Question

     Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only work at it  36  . Albert Einstein was  37  to get a job as a physics professor. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don't have the work relative to  38  . I should give up on it and settle for something else.”  39  , he wrote the two most famous papers while  40  as a patent（专利）office worker. After the   41  , there was not any major  42  in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.

     If you want to work as an artist and are  43  as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who  44  one day to become an artist. That puts the  45  you love somewhere Off in the distant future. Rather, think yourself as  46  , supporting yourself by waiting tables and paint, or draw as much as you can. It is  47  to earn a living wage as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That  48  plenty of time to devote to training or developing your craft (手艺)  in the  49  hours.

     While seeking the work you love,   50  helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be  51  the ideas Of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened  52  the possibilities, you can make a final  53  and select the work you love as your own.

     Doing the work you love  54  that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the  55 . It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams come true.

36.A.full-fime	B. hard	C. easily	D. part-time
37.A.unable	B. able	C. unwilling	D. anxious
38.A.science	B. maths	C. physics	D. money
39.A.So	B. Instead	C. Therefore	D. And
40.A.employed	B. regarded	C. worked	D. recognized
41.A. inventions	B. discoveries	C. successes	D. papers
42.A. city	B. factory	C. university	D. company
43.A.known	B. making a living	C. leading a life	D. chosen
44.A.thinks	B. imagines	C. hopes	D. decides
45.A.man	B. woman	C. person	D. work
46.A. an artist	B. a waiter	C. a waitress	D. a painter
47.A.impossible	B. possible	C. important	D. lucky
48.A.sends	B. spares	C. leaves	D. takes
49.A.on	B. office	C. business	D. off
50.A.it	B. which	C. that	D. this
51.A. interested in	B. devoted to	C. limited to	D. troubled by
52.A.no	B. all	C. few	D. both
53.A.decision	B. plan	C. conclusion	D. judge
54.A.suggests	B. requires	C. insists	D. encourages
55.A.necessary	B. practical	C. careful	D. honest

Answer 1

36.D。联系全句，可知作者在此谈论尽早做自己喜欢做的工作的必要性。A项有一定干扰性，从第二段作者所举的例子(一个想成为艺术家的人)我们可以看出，作者认为无论是兼职，还是不拿报酬做自己喜欢的工作都是有必要的。

37.A。从下文的“Well，I just don’t have the work relative to  38   (physics)．I should give up on it ...”得知，Albert Einstein起初没有得到做物理教授的工作。

38.C。relative to在这里是“与……有关”的意思。Einstein没能找到做物理教授的工作，他觉得自己不适合物理方面的工作。

39.B。instead在这里相当于instead of getting a job as a physics professor。

40.A。C项有一定干扰性，while employed等于while he was employed。在时间状语从句或条件状语从句中，从句的主语如果与主句主语一致，且谓语含有动词be，可以省略主语和动词be。C项显然不符合这一规则。

41.A。the inventions指Einstein的两项理论的发明。

42.C。从前文我们得知，Einstein起初想做物理教授，没有哪个大学想要他。现在他出名了，没有哪所重点大学不想要他。

43.B。从后文“…，supporting(养活) yourself by waiting tables"可知，以艺术为自己的工作时，做饭店服务员只是为了挣钱养活自己。

44.C。who在这里代表a waiter,本句的意思是“不要把自己看成一个有一天能成为艺术家的饭店服务员。”显然作者认为，你应该把自己看成艺术家，而不是服务员。

45.D。that在这里指“认为自己是一个有一天能成为艺术家的服务员”；work指“成为艺术家”，本句的意思是“那只能让你喜欢的工作(成为艺术家)留在遥远的将来。”

46.A。rather在这里表示否定，相当于instead。注意本句的结构：supporting yourself by waiting tables为状语，think yourself as an artist… and paint，or draw为句子的主要部分，and前后的动词为顺接，因此A项为最佳选项。

47.B。“一星期做24小时的服务员也许能挣到生存的薪水。”possible在这里表示“可能性”。其它选项不合题意。

48.C。“一星期只做24小时服务员，那就会给自己留下足够的时间投身于培训或提高手艺。”

49.D。off在这里用作形容词，意思是“其余的”。整个第二段以“working as an artist，while supporting yourself by waiting tables”为例说明作者开头所提出的"Begin doing the work you love as soon as possible，even if you don’t get paid for it, or you can only work at it part-time.”。

50.A。分析本句结构是选对此空的关键。while seeking the work you love是时间状语从句，you love即that you love，作定语修饰work,因此it helps to…为主句。it为形式主语，真正的主语是不定式，help在这里是“有帮助，起作用”的意思。

51.C。从下一句“Having opened  52  (all) the possibilities．you can make a final  53  (decision) and select the work you love as your own．”可知作者在此认为你不应该把自己局限到(1imited to)你应该是什么或已成为什么的观念上。

52.B。从空后的you can make a final  53  (decision)得此答案。

53.A。先是打开所有的可能，然后作出最终决定，最后选出最喜欢的。

54.B。“做你所喜欢的工作要求你把想象和实际平等对待。”

55.B。从后文我们得知the imaginative指big dreams，而the practical指all the little details。