Question

【題目】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 ensure you the level of success you may want, but it will ensure 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】In Paragraph 2, the underlined word “that” refers to ______.

A. setting a practical goal B. being good at something

C. putting in more time D. succeeding in life

【3】Successful people suggest doing what one loves because ______.

A. it takes a lot of time to succeed

B. work makes one feel pain

C. one gives up his work easily

D. one tends to enjoy his work

【4】What can we infer from Paragraph 4?

A. Successful people like to show their great skills.

B. People sometimes succeed without luck or talent.

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

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

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】

試題分析: 一些人認為，成功只是為有天賦或出身富裕的人準備的。另一些人認為成功主要靠運氣。作者認為，天賦也好，身世顯貴也好，運氣也好，這些都只是生活中真實存在的情況，它們并不能決定一個人的成功與否

【1】B考查推理判斷。根據第一段可得知，作者列出很多人認為成功的因素，如"Some people are born into the right family while others are born with great intelligence"出生在好的家庭，天賦異稟等，因此，本段主要講的是成功的因素,故選B項。

【2】A 考查推理判斷。根據前文However, to succeed in life, one first needs to set a goal and then gradually make it more practical. And, in additional to that, in order to get really good at something, one needs to spend at least 10,000 hours studying and practicing.然而，要在生活中取得成功，你必須要設定一個目標，然后逐步將它變得更加實際。除此之外，要變得更加擅長某事，必須花費至少10,000個小時進行學習和實踐，故選A項。

【3】A考查推理判斷。根據第二段可知，成功需要付出大部分人不愿付出的時間來學習和練習，這就是成功人士建議一個人要從事他所喜歡的事情的原因，故A項“成功需要很多時間”正確

【4】B考查推理判斷。根據第四段最后一句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.可知，認為成功是依靠運氣或者天賦的想法對你是沒有好處的，很有可能你錯了，也就是說有時候人們的成功并不是靠這些因素，故B項正確