Question

 I can remember a period in my life when I was un?employed and money was running short. I needed a job very 1.________A friend of mine approached me one day with an 2.________ "I'm going to have to let this job go and won?dering if you would like to take it over.”

  "That would be 3________”， I replied. I went to the manager and he said I could 4________ on Monday morning.

  On Monday morning I was 5________ to buff(擦) the floors. My friend was there to 6________ me how to oper?ate the buffer.

"It's really 7________ ，" he said,running the machine very 8________. He handed it over to me and said, "Here,you give it a try. ” I 9________ the handles. To my sur?prise,the buffer went around in a big circle,running over my friend's new shoes.

  Several times,I tried to run it again and 10________ .

  "What am I going to do?" I thought to myself. "I finally found a job and I can't do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to 11________the job?"

  After several 12________ days of buffing,I finally decided that I was going to do this. For about a week,I 13________ with the buffer,putting all my weight and 14________ into it. Later,I learnt the trick was not to struggle with it at all,just 15________with the flow of it,and by the second week,I could run it with one hand.

  Months later,I 16________ back and wondered what would have happened 17________ I had given up that first week. I certainly would not have the new-found confi?dence or a pay cheque. Sometime after that 18________ ，I started a new job that still 19________ the use of a buffer.

 20________don't have to stop you.  If you run into them,just figure out how to go through them.

1.A. badly   B. well

C.quickly   D. generally

2.A. apology   B. invitation   C. offer   D. opinion

3.A. great   B. worth   C. difficult   D. funny

4.A. finish   B. leave   C. stay   D. start

5.A. warned   B. told

C. forced   D. discovered

6.A. watch   B. order   C. ask   D. show

7.A. easy   B. difficult   C. interesting   D. boring

8.A. specially   B. carefully   C. slowly   D. smoothly

9.A. grabbed   B. repaired   C. wiped   D. equipped

10.A. remained   B. insisted   C. failed   D. dropped

11.A. give up   B. give out   C. carry on   D. focus on

12.A. simple   B. harmful   C. hard   D. happy

13.A. met   B. struggled   C. lived   D. combined

14.A. body   B. spirit

 C. heart   D. strength

15.A. do   B. go

 C. walk   D. match

16.A. turned   B. came   C. thought   D. threw

17.A. when   B. unless   C. as   D. if

18.A. moment   B. fight   C. experience   D. story

19.A. required   B. introduced   C. reduced   D. rejected

20.A. Achievements   B. Difficulties   C. Disabilities   D. Successes

Answer 1

1. A上文说作者失业了，所以迫切需要一份工作。badly 非常，迫切地。

2.C根据下文朋友所说的话可知，作者的朋友要放弃自己的T.作，问作者是否愿意接手，故选(：。

3.A在失业、经济拮据的情况下，有这样一个工作机会，当然是很好(great) 了。

4.D由下文作者去公司工作的语境可知，作者周一早上可以开始(start) 工作。

5.B作者去了公司，被告知要做的工作是擦地板。

6.D由下一段可知，朋友给作者展示(show) 如何用清洁仪器擦地板。

7.A根据下文作者朋友的话和他的展示可知，作者朋友认为这份工作很简单(easy) 。

8.D此举描述作者朋友工作娴熟。smoothly平稳地，流畅地。

9. a朋友把清洁仪器递给作者，让作者试一试，因此作者 抓住/■仪器的把手.故选八。

10.C根据下文的"...I can't do h."可知，作者尝试了几次还是失败(fail) 了。

11.A几次失败让作者几乎失去了信心，他自问："难道就这样放弃吗？"故选A。

12.C由上下文作者描述自己工作时所用的词struggle可以看出作者这几天过得很艰难，故选harcl。

13.B下文的struggle with it有提示。

14.D作者不懂方法，用尽全力只是适得其反。根据and 前的weight也可知选strength。

15.B作者明白了操纵机器的方法：不能使蛮劲，要顺应机器而动。go with伴随，顺应。

16.C作者在几个月后回想自己的过去。think back回顾，回想。

17.D本句是作者的假设，如果那时放弃了真不知现在会怎么样。

18.C作者在那次经历(experience) 之后换了工作'

19.A根据语境可知作者之后找的工作仍和先前一样，需要使用清洁仪器。

20.B根据全文的主旨和下文内容可知选B，困难无法阻止你前进。