I consider myself something of an expert on apologies. A quick temper has me with plenty of opportunities to make them. In one of my earlier , my mother was telling me“Don’t watch the when you say, ‘I’m sorry’. Hold your head up and look at the person in the , so he’ll know you it. ”
My mother thus made the key point of a(n) apology: It must be direct. You must never to be doing something else. You do not a pile of letters while apologizing to a person in position after blaming him or her for a mistake that turned out to be your . You do not apologize to a hostess, whose guest of honor you treat , by sending flowers the next day without mentioning your bad .
One of the important things we should do for an apology is a readiness to the responsibility for our careless mistakes. We are used to making excuses, which leaves no for the other person to us. Since most people are open-hearted, the no-excuse apology leaves both parties feeling about themselves. That, after all, is the of every apology. It little whether the apologizer is wholly or only partly at fault. Answering for one’s encourages others to take their share of the blame.
| 小题1: | | A．provided | B．mixed | | C．compared | D．treated |
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| 小题2: | | A．dreams | B．courses | | C．memories | D．ideas |
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| 小题3: | | A．side | B．ground | | C．wall | D．bottom |
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| 小题4: | | A．mind | B．soul | | C．face | D．eye |
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| 小题5: | | A．imagine | B．enjoy | | C．mean | D．regret |
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| 小题6: | | A．useful | B．successful | | C．equal | D．basic |
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| 小题7: | | A．pretend | B．forget | | C．refuse | D．expect |
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| 小题8: | | A．hold on | B．put away | | C．look through | D．pick up |
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| 小题9: | | A．poorer | B．weaker | | C．worse | D．lower |
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| 小题10: | | A．fault | B．reason | C．result | D．duty |
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| 小题11: | | A．cruelly | B．freely | | C．roughly | D．foolishly |
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| 小题12: | | A．manners | B．excuses | | C．efforts | D．roles |
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| 小题13: | | A．active | B．effective | | C．extra | D．easy |
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| 小题14: | | A．raise | B．perform | | C．admit | D．bear |
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| 小题15: | | A．situation | B．need | | C．sign | D．room |
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| 小题16: | | A．advise | B．forgive | | C．warn | D．blame |
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| 小题17: | | A．wiser | B．warmer | | C．better | D．cleverer |
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| 小题18: | | A．purpose | B．method | | C．end | D．advantage |
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| 小题19: | | A．cares | B．matters | | C．depends | D．remains |
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| 小题20: | | A．facts | B．states | | C．rights | D．actions |
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小题1:A
小题2:C
小题3:B
小题4:D
小题5:C
小题6:B
小题7:A
小题8:C
小题9:D
小题10:A
小题11:C
小题12:A
小题13:B
小题14:D
小题15:D
小题16:B
小题17:C
小题18:A
小题19:B
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本文阐述了一个观点, 道歉要真诚, 要敢于承担责任, 同时也批评了一些“假”道歉的行为。
小题1:选A。考查背景常识。作者是急脾气当然会提供给作者很多道歉的机会。provide提供; mix混合; compare比较; treat治疗。
小题2:选C。考查对上下文语境的理解。母亲过去告诉我道歉时不应该看地面, 这当然应该是记忆中的事。memory记忆; dream梦想; course课程; idea主意。
小题3:选B。考查词语复现。根据后面的hold your head up可知用ground。
小题4:选D。考查背景常识。道歉时看着对方的眼睛, 以示真诚, 在这一点上中西方是一样的。
小题5:选C。考查词义辨析。mean it意为“这样对方就会明白你有道歉的意思”, it在这里指道歉的行为; imagine想象; enjoy喜欢; regret后悔。
小题6:选B。考查前后照应。冒号后的内容即为“成功的”道歉的一些基本特征。successful成功的; useful有用的; equal平等的; basic基本的。
小题7:选A。考查背景常识。道歉要直接, 你绝不要假装在做其他的事。pretend假装; forget忘记; refuse拒绝; expect期盼。
小题8:选C。考查前后照应。上句提到“你绝不要假装在做其他的事”, 所以此处是表达在道歉时不要浏览信件。look through浏览; hold on坚持住, 抓住; put away把……收起来; pick up捡起。
小题9:选D。考查背景常识。职务论的是高、低。
