一、单项填空
1-5代词、连词和名词
(江苏省淮安市2015届高三五月模拟考试)My best friend who saved the two drowning boys from the freezing
river is a kind and brave person, _______ that is worth respecting for ever.
A. that
B. one
C. it
D. what
【答案】B
【解析】one代替上文中出现过的名词a kind and brave person句意：我最好的朋友从冰水中拯救了两名溺水的男孩，他十分善良勇敢，值得尊敬。故选B。
(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)Of the forces shaping higher education _______ is more sweeping than the movement across borders.
A. nothing
B. none
C. either
D. anything
【答案】B
(江苏省沭阳县如东中学2016届高三夏令营检测)Most of the visitors were happy just sitting around in the shade, _______ it had been a long, dusty journey on the train.
A. for
B. so
C. but
D. or
【答案】A
【解析】句意：因为枯燥无味游客中的大多数坐在树荫下就很 for连接两个并列句，表示间接原因。根据题干中的a long, dusty journey和happy判断。故选A。
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)The International Monetary Fund has received both criticism and
_______ for its efforts to promote financial stability, prevent crises, facilitate trade, and reduce poverty.
A. worship
B. credit
C. argument
D. privilege
【答案】B
【解析】句意：国际因为它促进金融稳定、制止危机、促进贸易和减少贫困方面的努力而。worship尊重；credit赞扬；argument争执；privilege特权。criticismcredit相匹配。故选B。
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)Some tourists visiting Tian’anmen Square during the holiday left a
_______ of litter everywhere they went.
A. trail
B. dot
C. chain
D. track
【答案】A
【解析】句意：一些在假期期间游览北京天安门的一堆堆垃圾。 trail痕迹，一缕；dot小圆点；chain链子，连锁店；track痕迹。a trail of一串串、一缕缕、一堆堆。故选A。
6-10介词和介词短语
6.(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)If Kate had known what was _______ for her, she would not have married Tom.
A. in response B. in return
C. in reaction
D. in store
【答案】D
【解析】A. in response反应； B. in return作为回报；C. in reaction回应；D. in store准备。如果知道她什么，她不会和结婚了。故选D。
7.(江苏省淮安市2015届高三五月模拟考试)Ding Junhui plays _______ Gary Wilson in the semifinal of the
2015 World Snooker China Open in Beijing, April 4, 2015.
A. over
B. for
C. against
D. with
【答案】C
【解析】在……上面；因为，当做，作为；违背，……竞争；伴随，一致；句意：丁俊晖和Gary Wilson于2015年4月4日在北京举行的2015年斯诺克世锦赛的半决赛上。故选C。
8.2015届福建泉州第五中学高三5月模拟________ the quickening pace of life, competition goes increasingly
fierce in all respects of life, bringing great pressure as well as plentiful chances to everyone.
A. In spite of
B. By means of
C. On account of
D. In terms of
【答案】C
9.(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)To survive in the world, we have to act _______ others, but to survive as ourselves, we have to act alone.
A. in honor of
B. in concert with
C. in light of
D. in contact with
【答案】B
【解析】in honor of以……的荣誉为了纪念；in concert with和……相呼应，与……合作，和……一致；in light of根据，鉴于，从……观点来看；in contact with和……相联系。为了在世界上生存下去，我们必须与别人合作，但为了自我生存下去我们必须单独行动。故选B项。
(2015届福建福州第一中学高三5月质量检测)Owing to heavy traffic jams, many people would like to choose the train _______ driving.
A. in preference to
B. in addition to
C. in answer to
D. in relation to
【答案】A
【解析】in preference to优先于……；in addition to除……之外；in answer to回答，应……要求；in relation to关于，涉及。句意：由于拥堵的交通堵塞，很多人都更愿意去乘坐火车很多人都喜欢选择火车。根据句意理解可知此处表达的意思是由于此原因，更愿意选择乘火车而不是故选A。
11-16副词和形容词
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)—Your argument is _______. I won’t let you pass.
—Are you kidding?
A. sound
B. rational
C. liberal
D. plain
【答案】D
【解析】——你的论点平淡无奇。我不会让你通过的。——你在开玩笑吧ound合情合理的；rational可选择的；liberal自由的；plain平淡无奇的。根据句意选D。
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)In this movie-going season, women are driving ticket sales to a degree _______, if ever, seen before.
