Question

We always want what we cannot have. When we're young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships, and be ____. However, when we're ____， we want to go back to being young and we ___ the days when we didn't have to worry about complex love affairs, ___ pressure, and money problems.

Young people believe adulthood ____ freedom from parents and schoolwork. When they get older, they feel that ____ is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To ____ this feeling, people say, “The grass is always ____ on the other side of the fence.”

As ____， we like to be like adults but as young adults, we ____ to be young again. We think about staying out late and ____ our own money to spend. Suddenly, they see that love can result in ____ hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for ____ the next morning. They find out that adult life is not as ____ as they thought it would be and suddenly, ___ becomes very scary.

Life is ____. It gives us time to ____ but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we ____ being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the ____ is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have. That is the first step to grow up. ____ life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.

1.A.comfortable B．dependent

C．independent D．polite

2.A.older B．defeated C．married D．confident

3.A.like B．forget C．regret D．miss

4.A.study B．job C．age D．health

5.A.creates B．shows C．means D．limits

6.A.childhood B．adulthood

C．parenthood D．neighborhood

7.A.reduce B．describe

C．experience D．understand

8.A.greener B．thinner C．yellow D．colorful

9.A.researchers B．teenagers

C．adults D．elders

10.A.wish B．decide C．return D．stop

11.A.making B．having

C．worrying about D．showing off

12.A.healthy B．ambitious C．broken D．excited

13.A.breakfast B．school C．exercise D．work

14.．A.rich B．busy C．poor D．easy

15.A.life B．love C．career D．future

16.A.long B．short C．fair D．beautiful

17.A.study B．think C．play D．live

18.A.stopped B．enjoyed C．imagined D．tried

19.A.reason B．result C．dream D．truth

20.A.If B．When C．Unless D．Before

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.C

6.A

7.B

8.A

9.B

10.A

11.B

12.C

13.D

14.D

15.A

16.C

17.C

18.B

19.D

20.B

【解析】年幼时，我们渴望成年。可当我们真正长大时，又希望重返童年。但事实上，只有珍惜眼前所拥有的我们才能快乐。知足常乐、扛起责任，是成长的第一步。当眼前的美好生活还未消逝，那就尽情去享受它吧。

1.答案：C　考查形容词辨析。comfortable“舒适的”；dependent“依靠的；取决于……的”；independent“独立的”；polite“礼貌的”。联系下文知：年幼时，我们渴望晚回家、渴望恋爱、渴望独立。故C项正确。

2.2】答案：A　考查形容词辨析。older“年长的”；defeated“挨打的；被打败的”；married“已婚的；婚姻的”；confident“自信的；确信的”。由“However”以及后文“...back to being young”可知此处指“当我们真正长大，又希望重温童年”。故A项正确。

3.3】答案：D　考查动词辨析。年老时，我们怀念(miss)那些远离复杂的恋情、工作压力和经济问题的时光。D项符合语境。

4.4】答案：B　考查名词辨析。年轻时，我们不必担心复杂的爱情问题，工作(job)压力和经济问题。故B项正确。

5.5】答案：C　考查动词辨析。create“创造”；show“展示”；mean“意味着”；limit“限制”。年轻人认为，成年意味着可以摆脱父母的束缚和学业的困扰。故C项正确。

6.6】答案：A　考查名词在语境中的运用。当他们长大时，又感觉到童年意味着没有工作压力和家庭责任。childhood“童年”，符合题意，故选A项。

7.7】答案：B　考查动词辨析。reduce“减少”；describe“描述”；experience“经历”；understand“理解”。人们用一句话描述这种感受——栅栏那一边的草总是比较绿的。故B项正确。

8.8】答案：A　考查形容词辨析。人们常这样说：栅栏那一边的草总是比较绿的(即别人的东西都是好的)。故A项greener正确。

9.9】答案：B　考查名词在语境中的运用。由语境知，作为青少年，我们希望能像成年人一样；但作为青壮年，我们又希望回到年轻的时候。teenager意为“青少年”，故B项正确。

10.0】答案：A　考查动词辨析。根据上题解析知A项正确。

11.1】答案：B　考查动词辨析。我们憧憬着在外面疯玩晚归，也憧憬着自己掌握经济大权。故B项正确。

12.2】答案：C　考查形容词辨析。healthy“健康的”；ambitious“有抱负的”；broken“破碎的”；excited“兴奋的”。他们突然发现爱情可能会让心支离破碎。故C项正确。

13.3】答案：D　考查名词在语境中的运用。由语境知，在外疯玩到深夜可能会使你第二天上班(work)无精打采。故D项正确。

14.4】答案：D　考查形容词辨析。他们发现成年人的生活并非像他们想象得那样容易(easy)。D项符合语境。

15.5】答案：A　考查名词在语境中的运用。联系上文知，突然间，生活(life)变得非常可怕。故A项正确。

16.6】答案：C　考查形容词辨析。生活是公平的。它给予我们时间来娱乐，也需要我们去工作。fair意为“公平的”，符合题意，故选C项。

17.7】答案：C　考查动词辨析。根据上题解析知C项正确。

18.8】答案：B　考查动词辨析。每个人都免不了要长大，到时候，我们会缅怀过去，期望能享受(enjoy)更多青春年华。故B项正确。

19.9】答案：D　考查名词辨析。永不知足是人之常情，但事实是，只有珍惜现在所拥有的才能得到真正的快乐。reason“理由”；result“结果”；dream“梦想”；truth“事实”。故D项正确。

20.20】答案：B　考查连词的用法。当生活变得越来越复杂时，我们不要为了那些荒废在幻想成年的时光而追悔莫及。when“当……时”，符合题意。故B项正确。

疑难词汇解读

1．complex adj.复杂的

The link between money and happiness is complex.金钱与幸福之间关系复杂。

2．appreciate v．欣赏，感激，珍惜

I really appreciate your handwriting.我真的欣赏你的书法。

长难句子分析

is normal but

句意：想要拥有我们得不到的是人之常情，但事实是，只有珍惜现在所拥有的才能得到真正的快乐。其中to be happy是不定式，充当表语从句中的主语；to appreciate what we have也是不定式，充当表语从句中的表语。