Question

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项A、B、C和D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Another person’s enthusiasm was what set me moving toward the success I have achieved. That person was my stepmother.

I was nine years old when she entered our home in rural Virginia. My father  21  me to her with these words: “I would like you to meet the fellow who is  22  for being the worst boy in this county and will probably start throwing rocks at you no  23  than tomorrow morning.”

My stepmother walked over to me, raised my head slightly  24  , and looked me right in the eye. Then she looked at my father and  25  , “You are wrong. This is not the worst boy at all,  26  the smartest one who hasn’t yet found an outlet（释放的途径）for his enthusiasm.”

That statement began a(n)   27  between us. No one had ever called me smart. My family and neighbors had built me up in my  28  as a bad boy. My stepmother changed all that.

She changed many things. She   29   my father to go to a dental school, from which he graduated with honors. She moved our family into the county seat, where my father’s career could be more  30  and my brothers and I could be better educated.

When I turned fourteen, she bought me a secondhand  31  and told me that she believed that I could become a writer. I knew her enthusiasm, I  32  it, and I saw how it had already improved our lives. I accepted her  33  and began to write for local newspapers. I was doing the same kind of  34  that great day I went to interview Andrew Carnegie and received the task which became my life’s work later. I wasn’t the  35  beneficiary (受益者). My father became the  36  man in town. My brothers and stepbrothers became a physician, a dentist, a lawyer, and a college president.

   What power  37  has! When that power is released to support the certainty of one’s purpose and is  38  strengthened by faith, it becomes an irresistible（不可抗拒的）force which poverty and temporary defeat can never  39  .

   You can communicate that power to  40  who needs it. This is probably the greatest work you can do with your enthusiasm.

1..

. A. rushed         B. sent         C. carried          D. introduced

2..

A. distinguished    B. favored      C. mistaken         D. rewarded

3..

. A. sooner         B. later            C. longer           D. earlier

4..

 A. backward        B. forward      C. upward       D. downward

5..

. A. talked         B. replied        C. cried         D. answered

6..

. A. but                B. so            C. and             D. or

7..

. A. agreement      B. friendship       C. gap          D. relationship

8..

 A. opinion         B. image        C. expectation      D. mind

9..

A. begged         B. persuaded     C. ordered      D. invited

10..

. A. successful     B. meaningful       C. helpful          D. useful

11..

. A. camera         B. radio            C. bicycle        D. typewriter

12..

 A. considered      B. suspected        C. ignored      D. appreciated

13..

. A. belief         B. request      C. criticism        D. description

14..

. A. teaching       B. writing          C. studying     D. reading

15..

. A. next           B. same         C. only         D. real

16..

. A. cleverest      B. wealthiest       C. strongest        D. healthiest

17..

. A. enthusiasm     B. sympathy     C. fortune        D. confidence

18..

. A. deliberately       B. happily      C. traditionally    D. constantly

19..

. A. win            B. match            C. reach            D. doubt

20..

. A. everyone       B. someone       C. anyone        D. nobody

Answer

1.. D     

2..A

3..B

4..C

5..B

6..A

7..B

8..D

9..B

10..A

11..D

12..D

13..A

14..B

15..C

16..B

17..A

18..D

19..B

20..C

【解析】 略