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阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

　　Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers advised,“Barbara, be enthusiastic(热情的)! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.”How right they were!

　　“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”Wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang on there when the going gets tough. It is the inner voice that whispers,“I can do it!”When others shout,“No, you can't!”It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted. Yet she didn't stop working on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of slopping.

　　We are all born with wide-eyed, enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air, whatever their age. At 90, cellist Pablo Casals would start his day by playing Bach. As the music flowed through his fingers, his stooped shoulders would straighten and joy would reappear in his eyes. As author and poet Samuel Ulman once wrote,“Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.”

Enthusiastic people also love what they do, regardless of money or title or power. Patricia Mcllrath, retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theater in Kansas City, was once asked where she got her enthusiasm. She replied,“My father, a lawyer, long ago told me,‘I never made a dime until I stopped working for money.’”

　　If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career (职业), we can as a hobby. Elizabeth Layton of Wellsville, Kan, was 68 before she began to draw. This activity ended periods of depression that had troubled her for at least 30 years, and the quality of her work led one critic to say,“I am tempted to call Layton a genius.”

　　We can't afford to waste tears on“might-have beens”. We need to turn the tears into sweat as we go after“what-can-be”. We need to live each moment whole-heartedly, with all our senses--finding pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden, the simple picture of a six-year-old, the beauty of a rainbow.

1．The author holds the view that _____.

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A．enthusiastic people will never get old

B．enthusiasm can make you succeed and enjoy life

C．enthusiasm is more important than experience

D．enthusiasm can give people more success and fame

2．Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph?

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A．Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficuh times.

B．If you don't have enthusiasm, you can achieve nothing.

C．Enthusiastic people never consider money and fame.

D．Enthusiastic people can gain great fame and honor.

3．The author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show that _____.

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A．music can arouse people's enthusiasm

B．enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed

C．enthusiasm can make people feel young

D．enthusiasm can keep people healthy

4．How many examples are given in the passage to show the importance of enthusiasm?

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A．Three.　　　　　　B．Two.

C．Four.　　　　　　 D．Five.

Answer 1

答案：B;A;C;C
解析：

1．B　主旨题。总结全文可得出结论：热情不仅对我们的工作而且对我们的生活都会产生积极的影响。 2．A　猜测句意题。文章第二段通过基因学家Barbara McClintock的例子说明，有了热情人们就不会在逆境中屈服、放弃。 3．C　细节推理题。文章第三段大提琴演奏家Pablo Casals九十岁高龄还充满热情的例子，说明有了热情，人们就不会在心理上衰老。 4．C　细节判断题。文章通过四个不同的例子论述了热情对人们产生的影响。