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In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d 41 done anything but go to school. So, at 24 I decided to drop out. 42 , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t 43__ till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.
I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to 44 . I finished Havard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I 45 , “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?” At that time, Americans spent good money on beer in 46 quality. Why not make good beer for 47 ? I thought.
I decided to give up my job to become 48 . When I told Dad, he was 49 , but in the end he 50 me. I called my beer Samuel Adams, 51 the brewer and patriot(爱国者) who helped to start the Boston Tea Party. 52 I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get the 53 out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager(淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined(注定) to be a brewer. My 54 to the young is simple:Life is very 55 , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.
36.A.cost B.spent C.taken D.paid
37.A.like B.as if C.so D.nor
38.A.anywhere B.anyway C.anyhow D.somewhere
39.A.habits B.teachers C.grades D.work
40.A.promised B.convinced C.advised D.allowed
41.A.never B.ever C.always D.hardly
42.A.Fortunatnely B.Obviously C.Possibly D.Surprisingly
43.A.assure B.decline C.deny D.wait
44.A.school B.Colorado C.my home D.my decision
45.A.thrilled B.stressed C.wondered D.sneezed
46.A.cheap B.expensive C.low D.high
47.A.Englishmen B.Europeans C.the world D.Americans
48.A.a lawyer B.a brewer C.an instructor D.an engineer
49.A.astonished B.satisfied C.interested D.anxious
50.A.hated B.supported C.raised D.left
51.A.for B.at C.in D.after
52.A.Therefore B.Otherwise C.Also D.Yet
53.A.price B.name C.company D.party
54.A.advice B.life C.job D.experience
55.A.hard B.busy C.short D.long
答案
36-40 BCACD 41-45 ABDAC 46-50 CDBAB 51-55DCBAD
解析
36.B spend time doing sth. 是固定结构,意思是“把时间花在做……上”。
37.C 倒装句。“so+倒装句”表示“另一个人或物的情况与前面相同”。
38.A anywhere用于否定句中。
39.C 据上下文可知,作者服从了父亲的安排并获得了良好的成绩。
40.D 学校允许我学习法律和商业。allow sb to do sth.“允许某人做某事”。
41.A never...anything=nothing。
42.B 我想退学,显然父母不会同意,其他不合题意。
43.D “不能等到人老了才做自己愿做的事”。
44.A 下文finished Harvard提供了回来学习的信息,因而为go back to school。
45.C 这句话是作者对自己生活的疑惑。
46.C 本句意思是啤酒很贵,但质量不佳。
47.D 上文提到Americans 高价买质量不好的啤酒,因而本句应为为Americans制造高质量的啤酒。
48.B 从下文可知,作者要放弃原来的工作,成为酿酒人。
49.A 当我告诉父亲时,他对我的想法不是很满意或感兴趣,而是奇怪,因为文章一开始就告诉我们作者的父亲不想让他成为酿酒人。
50.B but表转折,表明最后他同意和支持我,故答案为B。
51.D name sth... after为一固定搭配。 after有“根据.依据”的意思。
52.C also “而且”,作者首先给他的啤酒起了一个好名字,同时又直销给喝酒人。
53.B 把“酒的名字”传出去,使这一“name”有了名气。
54.A 从后面的几句话可知,作者是在给读者“忠告”,advice“忠告.劝告.建议”。
55.D 从“不要急于做决定”,可知作者是想表达“人的一生很长久”的意思,所以也就有了“生活不一定按你的计划进行”。
核心考点
试题【When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against be】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
However, the idea for creating a day for children to honor their fathers began in Spokane, Washington. A woman by the name of Sonora Smart Dodd thought of the idea for Father’s Day while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon① in 1909. Having been raised by her father, Henry Jackson Smart, after her mother died, Sonora wanted her father to know how special he was to her. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices② and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a selfless and loving man. Sonora’s father was born in June, so she chose to hold the first Father’s Day celebration in Spikane, Washington on the 19th of June, 1910.
In 1924 President Calvin Coolidge declared the third Sunday in June as Father’s Day. Roses are the Father’s Day flowers: red to be worn for a living father and white if the father has died.
When children can’t visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental③. Most greeting cards are too special so fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.
