1、“How many hours have you put in here each week, eighty or ninety?“11. ”“Dont you have time to be with your family at all?He shook his head slowly and12a sigh. “Its not what I wanted. But I have worked on it for so long. Its much too13to even think about letting go. ”A year later I resigned. The14thi
2、ng I heard about him was that his wife divorced him. Since then Ive never seen him. But occasionally his aged15would come to my mind. Until that day, 16knowing why the ballpoint pens couldnt stand up, the two-year-old son had17the impossibility after many failures. He put aside all the ballpoint pen
3、s and kept only those marker-pens for his“game”. 18, he already learned to let go of his previous19attempts. In our daily life, many headaches can be avoided if we know how to20them and then decisively let them go immediately. 【文章大意】作者自小就被父母和老师教育: 做任何事都要执着, 但一次两岁的儿子试图将圆珠笔竖起来, 结果却没能成功, 这让她想起一个名叫Georg
4、e的朋友, 他是个工作狂, 心中只有工作, 没有家人, 结果妻子与他离婚。这让作者意识到生活中有许多自己不能做的事, 该放手时就放手, 这样生活才能有乐趣。作者欣慰地看到自己的儿子在玩笔的游戏中已经学会了这一点。1. A. confident B. consistentC. conscious D. convinced【解析】选D。前后照应题。因为小时候, 父母和老师教育“我”做每件事时都要执着。所以“我”一直相信(I was convinced)执着是成功的唯一途径。2. A. event B. incident C. accident D. affair【解析】选B。词义辨析题。event
5、多指重要、有意义的大事件; incident指平常小事; accident指意外事故; affair泛指事件, 事务。此处语境指儿子玩记号笔, 应为平常小事。3. A. pointing B. shoutingC. screaming D. laughing【解析】选A。一天我两岁的儿子指着(point at)一堆竖着的彩色记号笔, 兴奋地欢呼着。4. A. insisting B. requiringC. intending D. urging【解析】选C。后来, 儿子又拿了一些圆珠笔, 打算做同样的事, 即把圆珠笔也竖起来。intend to do sth. 打算做某事。5. A. fla
6、t B. silent C. still D. quiet背景知识题。根据Hard though he tried(尽管他费了很大的劲试着将圆珠笔竖起来)可知结果没有成功, 圆珠笔仍然没有竖起来。因为这些圆珠笔要么是尖头, 要么是圆头。lie flat意思是“平躺着”。6. A. deliberately B. casuallyC. unintentionally D. enthusiastically看到这些圆珠笔要么是尖头要么是圆头, 我不加考虑地(casually)说: “妈妈帮不了你。”但儿子不听, 继续坚持做下去。7. A. interested B. busy C. devoted
7、 D. buriedbe buried in his work专心致志地忙于他的工作。这由后文的“他很少和任何人讲话”可知。8. A. therefore B. however C. otherwise D. though逻辑推理题。因为他总是忙于自己的工作, 因此(therefore)对他来说没有周末或假日这样的概念。9. A. high B. highly C. well D. much固定搭配题。因为他一心扑在工作上, 所以老板对他高度赞扬。10. A. promised B. demandedC. inspired D. appealed老板鼓舞我们把他当成模范榜样看待。11. A.
8、At random B. At timesC. At most D. At least因为作者的朋友George是个工作狂, 所以每周至少工作80或90小时。12. A. let off B. let out C. sent off D. sent out根据shook his head slowly(慢慢摇头)可知此处他发出(let out)一声叹息。13. A. encouraging B. comfortableC. painful D. ashamed根据George讲的话可知“他心中只有工作, 没有家人”, 所以“他认为即使想(在工作方面)放手也是很痛苦的(painful)”。14.
9、 A. latter B. later C. last D. lately根据后面一句“Since then Ive never seen him. ”可知此空填last, 说明“这是我听到有关他的最后一件事”。15. A. picture B. figure C. reflection D. image根据come to my mind可知此处选image。虽然后来我再也没见到过他, 但他年迈的形象还会出现在我的脑海中。16. A. for B. with C. without D. besides直到那一天, 我两岁的儿子虽然并不知道为何圆珠笔竖不起来, 但是在多次失败后学会了接受这种不可
10、能。17. A. received B. accepted C. refused D. rejected词语辨析题。accept指“主观接受”, 而receive指“客观上收到”。C、D两项指“拒绝”。18. A. Generally B. EventuallyC. Additionally D. Obviously儿子将不能竖起来的圆珠笔放在一边, 只留下可以站起来的记号笔用来玩游戏。很明显(obviously), 他已经学会了对以前无用的(useless)尝试选择放弃。19. A. useless B. endlessC. hopeful D. meaningful上文中的many fai
11、lures已提示, 可推知他做了一些无用的尝试。useless无用的。20. A. clarify B. distinguishC. identify D. acknowledge在我们的日常生活中, 很多令人头疼的事是可以避免的, 只要我们知道如何鉴别(identify)它们并果断地做出放弃的决定。完形填空供20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分) 阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、 B、 C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。My husband and I were cleaning windows together yesterday. We have the double-hung(双吊钩)_36 that you can pull forward and flip(翻转), allowing us to _37 the inside and the outs
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