Question

 I can remember a period in my life when I was un?employed and money was running short. I needed a job very 1.________A friend of mine approached me one day with an 2.________ "I'm going to have to let this job go and won?dering if you would like to take it over.”

  "That would be 3________”， I replied. I went to the manager and he said I could 4________ on Monday morning.

  On Monday morning I was 5________ to buff(擦) the floors. My friend was there to 6________ me how to oper?ate the buffer.

"It's really 7________ ，" he said,running the machine very 8________. He handed it over to me and said, "Here,you give it a try. ” I 9________ the handles. To my sur?prise,the buffer went around in a big circle,running over my friend's new shoes.

  Several times,I tried to run it again and 10________ .

  "What am I going to do?" I thought to myself. "I finally found a job and I can't do it. Am I going to have to tell them I have to 11________the job?"

  After several 12________ days of buffing,I finally decided that I was going to do this. For about a week,I 13________ with the buffer,putting all my weight and 14________ into it. Later,I learnt the trick was not to struggle with it at all,just 15________with the flow of it,and by the second week,I could run it with one hand.

  Months later,I 16________ back and wondered what would have happened 17________ I had given up that first week. I certainly would not have the new-found confi?dence or a pay cheque. Sometime after that 18________ ，I started a new job that still 19________ the use of a buffer.

 20________don't have to stop you.  If you run into them,just figure out how to go through them.

1.A. badly   B. well

C.quickly   D. generally

2.A. apology   B. invitation   C. offer   D. opinion

3.A. great   B. worth   C. difficult   D. funny

4.A. finish   B. leave   C. stay   D. start

5.A. warned   B. told

C. forced   D. discovered

6.A. watch   B. order   C. ask   D. show

7.A. easy   B. difficult   C. interesting   D. boring

8.A. specially   B. carefully   C. slowly   D. smoothly

9.A. grabbed   B. repaired   C. wiped   D. equipped

10.A. remained   B. insisted   C. failed   D. dropped

11.A. give up   B. give out   C. carry on   D. focus on

12.A. simple   B. harmful   C. hard   D. happy

13.A. met   B. struggled   C. lived   D. combined

14.A. body   B. spirit

 C. heart   D. strength

15.A. do   B. go

 C. walk   D. match

16.A. turned   B. came   C. thought   D. threw

17.A. when   B. unless   C. as   D. if

18.A. moment   B. fight   C. experience   D. story

19.A. required   B. introduced   C. reduced   D. rejected

20.A. Achievements   B. Difficulties   C. Disabilities   D. Successes

Answer 1

1. A上文說作者失業(yè)了，所以迫切需要一份工作。badly 非常，迫切地。

2.C根據(jù)下文朋友所說的話可知，作者的朋友要放棄自己的T.作，問作者是否愿意接手，故選(：。

3.A在失業(yè)、經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)的情況下，有這樣一個工作機會，當然是很好(great) 了。

4.D由下文作者去公司工作的語境可知，作者周一早上可以開始(start) 工作。

5.B作者去了公司，被告知要做的工作是擦地板。

6.D由下一段可知，朋友給作者展示(show) 如何用清潔儀器擦地板。

7.A根據(jù)下文作者朋友的話和他的展示可知，作者朋友認為這份工作很簡單(easy) 。

8.D此舉描述作者朋友工作嫻熟。smoothly平穩(wěn)地，流暢地。

9. a朋友把清潔儀器遞給作者，讓作者試一試，因此作者 抓住/■儀器的把手.故選八。

10.C根據(jù)下文的"...I can't do h."可知，作者嘗試了幾次還是失敗(fail) 了。

11.A幾次失敗讓作者幾乎失去了信心，他自問："難道就這樣放棄嗎？"故選A。

12.C由上下文作者描述自己工作時所用的詞struggle可以看出作者這幾天過得很艱難，故選harcl。

13.B下文的struggle with it有提示。

14.D作者不懂方法，用盡全力只是適得其反。根據(jù)and 前的weight也可知選strength。

15.B作者明白了操縱機器的方法：不能使蠻勁，要順應機器而動。go with伴隨，順應。

16.C作者在幾個月后回想自己的過去。think back回顧，回想。

17.D本句是作者的假設，如果那時放棄了真不知現(xiàn)在會怎么樣。

18.C作者在那次經(jīng)歷(experience) 之后換了工作'

19.A根據(jù)語境可知作者之后找的工作仍和先前一樣，需要使用清潔儀器。

20.B根據(jù)全文的主旨和下文內(nèi)容可知選B，困難無法阻止你前進。