A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many vill

A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many vill

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A little stream flowed down from a high mountain far, far away through many villages and forests, until it reached a desert. The stream then thought, “I’ve been through countless obstacles. I should have no problem crossing this desert!” But when she decided to start her journey, she found herself gradually disappearing into the mud and sand. After numerous tries, she found it was all in vain and was very upset. “Maybe it’s my destiny(命运) ! I’m not destined to reach the vast ocean in the legend, ” she murmured sadly to herself.
At this time, a deep voice came, saying, “If a breeze can cross the desert, so can a river.”
It was the voice of the desert. Unconvinced, the little stream replied, “That’s because a breeze can fly, but I can’t.”
“That’s because you stick to what you are. If you’re willing to give it up, and let yourself evaporate (蒸发) into the breeze, it can take you across, and you can reach your destination,” said the desert in its deep voice.
The little stream had never heard of such a thing. “Give up what I am now and disappear into the breeze? No! No!” She could not accept this idea. After all, she had never experienced anything like it before. Wouldn’t it be self-destruction to give up what she was now?
“How do I know if this is true?” asked the little stream.
“The breeze can carry the vapor across the desert and release it as rain at an appropriate site. The rain will form a river again to continue its course,” answered the desert very patiently.
“Will I still be what I am now?” asked the little stream.
“Yes, and no. Whether you’re a river or invisible vapor, your inner nature never changes. You stick to the fact that you’re a river because you don’t know your inner nature,” answered the desert.
Deep down, the stream vaguely remembered that before she became a river, it was perhaps also the breeze that carried her halfway up a high mountain, where she turned into rain and fell onto the ground and became what she was now. Finally the little stream gathered her courage and rushed into the open arms of the breeze, which carried her to the next stage of her life.
Perhaps you can try asking yourself these questions: What is my inner nature? What is it that I cling (紧抓) to? And what is it that I really want?
小题1:When reaching the desert at first, the little stream was ________ to cross it.
A.upsetB.confidentC.pessimisticD.hesitant
小题2:The desert suggests that the stream ________ in order to cross the desert.
A.change its formB.disappear into the desert
C.stick to what it isD.turn to another stream for help
小题3:Finally the stream successfully crossed the desert with the help of ________.
A.the rainB.the desertC.the breezeD.the mountain
小题4:In the text the writer compares the stream to ________.
A.the TruthB.the courageC.the course of lifeD.the obstacles in life

答案

小题1:B
小题2:A
小题3:C
小题4:C
解析

试题分析:本文讲述的是一条小溪在过沙漠的时候,遇见了困难。最后在沙漠的建议下,改变了自己的形态,变成了水蒸气,在风的帮助下,最后越过了沙漠。并把这一过程与人生进行了比较!
小题1:B 推理题。根据文章第1段3,4行,小溪认为自己已经克服了很多的困难,自己也一定可以走过沙漠,进入海洋。说明它很有信心。故B正确。
小题2:A 推理题。根据文章第四段If you’re willing to give it up, and let yourself evaporate (蒸发) into the breeze, it can take you across, and you can reach your destination,”可知沙漠建议它变成水蒸气。改变自身的状态,通过这种方式来过沙漠。故A正确。
小题3:C 细节题。根据文章倒数第二段Finally the little stream gathered her courage and rushed into the open arms of the breeze, which carried her to the next stage of her life.可知小溪变成了水蒸气,在风的帮助之下,越过了沙漠。故C正确。
小题4:C 主旨大意题。根据文章最后一段Perhaps you can try asking yourself these questions: What is my inner nature? What is it that I cling (紧抓) to? And what is it that I really want?可知作者是把生命的本质与小溪的情况进行了对比。故C正确。
举一反三
Around twenty years ago I was living in York. ___ I had a lot of experience and a Master’s degree, I could not find ____ work.
I was ____ a school bus to make ends meet(使收支相抵)and ____ with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had ____ five interviews with a company and one day between bus runs they called to say I did not ___ the job. “Why has my life become so ____?” I thought painfully.
As I pulled the bus over to ___ a little girl, she handed me an earring ____ I should keep it ___ somebody claimed it. The earring was painted black and said “BE HAPPY”.
At first I got angry. Then it ____ me -- I had been giving all of my ____ to what was going wrong with my ____ rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a ____ of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to ____ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for ____ from a lady who was a director at a larger ____. She asked me if I would ___ a one-day lecture on stress (压力) management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.
My ____ there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know that it was because I changed my way of ____ that I completely changed my life.
小题1:
A.AsB.ThoughC.IfD.When
小题2:
A.successfulB.extraC.satisfyingD.convenient
小题3:
A.drivingB.repairingC.takingD.designing
小题4:
A.workingB.travellingC.discussingD.living
小题5:
A.prepared forB.attendedC.asked forD.held
小题6:
A.loseB.likeC.findD.get
小题7:
A.hardB.busyC.seriousD.short
小题8:
A.wave atB.drop offC.call onD.look for
小题9:
A.orderingB.promisingC.sayingD.showing
小题10:
A.in caseB.or elseC.as ifD.now that
小题11:
A.hurtB.hitC.caughtD.moved
小题12:
A.feelingsB.attentionC.strengthD.interests
小题13:
A.opinionsB.educationC.experiencesD.life
小题14:
A.listB.bookC.checkD.copy
小题15:
A.connectB.turnC.keepD.add
小题16:
A.herB.a passengerC.meD.my friend
小题17:
A.hospitalB.factoryC.restaurantD.hotel
小题18:
A.listen toB.reviewC.giveD.talk about
小题19:
A.planB.choiceC.dayD.tour
小题20:
A.operationB.speakingC.employmentD.thinking

