题目
Though most people know this story is make-believe, they still tell each other about it(翻译)
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few things more than a uniform. Why are uniforms so __1__ in the United States?
Among the arguments for uniforms, one of the first is that in the eyes of most people they look more __2__ than civilian(百姓的)clothes. People have become conditioned to __3__ superior quality from a man who wears a uniform. The television repairman who wears a uniform. tends to __4__ more trust than one who appears in civilian clothes. Faith in the __5__ of a garage mechanic is increased by a uniform. What an easier way is there for a nurse, a policeman, a barber, or a waiter to __6__ professional identity(身份)than to step out of uniform? Uniforms also have many __7__ benefits. They save on other clothes. They save on laundry bills. They are often more comfortable and more durable than civilian clothes.
Primary among the arguments against uniforms is their lack of variety and the consequent loss of __8__ experienced by people who must wear them. Though there are many types of uniforms,
the wearer of any particular type is generally stuck with it, without __9__, until retirement. When people look alike, they tend to think, speak, and act __10__, on the job at least.
[A]skill
[B]popular
[C]get
[D]change
[E]similarly
[F]professional
[G]character
[H]individuality
[I]inspire
[J]differently
[K]expect
[L]practical
[M]recall
[N]lose
[O]ordinary
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__1__ such people, but I also explain that there’sa big difference between "being a writer" and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of __2__ and fame, notthe long hours alone at a typewriter. "You’ve got to want to write," I say to them, "not want to be a writer."The reality is that writing is a __3__, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there arethousands more whose longing is never __4__. When I left a 20-year career in the US. Coast Guard to become a freelancewriter(自由撰稿人), I had no __5__ at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was __6__and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and feltlike a __7__ writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to __8__ myself. It was so hard to sell a storythat __9__ made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write. I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one ofthose people who die wondering, what if? I would keeo putting my dream to the test----even though it meant living with __10__and fear of failure. This is the Shadow land of hope, and anyone with a dream learn to live there.
A) barely
B) genuine
C) rewarded
D) doubt
E) lonely
F) poverty
G) persuade
H) prospects
I) uncertainty
J)impossibly
K) encourage
L)awarded
M) alone
N)wealth
O)cold
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Ironically,it is often success that leads people to flirt with failure.Praise won for _ 28_a skillsuddenly puts one in the position of having everything to lose.Rather than putting their reputation on theline again,many successful people develop a handicap—drinking,_ 29_,depression—that allowsthem to keep their status no matter what the future brings. An advertising executive 30_ fordepression shortly after winning an award put it this way:“Without my depression,I'd be a failure now;with it,I'm a success 'on hold.’”
In fact,the people most likely to become chronic excuse makers are those 31 _ with success.Such people are so afraid of being 32a failure at anything that they constantly develop onehandicap or another in order to explain away failure.
Though self-handicapping can be an effective way of coping with performance anxiety now and then,in the end,researchers say,it will lead to_ 33_. In the long run,excuse makers fail to live up to theirtrue_ 34_and lose the status they care so much about. And despite their protests to the _35they have only themsclves to blame.
A) contrary F) labeled K) potential
B) fatigue G) legacies L) rcalms
C) heavily H) mastering M) reciprocal
D) heaving l) momentum N) ruin
E) hospitalized J) obsessed o) viciously
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From the passage, we understand that______.
A.the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
B.the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C.the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D.the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting
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From the passage, we understand that______.
A.the author did not understand the importance of giving until he was in late thirties
B.the author was like most people who were mostly receivers rather than givers
C.the author received the same education as most people during his childhood
D.the author liked most people as they looked upon life as a process of getting
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Why did the speaker say we might be surprised at a yuppie dinner party?
A.Because we might be offered a dish of insects.
B.Because nothing but freshly cooked insects are served
C.Because some yuppies like to horrify guests with insects as food.
D.Because we might meet many successful executives in the media industry.
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根据以下内容回答题:
If you asked people what the most important invention has been,manv would say the printing press.Others(1)say the wheel.But even though it's(2)whether the appear- ance of the printing press affected the course of history more than the wheel,the printing press(3)within the top two or three inventions in history.
(4)the telephone,the television,the radi0,and the computer,the written word was the only way to(5)ideas to people too far away to talk with.Until the 6th or 7th century.all books had to be written(6).Creating a book was difficult,and very few existed.Therefore,very few people read books.
In the 6th and 7th centuries,the Chinese invented a way to print pages by(7)characters and pictures on wooden,ivory,or clay blocks.They would print a page from the block by putting(8)on the block and pressing paper onto the ink.This(9)is called letterpress printing.The invention of letterpress printing was a great advance in communication(10)each block could be inked many times and many copies of each page could be made.Many books could now be made.Therefore,many people could read the same book.
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A.might
B.ought to
C.had to
D.should
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