Question

Some people think that success is only for those with talent or those who grow up in the right family, and others believe that success mostly comes down to luck. I’m not going to say luck, talent, and circumstances don’t come into play because they do. Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence, and that’s just the reality of how life is.

However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in addition to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing. To become great at certain things, it’ll require even more time, time that most people won’t put in.

This is a big reason why many successful people advise you to do something you love. If you don’t enjoy what you do, it is going to feel like unbearable pain and will likely make you quit well before you ever become good at it.

When you see people exhibiting some great skills or having achieved great success, you know that they have put in a huge part of their life to get there at a huge cost. It’s sometimes easy to think they got lucky or they were born with some rare talent, but thinking that way does you no good, and there’s a huge chance that you’re wrong anyway.

Whatever you do, if you want to become great at it, you need to work day in and day out, almost to the point of addiction, and over a long period of time. If you’re not willing to put in the time and work, don’t expect to receive any rewards. Consistent, hard work won’t guarantee you the level of success you may want, but it will guarantee that you will become really good at whatever it is you put all that work into.

1.Paragraph 1 mainly talks about ______.

A. the meaning of success    B. the reasons for success

C. the standards of success    D. the importance of success

2.Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. work makes one feel pain    B. one tends to enjoy his work

C. it takes a lot of time to succeed    D. one gives up his work easily

3.What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

B. Successful people like to show their great skills.

C. People need to achieve success at the cost of life.

D. It helps to think that luck or talent leads to success.

4.What is the main theme of the passage?

A. Having a goal is vital to success.

B. Being good is different from being great.

C. Luck, talent and family help to achieve success.

D. One cannot succeed without time and practice.

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.A

4.D

【解析】有些人认为成功只适合那些有才能的人，或者那些在好的家庭中长大的人，还有人则认为成功主要靠运气。以上作者并不否认，但是真正的成功还包括其他一些因素，比如设定目标，把它逐步变得实际可行，投入更多的时间，选择去做你真正喜欢的事情等等。这些因素不能保证你想要的成功，但是它会保证你无论做什么都能变得很好。

1.B主旨题。第一段主要讲的是成功的归因。有人归为才能和好的家境，有人归因为运气。作者并不想说他们都错了，其实事实如此，这恰恰是生活的现实。

2.C细节题。文章第二、三段表明，要想在某个方面变得强大，它需要投入很多很多的时间，是大多数普通人办不到的。因此许多成功人士建议人们要做自己喜欢的事情，不然，你就难以忍受那份痛苦，在没有变得擅长之前就很可能半途而废了。选C。

3.A推断题。 当你看到人们成功时，有时候很容易就认为他们是靠运气或者少有的才能，但是这种想法并无裨益，还极有可能是你错了。由此可知，有些人的成功并不是因为什么运气或才能。选A。

4.D 主旨题。根据作者的观点，人们的成功虽然有运气，才能和环境因素影响，但是真正的成功，需要你设定目标，慢慢将它变得可行，还要投入常人所无法承受的时间和努力。所以，没有时间和实践，就不会有成功。选D。