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 1 !" You"ve surely heard them. Maybe you"ve
used them to describe 2 .
These comments may come from stories about us that have been 3 for years-often from 4 childhood.
These stories may have no 5 in fact. But they can set low expectations for us. As a child, my mother said
to me,"Marshall, you have no mechanical (操作机械的) skills, and you will never have any mechanical skills
for the rest of your life." How did these expectations 6 my development? I was never 7 to work on cars
or be around 8 . 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, 9 , 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
10 down, "research, writing, analysis, and speaking." On the 11 side, I wrote, "I have no mechanical skills."
Bob asked me how I knew I had no mechanical skills. I explained my life 12 and told him about my 13
performance on the Army test. Bob then asked," 14 is it that you can solve 15 mathematical problems, but
you can"t solve simple mechanical problems?"
Suddenly I realized that I didn"t 16 from some sort of genetic defect. I was just living out expectations that
I had chosen to 17 . At that point, it wasn"t just my family and friends who had been 18 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. 19 , if we don"t treat ourselves as if we have incurable genetic defects, we can do well in almost 20 we choose. |
( )1. A. away
( )2. A. them
( )3. A. said
( )4. A. as long as
( )5. A. basis
( )6. A. lead
( )7. A. encouraged
( )8. A. means
( )9. A. therefore
( )10. A. settled
( )11. A. passive
( )12. A. experiences
( )13. A. unexpected
( )14. A. When
( )15. A. complex
( )16. A. arise
( )17. A. believe
( )18. A. weakening
( )19. A. As a result
( )20. A. anything | B. off
B. myself
B. spoken
B. as far back as
B. plot
B. improve
B. demanded
B. tools
B. somehow
B. turned
B. active
B. trips
B. poor
B. What
B. advanced
B. separate
B. suspect
B. strengthening
B. At the same time
B. something | C. up
C. yourself
C. spread
C. as well as
C. cause
C. affect
C. hoped
C. facilities
C. instead
C. took
C. negative
C. roads
C. excellent
C. How
C. common
C. suffer
C. adopt
C. abandoning
C. In addition
C. nothing | D. down
D. others
D. repeated
D. as much as
D. meaning
D. change
D. agreed
D. hammers
D. however
D. got
D. subjective
D. paths
D. average
D. Why
D. primary
D. come
D. receive
D. accepting
D. On the contrary
D. all | | 完形填空。 | A girl complained to her father about her hard life. She didn"t know what she had to do and wanted to 1 .
She felt tired for fighting and fighting. One problem had been finished but the other 2 .
Her father, who was a cook, 3 her into the kitchen. He poured water into three 4 and boiled them.
After boiling, in the first pan was put some 5 , the second was put some eggs and the last was put with
coffee. He waited for them a few minutes without any 6 from his mouth.
The girl closed her month and waited impatiently, 7 by what her father did. After approximately 20
minutes, her father 8 the stove, took out the carrots and put them in a bowl. He took the eggs and put them
in a bowl. After that the coffee was 9 into a cup.
10 back to his daughter, he asked, "My sweet heart, what do you see?" "Carrots, eggs, and coffee," she
replied.
Her father told her to close her eyes and asked her to 11 the carrots. She did and felt that the carrots
were 12 . After that he asked her to take the eggs and break them. 13 peeling them she got the eggs, cooked
and hard. The 14 , the father asked her to smell the coffee. She asked, "What is the meaning, Father?" He 15
that each had suffered the same unfortunate 16 -the boiling water, but each had a different reaction. The
strong and hard carrots had become soft and weak after being in the boiling water. The fragile eggs 17 thin
skin covering the liquid interior became hard after being 18 . The coffee grounds were very unique, but they
19 change water. "Who are you?" asked her father,"When bad luck 20 your door, what is your reaction?
