Question

Like most people, I was brought up to look upon life as a process of getting. It was not until in my late thirties that I made this important      : giving-away makes life so much more exciting. You needn’t worry if you       money.

        This is how I      with giving-away. If an idea for improving the window display of a neighborhood store     in my mind, I step in and make the     to the storekeeper. If an accident takes place, the     of which I think the local police could use, I     him up and tell him about it, though I am not in     here. I found a rule about this world is to give     getting something back, though the     often comes in an unexpected form.

         One Sunday morning the local post office delivered an important special letter to my home, though it was     to me at my office. I wrote the postmaster a note of     . More than a year later I needed a post-office box for a new business I was     . I was told at the window that there were     boxes left, and that my name would have to go on a long     list. As I was about to be      , the postmaster appeared in the     . “Wasn’t it you that wrote us that letter a year ago about delivering an      delivery to your home?” I said it was. “Well, you certainly are going to have a box in this post office      we make one specifically for you. You don’t know what a letter like that means to us. We usually get     but complaints.”

1.A. difference     B. research                 C. speech                    D. discovery

2.A. earn                     B. lack                          C. spend                      D. steal

3.A. experienced      B. connected              C. cooperated            D. experimented

4.A. strikes                  B. flashes                     C. happens                  D. attempts

5.A. appeal                 B. request                   C. suggestion              D. demand

6.A. story                    B. damage                   C. challenge                D. material

7.A. call                       B. hold                         C. cheer                      D. pick

8.A. possession          B. trouble                    C. place                       D. charge

9.A. plus                      B. without          C. for          D. before

10.A. process             B. goal                          C. return           D. concern

11.A. replied              B. addressed              C. driven                     D. brought

12.A. invitation          B. apology                   C. complaint               D. appreciation

13.A. discussing         B. providing                C. applying                  D. starting

14.A. enough             B. extra                        C. no                            D. other

15.A. admitting          B. relating          C. buying                     D. waiting

16.A. positive             B. shocked                  C. discouraged          D. optimistic

17.A. doorway           B. window                   C. home                       D. yard

18.A. unfamiliar         B. unexpected           C. unknown                D. uncertain

19.A. in case               B. now that                 C. even if                     D. rather

20.A. nothing             B. something              C. anything                 D. everything

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.C

6.A

7.A

8.D

9.B

10.C

11.B

12.D

13.D

14.C

15.D

16.C

17.A

18.B

19.C

20.A

【解析】

試題分析：像大多數(shù)人那樣，作者是在將生活視為索取的過(guò)程中長(zhǎng)大的。直到年近四十，作者才有了一個(gè)重要發(fā)現(xiàn)：奉獻(xiàn)更能使生活精彩紛呈。即使你沒有錢也不用擔(dān)心，也可以奉獻(xiàn)。有時(shí)候一個(gè)不經(jīng)意間的奉獻(xiàn)，你可以得到意想不到的回報(bào)。

1.D make a difference有影響，起(重要)作用；       make a research做研究   make a speech 作演講；make a discovery有發(fā)現(xiàn)。像很多人一樣，我生來(lái)就認(rèn)為生活就是獲得，直到三十多歲的時(shí)候才發(fā)現(xiàn)，放棄或給予也會(huì)使得生活如此精彩。再者，后文也提到了這種發(fā)現(xiàn)。

2.B你缺錢也無(wú)須擔(dān)心(言下之意，即使缺少錢，你也能給予)。earn賺(錢)，掙(錢)；lack缺乏，缺少；spend花(錢)；steal偷。

3.A下文列舉的事例都是作者生活中經(jīng)歷的事情。Experience經(jīng)歷；connect；聯(lián)系，相聯(lián)系cooperate合作；experiment做實(shí)驗(yàn)。

