Question

God’s Coffee

A group of class friends, highly achieved in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor．Conversation soon    31   into complaints about stress(壓力) in work and life．

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the   32  and returned with a large pot of coffee and a couple of   33   —porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,    34  

expensive, some delicate—telling them to    35   themselves to the coffee．

When all the students had a cup of coffee in  36  ,the professor said：“If you noticed，all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up,  37  behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is

  38  for you to choose only the best for yourselves, that is the    39  of your problems and stress．Be sure that the cup itself    40  no quality to the coffee．In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink．    41  all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously (自覺地) went    42  the best cups．And then you began    43   each other’s cups．Now consider this：Life is the   44  ; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups．They are just tools to hold and contain life, and the type of cup we have does not explain , nor   45  the quality of life we   46  . Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we  47  to enjoy the coffee God has  48   us．God brews the coffee, not the cups…Enjoy your coffee!”

The happiest people don’t have the best of everything．They just   49   the best of everything．

Live simply．Love generously．Care deeply．Speak kindly．Leave the   50   to God．

1.A．crowded          B．looked           C.burst                 D．turned

2.A．living-room       B．waiting-room    C．bedroom          D．kitchen

3.A．cups             B．pans           C．bowls               D．dishes

4.A．some             B．others         C．a(chǎn)nother             D．other

5.A．choose            B．help           C．take           D．pick

6.A．stomach          B．hand           C．mind                D．mouth

7.A．running          B．leaving        C．hiding                 D．staying

8.A．wise             B．important      C．natural                D．necessary

9.A．use              B．disagreement   C．a(chǎn)nswer           D．cause

10.A．likes           B．comes          C．a(chǎn)dds                     D．relies

11.A．As               B．What             C．That           D．Which

12.A．for              B．into              C．by                  D．on

13.A．looking         B．guiding        C．eyeing         D．changing

14.A．tea             B．water          C．wine           D．coffee

15.A．worsen               B．beat           C．change         D．improve

16.A．dislike         B．live                 C．make           D．use

17.A．fail             B．succeed              C．wish            D．try

18.A．sold            B．gave                C．bought         D．brought

19.A．keep            B．say                 C．make           D．do

20.A．item  B．view        C．rest      D．thought

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.D

2.D

3.A

4.A

5.B

6.B

7.B

8.C

9.D

10.C

11.B

12.A

13.C

14.D

15.C

16.B

17.A

18.D

19.C

20.C

【解析】略