Question

We always want what we cannot have. When we're young, we want to stay out late, have romantic relationships, and be ____. However, when we're ____， we want to go back to being young and we ____ the days when we didn't have to worry about complex love affairs, ____ pressure, and money problems.

Young people believe adulthood ____ freedom from parents and schoolwork. When they get older, they feel that ____ is freedom from work pressure and family responsibilities. To ____ this feeling, people say, “The grass is always ____ on the other side of the fence.”

As ____， we like to be like adults but as young adults, we ____ to be young again. We think about staying out late and ____ our own money to spend. Suddenly, they see that love can result in ____ hearts; staying out late makes it hard to get ready for ____ the next morning. They find out that adult life is not as ___ as they thought it would be and suddenly, ____ becomes very scary.

Life is ____. It gives us time to ____ but also requires us to work. The time will come when we must grow up and we will always look back wishing we ___ being young a bit longer. That time will not come back. It is normal to want what we cannot have but the ___ is that to be happy is to appreciate what we have. That is the first step to grow up. ____ life becomes more complex, we will not regret the time we wasted wishing we were adults.

1.A.comfortable B．dependent C．independent D．polite

2.A.older B．defeated C．married D．confident

3.A.like B．forget C．regret D．miss

4.A.study B．job C．age D．health

5.A.creates B．shows C．means D．limits

6.A.childhood B．adulthood C．parenthood D．neighborhood

7.A.reduce B．describe C．experience D．understand

8.A.greener B．thinner C．yellow D．colorful

9.A.researchers B．teenagers C．adults D．elders

10.A.wish B．decide C．return D．stop

11.A.making B．having C．worrying about D．showing off

12.A.healthy B．ambitious C．broken D．excited

13.A.breakfast B．school C．exercise D．work

14.A.rich B．busy C．poor D．easy

15.A.life B．love C．career D．future

16.A.long B．short C．fair D．beautiful

17.A.study B．think C．play D．live

18.A.stopped B．enjoyed C．imagined D．tried

19.A.reason B．result C．dream D．truth

20.A.If B．When C．Unless D．Before

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.C

6.A

7.B

8.A

9.B

10.A

11.B

12.C

13.D

14.D

15.A

16.C

17.C

18.B

19.D

20.B

【解析】

年幼時，我們渴望成年�？僧斘覀冋嬲�長大時，又希望重返童年。但事實上，只有珍惜眼前所擁有的我們才能快樂。知足常樂、扛起責任，是成長的第一步。當眼前的美好生活還未消逝，那就盡情去享受它吧。

1.答案：C　考查形容詞辨析。comfortable“舒適的”；dependent“依靠的；取決于……的”；independent“獨立的”；polite“禮貌的”。聯系下文知：年幼時，我們渴望晚回家、渴望戀愛、渴望獨立。故C項正確。

2.2】答案：A　考查形容詞辨析。older“年長的”；defeated“挨打的；被打敗的”；married“已婚的；婚姻的”；confident“自信的；確信的”。由“However”以及后文“...back to being young”可知此處指“當我們真正長大，又希望重溫童年”。故A項正確。

3.3】答案：D　考查動詞辨析。年老時，我們懷念(miss)那些遠離復雜的戀情、工作壓力和經濟問題的時光。D項符合語境。

4.4】答案：B　考查名詞辨析。年輕時，我們不必擔心復雜的愛情問題，工作(job)壓力和經濟問題。故B項正確。

5.5】答案：C　考查動詞辨析。create“創(chuàng)造”；show“展示”；mean“意味著”；limit“限制”。年輕人認為，成年意味著可以擺脫父母的束縛和學業(yè)的困擾。故C項正確。

6.6】答案：A　考查名詞在語境中的運用。當他們長大時，又感覺到童年意味著沒有工作壓力和家庭責任。childhood“童年”，符合題意，故選A項。

7.7】答案：B　考查動詞辨析。reduce“減少”；describe“描述”；experience“經歷”；understand“理解”。人們用一句話描述這種感受——柵欄那一邊的草總是比較綠的。故B項正確。

8.8】答案：A　考查形容詞辨析。人們常這樣說：柵欄那一邊的草總是比較綠的(即別人的東西都是好的)。故A項greener正確。

9.9】答案：B　考查名詞在語境中的運用。由語境知，作為青少年，我們希望能像成年人一樣；但作為青壯年，我們又希望回到年輕的時候。teenager意為“青少年”，故B項正確。

10.0】答案：A　考查動詞辨析。根據上題解析知A項正確。

11.1】答案：B　考查動詞辨析。我們憧憬著在外面瘋玩晚歸，也憧憬著自己掌握經濟大權。故B項正確。

12.2】答案：C　考查形容詞辨析。healthy“健康的”；ambitious“有抱負的”；broken“破碎的”；excited“興奮的”。他們突然發(fā)現愛情可能會讓心支離破碎。故C項正確。

13.3】答案：D　考查名詞在語境中的運用。由語境知，在外瘋玩到深夜可能會使你第二天上班(work)無精打采。故D項正確。

14.4】答案：D　考查形容詞辨析。他們發(fā)現成年人的生活并非像他們想象得那樣容易(easy)。D項符合語境。

15.5】答案：A　考查名詞在語境中的運用。聯系上文知，突然間，生活 (life)變得非�？膳�。故A項正確。

16.6】答案：C　考查形容詞辨析。生活是公平的。它給予我們時間來娛樂，也需要我們去工作。fair意為“公平的”，符合題意，故選C項。

17.7】答案：C　考查動詞辨析。根據上題解析知C項正確。

18.8】答案：B　考查動詞辨析。每個人都免不了要長大，到時候，我們會緬懷過去，期望能享受(enjoy)更多青春年華。故B項正確。

19.9】答案：D　考查名詞辨析。永不知足是人之常情，但事實是，只有珍惜現在所擁有的才能得到真正的快樂。reason“理由”；result“結果”；dream“夢想”；truth“事實”。故D項正確。

20.20】答案：B　考查連詞的用法。當生活變得越來越復雜時，我們不要為了那些荒廢在幻想成年的時光而追悔莫及。when“當……時”，符合題意。故B項正確。

疑難詞匯解讀

1．complex adj.復雜的

The link between money and happiness is complex.金錢與幸福之間關系復雜。

2．appreciate v．欣賞，感激，珍惜

I really appreciate your handwriting.我真的欣賞你的書法。

長難句子分析

is normal but

句意：想要擁有我們得不到的是人之常情，但事實是，只有珍惜現在所擁有的才能得到真正的快樂。其中to be happy是不定式，充當表語從句中的主語；to appreciate what we have也是不定式，充當表語從句中的表語。