問題詳情:
Letting go of success
I want to make the most of every day. And, like most people, I've__41__ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully __42__ today while thinking too much about past successes, either. People never __43__ while resting comfortably on their laurels (榮譽). The __44_ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once __45__ a story about the Oscar owner, actor Clark Gable. A friend __46__ Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her __47__ son, who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He__48__ he was racing those cars around a great track, which in __49__ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable __50__ for his performance in the 1934 movie ItHappenedOneNight.
When his mother told him the time had come to __51__, the little boy asked the actor, “Can I have this?” __52__ to the Oscar.
“Sure, ” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother __53__. “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue, Clark Gable said, “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me; __54__it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a __55__ hammock (吊牀) upon which he may be tempted to__56__, rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past __57__ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the __58__? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the __59__ of the future better than the history of the past,” said Thomas Jefferson. I __60__. After all, the future, not the past, is where the rest of your life will be lived.
【小題1】 | A discovered | B. inferred | C. hoped | D. worried |
【小題2】 | A. spend | B. live | C. understand | D. enjoy |
【小題3】 | A. struggle | B. work | C. succeed | D. learn |
【小題4】 | A. story | B. fact | C. idea | D. news |
【小題5】 | A. wrote | B. told | C. knew | D. heard |
【小題6】 | A. saw | B. recognized | C. met | D. visited |
【小題7】 | A. careful | B. small | C. lonely | D. clever |
【小題8】 | A. pretended | B. believed | C. insisted | D. suggested |
【小題9】 | A. reality | B. case | C. turn | D. need |
【小題10】 | A. cared | B. asked | C. won | D. looked |
【小題11】 | A. act | B. leave | C. play | D. wait |
【小題12】 | A. running | B. getting | C. pointing | D. shouting |
【小題13】 | A. objected | B. noticed | C. suffered | D. breathed |
【小題14】 | A. selling | B. keeping | C. earning | D. sharing |
【小題15】 | A. special | B. comfortable | C. expensive | D. necessary |
【小題16】 | A. rest | B. cheat | C. stop | D. sit |
【小題17】 | A. difficulties | B. events | C. failures | D. achievements |
【小題18】 | A. time | B. future | C. body | D. brain |
【小題19】 | A. idea | B. meaning | C. dreams | D. thoughts |
【小題20】 | A. obey | B. permit | C. wish | D. agree |
【回答】
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【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】C
【小題4】B
【小題5】D
【小題6】D
【小題7】B
【小題8】A
【小題9】A
【小題10】C
【小題11】B
【小題12】C
【小題13】A
【小題14】C
【小題15】B
【小題16】A
【小題17】C
知識點:日常生活類
題型:完型填空