Gifts and choices Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are ___1___---they’
英语试题 05-10
Gifts and choices
Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are ___1___---they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I ___2____ the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online ___3___ with millions of titles was very exciting to me.
I had just ___4___ 30 years old , and I’d been married for a year, I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to ___5___my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work ___6___most start-ups don’t , and I wasn’t sure what to expect, MacKenzie told me I should ___7____it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor, I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much ____8_____. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, ___9____it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic ___10_____ to me, and he ____11____me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.
Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ____12____, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d ___13____ trying and failing. And I suspected I would ____14____ be haunted（困扰） by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my ___15____, and I’m proud of that choice.
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life---the life you start from scratch on your own---begins
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia(惰性) be your guide, or will you follow your passions? Will you follow dogma（教条）, or will you be ___16____? When it’s tough, will you ___17___ or will you be relentless（不屈不挠的）?
In the end ,we are our ___18____. Build yourself a great story. I will hazard（大胆地说） a ___19____. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of ___20____narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact（充实的）and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.
1.A. hard B. easy C. simple D. safe
2.A. ran away B. received C. denied D. came across
3.A. shop B. bookstore C. library D. gamecentre
4.A. came B. had been C. become D. turned
5.A. quit B. give in C. accept D. seek
6.A. after B. while C. since D. although
7.A. go on B. go by C. go for D. go down
8.A. hated B. envied C. look up D. admired
9.A. but B. however C. and D. because
10.A. made no difference B. made some sense C. make contributions D. made tricks
11.A. questioned B. stopped C. convinced D. delayed
12.A. finally B. reasonably C. obviously D. Indirectly
13.A. quit B. glad C. regret D. afraid
14.A. occasionally B. clearly C. never D. always
15.A. gift B. future C. passion D. routine
16.A. conventional B. original C. controversial D. confidential
17.A. hold up B. give up C. hold back D. give away
18.A. choices B. imagination C. passion D. devotion
19.A. story B. theme C. coincidence D. prediction
20.A. observation B. insistence C. reflection D. fantasy
答案
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Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are ___1___---they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I ___2____ the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online ___3___ with millions of titles was very exciting to me.
I had just ___4___ 30 years old , and I’d been married for a year, I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to ___5___my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work ___6___most start-ups don’t , and I wasn’t sure what to expect, MacKenzie told me I should ___7____it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor, I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much ____8_____. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, ___9____it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic ___10_____ to me, and he ____11____me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.
Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ____12____, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d ___13____ trying and failing. And I suspected I would ____14____ be haunted（困扰） by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my ___15____, and I’m proud of that choice.
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life---the life you start from scratch on your own---begins
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia(惰性) be your guide, or will you follow your passions? Will you follow dogma（教条）, or will you be ___16____? When it’s tough, will you ___17___ or will you be relentless（不屈不挠的）?
In the end ,we are our ___18____. Build yourself a great story. I will hazard（大胆地说） a ___19____. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of ___20____narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact（充实的）and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.
1.A. hard B. easy C. simple D. safe
2.A. ran away B. received C. denied D. came across
3.A. shop B. bookstore C. library D. gamecentre
4.A. came B. had been C. become D. turned
5.A. quit B. give in C. accept D. seek
6.A. after B. while C. since D. although
7.A. go on B. go by C. go for D. go down
8.A. hated B. envied C. look up D. admired
9.A. but B. however C. and D. because
10.A. made no difference B. made some sense C. make contributions D. made tricks
11.A. questioned B. stopped C. convinced D. delayed
12.A. finally B. reasonably C. obviously D. Indirectly
13.A. quit B. glad C. regret D. afraid
14.A. occasionally B. clearly C. never D. always
15.A. gift B. future C. passion D. routine
16.A. conventional B. original C. controversial D. confidential
17.A. hold up B. give up C. hold back D. give away
18.A. choices B. imagination C. passion D. devotion
19.A. story B. theme C. coincidence D. prediction
20.A. observation B. insistence C. reflection D. fantasy
答案
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