Question

【题目】阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词

Goals are the guides all through our life. We all have goals that we are moving towards and making a great effort to achieve. This is a good thing. Or can it be bad? How many of us never reach our goals and yet we have tried so hard and really thought about nothing else? I believe the mistake most of us make is that we do not focus(集中) on our present situation.

Let me explain. Most of us see our present situation as a stepping stone that we use simply as a means of reaching our final destination(终点). We don’t take time to truly appreciate(感激) where we are today and all the great things we already have in our lives. We should focus our attention on the journey and not on the destination, or we will miss the beautiful scenery along the way.

Let’s use our job as an example. Now most of us want a promotion. We have plans to become the manager or general manager in our companies. Unfortunately, most of us will never reach the goal, but will watch others achieve our goal instead.

What we should be doing is focusing on the job we are currently in now. Forget where we want to get to and just focus on the present. You see, what we can control is our performance in our current job. We can decide to be the best we possibly can in our current job. Now this may mean further education to have the skills we currently do not have. It may mean working harder to produce better results than our colleagues(同事). It could simply be a change of attitude(态度), such as stopping complaining and becoming a more devoted and supportive employee. By doing our current job to the best of our abilities, we in fact give ourselves the best chance of promotion(晋升).

So the best thing for all of us to do to achieve our goals is to just focus on what we have and where we are now. Do the best and be the best we possibly can in our current situations, and we will give ourselves the very best chance of reaching our goals in the future. We have heard the old sayings and they are true: “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” “Patience is a virtue(美德).” and so on.

Have patience, have appreciation for what we already have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can. Do these things and we will all reach our goals, but more importantly, we will enjoy our life every day.

Title	Focus on the present
Theme	◆To 【1】 our goals, we should focus on what we have and where we are now.
Common 【2】	◆We do not focus on our present situation. ◆Most of us see our present situation as a stepping stone to our final destination. ◆We do not 【3】 the time truly appreciating where we are today and what we already have in our lives.
An 【4】 — our job	◆【5】 the thought of getting promoted. All we have to do is to 【6】 our best to do our current job. ◆To be the best in our current job, we should get further education, work harder than 【7】, stop complaining and 【8】 ourselves to our job.
Conclusion	◆If we are 【9】, grateful for what we have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can, we can not only 【10】 in the future, but also enjoy our life every day.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】achieve/reach/meet

【2】mistakes

【3】spend

【4】example

【5】Forget/Ignore

【6】try/do

【7】colleagues/others

【8】devote

【9】patient

【10】succeed

【解析】

文章大意：本文主要讲的是为了实现我们的目标，我们应该聚焦在我们现在所拥有的和我们现在所处的位置，如果我们对自己所拥有的有耐心、心存感激，并且花时间帮助自己成为所能成为的最好的，我们未来不仅能成功，而且也能够每天享受我们的生活。

【1】根据题干可知聚焦在我们现在所拥有的和我们现在所处的位置是为了实现我们的目标，第4段中“achieve our goal”中的achieve表示“实现”；第1段中“reach our goals”中reach表示“实现”；结合所学内容可知meet也可以与our goals连用表示“实现我们的目标”。不定式符号to后接动词原形。故答案为achieve/reach/meet。

【2】根据题干可知与“Common ____”对应的是一些追求自己目标的过程中常见的错误，结合第1段中“I believe the mistake most of us make is that we do not focus on our present situation.”可知要用mistake表示“错误”，对应有三点错误，用复数。故答案为mistakes。

【3】根据第2段中“We don’t take time to truly appreciate where we are today and all the great things we already have in our lives.”可知原句用take time to do sth.表示“花费时间做某事”，结合题干中“We do not ____ the time truly appreciating …”可知此处用其同义短语spend time doing sth.。故答案为spend。

【4】根据第3段中“Let’s use our job as an example.”可知此处以工作为例，用原句中的example填空。故答案为example。

【5】根据第4段中“Forget where we want to get to and just focus on the present.”可知是要忘记晋升的想法，用原句中forget或其近义词ignore都可以，题干是个祈使句，以动词原形开头，首字母须大写。故答案为Forget/Ignore。

【6】根据第4段中“We can decide to be the best we possibly can in our current job.”可知此处是说要尽力做好我们当前的工作，结合题干中“to ___ our best to do our current job”可知要用try one’s best to do sth.或do one’s best to do sth.表示“尽某人最大努力做某事”。故答案为try/do。

【7】根据第4段中“It may mean working harder to produce better results than our colleagues.”可知是要比同事工作更努力，也可以说是比其他人工作更努力。故答案为colleagues/others。

【8】根据第4段中“It could simply be a change of attitude, such as stopping complaining and becoming a more devoted and supportive employee.”可知是要全力以赴去工作，结合原句中“devoted”及题干中“___ ourselves to our job”可知此处用devote oneself to sth.表示“致力于做某事”，and连接并列结构，devote与stop一样用动词原形。故答案为devote。

【9】根据最后一段中“Have patience, have appreciation for what we already have, and take time to help ourselves be the very best we can.”可知我们要有耐心，be动词后接形容词，patience的形容词形式是patient。故答案为patient。

【10】根据最后一段中“Do these things and we will all reach our goals, but more importantly, we will enjoy our life every day.”可知此处是说我们能达到目标，即获得成功，can后接动词原形，“成功”用succeed表示。故答案为succeed。

此题属于任务型阅读题，考生需要在理解全文大意的前提下根据表格内容提炼信息，题目基本都是原文信息的转化，做题时，需注意一下几点：（1）与原文句子是同义句的要通过信息转化与原文保持一致；（2）需要归纳概括的，根据文章内容进行归纳，选择合适的词语填空；（3）注意时态和语态等语法问题，对所填词语进行适当形式的变化；（4）注意单词首字母的大小写问题。本题第8小题在文中能找到相应的句子，原文中“becoming a more devoted and supportive employee”与题目中“___ ourselves to our job”构成同义句的转换，需把形容词devoted转换成动词短语devote oneself to sth.，结合题干语境来确认devote的最终形式。