Are you carrots, eggs or coffee?" | ( )1. A. take up
( )2. A. followed
( )3. A. brought
( )4. A. stoves
( )5. A. water
( )6. A. words
( )7. A. worried
( )8. A. took off
( )9. A. poured
( )10. A. Blocking
( )11. A. eat
( )12. A. rough
( )13. A. After
( )14. A. first
( )15. A. shouted
( )16. A. chance
( )17. A. in
( )18. A. cooked
( )19. A. should
( )20. A. aimed at | B. make up
B. passed
B. took
B. bowls
B. coffee
B. thoughts
B. confused
B. gave off
B. kept
B. Holding
B. touch
B. thin
B. Before
B. last
B. instructed
B. reality
B. on
B. poured
B. must
B. knocked at | C. give up
C. surrounded
C. carried
C. pans
C. fruits
C. ideas
C. amused
C. put off
C. boiled
C. Turning
C. smell
C. hard
C. Until
C. later
C. explained
C. trouble
C. over
C. beat
C. could
C. laughed at | D. turn up
D. solved
D. lifted
D. cups
D. carrots
D. beliefs
D. pleased
D. turned off
D. placed
D. Running
D. taste
D. soft
D. Though
D. moment
D. meant
D. experience
D. with
D. hit
D. would
D. worked at | | 完形填空。 | Night after night, she came to wrap me in, even long after my childhood years. Following her longstanding
custom, she"d lean down and push my long hair out of the way, then 1 my forehead.
I don"t remember when it first started 2 me-her hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for
they felt work-worn and rough 3 my young skin. Finally, one night, I 4 her, "Don"t do that anymore -your
hands are rough!" She didn"t say 5 in reply. But 6 again did my mother close out my day with that familiar
7 of her love.
Time after time, with the passing years, my 8 returned to that night. By then I missed my mother"s hands; 9 her goodnight kiss on my forehead. Sometimes the incident seemed very 10 ,sometimes far away. But
always it hid, in the back of my mind.
Well, the years have passed, and I"m not a little girl anymore. Mom is in her mid seventies, and those 11 I
once thought to be so rough are still doing things for me and my family. She"s been our doctor, 12 a medicine
box to calm a young girl"s stomach. She cooks the best fried chicken in the world...gets 13 out of blue jeans
that I never could wash out...
Now, my own children are grown and gone. 14 , in my memory, for the thousandth time,I 15 the night
when my young voice complained, "Don"t do that any more-your hands are rough!" Catching Mom"s hand in
hand, I blurted out (冲口而出) how 16 I was for that night. I thought she"d remember, 17 I did. But Mom
didn"t know what I was talking about. She had forgotten-and 18 long ago.
That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my 19 mother and her caring hands. And the 20 that
I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found. | ( )1. A. kiss
( )2. A. comforting
( )3. A. through
( )4. A. glared at
( )5. A. something
( )6. A. ever
( )7. A. expression
( )8. A. idea
( )9. A. remembered
( )10. A.distant
( )11. A.hands
( )12. A.getting into
( )13. A.colors
( )14. A.Moreover
( )15. A.recalled
( )16. A.happy
( )17. A.when
( )18. A.left
( )19. A.gentle
( )20. A.happiness | B. put
B. encouraging
B. against
B. stared at
B. anything
B. seldom
B. feeling
B. anger
B. missed
B. tight
B. words
B. looking into
B. spots
B. Therefore
B. thought
B. interested
B. as
B. understood
B. strict
B. sense | C. touch
C. annoying
C. about
C. laughed at
C. nothing
C. often
C. way
C. thoughts
C. escaped
C. serious
C. actions
C. breaking into
C. mud
C. However
C. stuck
C. upset
C. so
C. forgiven
C. forgetful
C. sorrow | D. feel
D. educating
D. in
D. shouted at
D. everything
D. never
D. meaning
D. words
D. faced
D. close
D. behaviors
D reaching into
D. pictures
D. Thus
D. forgot
D. sorry
D. that
D. followed
D. lovely
D. guilt | | 阅读理解。 | A mouse looked through a hole in the wall to see the farmer and his wife opening a package; what food
could it contain? He was astonished to discover that it was a mouse trap!
Running to the farmyard, the mouse shouted, warning everyone, "There is a mouse trap in the house,
there is a mouse trap in the house." The chicken, with her head high, glared at the mouse and said, "Shut up.
Little Ugly. This is a great concern to you, but it has nothing to do with me:I can"t be troubled by it."
The mouse turned to the pig and told him."There is a mouse trap in the house." "I am so sorry, Mr
Mouse," said the pig sympathetically, "but there is nothing I can do about it but pray；you are always in my
prayers."
