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【題目】In the 1950s, a female swimming athlete set a goal for herself. She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired. If she could make it, she would be the first person in the world who did it.

On that day, she jumped into the sea without any hesitation and swam towards the opposite bank.

In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. Though she was very tired, she carried on swimming.

But in the end, she gave up. And what she didn't know at the moment she gave up was that the opposite bank was only I mile away.

Later people asked her about the reason. And she said:"The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the destination which I was so close to."

Too many success stories have been lecturing us about courage and persistence(堅持). But they never told us where to find courage and persistence.

You can have courage only when you know where your goal is. You can manage to persist only when you know where your goal is, and prepare yourself well mentally(心理上).

Courage and persistence never fall from the sky. They come from weighing between input and output.

A life without goals is like a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.

【1】In paragraph 1, the underlined word "it" refers to _______.

A. being retired

B. swimming across the English Channel

C. swimming towards the bank

D. setting a goal

【2】________ is not mentioned in the passage.

A. Fog

B. Waves

C. Rain

D. Wind

【3】The underlined word "weighing" in paragraph 8 probably mean _______.

A. 權衡

B. 有……重

C. 稱重量

D. 有分量

【4】Why did the athlete give up? Because ________.

A. the bank was one mile away

B. she was too tired

C. she didn’t have courage at first

D. she thought her destination was far away

【5】What can be inferred (推論) from the last sentence of the passage?

A. If you have courage and persistence, you have goals.

B. Even if you have no goals, you have courage to persist.

C. There is no courage or persistence unless you know your goals.

D. Between input and output, you must find courage and persistence.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】D

【3】A

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】本文講了一位女性運動員游泳挑戰(zhàn)穿越英吉利海峽的故事，因為她不知道自己離目的地還有多遠，所以在離岸邊很近的地方放棄了挑戰(zhàn)，告訴了我們沒有目標的生活就像沒有指南針的船。沒有目標的生活就會少了勇氣或堅持。

【1】句意：在第1段中，帶下劃線的“它”一詞是指游過英吉利海峽。A.退休B.游過英吉利海峽C.游向岸邊D.設定目標。原文“She decided to swim across the English Channel before she retired. If she could make it, she would be the first person in the world who did it.”（在她退休之前，她決定游過英吉利海峽。如果她能成功，她將成為世界上第一個做到這一點的人。），所以這里的“它”就是指 “游過英吉利海峽”這件事，故選B。

【2】句意：段落中沒有提到風。A.霧B.波浪C.雨D.風。原文“she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves”（她面臨濃霧，大雨和大浪），所以風沒有提到，故選D。

【3】句意：第8段中帶下劃線的“weighing”一詞可能意味著權衡。“勇氣和毅力永遠不會從天而降”，他們是來自于對“投入”和“產出”的“權衡”，故選A。

【4】句意：為什么運動員會放棄？ 因為她認為她的目的地很遠。A.岸邊在一英里處B.她太累了C.她一開始沒有勇氣D.她認為她的目的地很遠。原文“The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the destination which I was so close to.”（我放棄的原因是我看不到我如此接近的目的地。），也就是說她意為自己還差得很遠，所以她就放棄了，故選D。

【5】句意：從文章的最后一句可以推斷出什么？A.如果你有勇氣和堅持，你就有目標。B.即使你沒有目標，你要有勇氣堅持下去。C.除非你知道自己的目標，否則就沒有勇氣或堅持不懈。D.在投入和結果之間，你必須找到勇氣和毅力。最后一段是“A life without goals is like a ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. There is no courage or persistence in a life without goals.”（沒有目標的生活就像沒有指南針的船。它無處可去。沒有目標的生活就沒有勇氣或堅持。），這就告訴我們有目標是非常重要的，有了目標就有了勇氣和堅持，故選C。