美文晨读
Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators. In the pursuit of even the highest branches of human inquiry, the commoner qualities are found the most useful---such as common sense, attention, application, and perseverance. Ⅰ.短语翻译
1. a simple matter ________________________. 2. be associated with _____________________. 3. all kinds of ___________________________. 4. run a competition ______________________. 5. official currency ______________________. Ⅱ．语法填空
An elderly teacher，with a pupil by his side，took a walk through a forest. Suddenly he__6__(stop) and pointed to four plants close at hand. The first was just beginning to appear slowly above the ground，the second had rooted itself pretty well into the earth，the third was a small short tree，while the fourth was__7__ full-sized tree. The tutor said to his
young__8__(company)，“Pull up the first plant.” The boy did so eagerly，__9__(use) only his fingers.
“Now pull up the second.” The youth obeyed__10__ found that the task was__11__(difficult)．
“Do the same__12__ the third，” he urged. The boy had to use all his strength to uproot it. “Now，” said the instructor，“try your hand with the fourth.” The pupil put his arms around the trunk of the tall tree and couldn't even shake__13__ leaves.“This，my son，is just__14__ happens with our bad habits. When they are young，we can remove them easily；but when they are old，it's hard to pull them out of the ground，__15__ we pray and struggle ever so sincerely！”
Ⅲ.七选五
Everyone knows that the Frenchmen are romantic, the Italians are fashionable and the Germans are serious. Are these just stereotypes or is there really such a thing as national character? And if there is, can it affect how a nation succeed or fail?
At least one group of people is certain that it can. A recent survey of the top 500 entrepreneurs (企业家) in the UK found that 70% felt that their efforts were not appreciated by the British public. Britain is hostile (敌意的) to success, they said. It has a culture of jealousy (嫉妒). ___16___Jealousy is sometimes known as the “green-eyed monster” and the UK is its home.
Scientists at Warwich University in the UK recently tested this idea. They gathered a group of people together and gave each an imaginary amount of money. ___17___ Those given a little were given the chance to destroy the large amount of money given to others---but at the cost of losing their own. Two thirds of the people tested agreed to do this.
___18___But there is also opposite evidence. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development recently reported that the UK is now the world’s fourth largest economy. That is not bad for people who are supposed to hate success. People in the UK also work longer hours than anyone else in Europe. So the British people are not lazy, either.
“It is not really success that the British dislike,” says Carey Cooper, a professor of management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. “It’s people using their success in a way that seems proud or unfair or which separates them from their roots.”
___19___They set out to do things in their way. They work long hours. By their own efforts they become millionaires ___20___. It hardly seems worth following their example. If they were more friendly, people would like them more. And more people want to be like them.
A. This seems to prove that the entrepreneurs were right to complain. B. The one who owns most money in the end is the winner.
C. As a result, the survey said, entrepreneurs were “unloved, unwanted and misunderstood.” D. It is not true that British people are born jealous of others’ success. E. Some were given a little, others a great deal.
F. But instead of being happy they complain that nobody loves them. G. Perhaps it is the entrepreneurs who are the problem.
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短语翻译
1. 一件简单的事 2. 与…有关 3. 各种各样的 4. 举办比赛 5. 官方货币 语法填空
6. stopped 7. a 8. companion 9. using 10. and 11. more difficult 12. with 13. its 14. what 15. though 七选五
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