Notes:
① sermon v. 布道
② sacrifices n. 牺牲
③ sentimental adj. 感伤的
1. The United States is special in Father’s Day because ______.
A. many people celebrate the day B. only America celebrates the day
C. America makes it an official day D. all men are honored in America
2. At first, Father’s Day was fixed on June 19th because ______.
A. Sonora honored her father on her father’s birthday
B. Sonora’s birthday was June 19
C. it was decided by the president at that time
D. her mother died on June 19
3. How many years has passed before Father’s Day became an official day since the father’s day was celebrated?
A. 4 B. 10 C. 14 D. 24
4. According to the passage, on Father’s Day, ______.
A. people will wear the same flowers to honor their fathers
B. only daughters wear red flowers to honor their fathers
C. children must go home to honor their fathers
D. fathers are often honored in different ways
5. According to the passage, we can infer that Henry Jackson Smart ______.
A. was very kind to anyone
B. did a lot for his daughter
C. was the first father honored in 1924
D. always help others by giving money
The 12 of the German people made me feel that I was not 13 my first day in Germany wasn’t as 14 as I expecteD. Whenever I went, I asked people for 15 . It surprised me that 16 every young German could speak English fluently. Older Germans couldn"t speak English very well, but they would try to help me 17 they coulD. One middle-aged man I asked for directions even 18 me to the place I was looking for.
My 19 in Germany totally changed my impression of Germans. Now I think the people couldn"t be more 20 .
1. A. on B. for C. to D. about
2. A. late B. dark C. light D. early
3. A. visit B. eat C. stay D. keep
4. A. cards B. information C. money D. coins
5. A. joy B. disappointment C. emotion D. surprise
6. A. hotel B. airport C. city D. pavement
7. A. night B. daytime C. trip D. rush-hour
8. A. afraid B. sure C. glad D. eager
9. A. orB. but C. and D. so
10. A. make B. have C. do D. answer
11. A. another B. a C. my D. his
12. A. use B. success C. care D. kindness
13. A. really B. nearly out of C. far from D. close to
14. A. interesting B. goodC. bad D. busy
15. A. direction B. distance C. travel D. serve
16. A. almost B. even C. only D. already
17. A. whenever B. whatever C. wherever D. however
18. A. drove B. reached C. moved D. came
19. A. experience B. victory C. visit D. memory
20. A. friendly B. unfriendly C. cold-hearted D. valuable
“Boy!” the silence was cut by a sudden cry. He turned around quickly to see who had called.
An old woman was standing at her door.
“You boy! Come here this minute!”
Slowly the boy ___1___ onto the cold flat stones leading to the old woman’s house. When he arrived at her house, she ___2___ out her hand and wrapped(缠住) her ___3___ old fingers around his arm.
“Help me inside, boy”, she said, “Help me ___4___ to my bed. What’s your name?”
“Joseph,” he said.
The old woman on the bed tried to ___5___ up, raising herself on her elbow(肘). Water ___6___ from her eyes and mouth. The sight of her made Joseph feel ___7___.
“I am dying, Joseph. You can see that, can’t you? I want you to write a ___8___ for me. There’s paper and pencil on the table there.”
Joseph looked down at the ___9___, and then looked out the window. He saw the sign again: “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
“I want my silver pin to ___10___ to my daughter.”
Joseph bent his small body over the table and ___11___ the pencil slowly across the paper.
“There’s my Bible(圣经),” the old woman said. “That’s for my daughter, too. I want a ___12__ Christian burial(基督葬礼) with lots of singing. Write that down, too. That’s the last ___13__ of a poor old woman.”
The boy labored over the paper. Again he looked out the window.
“Here. Bring it here so I can ___14___ it.”
Joseph found the Bible, and ___15___the paper inside, laid it next to the bed.
“___16___ me now, boy,” she sighed. “I’m tired.”
He ran out of the house.
A cold wind blew through the ___17___ window, but the old woman on the bed ___18___ nothing. She was dead. The paper in the Bible moved back and forth in the wind. ___19___ on the paper were some childish letters. They ___20___ the words “Coca-Cola. Drink Coca-cola.”
