I should say I owe my success to my mother. My 1       began when I was just a kid. I 2       becoming a doctor.

  My mother was a servant. Through her work,she observed that 3        people spent a lot more time reading than they 4        watching television. She announced that my brother and I could only watch two to three 5        TV programs during the week. In our free time,we had to read two books from the Detroit Public Library and 6        written book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later we realized her marks were a 7 because my mother was uneducated.

  When I entered high school I was a (n) 8      ,but not for long. I wanted the fancy clothes and I wanted to 9        the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home after 10        her various jobs and I complained about not having enough Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay,I'll give you all the money I 11        this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms,and you can buy the family food and pay the bills. With everything 12       ,you can have all the Italian knit shirts you want." I was very 13        with that arrangement but once I got through allocating (分配) money,there was 14        left.

  I realized my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a 15       over our heads and any kind of food on the table,16       buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me anywhere. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my 17        and became an A-student again,and eventually I 18        my dream and I became a doctor.

  My mother is a woman with 19        formal education or property who used her position as a parent to change the lives of her children. There is no job more 20        than parenting.

(   ) 1. A. belief   B. work   C. schooling   D. promise

(   ) 2. A. majored in   B. got used to   C. dreamed of   D. got tired of

(   ) 3. A. lazy   B. easygoing   C. successful   D. reliable

(   ) 4. A. cost   B. paid   C. took   D. did

(   ) 5. A. preselected   B. unprepared   C. interesting   D. foreign

(   ) 6. A. read   B. present   C. teach   D. explain

(   ) 7. A. joke   B. means   C. tool   D. trick

(   ) 8. A. A-student   C. B-student   C. C-student   D. D-student

(   ) 9. A. get rid of   B. hang out with

   C. break away from   D. keep in touch with

(   ) 10. A. making   B. stopping   C. finishing   D. getting

(   ) 11. A. accept   B. win   C. spend   D. make

(   ) 12. A. left over   B. paid off   C. used up   D. carried out

(   ) 13. A. angry   B. pleased   C. disappointed   D. bored

(   ) 14. A. anything   B. everything   C. something   D. nothing

(   ) 15. A. house   B. room   C. roof   D. floor

(   ) 16. A. let alone   B. let out   C. let in   D. let off

(   ) 17. A. guys   B. mother   C. studies   D. play

(   ) 18. A. made   B. realized   C. changed   D. tried

(   ) 19. A. little   B. much   C. few   D. high

(   ) 20. A. interesting   B. natural   C. important   D. strange

1. A結(jié)合下文可知，我小時候就開始有了當(dāng)醫(yī)生的信^。

2. C我的信念是"夢想"成為一名醫(yī)生，從倒數(shù)第2段最后一句...my dream and I became a doctor可知。

3. C據(jù)母親觀察，成功人士花在閱讀上的時間要比花在看電視上的時間多得多。

4. D此處使用did代替前文的spent,避免重復(fù)spend time (in) doing sth.。

5. A我和弟弟每周只能看兩到三個預(yù)先挑選好的電視節(jié)目。從母親嚴(yán)格要求孩子抓緊時間來看，此處A項符合語境。

6. B由上下文可知，母親非常嚴(yán)厲。我們每人必須閱讀從底特律公共圖書館借來的兩本書，還要上交讀書心得。

present sth. to sb."把某物呈交給某人"。

7. D由My mother was uneducated得知，此處媽媽用的是一個花招。

8. A由but推測出：讀中學(xué)時，我曾是個優(yōu)等生，但好景不長。

9. B好景不長的原因是:喜歡漂亮衣服，想和別人出去閑蕩。

hang out"閑蕩"。

10. C由下文scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms可知，此處意為：母親干完各種活兒回到家。

11. D 一周"掙"的錢。

12. B此處是"with+賓語+賓補(bǔ)"結(jié)構(gòu)，"用剩下的錢你都拿去買意大利針織衫吧"。

leave over" ?T" , pay off"還清"，use up"用光"， carry out"執(zhí)行(計劃等) "。

13. B因為由自己理財并從中想賺一點(diǎn)錢，很顯然，這樣的決定讓我高興不已。

14. D由but可知并非如我所愿。當(dāng)我把該花的錢都分配完畢，手里已分文不剩。

15. C我的母親不愧是個理財能手,她能讓我們有地方住,有各種食物吃,更不用說買衣服了。

16. A let alone"更不用說"；let out"使放出";let in"使進(jìn)人";let off意為"放過，對……不予以懲罰"。

17. C通過這件事，我意識到，一時的滿足并不會給我?guī)硎裁闯删�，而成功需要智力上的�?zhǔn)備,于是我又發(fā)奮努力學(xué)習(xí)。

18. B最終我"實現(xiàn)了"自己當(dāng)醫(yī)生的夢想。realize"實現(xiàn)愿望"。

19. A由上文可知，我母親家境貧寒，沒有受過正規(guī)的教育。

20. C沒有哪件事比養(yǎng)育子女更重要了。

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8. My money         ;I must go to the bank to draw some of my savings out before I have none in hand. (run)

我的錢快花光了，在手頭沒錢之前我得去銀行取點(diǎn)積蓄。

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