A. really
B. frequently
C. rarely
D. never
【答案】C
(江苏省淮安市2015届高三五月模拟考试)You get a lot of criticism, but you just have to carry on _______.
A. nevertheless
B. fairly
C. regardless
D. sincerely
【答案】C
【解析】nevertheless尽此，然而，不过；fairly相当地，完全；regardless不顾；sincerely真诚地句意：你受到许多批评，但无论如何你必须坚持下去。故选C。
(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)Cathy, in my opinion, is very _______.
—Absolutely! She prefers home life to going out.
A. domestic
B. energetic
C. dynamic
D. enthusiastic
【答案】A
【解析】句意：——在我看来，凯西很。——确实！她domestic家庭的，家的热心家务的；nergetic精力充沛；ynamic有活力；nthusiastic热情故选A项。
(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)—Nobody in life gets _______ what they thought they were going to get.
—But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.
simply
B. exactly
C. seemingly
D. really
【答案】B
【解析】simply仅仅，的确；exactly准确地；seemingly表面上看来，好像；really真地。句意：——生活中没有人会地他们认为他们会得到的东西。——但是如果你真地努力工作并且心态平和让人意想不到的惊喜肯定会发生。故选B。
(2015届福建福州第一中学高三5月质量检测)The fast popularity of cloud computing means netizens will
need to take added measures to make sure their data stay _______ in the digital age.
A. accurate
B. stable
C. unknown
D. secure
【答案】D
【解析】accurate精确的；stable稳定的；unknown未知的；secure安全的。句意：云计算的迅速蹿红意味着网民们需要采取更多的手段去确保他们的数据在这个数据化的时代里面的安全性。根据句意故选D。
17-30动词和动词短语
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)—Kingsman: The Secret Service is a spy action comedy film. Wants to come with me?
—I’d love to, but my best friend is getting married, and I won’t _______ it for anything.
overlook
B. trade
C. miss
D. forget
【答案】C
(江苏省南京市2015届高三第三次模拟考试)He started school the same day as I did and _______ to it like a duck to water.
A. appealed
B. took
C. catered
D. saw
【答案】B
【解析】appeal to对……吸引力；tke to开始喜欢；cater for迎合，顾及；see to注意。句意：他和我同一天开始上学，如鱼得水喜欢上。根据题干中的like a duck to water(如鱼得水判断，故选B。
(江苏省淮安市2015届高三五月模拟考试)To the public’s delight, a large number of government officials who
_______ their power have been well punished.
A. ignored
B. abused
C. obtained
D. countered
【答案】B
【解析】忽视；滥用；得到；反击；句意：令公众高兴的是，许多滥用职权的政府官员得到了。故选B。
(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)We tend to _______ happiness with freedom, but, as a psychotherapist and writer has observed, without obstacles to our desires it’s harder to know what we want, or where we’re heading.
A. combine
B. compare
C. equip
D. equate
【答案】D
【解析】ombine结合；ompare对比；quip装备；quate等同句意我们往往把幸福等同于自由。但是正如心理治疗师作家所观察到的那样如果我们的愿望不会遇到任何障碍就能实现我们就很难知道我们想要什么或者我们的方向在哪里。故选D项。
(江苏省盐城市2015届高三年级第三次模拟考试)Hillary Clinton, at the first official event of her presidential campaign, _______ the ideas that she said will be at the heart of her campaign.
A. spelt out
B. crossed out
C. made up
D. covered up
【答案】A
【解析】句意：希拉里克林顿在第一次总统竞选官方活动中清楚地说明她说的观点将是她的竞选活动的核心。spelt out清楚地说明；cross out删去；made up编造；covered up掩盖；根据词义可知，故选A项。
2015届福建龙岩市高中毕业班5月教学质量检查Half a century ago, parts of the Thames were _______
“biologically dead” because of the pollution.
A. declared
B. imagined
C. sensed
D. marked
【答案】A
2015届福建龙岩市高中毕业班5月教学质量检查In the world today, local conflicts and terrorist attacks are
_______ constantly
.
