Question

请认真阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

What do you think of your life? Maybe a person’s life is like a ship travelling on the sea, if it can’t move    _____ , it will fall behind.

I’ll tell you a story: _______  the invention (发明) of light bulb, Edison had tried thousands of filament (丝) materials and had failed thousands of times, a businessman laughed at him: “You are not manufacturing（制造）the lamp, you ________ thousands of materials and did not have any success.” Edison replied: “No, I at_________ have proved (证明) that 1000 kinds of materials are not suitable to do filament.” I was touched after reading this story, I thought Edison put it best. Even if Edison_________ thousands of times, so what? He’s successful at last.

As the ________ goes: Failure is the mother of success. If there is no “failure of the mother,” how do we have “successful son”? With thousands of Edison “_______ ” mothers, will be no “success” to you? Eat one graben, a gain in your wit(吃一堑，长一智). If you do not eat graben, how can you gain in your wit? Edison have experienced failure before he tapped the door to success, as a result, he was remembered as a great inventor for ever.

When I was 8 years old, I_________ to ride a bike just as other children often did during their childhood. I fell off many times while_________, but then my heart just wanted a word: failure is the mother of success. I stood up and tried again and again, finally I succeeded.

In a word, do not be afraid of failure during your life. It is also a (an) _________part of your life.

1.A. up    B. down    C. forward    D. behind

2.A. before    B. after    C. since    D. till

3.A. trained    B. risked    C. wasted    D. picked

4.A. most    B. least    C. times    D. all

5.A. hurt    B. collected    C. failed    D. warned

6.A. poster    B. knowledge    C. novel    D. saying

7.A. ugly    B. pleasant    C. clever    D. unsuccessful

8.A. hurried    B. agreed    C. learned    D. advised

9.A. riding    B. thinking    C. laughing    D. fighting

10.A. important    B. relaxing    C. equal    D. simple

Answer

1.C

2.A

3.C

4.B

5.C

6.D

7.D

8.C

9.A

10.A

【解析】

试题本文夹叙夹议，通过爱迪生不惧失败发明灯泡，结合自己小时学骑自行车的经历，说明“失败是成功之母”的道理，告诉人们不要害怕失败，因为它是人生中的重要经历。

1.句意：如果不能前进，它就会落在后面。考查介词辨析题。fall behind落后，与move forward反义；根据句意语境，可知选C。

2.句意：在灯泡发明之前，爱迪生曾尝试过数千种灯丝材料。考查介词辨析题。A. before在……以前；B. after在……以后；C. since自从；D. till直到。根据句意和常识，可知选A。

3.句意：你不是制造灯，你浪费了数以千计的材料，并没有任何成功。考查动词辨析题。A. trained训练；B. risked冒险；C. wasted浪费；D. picked捡/拾。laugh at嘲笑；根据句意语境，可知wasted符合句意，故选C。

4.句意：不，我至少已经证明1000种材料不适合做长丝。考查介词短语辨析题。at times有时；at all根本；at least至少；at most至多。根据句意语境，可知at least符合句意，故选B。

5.句意：即使爱迪生失败了几千次，那又怎样？考查动词辨析题。A. hurt伤害；B. collected收集；C. failed失败；D. warned警告。根据下文He’s successful at last.，结合句意语境，可知failed符合语境，故选C。

6.句意：俗话说：失败是成功之母。考查名词辨析题。A. poster海报；B. knowledge知识；C. novel小说；D. saying谚语/格言。根据Failure is the mother of success.，可知是谚语，故选D。

7.句意：有数以千计的爱迪生“不成功”的母亲……考查形容词辨析题。A. ugly懒惰的；B. pleasant高兴的；C. clever聪明的；D. unsuccessful不成功的。本空加了引号，根据上文“successful son”，结合句意语境，可知选D。

8.句意：当我8岁的时候，我学会了骑自行车。考查动词辨析题。A. hurried仓促；B. agreed同意；C. learned学；D. advised建议。learned to ride a bike学骑自行车；根据句意语境，结合下文just as other children often did during their childhood.，可知选C。

9.句意：我骑车摔了好几次，但我的心只想着一句话：失败是成功之母。考查动词辨析题。fall off摔倒；根据上文When I was 8 years old, I learned to ride a bike，可知选A。

10.句意：它也是你生活中的一个重要部分。考查形容词辨析题。A. important重要的；B. relaxing放松的；C. equal平等的；D. simple简单的。根据文意，失败是人生中不可缺失的一种经历，可知选A。