The turning point of my life was my decision to give up a promising business career and study music. My parents, although sharing my love of music, didn’t __36__ it as a profession. My grandfather, having taught music for years at college and, though much __37__, earned merely enough to support his family. As a result of this _38___in the family, I went to college -----quite __39__, for although I loved my violin and spent most of my spare time practicing, I had many other _40___. Before my graduation from Columbia, I felt _41___my duty to leave college and take a job. Aside from the satisfaction of being able to ___42__the family, money is all I got out of it. My only ambition was to save enough to _43___ the job and go to Europe to study __44___. I used to get up at dawn to practice_45__ I left for “downtown “to work. . I continued to make money, and _46__, bit by bit, accumulated enough to enable me to ___47_.
The situation of my family improved, and my help was _48___necessary, so I resigned from my __49__and, feeling like a man released from jail, sailed for _50___. I stayed four years, worked harder than I had ever dreamed of working before and _51___every minute of it. I was a _52__man and I was doing what I__53__ to do and what I was meant to do. If I had stayed in business, I might be a quite wealthy man today, __54__ I wouldn’t have made a success of living . I would have _55__all those that money can never buy.
Money is a wonderful thing, but it is possible to pay too high price on it.
【小题1】 | A.receive | B.accept | C.refuse | D.keep |
|
【小题2】 | A.respected | B.hated | C.doubted | D.scolded |
|
【小题3】 | A.excuse | B.chance | C.promise | D.example |
|
【小题4】 | A.happily | B.sadly | C.hopelessly | D.nervously |
|
【小题5】 | A.interests | B.pities | C.experiments | D.problems |
|
【小题7】 | A.question | B.help | C.warn | D.visit |
|
【小题8】 | A.give up | B.give in | C.go on | D.throw away |
|
【小题9】 | A.computer | B.law | C.history | D.music |
|
【小题10】 | A.after | B.in case | C.before | D.the moment |
|
【小题11】 | A.firstly | B.finally | C.generally | D.lately |
|
【小题12】 | A.go back | B.go home | C.go abroad | D.go down |
|
【小题13】 | A.no longer | B.of course | C.in fact | D.much too |
|
【小题14】 | A.position | B.college | C.home | D.friends |
|
【小题15】 | A.Asia | B.Europe | C.Africa | D.North America |
|
【小题16】 | A.wasted | B.lost | C.forgot | D.enjoyed |
|
【小题17】 | A.native | B.free | C.wise | D.weak |
|
【小题18】 | A.repeated | B.offered | C.loved | D.signed |
|
【小题20】 | A.missed | B.gained | C.achieved | D.won |
|