A. dying out
B. bursting out
C. running out
D. giving out
【答案】B
【解析】dying out指物种、家族、习惯、观念等绝迹，消失绝种绝灭淘汰bursting out爆发，突发running out用完，耗尽 giving out分发，发出句意：世界，冲突和恐怖袭击。根据句意，故选B
24.(2015届福建泉州第五中学高三5月模拟I need to obtain a part-time job because my mother’s income can not
_______ the cost of my school fees.
A. pay
B. spend
C. take
D. cover
【答案】D
【解析】pay支付；spend花费；take拿走；cover包括，覆盖。句意：我需要去找一份兼职因为我妈妈的收入支付我的学费。根据对句意的理解可知此句中空缺部分的cover the cost是固定搭配，意为支付，故选C。
2015届福建泉州第五中学高三5月模拟We have no doubt that if the students’ interest in the subject is motivated, they will _______ the challenge and commit more of their time and energy to their studies.
A. face up to.
B. keep pace with
C. put up with.
D. live up to
【答案】A
【解析】face up to大胆面对，正面对付；keep pace with赶上，保持同步；put up with忍受，容忍；live up to不辜负履行。句意：毫无疑问如果学生对一门科目很感兴趣，那他们会面对挑战，并且会在学习上花费更多的时间和精力。根据句意理解可知此处表达的意思是他们会正面应对，故选A。
(2015届福建福州第一中学高三5月质量检测)After graduation from college, Joe _______ for a year seeing the country before he went to work in his father’s business.
A. knocked about
B. knocked overC. knocked down
D. knocked off
【答案】A
【解析】knock about漫游knock over打翻，撞到；knock down撞到；knock off击倒句意：企业故选A。
2015届湖北襄阳第五中学高三5月模拟The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has already _______ to lease part of its collection to a museum in Japan.
A. contracted
B. admitted
C. contrasted
D. adjusted
【答案】A
【解析】ontracted签合同； dmitted承认；ontrasted对比，比较；djusted适应，调整句意：波士顿美术馆早就签订了合同，同意把它的一些藏品借给日本。故选A项。
2015届湖北襄阳第五中学高三5月模拟As I grew up in a small town at the foot of a mountain, the visit to the village _______ scenes of my childhood.
A. caught up
B. called up
C. caught on
D. called on
【答案】B
2015届湖北襄阳第五中学高三5月模拟Four dollars a pair? I think it’s a bit too much.
—If you buy three pairs, the price for each will _______ to three fifty.
A. come down
B. take down
C. turn over
D. go over
【答案】A
【解析】句意：一双？我觉得有点贵了。如果你买三双，每双降价到。come down下来，降低；take down记下；turn over移交给，把反过来；go over重温，复习根据可知是降价，故选A项。
2015届湖北襄阳第五中学高三5月模拟Although New Zealand has a huge variety of scenery, some of the best can only be _______ on foot, as it ranges from glaciers to subtropical forests.
A. accelerated
B. progressed
C. accessed
D. Processed
【答案】C
【解析】句意：虽然新西兰有各种各样美丽的景色，它们的类别从冰川到亚热带雨林，但一些最好的景色只能游览。ccelerated加速；rogressed进步；ccessed进入，接近；rocessed处理，加工故选C项。
二、短文填词
(改编自河北省保定市2016届高三期末调研)Polar bears live in such environment that is too cold for most animals. For much of the year, they live and hunt on the
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(freeze)Arctic sea ice. Nature has prepared them for the cold conditions but nothing has prepared them for the danger
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threatens their only home.
The polar bears’ world is melting. Polar bears
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(suffer) in a warmer world are in danger. Studies show that the polar ice
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(reduce) by 9.8% every 10 years since 1978. At present, about 20,000 to 25,000 polar bears live in the Arctic. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for their
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(survive). “The sea ice is more than just the platform that the bears walk
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,” says Andrew Derocher, who studies North American polar bear populations. “Without
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, they can’t exist.”
Some melting and refreezing of the polar ice is natural. But in a
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(warm) world, these cycles speed up, and bears have less time to hunt.
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(normal), they have three months in the spring when they gain more weight and the extra fat is used later,
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the bears are not actively hunting. Therefore, it is urgent to protect the environment and maintain the ecological balance.
