Question

A lecture was delivered two years ago by Jeff Bezos,founder and CEO of Amazon,com. Bezos is nothing if not a master of 1       —he has built his company,and his fortune,on the rise of the Internet and his own 2       . But he spoke that day not about computing power or brainpower,but about his grandmother—and what he learned 3        he made her cry.

Even as a 10-year-old boy,it turns out,Bezos had a steeltrap mind and a 4       for crunching numbers. During a summer road trip with his grandparents,young Jeff 5        his grandmother's smoking in the car—and 6       to do something about it. From the backseat,he 7       how many cigarettes per day his grandmother smoked,how many puffs she took per cigarette,the health risk of each puff,and 8       to her with great fanfare, "You've taken nine years 9        your life!"

Bezos' calculations may have been 10       ―but the reaction was not what he ex?pected. His grandmother burst into tears. His grandfather 11        the car off to the side of the road and asked young Jeff to 12       . And then his grandfather taught him a lesson: "My grandfather looked at me and after a bit of 13, he gently and calmly said, 'Jeff,one day you'll understand that it's harder to be 14        than clever. '”

That's a lesson I wish more business people understood.  So by all means,15       your people to embrace technology,get great at business analytics,and otherwise 16.        the efficiency of everything they do.  But just make sure all their 17        doesn't come at the expense of their  humanity.  Small gestures can send big 18        about who we are,what we care about? and why people should want to 19        with us. It's harder and more 20        to be kind than clever.

1. A. history   B. literature   C. culture   D. technology

2. A. wisdom   B. experience   C. adventure   D. experiment

3. A. why   B. when   C. whether   D. how

4. A. passion   B. plan   C. sense   D. hope

5. A. got the hang of   B. got along with   C. got away with   D. got fed up with

6. A. promised   B. pretended   C. remembered   D. decided

7. A. thought   B. calculated   C. imagined   D. guessed

8. A. announced   B. suggested   C. referred   D. devoted

9. A. up   B. for   C. off   D. in

10. A. careless   B. necessary   C. wrong   D. accurate

11. A. directed   B. pulled   C. ordered   D. guided

12. A. set out   B. leave out   C. step out   D. look out

13. A. silence   B. hesitation   C. struggle   D. attempt

14. A. loyal   B. honest   C. generous   D. kind

15. A. force   B. forbid

   C. encourage   D. persuade

16. A. adjust   B. decrease   C. harm   D. improve

17. A. knowledge   B. wealth

   C. skill   D. efficiency

18. A. signs   B. marks   C. signals   D. symbols

19. A. compete   B. fight   C. play   D. work

20. A. important   B. difficult   C. ridiculous   D. fortunate

Answer 1

完形填空這是一篇夾敘夾議的文章。亞馬遜公司的CEO回憶自己小時候一次和祖父祖母外出，自己計算祖母每天吸多少煙，造成祖母哭泣。祖父告誡他有的時候表現(xiàn)友好比表現(xiàn)聰明更重要。

1. D 結(jié)合前面的Amazon,com和后面的Internet可知他是一個技術(shù)方面的大師。

2. A根據(jù)前面提至lj的Amazon,com和technology以及Inter?net等，可知他的成功是建立在網(wǎng)絡(luò)和自己的智慧之上的。

3. B這里指的是當他惹得他的祖母哭泣之時學(xué)到的東西，因此選when"當……的時候"，引導(dǎo)時間狀語從句。

4. A從下文他計箅祖母吸煙的次數(shù)等，可知此處指他有一種搗鼓數(shù)字的激情，故選A.

5. D 從后面的"…h(huán)is grandmother's smoking in the car…"可知，他祖母在汽車里面吸煙，并結(jié)合語境可知，這里指他受夠了這一點，因此選   D. get the hang of熟悉;get along with

與. 相處；get away with做壞事不受懲罰；get fed up with

受夠了。

6. D由于受夠了祖母在車里面吸煙，因此他決定計算看看祖母每天吸多少煙。

7. B 結(jié)合下一段的第一句話"Bezos' calculations..."可知是他計算祖母吸煙的情況。

8. A當他計算完了之后，他對祖母宣布他的計算結(jié)果。

announce to sb向... 宣布。

9. C take off "取消，去除"。這里指他的祖母因每天吸煙而造成壽命縮短9年的時間。

10. D結(jié)合后面的"…but the reaction was not what he expected."可知，結(jié)果是他沒有預(yù)料到的，故前面表示他的計算可能是準確的。

11. B聽到孫子說自己的壽命會縮短9年的時間，祖母哭泣起來，因此祖父把汽車慢慢地停到路邊。

12. C祖父把汽車停到路邊之后，讓他從車上下來，祖父要給他講道理。

13. A祖父在講道理之前，先是沉默了一會兒。

14. D根據(jù)文章的最后一句話可知，這里祖父告訴他，有一天他會懂得表現(xiàn)友好要比表現(xiàn)聰明更難。

15. C這里表示作者希望所有做生意的人都要鼓勵人們掌握技術(shù)，進行科學(xué)的數(shù)據(jù)分析。

16. D通過掌握技術(shù)，提高他們做事的效率。

17. D作者希望在人們掌握技術(shù)，提高自己做事情的效率的同時，不要以犧牲人性作為代價。此句承接上句而來。

18. C即使是小的舉動也能表明我們是怎樣的人。

19. D他人為什么會和我們一起工作，這也是我們的姿態(tài)體現(xiàn)出來的一種特征。

20. A作者認同Jeff Bezos祖父的道理，認為和表現(xiàn)聰明比較起來，表現(xiàn)友好雖然比較難，但是更重要。