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4．Years ago，when I started looking for my first job，wise advised，"Barbara，be enthusiastic!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 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 Barara 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 stopping．
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 was．At 90，cellist Palblo Cassls would start his day by playing Bach．A s the music flowed through his fingers his stooped shoulders would strengthen and joy would reappear in his eyes．As author and poet Samuei 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 power．Patricia  Mellrath，retired director of the Missouri Repertory Theatre 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，we can as a hobby．Elizabeth Layton 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 led one critic to say，"I'm 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，which all our senses-including pleasure in the sweet smell of a back-yard garden，the simple picture of a six-year-old，the beauty of  a  rainbow．
68．What is the Chinese for"Enthusiasm"？A
A．热情    
B．色彩     
C．惰性      
D．金钱
69．Which of the following can best explain the underlined sentence in the second paragraph？B
A．Enthusiasm can give you courage and strength in difficult 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．
70．T he author mentions cellist Pablo Casals in the third paragraph to show thatC
A．music can arouse people's enthusiasm
B．enthusiasm can give people inspiration needed to succeed
C．enthusiasm can keep people feel young
D．enthusiasm can keep people healthy．

Answer 1

分析 本文是一篇社会文化类阅读，属于议论文，年前，当我开始寻找我的第一份工作，明智的建议"巴巴拉，要有热情！热情会让你走得更远"，他们是多么正确！"没有热情就不会有任何伟大的成就．"拉尔夫•瓦尔多说．本文以此展开谈论，讲述了热情的力量．

解答 68．答案：A．词义猜测题．根据"when I started looking for my first job，wise advised，"Barbara，be enthusiastic!Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience"及下文"没有热情就没有什么事情能够成功"可推测出，enthusiasm意为"热情"．故选A．
69．答案：B．推理判断题．根据下文的举例"Yet she didn't stop working on her experiments．Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping．"可推测出，这句话的意思是如果你没有热情，你不能做成任何事．故选B．
70．答案：C．细节理解题．根据"We are all born with wide-eyed，enthusiastic wonder and it is this childlike wonder that gives enthusiastic people such youthful air"可知，我们出生时都是睁大眼睛，满怀热情，正是这种孩子气的好奇给了热情的人们这样年轻的氛围，热情可以让人年轻．故选C．

点评 本文是一篇社会文化类阅读，主要考查学生对文章内容的理解能力及信息提取能力，做题时应仔细阅读原文，并联系上下文内容找出相关内容，从而得出正确答案，切忌胡乱猜测，一定要做到有理有据．