4.B本句主語(yǔ)為 an idea。主意在某人腦海中閃現(xiàn)用flash。(sth.)strike sb=(sth)ocuur to sb.；happen to …發(fā)生在某人身上；attempt試圖，嘗試(其主語(yǔ)為人)。如果我靈機(jī)一動(dòng)發(fā)現(xiàn)改進(jìn)隔壁商店櫥窗展示效果的主意，我會(huì)走進(jìn)那家店，向店主提出建議。

5.C appeal呼吁；request請(qǐng)求；suggestion建議；demand命令。向店主提出建議。

6.A story故事，事情。出現(xiàn)事故，警察應(yīng)了解事情的經(jīng)過(guò)真相。damage 破壞；challenge 挑戰(zhàn)；material物質(zhì)，材料。

7.A根據(jù)后文tell him about it 可知作者是打電話(call)告訴警察事情的經(jīng)過(guò)。holdup耽擱    C. cheer sb. up使某人振作起來(lái)，為某人加油/喝彩；pick sb. up接某人。

8.D in possession擁有；trouble處在困境之中；in place在對(duì)的位置，適當(dāng)?shù)模�在工作，�?zhǔn)備就緒；charge負(fù)責(zé)。作者雖然不負(fù)責(zé)這里的事情，但他卻主動(dòng)幫助警察了解事故經(jīng)過(guò)。

9.B上文列舉的事例都表明作者想主動(dòng)幫助別人而不希望得到什么。plus加上；without     沒有，不；for為了；before在……前。

10.C return回報(bào)。根據(jù)轉(zhuǎn)折連詞though和下文所列舉的事例表明，幫助別人有時(shí)候在不經(jīng)意時(shí)也會(huì)得到回報(bào)。process過(guò)程，工序，做事方法；goal目標(biāo)；return回報(bào)；concern關(guān)心。

11.B address此處為動(dòng)詞，注明……的地址。信上標(biāo)明收信人的地址是我辦公室的地址。reply回答；drive驅(qū)趕，駕駛；bring帶來(lái)。

12.D appreciation欣賞，贊賞，感謝。郵遞員把本來(lái)該送到辦公室的信送到家里，人們通常只會(huì)責(zé)備他們，而作者卻與此相反，非但沒有責(zé)備，而是給郵局局長(zhǎng)寫了封感謝信。invitation邀請(qǐng)；apology道歉；complaint抱怨。

13.D作者要開辦(starting)一項(xiàng)新的業(yè)務(wù)。 Discussing討論；providing  提供；applying申請(qǐng)，利用。一年多以后，我在開辦一家新公司時(shí)需要一個(gè)郵政信箱。

14.C結(jié)合上下文可知，郵局里已沒有(no)剩余的郵箱。enough足夠的；extra額外的；other其它的。

15.D郵局里沒有剩余的郵箱，要想安裝郵箱，只能等(waiting)到有的時(shí)候。admitting承認(rèn)； relating有關(guān)系；buying買。我得排在很多人后面登記等待新郵箱。

16.C因?yàn)檫@樣的情況，作者有些泄氣(discouraged)準(zhǔn)備離開。Positive積極的；shocked震驚的；optimistic樂(lè)觀的。

17.A正當(dāng)我有些泄氣準(zhǔn)備離開時(shí)，郵局局長(zhǎng)出現(xiàn)在門口(doorway)。window窗戶；home家；yard院子，庭院。

18.B您就是一年前因?yàn)猷]局將一封意想不到(unexpected)的快遞信件發(fā)到您家里而給我們來(lái)信的那位先生吧？unfamiliar不熟悉；unknown不知道；uncertain不肯定。

19.C本句句意為在這個(gè)郵局里，你應(yīng)該得到一個(gè)郵箱，即便(even if)是我們給你做一個(gè)。in case以防; now that既然,因?yàn)椋籸ather而不是。

20.A nothing but只有。郵遞員從顧客那里一般不會(huì)得到任何東西，只有抱怨。anything but除……之外任何事（物）都……，根本不是……。

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