1. A. rushed B. struggled C. hurried D. stepped
2. A. reached B. let C. pushed D. pointed
3. A. firm B. smooth C. dry D. fresh
4. A. back B. over C. away D. ahead
5. A. sit B. get C. stand D. wake
6. A. rolled B. burnt C. burst D. ran
7. A. ill B. sick C. unpleasant D. funny
8. A. letter B. note C. will D. message
9. A. table B. pen C. paper D. woman
10. A. send B. go C. belong D. come
11. A. moved B. drew C. used D. pulled
12. A. great B. merry C. splendid D. real
13. A. hope B. chance C. opinion D. wish
14. A. sign B. read C. remember D. copy
15. A. setting B. hiding C. placing D. laying
16. A. Hold B. Leave C. Excuse D. Pardon
17. A. large B. open C. small D. pretty
18. A. did B. saw C. felt D. knew
19. A. Described B. Printed C. Recorded D. Written
20. A. formed B. spelled C. organized D. repeated
The simple atmosphere of the office 10 me, and I sat carefully down on the edge of a chair. The woman at the desk 11 looked at me for a while through her 12 , and I was about to move my feet 13 I realized that she was questioning me in a low voice. I answered softly and I started to feel 14 helpless.
She made 15 to me in a way that she wondered 16 I was looking for this sort of joB.I felt even more helpless when she told me that it 17 difficult to get a job without 18 or reference. Then I heard her say, “ 19 , I"ve got someone in the office at 20 moment who might suit. ”
1.A.would B.ought C.wanted D.liked
2.A.told B.not tell C.not told D.not to tell
3.A.on B.at C.for D.in
4.A.as soon asB.as to C.far D.as
5.A.search forB.in search of C.finding D.looked for
6.A.excited B.worried C.exciting D.worrying
7.A.was goingB.were coming C.was coming D.were going
8.A.through B.by C.in D.to
9.A.pleased B.pleasant C.please D.pleasure
10.A.calmed B.excited C.moved D.frightened
11.A.opposite B.against C.back D.face
12.A.glass B.glasses C.eyesD.eye
13.A.whileB.before C.after D.when
14.A.rather B.fairly C.too D.little
15.A.it B.thatC.know D.it known
16.A.how B.whyC.whether D.where
17.A.were B.should be C.would beD.was
18.A.experienceB.experiment C.time D.money
19.A.In a fact B.As a matter of fact C.As to fact D.As a matter
20.A.a very B.very a C.very the D.this very
Jones has $40 million spent in building a hotel where the most expensive rooms will be 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge — the only undersea hotel now, just off the coast of Key Largo, Fla. — guests at the Poseidon won’t need to put on a wet suit to their rooms. They also won’t need to worry about changing pressure levels since the rooms will be kept at above-surface pressure. Instead, they can move easily to their $1,500-a-night underwater rooms by escalator③.
“I think there are a large number of people who would be interested,” said Jones, “including anyone who is looking for a different experience.”
Each room will feature strong walls that look out onto coral④gardens. There will be controls in each room that guests can use to change the lighting of the underwater worlds outside their windows and to provide food to fish swimming just outside. It sounds exciting— but will it happen? It’s hard to say.
“By now I envisioned⑤we’d have whole underwater cities,” Cooper said. “It’s about time some of these visions became reality.”
Notes:
① marine construction 海洋建筑
② submarine adj. 海下的
③ escalator n. 自动梯
④ coral n. 珊瑚
⑤ envision v. 展望
1. The first paragraph takes President Bush for example in order to ______.
A. praise President Bush’s plan to Mars
B. humorously introduce the main subject to readers
C. support President Bush’s plan to Mars
D. show Bruce Jones is against President Bush’s plan
2. According to the text, who had a great effect on Bruce Jones?
A. His father. B. His friends. C. His grandfather D. His grandmother
3. According to Bruce Jones’s undersea hotel, we know that ______.
A. fish outside can be seen through the hotel’s walls
B. the hotel has been built and came into use
C. it will be easy to swim into the underwater rooms
D. visitors will have to wear wet suits against water
4. According to Cooper’s words, his attitudes towards the underwater hotels are ______.
A. disappointed B. critical C. objective D. hopeful
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