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I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something ______ had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the ______ at once. She explained that she’d ______ my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had ______ it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she ______ something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the ______ floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher ______ a live wire fell and touched her.www. .com
Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no ______. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be ______ with them. For a year I was in a suffering ______ of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt _____. www. .com
Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking ______. She married me because I was a ______ man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than ______.
We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer. The anxiety that had been gone came ______ back—would my boys be left with no parents? ______, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.
______ everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t ______. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the ______it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the ______.
小题1:
A.amazingB.strangeC.awfulD.exciting
小题2:
A.houseB.exitC.entranceD.hospital
小题3:
A.seenB.heardC.recognizedD.sensed
小题4:
A.ignoredB.hesitatedC.imaginedD.confused
小题5:
A.wonderedB.realizedC.expectedD.predicted
小题6:
A.bathroomB.bedroomC.toiletD.kitchen
小题7:
A.whileB.whenC.until D.as
小题8:
A.useB.doubtC.breath D.point
小题9:
A.clearB.familiarC.strictD.pleased
小题10:
A.situationB.condition C.stateD.occasion
小题11:
A.curiouslyB.lonelyC.coldlyD.lively
小题12:
A.downB.upC.awayD.off
小题13:
A.richB.considerateC.handsomeD.strong
小题14:
A.diveB.sinkC.fallD.float
小题15:
A.floodingB.returningC.lookingD.calling
小题16:
A.GraduallyB.HopefullyC.ThankfullyD.Eventually
小题17:
A.ForB.AsC.WithD.Through
小题18:
A.matterB.affectC.count D.help
小题19:
A.changesB.experiencesC.disabilitiesD.decisions
小题20:
A.activityB.honorC.presentD.life

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The world is filled with smart, talented, educated and gifted people.We meet them every day. A few days ago, my car was not running well.I pulled it into a garage and the young mechanic had it fixed in just a few minutes.He knew what was wrong by simply listening to the engine.I was amazed.The sad truth is that great talent is not enough.
I am constantly shocked at how little talented people earn. I heard the other day that less than 5 percent of Americans earn more than $100,000 a year. A business consultant who specializes in the medical trade was telling me how many doctors and dentists struggle financially. It was this business consultant who gave me the phrase, “They are one skill away from great wealth.”
There is an old saying that goes, "Job means "just over broke(***)".And unfortunately, I would say that the saying applies to millions of people.Because schools do not think financial intelligence is intelligence, most workers "live within their means".They work and they pay the bills.Instead I recommend to young people to seek work for what they will learn, more than what they will earn.
When I ask the classes I teach, “How many of you can cook a better hamburger than McDonald"s?” almost all the students raise their hands. I then ask, “So if most of you can cook a better hamburger, how come McDonald"s makes more money than you?” The answer is obvious: McDonald"s is excellent at business systems. The world is filled with talented poor people. They focus on perfecting their skills at building a better hamburger rather than the skills of selling and delivering the hamburger.
小题1:The author mentions the mechanic in the first paragraph to show that      
A.he is just one of the talented people
B.he is ready to help others
C.he has a sharp sense of hearing
D.he knows little about car repairing
小题2:The underlined part in the third paragraph can be best replaced by____   
A.spend more than they can afford
B.1ive within what they earn
C.1ive in their own circle
D.do in their own way
小题3:Why do talented people earn so little according to the author?
A.They don’t work hard enough.
B.They have no specialized skills.
C.They don"t make full use of their talents.
D.They lack financial intelligence.
小题4:The main purpose of the author is to tell us____      
A.how young people can find a satisfactory job
B.What schools should teach about finance
C.why so many talented people are poor
D.how McDonald"s makes much money