语篇解读：本文讲述了北极熊在北极的生存状况。
1.【答案】frozen
【解析】考查形容词。这里用形容词修饰名词, frozen 冰冻的。一年中的大部分，在冰冻的北极海冰生活和狩猎。
2.【答案】that/which
【解析】考查定语从句。这里the danger是先行词，在定语从句中作主语，所以用关系代词that/which。
3.【答案】suffering
【解析】考查非谓语动词。suffering in a warmer world是非谓语动词短语做后置定语修饰Polar bears，Polar bears是suffer的逻辑主语，所以用动词的-ing形式suffering。在一个温暖的世界中北极熊正处于危险之中
4.【答案】has reduced
【解析】考查谓语动词的时态。since 1978提示是现在完成时，the polar ice相当于it和reduce是主谓关系，所以has reduced。
5.【答案】survival
【解析】考查名词。their，所以用名词形式survival。北极熊依靠海冰来生存
6.【答案】on
【解析】考查介词。the platform 和不及物动词walk之间加on才能构成介词和宾语的关系。海冰不仅仅是行走的平台
7.【答案】it
【解析】考查代词。it指the polar ice，意思是：没有极地冰，北极熊就不能存在。
8.【答案】warmer
9.【答案】Normally
【解析】考查副词。这里用副词修饰全句
10.【答案】when
【解析】考查非限制性定语从句的关系词。句意：正常情况下，他们在春天有3个月变胖脂肪以备后用北极熊不能积极主动去打猎的时候用。
三、完形填空
When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to dissuade(劝阻)me from becoming a brewer(酿酒师). He’d spent his life in local breweries,
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making a living, as had his father and grandfather before him.
So I did as he asked. I went to business school and got a highly paid job at a business-consulting firm.
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, after working there five years, I was haunted by
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. Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?
I remembered that some time before, my dad had been cleaning out the attic and
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some old beer
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. “Today’s beer is
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water that can hold a head,” he’d told me.
I agreed. Americans pay good money for
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beer, I thought. Why not make good beer for Americans using my family way?
I decided to quit my job to become a brewer. When I told Dad, I was hoping he’d put his arm around me and get
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about continuing tradition. Instead he said, “Jim, that is the
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thing I’ve ever heard!”
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Dad objected, in the end he became my new company’s first
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, coughing up(支付) $40,000 when I opened the Boston Beer Company in 1984. Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and
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. All my safety nets were gone.
Once the beer was made, I faced my biggest
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yet: no one had ever heard of it. I needed a name that was
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and elegant, so I called my beer Samuel Adams,
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the brewer and patriot(爱国者)who helped to found the Boston Tea Party.
The only way to get the word out, I realized, was to sell direct. I filled my briefcase with beer and
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every bar in Boston. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager won the top prize for American beer. The rest is history. It wasn’t supposed to
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this way—what ever does? —but in the end I was
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to be a brewer.
My advice to all young entrepreneurs is simple: life is very long, so don’t
