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Letting go of success
I want to make the most of every day. And like most people I've____ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures. But that's not all. One can never fully ____ today while thinking too much about past successes either. People never ____ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉). The ___ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!
I once ____ a story about the Oscar owner actor Clark Gable. A friend ____ Gable one afternoon at the actor's home. She brought along her ____ son who was playing happily with toy cars on the floor. He____ he was racing those cars around a great track which in ____ was an imaginary circle around a golden statue (雕像). The small statue the boy played with was actually the Oscar Clark Gable ____ for his performance in the 1934 movie It Happened One Night.
When his mother told him the time had come to ____ the little boy asked the actor “Can I have this?” ____ to the Oscar.
“Sure ” he smiled. “It's yours.”
The horrified mother ____. “Put that back immediately!”
Giving the child the golden statue Clark Gable said “Having the Oscar around doesn't mean anything to me;   ____it does.” The actor seemed to know that past success could be a ____ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to____ rather than a springboard setting him to begin a new start.
You may have learned to let go of past ____ and mistakes in order to free the present. But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ____? Will your past be a springboard or a restful hammock?
“I like the ____ of the future better than the history of the past ” said Thomas Jefferson. I ____. After all the future not the past is where the rest of your life will be lived.
小题1:A discovered   B. inferred     C. hoped    D. worried

小题2:

A．spend

B．live

C．understand

D．enjoy

小题3:

A．struggle

B．work

C．succeed

D．learn

小题4:

A．story

B．fact

C．idea

D．news

小题5:

A．wrote

B．told

C．knew

D．heard

小题6:

A．saw

B．recognized

C．met

D．visited

小题7:

A．careful

B．small

C．lonely

D．clever

小题8:

A．pretended

B．believed

C．insisted

D．suggested

小题9:

A．reality

B．case

C．turn

D．need

小题10:

A．cared

B．asked

C．won

D．looked

小题11:

A．act

B．leave

C．play

D．wait

小题12:

A．running

B．getting

C．pointing

D．shouting

小题13:

A．objected

B．noticed

C．suffered

D．breathed

小题14:

A．selling

B．keeping

C．earning

D．sharing

小题15:

A．special

B．comfortable

C．expensive

D．necessary

小题16:

A．rest

B．cheat

C．stop

D．sit

小题17:

A．difficulties

B．events

C．failures

D．achievements

小题18:

A．time

B．future

C．body

D．brain

小题19:

A．idea

B．meaning

C．dreams

D．thoughts

小题20:

A．obey

B．permit

C．wish

D．agree

Answer 1

小题1:A小题2:D小题3:C小题4:B小题5:D小题6:D小题7:B小题8:A小题9:A小题10:C小题11:B小题12:C小题13:A小题14:C小题15:B小题16:A小题17:C小题18:B小题19:C小题20:D
分 析：
文章大意是放下过去的成就，轻装前行。充分利用每一天的最好方法是放下过去的失败，这样做还不够，过度沉醉于过去的成功和荣誉也不能很好的度过今天。有时，成功比失败更能阻止人们前行的脚步。小题1:考查动词辨析。A发现；B推断；C希望；D担心。I've__41__ that the best way to do it is to let go of past failures作者发现过好每一天的最好的方法就是让过去的失败成为过去。故选A。小题2:考查动词辨析。A花费，度过；B居住；C理解；D喜欢。One can never fully __42__ today while thinking too much about past successes either.一个人沉醉于过去的成功，也无法完全享受今天，故选D。小题3:考查动词辨析。A挣扎，努力；B工作，起作用；C成功；D学习。People never__43__ while resting comfortably on their laurels (荣誉).安于过去的荣誉的人永远不会成功，故选C。小题4:考查名词辨析。A故事；B事实；C主意；D新闻。The __44_ is that sometimes our successes hold us back more than our failures!事实是，有时候成功比失败更能阻止我们前进的步伐，故选B。小题5:考查动词辨析。A书写；B告诉；C指代；D听到。I once __45__ a story我曾经听过一个故事，hear听到，故选D。小题6:考查动词辨析。A看到；B承认；C遇到；D拜访，参观。根据at the actor's home可知，Gable的一个朋友来拜访他，故选D。小题7:考查形容词辨析。A小心的；B小的；C孤独的；D聪明的。根据who was playing happily with toy car可知，那个朋友带着她的小儿子，故选B。小题8:考查动词辨析。A假装；B相信；C坚持；D建议。根据下句的an imaginary circle around a golden statue可知，朋友的小儿子假装汽车在绕着一个轨道赛跑，故选A。小题9:考查名词辨析。A现实；B案例；C次序；D需要。which in__49_was an imaginary circle around a golden statue那个轨道其实是想象出来的一个圆圈，in reality相当于in fact，故选A。小题10:考查动词辨析。A关心；B询问，要求；C赢得；D看起来。Clark Gable __50__ for his performance，Gable因精彩的表演获得的奥斯卡小金人，won sth for...因为......赢得......，故选C。小题11:考查动词辨析。A行动；B离开；C打（球、游戏），玩耍；D等待。根据the little boy asked the actor “Can I have this?”可知，到了该离开的时间了，故选B。小题12:考查动词辨析。A奔跑；B得到，变得；C指出；D喊叫。the little boy asked the actor “Can I have this?” ____ to the Oscar小男孩指着那个奥斯卡小金人问道，“我能要这个吗？”，point to指向，故选C。小题13:考查动词辨析。A反对；B注意到；C遭受；D呼吸。根据“Put that back immediately!”可知，妈妈不同意小男孩要那个小金人，故选A。小题14:考查动词辨析。A出售；B保持；C挣得；D分享。根据past success could be a __55__ hammock (吊床) upon which he may be tempted to____ 和联系第一段可知，过去的成功会阻止前进的脚步。Gable认为保留小金人没有意义，获得它的过程才有意义，故选C。小题15:考查形容词辨析。A特殊的；B舒适的；C昂贵的；D必要的。根据第一段“while resting comfortably on their laurels”可知，这里指的是一张舒适的吊床，故选B。小题16:考查动词辨析。A休息；B欺骗；C停止；D坐。根据第一段“while resting comfortably on their laurels”，这里指在吊床上休息，故选A。小题17:考查名词辨析。A困难；B事件；C失败的人/事；D成就。根据第一段第一行“let go of past failures”可知，你可能已经学会放下过去的失败和错误了，故选C。小题18:考查名词辨析。A时间；B将来；C身体；D大脑。But will you forget past successes and achievements in order to free the ____?但是你忘记过去的成功和成就来解放将来了吗？future与present形成对比，故选B。小题19:考查名词辨析。A主意；B意思，意义；C梦想；D想法。“I like the ____ of the future better than the history of the past ” 我喜欢梦想未来，甚于回顾过去，故选C。小题20:考查动词辨析。A遵守；B允许；C希望；D同意。根据After all the future not the past is where the rest of your life will be lived.可知，作者同意杰斐逊说的话，故选D。