小题10:选A。考查词语复现。根据前面的mistake可知。fault错误; reason理由; result结果; duty责任。
小题11:选C。考查词义辨析。roughly此处表示对待客人不礼貌, 服务不到位。从前面的要不要道歉的讨论可以猜出这一答案; cruelly残忍地; freely自由地; foolishly愚蠢地。
小题12:选A。考查固定搭配。bad manners没礼貌, 从treat roughly不难判断答案。
小题13:选B。考查词义辨析。effective有效的; active积极的; extra额外的; easy容易的。
小题14:选D。考查固定搭配。bear the responsibility承担责任, 为固定搭配; raise举起; perform表演; admit承认。
小题15:选D。考查固定搭配。leave no room不留余地。situation形势; need需要; sign迹象。
小题16:选B。考查对上下文语境的理解。道歉是为了获得原谅。forgive原谅; advise建议; warn警告; blame责备。
小题17:选C。考查词义辨析。better表示“心情更舒畅”。未找借口的道歉, 即真诚的道歉, 对方的感觉一定很好。wise明智的; warm暖和的; clever聪明的。
小题18:选A。考查词义辨析。道歉的最终“目的”是化干戈为玉帛, 大家和好如初, 所以用purpose。method方法; end末端; advantage优势。
小题19:选B。考查对上下文语境的理解。道歉者是全部还是部分承担责任这些都不太重要, 关键是为自己的所作所为主动负责, 这也能促使别人共同承担责任。
小题20:选D。考查背景常识。根据常识可知应该是对自己的“行动”负责。answer for在此意为“对……负责”。 |
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A man may usually be known by the books he reads as well as by the company he keeps. One should always live in the best company, whether it be of books or of men.
A good book may be among the best of friends. It is the most patient and cheerful of companions. It always receives us with the same kindness; amusing and instructing us in youth, and comforting us in age.
Men often discover their similarity to each other by the common love they have for a book just as two persons sometimes discover a friend by the admiration which both entertain for a third. There is an old proverb, “Love me, love my dog.” But there is more wisdom in this: “Love my, love my book.” The book is a truer and higher bond(纽带) of union. Men can think, feel, and sympathize with each other through their favorite author. They live in him together, and he in them.
A good book is often the best container of a life preserving the best that life could think out; for the world of a man’s life is, for the most part, but the world of his thoughts. Thus the best books are treasuries of good words, the golden thoughts, which become our steady companions and comforters.
Books are by far the most lasting products of human effort. Temples and statues decay(腐朽), but good books survive. Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their author’s minds, ages ago.
The great and good do not die, even in this world. Preserved in books, their spirits walked abroad. The book is a living voice. It is an intellect(智者) to which one still listens.
小题1:The writer introduces the topic of the passage by .| A．describing life experience of great writers | | B．telling his own story of reading good books | | C．presenting the best thoughts in good books | | D．comparing good books to good friends in life |
小题2:What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 mean?| A．Readers feel sympathy for the author. | | B．Readers live together with the author. | | C．Readers and the author share the same feeling. | | D．Readers are the author’s companions and comforters. |
小题3:which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?| A．We can learn about the great and good through books. | | B．The most important part of a man’s life is his treasures. | | C．Good books help us to know about their authors’ friends. | | D．Books are often regarded as best containers in our life. |
小题4:the passage mainly tells us that .
A. one should have some good friends
B one should read as many books as possible
C. one should keep company with good books
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That summer an army of crickets(蟋蟀) started a war with my father. Dad didn’t care for insects much more than Mamma, but he could tolerate a few living in the basement. Mamma was a city girl and she said a cricket was just too noisy. Then to support her point she wouldn’t go to bed. She drank coffee and smoked my father’s cigarettes and paced between the sofa and the TV. Next morning she threatened to pack up and leave, so Dad drove to the store and hurried back. He sprayed poison from a jug. When he was finished he told us that was the end of it.
For a couple of weeks we went back to find dead crickets in the laundry. He suggested that we’d all be better off to hide as many as we could from Mamma. I fed a few dozen to the cat who I didn’t like because he scratched for no reason.
