered   D. guided

12. A. set out   B. leave out   C. step out   D. look out

13. A. silence   B. hesitation   C. struggle   D. attempt

14. A. loyal   B. honest   C. generous   D. kind

15. A. force   B. forbid

   C. encourage   D. persuade

16. A. adjust   B. decrease   C. harm   D. improve

17. A. knowledge   B. wealth

   C. skill   D. efficiency

18. A. signs   B. marks   C. signals   D. symbols

19. A. compete   B. fight   C. play   D. work

20. A. important   B. difficult   C. ridiculous   D. fortunate

Answer 1

完形填空这是一篇夹叙夹议的文章。亚马逊公司的CEO回忆自己小时候一次和祖父祖母外出，自己计算祖母每天吸多少烟，造成祖母哭泣。祖父告诫他有的时候表现友好比表现聪明更重要。

1. D 结合前面的Amazon,com和后面的Internet可知他是一个技术方面的大师。

2. A根据前面提至lj的Amazon,com和technology以及Inter?net等，可知他的成功是建立在网络和自己的智慧之上的。

3. B这里指的是当他惹得他的祖母哭泣之时学到的东西，因此选when"当……的时候"，引导时间状语从句。

4. A从下文他计箅祖母吸烟的次数等，可知此处指他有一种捣鼓数字的激情，故选A.

5. D 从后面的"…his grandmother's smoking in the car…"可知，他祖母在汽车里面吸烟，并结合语境可知，这里指他受够了这一点，因此选   D. get the hang of熟悉;get along with

与. 相处；get away with做坏事不受惩罚；get fed up with

受够了。

6. D由于受够了祖母在车里面吸烟，因此他决定计算看看祖母每天吸多少烟。

7. B 结合下一段的第一句话"Bezos' calculations..."可知是他计算祖母吸烟的情况。

8. A当他计算完了之后，他对祖母宣布他的计算结果。

announce to sb向... 宣布。

9. C take off "取消，去除"。这里指他的祖母因每天吸烟而造成寿命縮短9年的时间。

10. D结合后面的"…but the reaction was not what he expected."可知，结果是他没有预料到的，故前面表示他的计算可能是准确的。

11. B听到孙子说自己的寿命会缩短9年的时间，祖母哭泣起来，因此祖父把汽车慢慢地停到路边。

12. C祖父把汽车停到路边之后，让他从车上下来，祖父要给他讲道理。

13. A祖父在讲道理之前，先是沉默了一会儿。

14. D根据文章的最后一句话可知，这里祖父告诉他，有一天他会懂得表现友好要比表现聪明更难。

15. C这里表示作者希望所有做生意的人都要鼓励人们掌握技术，进行科学的数据分析。

16. D通过掌握技术，提高他们做事的效率。

17. D作者希望在人们掌握技术，提高自己做事情的效率的同时，不要以牺牲人性作为代价。此句承接上句而来。

18. C即使是小的举动也能表明我们是怎样的人。

19. D他人为什么会和我们一起工作，这也是我们的姿态体现出来的一种特征。

20. A作者认同Jeff Bezos祖父的道理，认为和表现聪明比较起来，表现友好虽然比较难，但是更重要。