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I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I"ve      that the best way to do it is (to) let go of past failures. But that"s not all. One can never fully      today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never      while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The      is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once      a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend      Gable one afternoon at the actor"s home. She brought along her      son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He      he was racing those cars around a great track, which in      was an imaginary circle around a golden statue. The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable      for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to      , the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?”      to the Oscar.
“Sure,” he smiled. “It"s yours.”
The horrified mother       . “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn"t mean anything to me;       it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a       hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to     , rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past       and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the      ?Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the       of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I     . After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
小题1:
A.discovered B.inferredC.preferredD.worried
小题2:
A.spendB.liveC.affectD.enjoy
小题3:
A.struggleB.work C.succeedD.concentrate
小题4:
A.storyB.factC.ideaD.figure
小题5:
A.wroteB.toldC.knewD.heard
小题6:
A.sawB.recognized C.metD.visited
小题7:
A.carefulB.smallC.lonelyD.clever
小题8:
A.pretendedB.believedC.insistedD.suggested
小题9:
A.factB.case C.turnD.need
小题10:
A.caredB.askedC.wonD.looked
小题11:
A.actB.leaveC.playD.wait
小题12:
A.runningB.gettingC.pointingD.shouting
小题13:
A.shoutedB.noticed C.sufferedD.breathed
小题14:
A.sellingB.keepingC.earningD.sharing
小题15:
A.specialB.comfortableC.expensiveD.necessary
小题16:
A.restB.cheatC.stopD.sit
小题17:
A.difficultiesB.eventsC.failuresD.achievements
小题18:
A.timeB.futureC.bodyD.brain
小题19:
A.ideaB.meaningC.dreamsD.thoughts
小题20:
A.obeyB.permit C.wishD.agree

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There’s no danger of 88-year-old Harry Ward forgetting his wife Doris’s Valentine’s Day card – the couple still use the same one he bought her 70 years ago.
When 17-year-old Harry Ward presented Doris with a Valentine’s Day card as he boarded a train to join the wartime effort on February 14, 1941, he must have been fairly confident about his affections(钟爱). After all the couple had been dating since they met in a café three months earlier.
But little can he have imagined that 70 years on, not only would he still be happy about having married Doris, but that every year she would present him with the very same card he gave her that Valentine’s Day. “I bring it out of the cupboard and put it on our mantelpiece(壁炉台)every Valentine’s Day,” she said. “It’s a special to me now as it was 70 years ago. Harry has never bought me one since, because I have this one every year.”
They first met in a café. “Harry was in the café drinking and he said hello. He asked me my name and we got talking happily. He offered to walk me to the bus stop but when we got outside, a bombing raid(突然袭击)had started and we had to run to a nearby air-raid shelter(防空洞),” Doris said.
Mr. Ward said,“I knew Doris was the one for me the moment I met her. I gave her the Valentine’s card then and she is still my Valentine now.” Mrs. Ward’s card is not the only thing that has endured the passing of time.
“Harry is quite romantic and we are as still in love as the day he first gave me this card,”Dorris said.
小题1:When did the couple first meet?
A.In 1940.B.In 1939.C.In 1941.D.In 1942
小题2:Why does Mrs. Ward always use the same Valentine’s Day card?
A.She is an environmentalist.
B.She can’t afford a new one.
C.She values the card very much.
D.She doesn’t want to waste money.
小题3:What do we know about the 70-year-old Valentine’s Day card?
A.It was first given to Doris on a plane.
B.It is usually kept in their cupboard
C.It was made by hand by Mr. Ward.
D.It is sent to Doris by post every year.
小题4:By saying “Mrs. Ward’s card is not the only thing that has endured the passing of time.”, the author means __________.
A.The card records their romance
B.The card will still be used in future
C.They both treasure the very card
D.Their affections are still strong

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