阅读表达专题限时测试(四).doc

阅读表达专题限时测试（） 命题人 张贤洪阅读表达（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）【2013年滨州一模】 阅读下面的短文并回答问题，然后将答案写到答题卡相应的位置上（请注意问题后的字数要求） ［1］The striking thing is that even successful innovators (改革者 ) often failed. Tum on a light, take a photograph, watch TV, search the Web, jet across the Pacific Ocean, talk on a cellphone. The innovators who left us these things had to find the way to success through a maze (迷宫) of wrong tums. ［2］“Many of life’s failures,”the supreme innovator said,“are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”Before that magical moment in October 1879, Edison had worked out no fewer than 3,000 theories about electric light, but in only two cases did his experiments work. ［3］No one likes failure, but the smart innovators leam from it. Mark Gumz, head of the camera maker Olympus America Inc, attributes some of the company’s successes in technology to understanding failure. His popular phrase is: “You only fail when you quit.” ［4］Over two centuries, the most common quality of the innovators has been persistence. That is another way of saying they had the emotional ability to.keep up what they were doing. Walt Disney, the founder of Disneyland, was so broke after a succession of financial failures that he was left shoeless in his office because he the US $1. 50 to get his shoes from the repair shop. ［5］Failure is harder to bear in today’s open, accelerated world. Hardly any innovation works the first time. But an impatient society and the media want instant success. When American music and movie master David Geffen had a difficult time, a critic said unfriendly that the only difference between Geffen Records (Geffen’s company) and the Titanic (the ship that went down) was that the Titanic had better music. Actually, it wasn’t. After four years of losses, Geffen had so many hits (成功的作品 ) he could afford a ship as big as the Titanic all to himself. 76. What’s the main idea of the passage? (No more than 10 words) ________