Question

When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could do to advise me against becoming a brewer(造酒人). He’d  36   his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living, ___37    had his father and grandfather befere him. He didn’t want me  38   near a vat(釀酒用的桶)of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good ___39  , went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that  40   me to study law and business at the same time.

In my second year of graduate school, I began to realize that I’d  41   done anything but go to school. So, at  24 I decided to drop out. 42  , my parents didn’t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can’t  43__   till you’re 65 to do what you want in life.

I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to  44  . I finished Havard and got a highly-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group Still, after working there five years, I  45  ,  “Is this what I want to be doing when I’m 50?”  At that time, Americans spent good  money on beer in  46    quality. Why not make good beer for  47  ? I thought.

I decided to give up my job to become  48  . When I told Dad, he was  49  , but in the end he  50   me. I called my beer  Samuel Adams,   51   the brewer and patriot(愛國者) who helped to start  the Boston Tea Party.  52   I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get  the   53   out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager（淡啤酒） won the top prize for American beer. In the end I was destined(注定) to be a brewer. My  54   to the young is simple:Life is very  55  , so don’t rush to make decisions. Life doesn’t let you plan.  

36.A.cost B.spent    C.taken   D.paid

37.A.like B.as if     C.so D.nor

38.A.anywhere       B.anyway       C.anyhow       D.somewhere

39.A.habits     B.teachers       C.grades  D.work

40.A.promised       B.convinced    C.advised       D.allowed

41.A.never     B.ever     C.always D.hardly

42.A.Fortunatnely  B.Obviously   C.Possibly      D.Surprisingly

43.A.assure     B.decline C.deny    D.wait

44.A.school    B.Colorado     C.my home     D.my decision

45.A.thrilled   B.stressed       C.wondered    D.sneezed

46.A.cheap     B.expensive    C.low      D.high

47.A.Englishmen   B.Europeans   C.the world    D.Americans

48.A.a lawyer B.a brewer      C.an instructor       D.an engineer

49.A.astonished      B.satisfied      C.interested    D.anxious

50.A.hated      B.supported    C.raised   D.left

51.A.for  B.at C.in D.after

52.A.Therefore      B.Otherwise    C.Also    D.Yet

53.A.price      B.name   C.company     D.party

54.A.advice    B.life      C.job      D.experience

55.A.hard       B.busy    C.short    D.long

Answer 1

36-40 BCACD 41-45 ABDAC 46-50 CDBAB 51-55DCBAD

解析:

36.B   spend time doing sth.  是固定結(jié)構(gòu)，意思是“把時(shí)間花在做……上”。

37.C  倒裝句。“so+倒裝句”表示“另一個(gè)人或物的情況與前面相同”。

38.A  anywhere用于否定句中。

39.C  據(jù)上下文可知，作者服從了父親的安排并獲得了良好的成績。

40.D  學(xué)校允許我學(xué)習(xí)法律和商業(yè)。allow sb to do sth.“允許某人做某事”。

41.A  never...anything=nothing。

42.B  我想退學(xué)，顯然父母不會同意，其他不合題意。

43.D “不能等到人老了才做自己愿做的事”。

44.A  下文finished Harvard提供了回來學(xué)習(xí)的信息，因而為go back to school。

45.C  這句話是作者對自己生活的疑惑。

46.C  本句意思是啤酒很貴，但質(zhì)量不佳。

47.D  上文提到Americans 高價(jià)買質(zhì)量不好的啤酒，因而本句應(yīng)為為Americans制造高質(zhì)量的啤酒。

48.B  從下文可知，作者要放棄原來的工作，成為釀酒人。

49.A  當(dāng)我告訴父親時(shí)，他對我的想法不是很滿意或感興趣，而是奇怪，因?yàn)槲恼乱婚_始就告訴我們作者的父親不想讓他成為釀酒人。

50.B   but表轉(zhuǎn)折，表明最后他同意和支持我，故答案為B。

51.D  name sth... after為一固定搭配。 after有“根據(jù).依據(jù)”的意思。

52.C  also “而且”，作者首先給他的啤酒起了一個(gè)好名字，同時(shí)又直銷給喝酒人。

53.B  把“酒的名字”傳出去，使這一“name”有了名氣。

54.A  從后面的幾句話可知，作者是在給讀者“忠告”，advice“忠告.勸告.建議”。

55.D  從“不要急于做決定”，可知作者是想表達(dá)“人的一生很長久”的意思，所以也就有了“生活不一定按你的計(jì)劃進(jìn)行”。