题目内容
Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised. "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience." How right they were!
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that whispers "I can do it!" when others shout. "No, you can't!" It took years and years for the early work of Barbara Mclintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't stop working on her experiments.
We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote, "Years wrinkly the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mellratl, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, "My father, long ago, told me, I never made a dime (一角硬币) until I stopped working for money."
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-been". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment wholeheartedly, with all our senses finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six- year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.
(1) What is the passage mainly talking about?
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A．Enthusiasm is more important than experience.
B．Enthusiasm can give people more success and fame.
C．Enthusiastic people will never get old.
D．Enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life.
(2) The author mentions Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that ________.
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A．enthusiasm can make people feel young
B．music can arouse people's enthusiasm
C．enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed
D．enthusiasm can keep people healthy
(3) How many figures are referred in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?
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(4) Which proverb may the writer agree with according to the last paragraph?
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A．A good beginning makes a good ending.
B．Don't cry over the spoiled milk.
C．Love me, love my dog.
D．All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
解析：
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(1) 主旨大意题。本文通过列举作者找工作的例子以及一些伟人成功的例子，告诉读者激情能够帮助人们走向成功，引导人们享受生活。 (2) 推理判断题。第三段首句为本段的中心句，旨在说明热情能够使人们的心灵永葆青春。下面的Pablo Casals和Samuel Ulman的例子都是为了证明这一观点。 (3) 细节理解题。文中提到的用来证明激情的重要性的人物有：Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara Mclintock, Pablo Casals, Samuel Ulman和Patricia Mellratl，故选C。 (4) 推理判断题。最后一段作者告诉读者不要为过去没有做好的事情而黯然神伤，应化悲伤为力量，努力向目标迈进。Don't cry over the spoiled milk意为"不要为打翻的牛奶而哭泣"，符合作者的写作意图。 |
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