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In a class I teach for adults, I recently did the “unpardonable.” I gave the class homework!
The assignment (任务) was to “go to someone you love
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the next week and tell them you love them. It
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to be someone you have never
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those words to before or at least haven’t shared those words with for a long time.” That doesn’t
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like a very tough assignment,
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you stop to realize that most of the men
were over 35 and were
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in the generation of men that were taught that expressing emotions is not “macho (男子汉气概的).” Showing feelings or crying (heaven forbid!) was just not done
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this was a very threatening assignment for some.
At the
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of our next class, I asked if someone wanted to
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what happened when they told someone they loved them. I fully expected one of the
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to volunteer, as was usually the
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, but on this evening one of the men raised his hand. He appeared quite moved and a bit
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. As he unfolded out of his chair, he began by saying, “Dennis. I was quite
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with you last week when you gave us the assignment. I didn’t feel that I had
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to say those words to and
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, who were you to tell me to do something that personal? But as I began driving home my conscience (良知) started talking to me. It was telling me that I
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exactly who I needed to say I love you to. You see, five years ago, my father and I had a heated
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and really never resolved it since that one. We
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seeing each other unless we absolutely had to at Christmas or other family gatherings. But
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then, we hardly spoke to each other. So last. Tuesday
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I got home, I had convinced myself. I was going to tell my father I loved him.”
36．A．after B．before C．for D．within
37．A．has to B．ought to C．had better D．can
38．A．told B．said C．talked D．spoken
39．A．look B．hear C．listen D．sound
40．A．when B．until C．that D．unless
41．A．born B．grown C．raised D．risen
42．A．And B．But C．So D．For
43．A．beginning B．end C．middle D．stating
44．A．announce B．share C．answer D．ask
45．A．men B．adults C．students D．women
46．A．case B．thing C．story D．experience
47．A．afraid B．shaken C．terrible D．worried
48．A．happy B．pleased C．angry D．satisfied
49．A．everybody B．nobody C．someone D．anyone
50．A．else B．except C．beside D．besides
51．A．thought B．considered C．knew D．guessed
52．A．disagreement B．encouragement C．disappointment D．discouragement
53．A．imagined B．risked C．avoided D．escaped
54．A．still B．even C．just D．only
55．A．by the time B．at the time C．for the time D．during the time
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There are going to be moments in life when you must make very important decisions. You will find many people
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to offer you advice if you ask for it (and even if you don’t), but always remember that the life you
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is yours and nobody else’s. It’s important to decide for yourself what’s important to you and what you want before you
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others. Because while there will be times
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outside advice proves wise, there will be at least as many times when it proves completely
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. The only way to really evaluate other folks’ advice is to first learn everything that you can about whatever challenge you are
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. Once you’ve done that, in most cases you should be able to make a wise decision
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anyway.
You were
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with the ability to decide what is and what isn’t in your best interest. Most of the time, you will make the right decision and
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the appropriate actions, and in thinking for yourself, you will become far more successful than if you had gone
against your own
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.
Early on in my investment career, I made the mistake of
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a few important business decisions on colleagues’ opinions instead of conducting the
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necessary to make a wise decision. It wasn’t due to
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on my part; no one could ever accuse me of that. But, being
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to Wall Street, I intended to assume that my more senior
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knew more than I did, and so I
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too much significance to their opinions.
You know what happened? Each of those investments ended in
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. Eventually I stopped allowing myself to be influenced by
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and began doing the work myself and making my own decisions. It took me until I was almost 30 years old to
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this—it’s never too late for a person to change his approach both to
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and to life.
36. A. easy
B. ready
C. unwilling
D. hard
37. A. lead
B. lend
C. take
D. earn
38. A. look at
B. pick up
C. turn to
D. learn from
39. A. that
B. since
C. when
D. while
40. A. useless
B. useful
C. priceless
D. clever
41. A. getting
B. making
C. suffering
D. facing
42. A. on one hand
B. on your own
C. on the whole
D. on all sides
43. A. born
B. tired
C. satisfied
D. covered
44. A. enjoy
B. step
C. plan
D. take
45. A. assumption
B. judgment
C. condition
D. fortune
46. A. basing
B. depending
C. relying
D. focusing
47. A. research
B. search
C. resources
D. activity
48. A. poverty
B. laziness
C. fear
D. diligence
49. A. used
B. accustomed
C. new
D. old
50. A. students
B. brothers
C. colleagues
D. classmates
51. A. owed
B. paid
C. gave
D. held
52. A. disaster
B. progress
C. failure
D. success
53. A. either
B. another
C. each
D. others
54. A. think
B. remember
C. realize
D. recall
55. A. payment
B. dreams
C. happiness
D. business
I spent two months with an American family last year when I studied in America.