However, soon live crickets started showing up in the kitchen and bathroom. Mamma was upset because she thought they were the dead crickets coming back, but Dad said these were certainly new ones. He fetched his jug of poison and sprayed all over until the whole house smelled of poison, and then he sprayed the basement again.
A couple of weeks later, when both live and dead crickets kept turning up, Dad emptied the basement of junk. Then he burned a lot of old newspapers and magazines which he said the crickets had turned into nests.
While we ate supper that evening, the wind lifted some flames onto the wood pile. The only gasoline was in the lawn mower’s(割草机) fuel tank but that was enough to create an explosion big enough to reach the house. Once the roof caught, there wasn’t much anyone could do.
After the fire trucks left, Mamma took the others to Aunt Gail’s. I helped Dad and Uncle Burt carry things out of the house and pile them by the road. We worked into the night and we didn’t talk much, while all around the noise of crickets broke our silence.
小题1:What do we know about the author’s mother?| A．She didn’t like insects at all. | | B．She liked insects more than his father. | | C．She cared for insects very much. | | D．She could only tolerate a few insects. |
小题2:The author’s father drove to the store to buy _______. | A．cigarettes for himself | B．some poison | | C．more coffee for his wife | D．some gasoline |
小题3:The author’s father burned the old newspapers and magazines because he thought ______. | A．they were no longer useful | | B．the crickets were afraid of fires | | C．they became the home of crickets | | D．the dead crickets came back to life |
小题4:We learn from the last paragraph that ________. | A．the author’s family lost their battle against the crickets | | B．the author’s parents learned to put up with insects | | C．the author’s family didn’t suffer much in the fire | | D．the author’s parents got divorced |
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It was raining. I went into a café and asked for a coffee. ____ I was waiting for my drink, I realized there were other people in the place, but I sensed ____. I saw their bodies, but I couldn’t feel their souls ____ their souls belonged to the ____.
I stood up and walked _______the tables. When I came to the biggest computer, I saw a thin, small man _____ in front of it. “I’m Steve,” he ______ answered after I asked him a couple of times what his name was. “I can’t talk with you. I’m ____,” he said. He was chatting online and, ____, he was playing a computer game – a war game. I was ______.
Why didn’t Steve want to talk with me? I tried ____ to speak to that computer geek （怪人），____ not a word came out of his mouth. I touched his shoulder, but no reaction. I was _____. I put my hand in front of the monitor, and he started to shout, “____!”
I took a few steps back, wondering if all those people in the café were looking at me. I raised my head, and saw nobody showed any interest.
, I realized that the people there were having a nice conversation with their machines, not with people. They were more interested in having a relationship with the , particularly Steve. I wouldn’t want to the future of human beings if they preferred sharing their lives with machines with people.
I was worried and sank in my thoughts. I didn’t even ____ that the coffee was bad, ____ Steve didn’t notice there was a person next to him.
| 小题1: | | A．Before | B．Since | C．Although | D．While |
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| 小题2: | | A．pain | B．loneliness | C．sadness | D．fear |
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| 小题3: | | A．because | B．when | C．until | D．unless |
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| 小题5: | | A．beside | B．among | C．between | D．on |
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| 小题6: | | A．sleeping | B．laughing | C．sitting | D．learning |
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| 小题7: | | A．finally | B．quickly | C．patiently | D．loudly |
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| 小题8: | | A．busy | B．thirsty | C．tired | D．sick |
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| 小题9: | | A．first of all | B．just then | C．at the same time | D．by that time |
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| 小题10: | | A．surprised | B．delighted | C．moved | D．frightened |
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| 小题11: | | A．once | B．again | C．first | D．even |
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| 小题13: | | A．excited | B．respected | C．afraid | D．unhappy |
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| 小题14: | | A．Shut up | B．Enjoy yourself | C．Leave me alone | D．Help me out |
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| 小题15: | | A．From then on | B．At that moment | C．In all | D．Above all |
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| 小题16: | | A．computer | B．soul | C．shop | D．geek |
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| 小题17: | | A．tell | B．plan | C．imagine | D．design |
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| 小题18: | | A．other than | B．instead of | C．except for | D．as well as |
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| 小题19: | | A．pretend | B．understand | C．insist | D．realize |
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| 小题20: | | A．as if | B．just as | C．so that | D．even though |
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During my elementary school years, I used to compare my mom with my best friend Tiffany’s mom.
