Question

Years ago, when I started looking for my first job, wise advisers urged, "Barbara, be enthusiastic! Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience."

How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

''Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. It is the paste that helps you hang in there when the going gets 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 Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家） who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted．Yet she didn't let up on her experiments. Work was such a deep pleasure for her that she never thought of stopping.

Author and poet Samuel Ullman 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 title or power. If we cannot do what we love as a full-time career, we can treat it as a part-time interest, like the head of state who paints, the nun(修女) who runs marathons, the official who handcrafts（手工制做） furniture.

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 wholeheartedly, with all our senses — finding pleasure in the fragrance of a back-yard garden, the crayoned （蜡笔的）picture of a six-year-old, the enchanting beauty of a rainbow. It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.

1.What can be the best title of this passage?

A. Find pleasure in what you are doing.

B. Wake up your life.

C. To give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

D. No pains, no gains.

2.What conclusion does the writer draw through the experience of finding a job?

A. Enthusiasm will take you further than any amount of experience.

B. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

C. We can't afford to waste tears on "might- have-beens.

D. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.

3.Which of the following statements is WRONG according to the passage?

A. No one can achieve great success without enthusiasm.

B. Enthusiasm will take a person further than any amount of his experience.

C. We should make great effort to do the thing that can be done instead of regretting for the past.

D. Barbara McClintock was generally accepted many years before she won the Nobel Prize.

4.Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase let up ?

A. continue.    B. make less effort.

C. make great effort.    D. stop.

5.We can learn from the last paragraph that it is               that makes our life meaningful.

A. love of gardening    B. love of drawing pictures with the crayon of a six-year-old child

C. love of life    D. love of beautiful rainbow

Answer

1. B

2. D

3. D

4. B

5. C

【解析】

本文属于议论文，通过不同的名人例子来阐述拥有激情是有多么的重要。

1.主旨大意题。根据文章可知，本文主要阐述拥有激情对于人们的成功是很重要的，建议人们要有激情，故选B。

2.细节理解题。根据第一段How right they were. Enthusiastic people can turn a boring drive into an adventure, extra work into opportunity and strangers into friends.可知，通过作者的经历，作者得出了激情可以无聊的旅程变成冒险，把额外的负担变成机会，让陌生人变成朋友，故选D。

3.细节理解题。根据第三段It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家） who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted．可知，Barbara McClintock早期的研究多年后才被人们普遍接受，故选D。

4.词义猜测题。根据第三段Yet she didn't let up on her experiments.中yet以及前一句It took years and years for the early work of Barbara McClintock, a geneticist（遗传学家） who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in medicine, to be generally accepted．可知，尽管多年之后，她的研究才被人们接受，但是依然没有懈怠，故选B。

5.细节理解题。根据最后一段It is such enthusiastic love of life that puts a sparkle in our eyes, a lilt in our steps and smooths the wrinkles from our souls.可知，对生活的热爱，让我们生活充满意义，故选C。