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1.Which book might a young man faced with difficulties in his career choose?
A. Life On Air. B. Our Zoo.
C. Nigella Christmas D. Doctor Who
2.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. This passage is probably taken from a newspaper column.
B. People are likely to get a discount whichever book they purchase.
C. Each of the reviewers thinks highly of the four books.
D. All of the four books don't belong to a certain book series.
Gifts and choices
Cleverness is a gift while kindness is a choice. Gifts are _______---they’re given after all. Choice can be hard.
I got the idea to start Amazon 16 years ago. I _________ the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the idea of building an online ________ with millions of titles was very exciting to me.
I had just ________ 30 years old , and I’d been married for a year, I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to ________my job and go to do this crazy thing that probably wouldn’t work ________most start-ups don’t , and I wasn’t sure what to expect, MacKenzie told me I should _________it. As a young boy, I’d been a garage inventor, I’d always wanted to be an inventor, and she wanted me to follow my passion.
I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much ___________. I went to my boss and told him I wanted to start a company selling books on the Internet. He took me on a long walk in Central Park, listened carefully to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, _________it would be an even better idea for someone who didn’t already have a good job.” That logic __________ to me, and he __________me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.
Seen in that light, it really was a difficult choice, but ___________, I decided I had to give it a shot. I didn’t think I’d _________ trying and failing. And I suspected I would __________ be haunted（困扰） by a decision to not try at all. After much consideration, I took the less safe path to follow my _________, and I’m proud of that choice.
Tomorrow, in a very real sense, your life---the life you start from scratch on your own---begins
How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make? Will inertia(惰性) be your guide, or will you follow your passions? Will you follow dogma（教条）, or will you be _________? When it’s tough, will you ________ or will you be relentless（不屈不挠的）?
In the end ,we are our _________. Build yourself a great story. I will hazard（大胆地说） a _________. When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of _________narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact（充实的）and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made.
1.A. hard B. easy C. simple D. safe
2.A. ran away B. received C. denied D. came across
3.A. shop B. bookstore C. library D. gamecentre
4.A. came B. had been C. become D. turned
5.A. quit B. give in C. accept D. seek
6.A. after B. while C. since D. although
7.A. go on B. go by C. go for D. go down
8.A. hated B. envied C. look up D. admired
9.A. but B. however C. and D. because
10.A. made no difference B. made some sense C. make contributions D. made tricks
11.A. questioned B. stopped C. convinced D. delayed
12.A. finally B. reasonably C. obviously D. Indirectly
13.A. quit B. glad C. regret D. afraid
14.A. occasionally B. clearly C. never D. always
15.A. gift B. future C. passion D. routine
16.A. conventional(传统的) B. original C. controversial（矛盾的） D. confidential（机密的）
17.A. hold up B. give up C. hold back D. give away
18.A. choices B. imagination C. passion D. devotion
19.A. story B. theme C. coincidence D. prediction
20.A. observation B. insistence C. reflection D. fantasy
--Since we’ve got the manager’s approval, why don’t we start?
--all right, let’s___________.
A. cry for the moon B. hang in there
C. get the ball rolling D. call a spade a spade
Having an outdoor meal is always fun, but it can also be damaging to the planet if__________.
A. planned not carefully B. not planning carefully
C. not planned carefully D. not to be planned carefully
It is _______he often breaks the school rules ______ makes his headteacher unsatisfied with him.
A. what; that B. that; that
C. \; that D. that; what
The new road is _________ of the old one.
A. more than three times the length B. three times more than the length
C. more than the length three times D. more three times than the length