It is said, “The best house is in America, the best wife is in Japan, and the best food is in China.” So I took pride （自豪）and __21__ to __22__ “the best food” for my American family. Each day, regardless of my poor skill of cooking, I would do something in __23__ way: changing the dishes’ colour, the meat’s type or the soup’s style. （风味）Thus, my American friends could discover the __24__ of eating Chinese food. Because of my “__25__” job, I was often rewarded （奖励） by their __26__ of appreciation （感激）such as “very delicious”, “excellent”, etc.
But the joke was here: Yesterday, I cooked Sichuan style __27__ for dinner. I was __28__ at my achievement.（成就）
When all the family members arrived at the table, they first looked __29__ at the fish, then looked at me. “Why do all the fish have their __30__?” they asked, “It’s terrible!”
Terrible or beautiful? I don’t know. But I __31_ know that fish heads are delicious. The __32__ is the best part of fish; in __33__ only the respectable （受敬重的）guest can have the special honour of __34__ it.
Another __35__ thing is: The American friends often said to me “__36__” as they __37__ fruits or other things. According to Chinese tradition I would simply smile in answer to their kindness __38__ actually helping myself to any of the food. __39__, I said “help yourself” to them whenever I brought home fruits. Dear me, no matter how much or how often I brought home food, as long as it was nice to their taste, they __40__ hesitated （犹豫）to use their hands to “help themselves” until all was finished
3．A. worry
B. attention
C. delight
D. pleasure
4．A. buy
B. fetch
C. cook
D. leave
5．A. their
B. a new
C. the same
D. a simple
6．A. way
B. joy
C. trouble
D. importance
7．A. hard
B. daily
C. good
D. new
8．A. expressions
B. flowers
C. talk
D. smile
9．A. meat
B. fish
C. soup
D. egg
10．A. praised
B. pleased
C. good
D. surprised
11．A. happily
B. excitedly
C. surprisedly
D. worriedly
12．A. bones
B. skins
C. tails
D. heads
13．A. do
B. will
C. want to
D. should
14．A. tail
B. head
C. soup
D. flesh
15．A. fact
B. China
C. USA
D. the West
16．A. enjoying
B. looking at
C. playing with
D. cooking
17．A. real
B. exciting
C. interesting
D. easy
I stepped into my hotel room which was surrounded by a(n)
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king-size bed, flanked（两侧有）by overstuffed armchairs. “Wow,” I thought to myself. “Nice place.”
I
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hotels. I love to enter a clean room, look out the window, or walk out in the morning
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that each afternoon when I return, someone else will have made the bed.
The
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is that unless Alison travels with me, I never sleep well in hotels. I miss my family. Even though Linus and Camille, aged 4 and almost 2, find a way to interrupt even the
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night’s sleep at home, still, I’d rather be with them.
I’m deeply
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by the parents who wake up too late with the realization: “My children grew up too
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. In the busy and noisy career and life, I
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their childhood.”
A hundred years from now, nobody will remember the car you drove or the large house you lived. The world might
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greatly however, based on your
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on the life of a small child. Your life will most certainly improve, if you pay attention to your important
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, and make the choice to put her or him first. What could you do today to let your loved ones know how much they
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to you? What will you do tomorrow? And the next day?
Think of one specific
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that you can take, and take it. Challenge yourself to find new ways to
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your appreciation and love on a daily basis.
Room service will never kiss you goodnight! Nothing
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family.