Tiffany’s mom always gave her lots of money to buy the most fashionable clothes and favorite food. Her mom allowed her to do anything she liked. I really admired Tiffany. My mom didn’t give me much pocket money and she always told me that I should behave myself. I was annoyed with her.
Whenever I didn’t get what I wanted, I would complain to my mom, Tiffany’s mom would give her that! I wish she were my mom. Every time, my mom would calmly say “Poor Tiffany”. I couldn’t understand her. “She shouldn’t be feeling sorry for Tiffany!” I thought. “She should be feeling sorry for me.”
One day, I couldn’t help saying to Mom, “Poor Tiffany? Lucky Tiffany! She gets everything she wants! Why do you feel sorry for her?” I burst out crying.
My mom sat down next to me and said softly. “Yes, I do feel sorry for her. I have been teaching you a lesson that she will never be taught.”
I looked up at her. “What are you talking about?”
Mom said with care, “One day she will really want something. Maybe she’ll find out that she can’t have it. Her mother won’t always be around to give her money, and what’s more, money can’t buy everything.”
It took some time, but I eventually understood my mom’s words. Now I am a happy and successful woman.
小题1:During the author’s elementary school years, she __________. | A．wished that her mom were as good as Tiffany’s | | B．went to school with Tiffany every day | | C．usually compared her lesson with Tiffany’s | | D．sometimes gave lots of money to Tiffany |
小题2:Why did the author’s mom always say “Poor Tiffany”? | A．She felt sorry for Tiffany because Tiffany was poor. | | B．She wanted to tell a lie to comfort the author. | | C．She thought that Tiffany was spoiled by her mother. | | D．She told the author this and wanted her to help Tiffany. |
小题3:What do we learn about the author’s mother? | A．She was strict and taught the author to be independent. | | B．She cared for other people’s children more than her own. | | C．She thought that life lessons were as important as money. | | D．She was so poor that she couldn’t give the author much money. |
小题4:What can we infer from the passage? | A．The author was quite annoyed with her mother in the past. | | B．The author’s mother felt sorry for Tiffany. | | C．Tiffany’s mother took the author’s mother’s advice. | | D．The author is thankful to her mother now. |
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When something goes wrong, it can be very satisfying to say, "Well, it"s so-and-so"s fault，"or "I know I"m late, but it"s not my fault; the car broke down. " It is probably not your fault, but once you form the habit of blaming somebody or something else for a bad situation, you are a loser. You have no power and could do nothing that helps change the situation. However, you can have great power over what happens to you if you stop focusing on whom to blame and start focusing on how to remedy the situation. This is the winner"s key to success.
Winners are great at overcoming problems. For example, if you were late because your car broke down, maybe you need to have your car examined more regularly. Or, you might start to carry along with you the useful phone numbers, so you could call for help when in need. For another example, if your colleague causes you problems on the job for lack of responsibility or ability, find ways of dealing with his irresponsibility or inability rather than simply blame the person. Ask to work with a different person, or don"t rely on this person. You should accept that the person is not reliable and find creative ways to work successfully regardless of how your colleague(同事) fails to do his job well.
This is what being a winner is all about-creatively using your skills and talents so that you are successful no matter what happens. Winners don"t have fewer problems in their lives; they have just as many difficult situations to face as anybody else. They are just better at seeing those problems as challenges and opportunities to develop their own talents. So, stop focusing on "whose fault it is." Once you are confident about your power over bad situations, problems are just stepping stones for success.
小题1:According to the passage, winners_______________.| A．deal with problems rather than blame others | | B．meet with fewer difficulties in their eyes | | C．have responsible and able colleagues | | D．blame themselves rather than others |
小题2: The underlined word “remedy” in Paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to .| A．avoid | B．accept | | C．improve | D．consider |
小题3:When your colleague brings about a problem, you should __ .| A．find a better way to deal with the problem | | B．blame him for his lack of responsibility | | C．tell him to find the cause of the problem | | D．ask a more able colleague for help |
小题4:Which of the following is the best title for the passage?| A．A Winner"s Achievement. | B．A Winner"s Problem. | | C．A Winner"s Opportunity. | D．A Winner"s Secret. |
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