The mouse turned to the cow, who said,"A mouse trap, am I in great danger, huh?"
Now the mouse had to face the farmer"s mouse trap alone.
That very night a sound was heard through the house, like that of a mouse trap catching its prey. The
farmer" wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a big poisonous snake
whose tail the trap had caught. The snake bit the farmer"s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital. She
rerturned home with a fever. It is said that drinking fresh chicken soup will help treat fever, so the farmer took
his sharp knife to the farmyard for the soup"s main ingredient. His wife"s sickness continued, so friends and
neighbors came to sit with her around the clock. To feed them, the farmer killed the pig. The farmer"s wife did
not get well, in fact, she died, and so many people came for her funeral. The farmer had the cow killed to
provide for all of them to eat.
So next time when someone is facing a problem, don"t say that it has nothing to do with you. | | 1. We could see from the passage that the mouse was _____. | A. good at cheating others
B. dishonest
C. kind and warm-hearted
D. foolish | | 2. Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage? | A. The others help the farmer kill the cow.
B. The mouse trap was very practical.
C. The pig is more friendly than the other animals.
D. The farmer"s family had no friends at all. | | 3. The passage is most probably a _____. | A. fable (寓言)
B. science fiction
C. fairy tale (神话)
D. humorous story | | 4. What can we learn from the story? | A. Traps can always cause chain reactions.
B. It is better to be safe than to be sorry.
C. Sometimes when the least of us is threatened, we all might be at risk.
D. To keep the balance of nature is the duty of us al. | | 完形填空。 | A few weeks ago, I followed a friend into an art supply store. I found him picking out tubes of
water-color paint, which 1 me because he"s not an artist "I
2 up for a water-color class, and it starts next week," he said."I really don"t have 3 for it,
but it was on my list of 50 things to do before I die, so I 4 it. Every few months 1 look at the list
arid decide what to focus on next. 5 I had the list, I complained a lot about what I was 6 in my
life. Now 1 just bury myself in doing these things. Write your own list. and you"ll 7 what I mean."
So that night. I did just that, and he was right. The list revealed (显露出) a whole lot about what
was 8 to me. It also revealed how 9 behind I am at getting to the things I really want.
I filled up the first twenty 10 quickly, but then began to think carefully.
Eventually I 11 , items I"ve thought about for years, and 12 I"ve carried with me since I was
young. When I 13 he list later, some entries surprised me.
First, I want to 14 much more, particularly now that my children are 15 arid can go with me-to
see the world. I would like to take them to bike through Denmark and camp in the Canadian Rockies.
I"m also surprised to 16 some things on the list that need to be done soon. If I"m going to learn to
roller-blade (轮滑), 17 , I"d better start before I turn 50.
Like my friend, I now have an alternative to 18 .When I"m bored with life, I take out my list.
My friend told me the 19 was preparing the ground so that life could- work in mysterious ways."If
you want your ship to come in, you must build a dock (码头)," he said. Thanks to my 20 , I"m working
on some big docks. | ( )1. A. surprised
( )2. A. made
( )3. A. interest
( )4. A. went for
( )5. A. Because
( )6. A. doing
( )7. A. admire
( )8. A. important
( )9. A. slightly
( )10. A. thoughts
( )11. A. studied
( )12. A. burdens
( )13. A. reviewed
( )14. A. play
( )15. A. wealthier
( )16. A. write
( )17. A. such as
( )18. A. complaining
( )19. A. problem
( )20. A. hobbies | B. moved
B. took
B. concern
B. called for
B. After
B. missing
B. abolish
B. strange
B. slowly
B. lists
B. added
B. challenges
B. discovered
B. relax
B. cleverer
B. put
B. for instance
B. relaxing
B. key
B. optimism | C. pleased
C. signed
C. time
C. accounted for
C. Before
C. pushed
C. spot
C. beneficial
C. possibly
C. ideas
C. dropped
C. dreams
C. wrote
C. travel
C. healthier
C. find
C. in fact
C. objecting
C. answer
C. list | D. excited
D. gave
D. emotion
D. cared for
D. Although
D. engaged
D. see
D. special
D. hopelessly
D. blanks
D. obtained
D. responsibilities
D. appreciated
D. hike.
D. older
D. leave
D. in particular
D. adjusting
D. question
D. Wishes |
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