1. 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,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Letting go of success
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 (雕像). 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.inferred | C.hoped | D.worried |
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【小题2】 | A.spend | B.live | C.enjoy | D.understand |
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【小题3】 | A.struggle | B.work | C.learn | D.succeed |
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【小题4】 | A.story | B.fact | C.idea | D.news |
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【小题5】 | A.heard | B.told | C.knew | D.wrote |
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【小题6】 | A.saw | B.recognized | C.met | D.visited |
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【小题7】 | A.careful | B.small | C.lonely | D.clever |
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【小题8】 | A.pretended | B.believed | C.insisted | D.suggested |
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【小题9】 | A.case | B.reality | C.turn | D.need |
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【小题10】 | A.cared | B.asked | C.looked | D.won |
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【小题12】 | A.running | B.getting | C.pointing | D.shouting |
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【小题13】 | A.objected | B.noticed | C.suffered | D.breathed |
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【小题14】 | A.selling | B.keeping | C.sharing | D.earning |
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【小题15】 | A.special | B.comfortable | C.expensive | D.necessary |
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【小题17】 | A.difficulties | B.Events | C.failures | D.achievements |
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【小题18】 | A.time | B.future | C.body | D.brain |
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【小题19】 | A.idea | B.meaning | C.dreams | D.thoughts |
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【小题20】 | A.obey | B.permit | C.wish | D.agree |
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