Question

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised,  “Barbara, be enthusiastic（熱情的）! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.” How right they were!

“Nothing great was ever done without enthusiasm,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste（漿糊） that helps you hang in there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that tells you, “I can do it!” when others shout, “No, you can’t!” It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn’t stop working on her experiments.

We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is the childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing the cello（大提琴）. As the music flowed through his fingers, his shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As writer and poet Samuel Ullman once worte, “Years wrinkle(起皺紋) the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, not considering money or title or power. Patricia Mellratl, a retired director of the Missouri Rpertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied, “My father, long ago, told me, ‘I never made any money until I stopped working for it.’”

We can’t afford to waste tears on “might-have-been”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after “what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses finding pleasure in the sweet of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.

What is the passage mainly talking about?

A. Enthusiasm is more important than experience.

B. Enthusiasm can give people more success and fame

C. Enthusiastic people will never get old

D. Enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life.

We can infer that enthusiasm is more important for a person especially when __________.

A. he is in trouble          B. he is getting old

C. he can do what he love   D. he has succeeded

The author mentions Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that ______.

   A. enthusiasm can make people feel young

   B. music can arouse people’s enthusiasm

   C. enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

   D. enthusiasm can keep people healthy

How many examples are referred in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

   A. Three      B. Four      C. Five      D. Six

Which proverb(諺語) may the writer agree with according to the last paragraph?

   A. A good beginning makes a good ending

   B. Don’t cry over the spoiled milk

   C. Love me, love my dog

   D. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy

Answer 1

【小題1】D

【小題2】A

【小題3】A

【小題4】C

【小題5】B

解析:

本文是一篇議論文。作者在文章中以科學家、作家、音樂家等為例，說明了熱情在人們成長和發展過程中的重要性。正如愛默生所言：“沒有熱情你就會一無所獲。”

長難句分析：We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a backyard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, and the beauty of a rainbow.

該句是一個簡單句。其中whole-heartedly意為“全心全意地”； with all our senses finding pleasure in the sweet smell …” 是with的復合結構，用作方式狀語，該結構中的in 后面三個并列的詞組都用作in的賓語。 句意：我們需要全心全意地度過每一刻，用我們的感覺在后花園的香氣中、一個6歲孩子普通的照片里及彩虹的美麗中尋找快樂。

【小題1】主旨大意題。根據第一段中的Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience”,結合文中提供的典型事例，說明只有熱情才能使人享受生活和有所成就。

【小題2】 細節推理題。 聯系第二段中的 “It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the things get tough. It is the inner voice that whispers, ‘I can do it !’”, 由此可以推知，當你陷入困難的時候，是你的熱情在起作用。

【小題3】 細節推斷題。 結合第三段中的 “We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is the childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age”, 再聯系后面的對Pablo Casals 的敘述，說明熱情能使人們感到年輕。

【小題4】 細節理解題。歸納全文中提到的人物，主要有：Barbara McClintock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Pablo Casals, Samuel Ullman 和Patricia Mellratl, 共5個人。

【小題5】推理判斷題。最后一段的意思是，我們浪費不起為“本來可以發生 的事情”而流的淚，因為事情已經發生，我們需要做我們肯能做的事情，把淚水變成汗水，和B 項一致，故B項為正確答案。