18．A. empty
B. comfortable
C. ordinary
D. innocent
19．A. book
B. visit
C. love
D. hate
20．A. knowing
B. noticing
C. expecting
D. forgetting
21．A. surprise
B. situation
C. problem
D. condition
22．A. worst
B. longest
C. shortest
D. best
23．A. troubled
B. moved
C. amused
D. impressed
24．A. slow
B. early
C. fast
D. late
25．A. recorded
B. understood
C. valued
D. missed
26．A. end
B. differ
C. boom
D. stable
27．A. attraction
B. benefit
C. influence
D. education
28．A. ability
B. family
C. career
D. future
29．A. mean
B. do
C. pay
D. work
30．A. word
B. suggestion
C. thought
D. action
31．A. express
B. suggest
C. explain
D. introduce
32．A. represents
B. fights
C. satisfies
D. beats
参考答案
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36—40 DABDB
41—45 CCABD
46—50 ABCDD
51—55 CACBA
【解析】
36-55 BACCA
DBADB
AABCC
ACDCD
【解析】略
3．A. please help us B. excuse me
C. help yourself
D. eat them please
4．A. brought home B. wanted
C. were buying
D. were eating
5．A. not
B. but not
C. without
D. nor
6．A. At last
B. Above all
C. After all
D. In return
7．A. usual
B. often
C. never
D. had
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【小题11】
【小题12】
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【小题14】
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【小题16】
【小题17】
【小题18】
【小题19】
【小题20】
【解析】“我”在国外经常做中国菜给外国主人吃，虽然厨艺不精，但还是常受到他们的称赞。另外还举了两个例子体现了中西文化的差异。
3． D.
4． C.
5． B. “我”是以一种新的方式来做菜。
6． B. “我”做的菜应该是感到有乐趣的。take delight in doing sth.意为“乐于做……”
7． C. “我”做的菜，那“我”的菜应该是好吃的。
8． A. “very delicious”, “excellent”，很明显是表达的意思。
9． B.
10． B. “”自然对自己的作品是满意的。
11． C.
12． D. “fish heads are delicious”。
13． A. “我”的确知道。
14． B.
15． B. “我”是中国人，很明显了解中国的习俗。
16． A.
17． C.
【小题1】 C.
【小题1】 A. “我”随便吃。
【小题1】 C.
【小题1】 D. At last“”，Above all“最重要的是”, After all“毕竟”, In return“作为回报”。
【小题】 C. “until all was finished”，很明显他们是从不犹豫。
18．B
19．C
20．A
21．C
22．D
23．A
24．C
25．D
26．B
27．C
28．B
29．A
30．D
31．A
32．D
【解析】
试题分析：作者从住旅店联想到家人，认为我们应该多些时间陪伴家人，把自己的爱和感激表达出来。没有什么能比得上家庭。
18．考查形容词：A. empty空的，B. comfortable舒服的，C. ordinary普通的，D. innocent无辜的，修饰king-size bed,应该是舒服的，选B
19．考查动词：A. book预定，B. visit参观，C. love喜欢，D. hate讨厌，从下文的 I love to enter a clean room, look out the window, or walk out in the morning 可知作者喜欢旅店。选C
20．考查动词：A. knowing知道，B. noticing注意到，C. expecting 期待，D. forgetting忘记，知道每天下午回来的时候，有人会铺好床铺。选A
21．考查名词：A. surprise惊讶，B. situation形势，C. problem问题D. condition条件，问题是除非Alison 和我一起旅行，我在旅店睡不好。选C
22．考查形容词：A. worst最糟糕，B. longest最长，C. shortest最短，D. best最好，即使Linus和Camille会想办法打扰最好的睡眠，我也喜欢和他们在一起。选D
23．考查动词：A. troubled麻烦，B. moved感动，C. amused好笑的D. impressed印象深刻的，我对那些很迟才意识到孩子长的太快的父母感到厌烦。选A
24．考查形容词：A. slow慢的，B. early早的，C. fast快的，D. late慢的，有的父母会觉得：我的孩子长大的太快了。选C
25．考查动词：A. recorded记录B. understood理解C. valued尊重，D. missed想念，错过，在繁忙的事业和生活中，我错过了他们的成长。选D
26．考查动词：A. end结束B. differ不同C. boom繁荣D. stable稳定，世界会因为比对孩子的影响而不同。选B
27．考查名词：A. attraction吸引B. benefit利益，C. influence影响D. education教育，解析同上。选C
28．考查名词：A. ability能力B. family 家庭C. career3D. future未来，如果你重视重要的家庭，你的生活也会改善。选B
29．考查动词：A. mean意味，B. do做C. pay 付钱D. work工作，今天你会怎么做让你所爱的人知道你是多么的爱他。选A
30．考查名词：A. word单词B. suggestion建议C. thought 想法D. action行动，想想你所采取的某一个具体的行动。选D
31．考查动词：A. express表达B. suggest建议，C. explain解释D. introduce介绍，在日常生活中找个新的办法表达你的感激。选A
32．考查动词：A. represents代表B. fights斗争C. satisfies满意D. beats击败，没有什么能比得上家庭。选D