（衡水万卷）2016届高三英语二轮复习 作业卷六.docVIP

2016衡水万卷作业六 考试时间：45分钟 姓名：__________班级：__________考号：__________ 、完形填空 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从所给的四个选项(A, B, C和D) 中，选出最佳选项，并在答题纸上将该选项标号涂黑。 Since finishing my studies at Harvard and Oxford, I’ve watched one friend after another land high-ranking, high-paying Wall Street jobs. As executives(高级管理人员) with banks, consulting firms, established law firms, and major corporations, many are now 1on their way to impressive careers. By society’s 2, they seem to have it made. On the surface, these people seem to be very lucky in life. As they left student life behind, many had a 3drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and 4out of small apartments into high buildings. They made reservations at restaurants where the cost of a bottle of wine 5a college year’s monthly rent. They replaced their beloved old car with expensive new sports cars. The thing is, a number of them have 6that despite their success, they aren’t happy. Some 7of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they 8. Some do not respect the companies they work for and talk of feeling tired and 9. However, instead of devoting themselves to their work, they find themselves working to support the 10to which they have so quickly become 11. People often speak of trying a more satisfying path, and 12in the end the idea of leaving their jobs to work for something they 13or finding a position that would give them more time with their families almost always leads them to the same conclusion:it’ s 14. They have loans, bills, a mortgage（抵押贷款）to 15, retirement to save for. They recognize there’s something 16in their lives, but it’s 17to step off the track. In a society that tends to 18everything in terms of dollars and cents, we learn from a young age to consider the costs of our 19in financial terms. But what about the personal and social costs 20in pursuing money over meaning? These are exactly the kinds of costs many of us te