Question

 

閱讀下面短文，掌握其大意，然后從各題所給的四個(gè)選項(xiàng)（A、Ｂ、Ｃ和Ｄ）中選出最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。

Start doing the work you love as soon as possible, even if you don’t get paid for it, or if you can only ____1____ it part-time. Albert Einstein was ____2____to get a job as a physics professor at the beginning. He could have said to himself, “Well, I just don’t have the work relative to ____3____. I should give up on it and settle for something else.” ____4____, he wrote the two most famous papers while ____5____ as a patent (專利) office worker. After the ____6____ there were not any major____7____ in the world that would not have wanted him to work for them.

     If you want to work as an artist but you are ____8____ as a waiter, don’t think of yourself as a waiter who ____9____ one day to become an artist. Seeing yourself as a waiter puts the ____10____ you love somewhere off in the distant future. Rather, ____11____ yourself as an artist, supporting yourself by waiting on tables, or draw as much as you can. It is ____12____ to earn a living as a waiter working 24 hours a week. That ____13____ plenty of time which you can devote to training or developing your craft(手藝) in the ____14____hours.

While you are seeking the work you love, ____15____ helps to expand your awareness into the universe of all possibilities. You don’t want to be ____16____ the ideas of what you should do or what you have done before. Having opened____17____ the possibilities, you can make a final decision and ____18____ the work you love as your own.

  Doing the work you love ____19____ that you be equally comfortable with the imaginative and the practical. It requires the ability to dream big dreams and the ability to face and master all the little details that make dreams____20____.

1.A. work for B. work with  C. work out    D. work at

2.A. unable     B. able     C. unwilling   D. anxious

3.A. science    B. maths  C. physics      D. money

4.A. So   B. Instead       C. Therefore   D. And

5.A. employed B. acted   C. treated       D. recognized

6.A. discoveries     B. consequences    C. solutions    D. instructions

7.A. cities       B. factories     C. universities       D. companies

8.A. known    B. making a living C. leading a life      D. chosen

9.A. considers B. imagines     C. hopes  D. decides

10.A. man      B. woman       C. person       D. work

11.A. think      B. believe C. regard D. help

12.A. impossible     B. possible      C. important   D. lucky

13.A. sends    B. gets    C. leaves D. takes

14.A. on  B. office  C. business     D. off

15.A. it    B. which C. that     D. this

16.A. interested in  B. devoted to  C. limited to    D. troubled by

17.A. no  B. all       C. few    D. both

18.A. select    B. plan    C. conclude    D. judge

19.A. suggests       B. requires      C. insists D. encourages

20.A. achieve  B. come true   C. come out    D. realize

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.D

2.A

3.C

4.B

5.A    

6.A

7.C

8.B

9.C

10.D   

11.C

12.B

13.C

14.D

15.A      

16.C

17.B

18.A

19.B

20.B