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When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to advise me against becoming a brewer(酿酒人). He’d 36 his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, 37 were his father and grandfather before him. He didn’t want me 38 near a vat (酿酒用的桶)of beer.
So I did as he asked. I got good 39 , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that 40 me to study law and business at the same time.
In my second year of grade school, I began to realize that I’d 41 done anything but go to school. So, at 24 I decided to drop out. 42 , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t 43 till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed to Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to 44 . I finished Harvard and got a highly paid job at the Boston Consulting Group. Still, after working there five years, I 45 . Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50? At that time, Americans paid 46 money of beer in low quality. Why not make good beer for 47 ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become 48 . When I told Dad, he was 49 , but in the end he 50 me. I called my beer Samuel Adams, 51 the brewer and patriot who helped to start the Boston Tea party. 52 I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get 53 out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Samuel Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined to be a brewer. My 54 to the young is simple: Life is very 55 , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.
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【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】A
【小题4】C
【小题5】D
【小题6】A
【小题7】B
【小题8】D
【小题9】A
【小题10】C
【小题11】C
【小题12】D
【小题13】B
【小题14】A
【小题15】B
【小题16】D
【小题17】C
【小题18】B
【小题19】A
【小题20】D
解析试题分析:
【小题1】B spend time doing sth. 是固定结构,意思是“把时间花在做……上”。
【小题2】C 倒装句。“so+倒装句”表示“另一个人或物的情况与前面相同”。
【小题3】A anywhere用于否定句中。
【小题4】C 据上下文可知,作者服从了父亲的安排并获得了良好的成绩。
【小题5】D 学校允许我学习法律和商业。allow sb to do sth.“允许某人做某事”。
【小题6】A never...anything=nothing。
【小题7】B 我想退学,显然父母不会同意,其他不合题意。
【小题8】D “不能等到人老了才做自己愿做的事”。
【小题9】A 下文finished Harvard提供了回来学习的信息,因而为go back to school。
【小题10】C 这句话是作者对自己生活的疑惑。
【小题11】C 本句意思是啤酒很贵,但质量不佳。
【小题12】D 上文提到Americans 高价买质量不好的啤酒,因而本句应为为Americans制造高质量的啤酒。
【小题13】B 从下文可知,作者要放弃原来的工作,成为酿酒人。
【小题14】A 当我告诉父亲时,他对我的想法不是很满意或感兴趣,而是奇怪,因为文章一开始就告诉我们作者的父亲不想让他成为酿酒人。
【小题15】B but表转折,表明最后他同意和支持我,故答案为B。
【小题16】D name sth... after为一固定搭配。 after有“根据.依据”的意思。
【小题17】C also “而且”,作者首先给他的啤酒起了一个好名字,同时又直销给喝酒人。
【小题18】B 把“酒的名字”传出去,使这一“name”有了名气。
【小题19】A 从后面的几句话可知,作者是在给读者“忠告”,advice“忠告.劝告.建议”。
【小题20】D 从“不要急于做决定”,可知作者是想表达“人的一生很长久”的意思,所以也就有了“生活不一定按你的计划进行”。
考点:考查夹叙夹议类完型
点评:本文设空合理,对上下文的串联考查全面,且有很强的人生哲理性。要求考生在上下文语境中强化词义的辨析与理解串联,分析语法规则,合理运用。
完形(15%)
Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.” Once __41 __, such opportunities are like valuable diamonds hidden in the sand.
Several years ago, I spoke at a school about how we were surrounded by “___42___ ” if we could only recognize them. A man stopped by to see me, and I remembered him as somebody who had suffered through a(n) ___43___ divorce (离婚) and was examining what was most important to him. He took a small ___44___ out of his pocket. Here is what he said to me that day.
“I ___45___ on this stone when I was leaving church last Sunday. You had spoken about ___46___ opportunities—diamonds. I put the stone in my ___47___ to remind me to look for those “diamonds” that I need. I have been trying to sell my business . On Monday morning, a man who seemed interested in ___48___ some of my stock (股票) stopped by. I thought, ‘Here’s my diamond—don’t let it ___49___!’ I sold the entire stock to him by noon. Now my next diamond is to find a new ___50___ !”
Not long afterward, he did find a new and better job. From then on, he decided to keep his stone with him all the time as a ___51___ to look for “diamonds” as he dug through the ___52___ of life.
Richard DeVos is right when he points out. “This is an exciting world. It is filled with opportunities. Great moments wait around every corner.” Those moments are diamonds that, ___53___ left unrecognized, will be forever lost.
Are you looking for “diamonds” every day? If not, you may ___54___ pass them by! Perhaps there is a diamond of opportunity hidden in the difficulty you’re ___55___ now.
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完形填空 (共20小题;每小题1分,满分20分)
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
We often talk about ourselves as if we have permanent genetic defects (缺陷) that can never be changed. “I’m impatient.” “I’m always behind.” “I always put things 31 !” You’ve surely heard them. Maybe you’ve used them to describe 32 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 33 for years—often from 34 childhood. These stories may have no 35 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said to me, “Marshall, you have no mechanical skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills for the rest of your life.” How did these expectations 36 my development? I was never 37 to work on cars or be around 38 . When I was 18, I took the US Army’s Mechanical Aptitude Test. My scores were in the bottom for the entire nation!
Six years later, 39 , I was at California University, working on my doctor’s degree. One of my professors, Dr. Bob Tannbaum, asked me to write down things I did well and things I couldn’t do. On the positive side, I 40 down, “research, writing, analysis, and speaking.” On the 41 side, I wrote, “I have no mechanical skills.”
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 42 and told him about my 43 performance on the Army test. Bob then asked, “ 44 is it that you can solve 45 mathematical problems, but you can’t solve simple mechanical problems?”
Suddenly I realized that I didn’t 46 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that I had chosen to 47 . At that point, it wasn’t just my family and friends who had been 48 my belief that I was mechanically hopeless. And it wasn’t just the Army test, either. I was the one who kept telling myself, “You can’t do this!” I realized that as long as I kept saying that, it was going to remain true. 49 , if we don’t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 50 we choose.
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