Question

US president Barack Obama told students that it takes hard work in school to prepare for a rewarding career in his “back to school” speech,   36   last Tuesday in Virginia, US. Here is excerpt （節(jié)選）from his speech:

I know that sometimes, you get the  37     that you can be rich and successful without any hard work –  38    your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you’re not going to be any of those things. But the truth is, being successful is   39    .You won’t love every subject you study. Not every homework assignment will seem completely important to your life right this minute. And you may not succeed at    40      the first time you try.

That’s OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who’ve had the most   41   .JK Rowling’s first Harry Potter book was   42   12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was    43     his high school basketball team, and he lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career. But he once said. “I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

These people succeeded because they understand that you can’t let your failures  44    you. No one’s    45   being good at things; you become good at things through hard work.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of    46     . It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new.

And even when you’re  47      , even when you’re discouraged, and when you feel like other people have given up on yourself, you won’t give up on yourself. Because when you give up on yourself, you give up on your country.

36. A. addressed                   B. claimed                    C. delivered                   D. announced

37.A. feelings                B. definition            C. concept                       D. sense

38. A. that                            B. which                        C. what                           D. whatever

39. A. inaccessible                    B. hard                        C. rough                           D. unavailable

40.A, anything                          B. everything                  C. nothing                         D. something

41. A. effort                  B. attempts                    C. failures                         D. successes

42. A. denied             B. turned away        C. declined           D. rejected

43. A. cut from                          B. cut off                        C. cut down            D. cut in

44. A. confirm                           B. define                       C. identify                         D. prove

45. A. brought up             B. raised                         C. fed                            D. born

46. A. strength              B. courage                        C. weakness                      D. perseverance

47. A. struggling                  B. fighting              C. trying                           D. succeeding

Answer 1

36. C. 37.D. 38. A. 39.B. 40.B. 41. C. 42. D. 43.C. 44.B. 45.D．46.A. 47.A.

解析:

解析:

36. C. deliver a speech，“發(fā)表演講”， address somebody, 對某某講話，claim，“認(rèn)領(lǐng)，宣稱”，announce，“口頭通知，口頭宣布”，根據(jù)上下文，此句意思為“上周二發(fā)表的的演講”

37.D.此句的意思是“我知道，有時候你有這樣的感覺-你有時候無需努力就可以很富有和成功。Sense,感覺，明智；feelings,情感，感情；concept，概念；definition，定義

38. A.“ ---”引導(dǎo)的是that you can be rich and successful without any hard work的同位語，所以也要用that引導(dǎo)，對前面的內(nèi)容進(jìn)行解釋。

39.B.此句的意思是成功并不是容易的，因為這里有一個but.與前面的內(nèi)容正好相反。并不是說不能成功（unavailable），也不是說成功無法進(jìn)入（inaccessible），rough，“粗野的，粗糙的”。

40.B.根據(jù)上下文，意思是“你在第一次嘗試時，可能不會每件事情都成功”，與下文的“要經(jīng)歷許多失敗”相符。

41. C.根據(jù)下文舉的例子JK Rowling和Michael Jordan，可知，要獲得成功必須經(jīng)歷許多挫折和失敗。

42. D.這里指杰克羅琳《哈利波特》這本書曾經(jīng)拒絕過十二次才出版。decline，委婉拒絕，下降；turn away= not allow sbd to enter；reject= refuse to use or accept or consider, throw away as useless or imperfect; deny=declare untrue; refuse to accept as a fact; refuse to give or allow…拒絕，否認(rèn)，與 admit的意思相反；

43.C. 此句的意思是麥克.喬丹曾經(jīng)被他的中學(xué)的籃球隊裁掉。Cut off, “ 切斷（電源，水等的供應(yīng)”;cut down, “ 減少，砍伐”; cut in ，“ 插嘴，打斷 ”；cut from, “ 從...中剪掉，裁掉”。

44.B.根據(jù)上下文，意思是“你不能讓失敗限制你，或給你下定義，說你不能取得成功 ”。confirm�！按_認(rèn)”；identify，“ 辨認(rèn)身份”。

45.D．根據(jù)下文you become good at things through hard work，可知“沒有人天生就擅長于一些事情”。

46.A.根據(jù)Asking for help isn’t a sign of weakness; it’s a sign of        ，weakness與strength正好意義相對，B項courage 與下文It shows you have the courage to admit when you don’t know something, and to learn something new 意思重復(fù)了，所以B項不對。

47.A. struggling (掙扎，做出極大努力，奮力)與 discouraged,  give up 一致。