Question

【題目】Most people learn over time, but often learning comes too late to be fully useful. There are certainly many things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years.【1】. I hope they may help a few of you avoid the mistakes that I made back then.

1. Caring too much just puts yourself in trouble【2】. There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.

2.Following the latest fashion blindly in work or in life is spiritual and intellectual suicide.【3】; or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours.

3.【4】. The worst way to spend your time is even spreading more. People who spread unreal news are the virus-carriers of our day. Cockroaches(蟑螂) are cleaner, kinder creatures in comparison.

4.Hoping for the best is not always the right attitude. Maybe something will take twice as long as you plan for and produce results about half as good as you hope.【5】. Just allow for it and move on.

The most efficient way of learning is to bear the above in your mind and take action now. Waiting until you can be sure of doing something exactly right means waiting forever.

A.Much of what you get excited about, or anxious about, turns out not to matter.

B.Killing time is bound to ruin your career and future..

C.There’s no reason to be downhearted about this.

D.So here are some of the things I wish I had learned long ago.

E.You can be a cheap imitation of the ideal of the moment

F.Listening to gossip is the quickest way to damage your relationship with others.

G.There is no better way for you to learn and develop.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】A

【3】E

【4】F

【5】C

【解析】本文主要講了隨著時間的流逝我們一直在獲得新的知識，但是這些學問卻往往在我們需要它的時候姍姍來遲。下面有幾點是我很久以前就希望自己能夠了解的。期待它們能幫助大家，即使是小部份人，能夠避免重蹈我的覆轍。

【1】語義理解題。由There are certainly many things that could have saved me from many of the mistakes and hurts I suffered over the years. 可知這里意思是所以這里是一些我希望我很久以前就學會的東西，選D。

【2】語義理解題。由Caring too much just puts yourself in trouble和There are only a few things that truly count for a happy life. I wish I had known to concentrate on those and ignore the rest.可知這里意思是大多數(shù)你為之而激動的事情或者為之而煩惱的事情，被證明都是不重要的，選A。

【3】語義理解題。由Following the latest fashion blindly in work or in life is spiritual and intellectual suicide和or you can be a unique individual. The choice is yours. 可知這里意思是此刻，你可以成為一個廉價的偶像模仿品，選E。

【4】語義理解題。由The worst way to spend your time is even spreading more. People who spread unreal news are the virus-carriers of our day. 可知這里意思是破壞關系的最快最簡單的方法就是聽信謠言，選F。

【5】語義理解題。由Hoping for the best is not always the right attitude. Maybe something will take twice as long as you plan for and produce results about half as good as you hope.____5____. Just allow for it and move on. 可知這里意思是沒什么好為此沮喪的，讓它去吧，你要繼續(xù)前行，選C。