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Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers said, "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 going gets 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 Mc Clintock,
a geneticist (遗传学家) who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she
didn't let up on (放松) her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought
of stopping.
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 (大提琴家) Pablo Casals would start his day by
playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would
reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote,"Years make the skin old, but to give up
enthusiasm makes the soul old."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired
director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm.
She replied,"My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money."
If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of
Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for
at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,"I am persuaded to call Layton a genius."
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in
the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.
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 going gets 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 Mc Clintock,
a geneticist (遗传学家) who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she
didn't let up on (放松) her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought
of stopping.
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 (大提琴家) Pablo Casals would start his day by
playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his bent shoulders would straighten and joy would
reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel once wrote,"Years make the skin old, but to give up
enthusiasm makes the soul old."
Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money, title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired
director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm.
She replied,"My father, a lawyer, long ago told me, I never made a penny until I stopped working for money."
If we cannot do what we love as a fulltime career, we can do it as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of
Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended her sadness that had troubled her for
at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,"I am persuaded to call Layton a genius."
We can't afford to waste tears on "might-have-beens". We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go
after "what-can-be". We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses-finding pleasure in
the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.
1. The passage mainly shows us ____.
A. enthusiasm leads to everything
B. enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree
C. enthusiasm makes us experience more life
D. we can do nothing without enthusiasm
B. enthusiasm helps us to succeed to a greater degree
C. enthusiasm makes us experience more life
D. we can do nothing without enthusiasm
2. From the example of the Nobel Prize winner Barbara Mc Clitock, we may find ____.
A. enthusiasm can encourage us in difficult times
B. enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work
C. you can't make any achievement if you have no enthusiasm
D. enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end
B. enthusiastic people always get a deep pleasure from work
C. you can't make any achievement if you have no enthusiasm
D. enthusiastic people are sure to gain great fame in the end
3. The underlined sentence in Paragraph Three suggests ____.
A. time and tide wait for no man
B. we grow old as time goes on
C. people feel young with enthusiasm
D. our soul becomes old with enthusiasm
B. we grow old as time goes on
C. people feel young with enthusiasm
D. our soul becomes old with enthusiasm
4. The main idea of the last paragraph is ____.
A. we should try heart and soul to win what we want
B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat
C. we have not enough money to buy what we need
D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need
B. enthusiasm can give us pleasure, though we have to sweat
C. we have not enough money to buy what we need
D. enthusiasm with sweat is what we need
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Chen Yurong, 55, an average woman in Wuhan, Hubei province, who was diagnosed with a fatty liver (肝), walked 10 kilometers a day for seven months, despite wind an rain, so she could donate part of a healthy liver to her
son. After wearing out four pairs of shoes and losing eight kilograms, her fatty liver condition disappeared. One doctor called it a “miracle” (奇迹).
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like to do everything to save my son, including doing exercise and
eating less”, Chen said.
The transplant was performed on November 3,2009. The surgery
lasted more than 14 hours and saved her son from life threatening
liver disease. State – owned CCTV broadcast the transplant live and
she has been widely praised in China.
However, the 55 – year – old mother said she never expected
such attention, which did bring her hope and help from many others
– even stingers. Despite giving up part of her liver, Chen, like before,
gets up at 6 am to help her son wash and take his medicine. Moved
by Chen Yurong’s love for her son and her determination and effort, the hospital paid the entire medical bil
l, which would have added up to 600,000 yuan (US$ 85,715).The great mother, Chen Yurong was honored as the most touching figure in China for 2009.
36．What can we learn about Chen Yurong according to the passage?
A．She together with her son lives a poor life.
B．She herself is in good health all the time.
C．She is willing to do everything for her son.
D．She wants to win other’s attention and praise.
37．Which of the following can best describe Chen Yurong’s behavior?
A．generous B．aggressive C．reasonable D．awesome
38．Which of the following statements is Not true according to the passage?
A．Chen Yurong took exercise and ate less to keep slim.
B．Many people and organizations have helped the family.
C．Liver donators might lose their lives after the transplant.
D．Chen Yurong and her son have been through the hardest time.
39．What would be the best title for the passage?
A．A lucky son B．A successful operation C．A miracle D．A great Mother
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The book, which received wide media coverage in
China and now has a waiting list for its second print run, is certainly timely:
it plays into a growing debate in China about what national universities should
be teaching. The country needs a workforce with the skills and creativity to
help move away from low-cost manufacturing and, in economic terms, move up the
value chain. And some educators believe liberal-arts training is vital to help
China deal with its increasingly complex new realities. Yet the well-known
intellectual historian Xu Jilin believes that China’s rapid expansion of higher
education has had a detrimental effect on curriculum as the country’s universities
race to compete globally. “Education these days in like factory-farming
chickens,” he says. “Universities all wan to get into international rakings—and
most of these depend on research. They’re not interested in providing a unique
education for our kids.”
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