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How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, impolite waiter, rude boss, or an insensitive employee__1__ your day?
One day I was in a taxi and we headed __2__ the airport.We were driving in the __3__ lane when suddenly a black car drove out of a parking space right in front of us.My taxi driver slammed on his __4__, slide sideways, and at the very last moment our car stopped and __5__ the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car looked around and started __6__at us.
My taxi driver just __7__ and waved at the guy.And I mean he was really__8__.So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call “The Law of the Garbage Truck”.He explained that many people are like garbage trucks.They run around full of __9__, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.As their garbage __10__ up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they'll dump it on __11__ .Don't take it personally.Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.
Believe me.You'll be__12__.Don't take their garbage and __13__it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.Life's too short to wake up in the morning with __14__.The mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what's __15__ in your life.Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from Florida State University, found in his extensive research that you __16__ bad things more often than good things in your life.You store the bad memories more easily, and you__17__ them more frequently.
So, love the people who treat you right.Ignore the ones who don't.Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you __18__ it!
When you follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck”, you take back control of your life.You make room for the good by __19__go of the bad.Have a Garbage Free Day! Have a marvelous, garbage free day! The seeds you plant today __20__ the harvest you reap tomorrow.
解题导语:本文叙述了作者乘坐出租车时发生的事情,通过出租车司机的一番话,阐明一个道理:记住奇怪的,忘却不快活的,专留意要的。对待生活的态度打算我们生活的状态。
1.A.enrich B.ruin
C.spare D.obtain
解析:依据下文内容可知,此处指不要让那些人毁坏你一天的心情。ruin “毁坏”。
答案:B
2.A.through B.to
C.in D.for
解析:head for“前往”。介词for表示方向。
答案:D
3.A.latter B.right
C.opposite D.free
解析:依据常识,作者乘坐的出租车应当是在正确的车道上行驶。故选B。
答案:B
4.A.brakes B.door
C.window D.seat
解析:一辆小车突然从路旁停车位驶出,出租车司机只得猛踩“刹车”。brakes“车刹”。
答案:A
5.A.knocked B.overtook
C.missed D.lost
解析:出租车司机紧急刹车,向旁边猛打方向盘,才避开了与小车相撞。此处选miss表示“错过”。
答案:C
6.A.laughing B.throwing
C.glancing D.yelling
解析:依据下文作者不理解出租车司机的友善举动可推断,此处应是小车司机无礼。laugh at“赞扬”;throw sth. at sb.“将某物向某人砸过去”;glance at “看一眼”;yell at sb. “对某人吼叫”。 选D最符合情境。
答案:D
7.A.wondered B.smiled
C.ignored D.guessed
解析:此处显示出租车司机的大度,对着对方微笑、挥手,丝毫没有由于小车司机有错且无礼而生气。故选B。
答案:B
8.A.friendly B.angry
C.tired D.disappointed
解析:出租车司机真诚地表示友善,令作者不能理解。故选A。
答案:A
9.A.expectation B.passengers
C.garbage D.goods
解析:依据下文的“As their garbage”“don't take their garbage”可知选C。garbage“垃圾”。句意:很多人就像垃圾车,满腹懊丧、生气、无望等垃圾,垃圾满了就要倾倒。
答案:C
10.A.turns B.pushes
C.holds D.piles
解析:turn up“毁灭”;push up“向上推”;hold up“延误”;pile up“积累”。此处指垃圾堆满了,故选D。
答案:D
11.A.roads B.children
C.you D.dustbin
解析:本题选you,泛指任何人。其他选项不符合语境。
答案:C
12.A.upset B.happier
C.pitiful D.frightened
解析:句意:信任我。你会更欢快一些。此处强调上一段的“Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on”。
答案:B
13.A.spread B.share
C.explain D.contribute
解析:句意:不要接受别人倾倒的“垃圾”并转倒给其他人。spread sth. to sb.将某事传给某人。故选A。
答案:A
14.A.surprise B.pleasure
C.doubt D.regrets
解析:依据文意可知,此处指人生苦短,每天早晨从懊悔中醒来是难以承受之重。其他选项不符合语境。
答案:D
15.A.funny B.important
C.strange D.embarrassing
解析:句意:能否成功的标志在于你能否快速忘却不快而专注于重要的人生目标。
答案:B
16.A.remember B.forget
C.value D.appreciate
解析:依据下文说到人们更简洁储存不好的记忆可知,此处说的是人们更经常记住的是糟糕的事情。故选A。
答案:A
17.A.enjoy B.exchange
C.recall D.imagine
解析:句意:人们更简洁储存不好的记忆,也更简洁回想起不好的记忆。recall“记起,回忆起”。
答案:C
18.A.inspire B.take
C.mend D.notice
解析:句意:生活中你的努力只占一成,九成取决于你的生活态度。此处选take,理解为为“接受”。
答案:B
19.A.letting B.consisting
C.making D.dreaming
解析:句意:只有忘却不好的,才能为奇怪的东西在心中留下位置。let go of sth.“放弃,忘却”。
答案:A
20.A.distinguish B.deserve
C.deliver D.determine
解析:句意:今日播下的种子打算了明天的收获。故选D。
答案:D
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Strange things were happening in the country of northeast Hebei.The water in the village wells rose and 21.________ (fall) for three days.A 22.________ (smell) gas came out of the cracks.The chickens and the pigs were 23.________ nervous to eat.Mice ran out of the fields.Fish jumped out of bowls and ponds.In the city, some water pipes cracked and burst.24.________ one million people of the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that night.After about half an hour, everything began to shake.
25.________ seemed as if the world was at 26.________ end.In the fifteen seconds a large city lay 27.________ ruins.The number of people who were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.People began to wonder how long the disaster would last.All hope was not lost.150,000 soldiers 28.________ (send) by the army to help the rescue workers.Hundreds of thousands of people were helped.The army organized teams to dig out those who were trapped and 29.________ (bury) the dead.Workers built shelters for survivors 30.________ homes had been destroyed.Fresh water was taken to the city by train, truck and plane.Slowly, the city began to breathe again.
解题导语:本文主要叙述河北省发生的一次地震以及灾后救援状况。
21.解析:rise and fall意为“升升降降”。依据and前面的rose可知应填fall的过去式。
答案:fell
22.解析:形容词作定语修饰名词。
答案:smelly
23.解析:too...to...意为“太……以至于不能……”。
答案:too
24.解析:依据句意“一百万居民几乎都没有把这些状况当一回事,当天晚上像平常一样睡着了”可知,此处表示转折关系。
答案:But
25.解析:It seems as if...意为“看起来好像/好像……”。
答案:It
26.解析:at an end意为“结束,终结”。
答案:an
27.解析:in ruins意为“毁坏,严峻受损,破败不堪”。
答案:in
28.解析:send与soldiers构成动宾关系,且全文时态为过去时,故用一般过去时的被动语态。
答案:were sent
29.解析:dig out与bury the dead是由and连接的并列结构。
答案:bury
30.解析:whose 引导定语从句并在从句中作定语,修饰名词homes。
答案:whose
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