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to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you
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.
语篇解读：本文通过作者违背“不要做一个酿酒师”的父训，最终成为了一个啤酒制造商启示：生命是一段漫长的过程我们不必急于做出人生的抉择因为它不需要任何人去谋划机会到了就勇敢的去实现心中的理想吧!
. A. easily
B. barely
C. sufficiently
D. adequately
【答案】
2. A. Still
B. Otherwise
C. Though
D. Anyhow
【答案】
【解析】但是然而无论如何总之不管怎样时常萦绕心头，使困窘
3. A. fear
B. desire
C. regret
D. doubt
【答案】
【解析】时常萦绕心头，使困窘fear害怕，恐惧；desire渴望；regret遗憾，后悔。故选答案D。
本段译文：因此我也就按他的意愿做了。我进了一所商业学校学习，后来在一家商业咨询的公司得到了一份薪水丰厚的工作然而，在那里工作了五年之后，我头脑中又萦绕起一丝疑虑：难道这就是我想一直做到50岁的工作吗？
4. A. brought about
B. picked out
C. put down
D. came across
【答案】
【解析】出版取出某物呈出某物说出挑选取出放下镇压记下偶遇偶然发现偶然发现
5. A. receipts
B. cans
C. recipes
D. labels
【答案】
【解析】receipt收据，发票can罐头，容器；recipe食谱处方秘诀. label标签食谱处方秘诀
6. A. basically
B. particularly
C. roughly
D. exactly
【答案】
【解析】basicallyparticularly特别地；roughly粗略地exactly恰恰确切地精确地完全地，全然can hold a head”意为“能够支撑起上端”，啤酒的上端是什么，根据常识推断应该是起花的泡沫，所以除了上端的泡沫外，其它基本是水。故选答案A。
本段译文：记得不久前，父亲在整理阁楼时，偶然找到了一些古老的啤酒配方。他告诉我：“现在的啤酒基本上都是水，只是面上有一些泡沫。”
7. A. inferior
B. superb
C. fake
D. sour
【答案】
【解析】inferior低劣的下级的，下等的superb极好的华丽的丰盛的，豪华的杰出的fake冒牌货，赝品sour有酸味的pay good money花大价钱”和下文的“make good beer酿造好的啤酒”推断是“花大价钱买劣质啤酒”。故选答案A。
本段译文：他说得对。美国人是在花大价钱买劣质啤酒。为什么不用我们家的配方为美国人酿造好的啤酒呢？
8. A. miserable
B. amused
C. misty
D. concerned
【答案】
【解析】miserable悲惨的令人痛苦的amused愉快的被逗笑的顽皮的misty(眼睛泪汪汪的模糊的多雾的，被雾笼罩的concerned有关方面，被牵连的担心的烦恼的I was hoping he’d put his arm around me我希望他会拥抱我”和下文的“continuing tradition继承传统泪汪汪的
9. A. smartest
B. dumbest
C. toughest
D. rudest
【答案】
10. A. As soon as
B. As much as
C. As far as
D. As long as
【答案】
【解析】s soon as一……就……；s much as表示程度；as far as至于远到s long as只要(表示条件)。根据上文所说“吉姆，这是我所听到过的最愚蠢的话!”可以推断父亲对作者的决定是“极力反对的”。故答案选B。
11. A. employer
B. customer
C. salesman
D. investor
【答案】
【解析】employercustomer顾客；salesman推销员售货员，店员investor投资者出资者coughing up(支付) $40,000”说明父亲给作者的企业进行了投资。故答案选D。
12. A. inspiring
B. relaxing
C. frightening
D. pushing
【答案】
【解析】inspiring鼓舞人心的激励的relaxing令人轻松的frightening令人的pushing莽撞的有进取心的Going from my fancy office to being a brewer was like mountain climbing: exciting, liberating and
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. All my safety nets were gone. 从条件舒适的办公室出来，去做一名酿酒师，就像爬山一样：令人振奋，感到自由，但又______。(因为)我所有的安全保护网都没有了”不难得出答案为C。
本段译文：虽然父亲尽全力反对我，但最终在1984年我开办波士顿啤酒公司时，他成了我新公司的第一个投资者，投入了4万美元。从条件舒适的办公室出来，去做一名酿酒师，就像爬山一样：令人振奋，感到自由，但又令人有些害怕。因为我所有的安全保护网都没有了。
13. A. opportunity
B. decision
C. obstacle
D. defeat
【答案】
【解析】opportunitydecision决定；obstacle障碍，问题；defeat挫败击败no one had ever heard of it没人听说过这种啤酒”说明作者遇到了麻烦即问题。故答案选C。
14. A. respectable
B. recognizable
C. honorable
D. understandable
【答案】
【解析】respectable可敬的体面的品行端正的 recognizable可识别的可认识的可承认的honorable可敬的，荣誉的，光荣的understandable能懂的，可理解的，可同情的recognizable”。故答案选B。
15. A. after
B. by
C. as
D. for
【答案】
【解析】以……的名字起名
本段译文：一旦啤酒酿造出来后，我面临的最大问题就是：没人听说过这种啤酒。我需要为它取一个响亮而又高雅的名字，这样，我便以曾领导波士顿倾茶事件的酿酒人及爱国者的名字来命名我的啤酒——塞缪尔·亚当斯。
16. A. hit
B. got
C. called
D. promoted
【答案】
【解析】hit泡网吧hit the internet bars”。
17. A. make out
B. reach out
C. work out
D. set out
【答案】
【解析】make out理解假装辨认出reach out(使伸出work out解决作出锻炼set out出发着手动身安排”“this way”是“in this way”的省略。
18. A. appointed
B. considered
C. destined
D. intended
【答案】
19. A. hesitate
B. need
C. wait
D. rush
【答案】
【解析】hesitaterush匆忙，急于。本句意思是“不要急于作出决定”。故答案选D。
20. A. delay
B. plan
C. dream
D. prepare
【答案】
【解析】delay耽搁延迟，拖延plan计划，打算；dream梦想；prepare准备。根据上文的“不要匆忙作出决定”可以推断“所谓决定就是计划”。故答案选B。
本段译文：我对所有年轻的企业家有个简单的建议：生活的道路是漫长的，因此不要急于作出决定。生活不让你做计划。